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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1585 HEADLINES: DX and station news about: Abkhazia, Albania, Antarctica, Bahamas, Bhutan, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Greece, Kurdistan, Madagascar, Malaysia, Netherlands non, Nigeria, North America, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Sarawak non, Solomon Islands, Tibet, USA, Yemen, Zanzibar SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1585, October 6-12, 2011 Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 Thu 1500 WRMI 9955 Thu 2100 WRMI 9955 Thu 2100 WTWW 9479 [confirmed] Thu 2130 WBCQ 7415 Fri 0330 WWRB 5051 Fri 0500 WRMI 9955 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 0300v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Mon 1130 WRMI 9955 Mon 1530 WRMI 9955 Mon 2130 WRMI 9955 Tue 0930 HLR 5980 Hamburger Lokal Radio [NEW] 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/ ** ABKHAZIA. 9535, Abkhaz Radio. In vernacular at 0700 and from 0802 in Russian: a Day of Victory of Abkhazia with their independence from Georgia 18 years ago there was in Sukhumi on 30/9 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF 2001, 16m Marconi antenna), Oct Australian DX News via WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DXLD) ** AFGHANISTAN. Hi Everyone, Good reception of R Afghanistan here this pm. 6102 up to s/off 1630. Local music, OM in Urdu giving programming details, ID at "Radio Afghanistan.com" then into phone numbers (station numbers ?) This what I heard http://www.box.net/shared/llzumcr2npqc55edczss (Mark Davies, Anglesey, Wales, Oct 3, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALASKA. 9920, Oct 2 at 1301, KNLS IS, 1302 opening in Chinese with website, 1303 gospel rock/praise music with English lyrix; sufficient. 9920, Oct 3 at 1328 only a JBA carrier from presumed KNLS Chinese service, which only yesterday was audible sufficiently well, in wildly variable propagation (or operation?) from Anchor Point. Similar hi- latitude paths from Firedrake were better than usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALBANIA. Radio Tirana ne vale te shkurtra sezoni dimeror Tetor 2011 - Mars 2012 Attn. Drejtorit te Stacioneve RTV - Tirane - Eng. Arben Mehilli Cc: Drejtorit te Pergjithshem te RTSH- Z. Petrit Beci Drejtorit te Radio Tiranes - Z. Martin Leka Drejtorit Teknike - Eng. Agron Aranitasi K-inxh te Studiove te Radio Tiranes - Eng. Gjergji Gjipali Ne fund te muajit Tetor 2011, fillon sezoni i ri dimeror i transmetimeve ne vale te shkurtra. Per Radio Tiranen kam bere regjistrimin paraprak per sezonin e ri dimeror 2011-2012 ne faqen www.hfcc.org, sipas procedurave te menaxhimit te frekuencave ne banden e valeve te shkurtra. Sic dihet, Radio Tirana nuk transmeton ne vale te shkurtra dhe te mesme per Europe dhe Ameriken e Veriut qe nga fillimi i muajit Gusht 2011 e deri me sot. A duhet te vazhdoj procedurat per percaktimin dhe koordinimin e valeve te shkurtra te Radio Tiranes per sezonin ne vazhdim qe fillon ne fund te Tetorit? Eng. Drita Cico RTSH-Radiotelevizioni Shqiptar Pergjegjese e Qendres se Kontrollit dhe Menaxhimit te valeve te shkurtra e te mesme RADIO TIRANA Drejtoria e Stacioneve RTV-Tirane (cc to DXLD) Google translation: Radio Tirana on short wave winter season October 2011 - March 2012 Cc: Director General of ART Z. Petrit Beci Director of Radio Tirana - Z. Martin Leka Technical Director - Eng. Agron Aranitasi K-engineer the salons of Radio Tirana - Eng. George Gjipali At the end of October 2011, new winter season begins broadcasting on short wave. On Radio Tirana have made preliminary registration for the new winter season 2011-2012 at http://www.hfcc.org site, according to management procedures in the frequency band of short waves. As known, the Radio Tirana broadcasts not short and medium for Europe and America North since the beginning of August 2011 until now. Do I need to continue the procedures for determining and coordinating the short waves of Radio Tirana, Next season begins in late October? Eng. Drita Cico, Albanian Radio and Television ART, Head of Control and Management Center of waves of short and medium, TIRANA RADIO, Directorate of Tirana RTV Stations (via DXLD) At mid-day today, I met the new Director of Radio Tirana, named Alfons Zeneli from Tropoja by origin. He is a well-known journalist at the first private RTV Station in Albania, named Kontakt Radio and Shijak TV. He warmly welcomed me. He was a tall boy, around 35-40 years old. I explained him the situation of Radio Tirana on SW and asked him for his email address. He said that he had only two days on this new position and will look into this problem starting from Monday, next week. I'll keep in touch with you later on. Bye for now, have a nice evening everywhere you are, (Drita Çiço, Sept 30, WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [the following news came too late to include in WOR 1585:] Unfortunately, I did not check 13625 for R. Tirana Oct 6 at 1430, but this just in from Drita Çiço (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: Today Radio Tirana back on air on SW via Shijak radio-station. My monitoring staff has just informed me that Radio Tirana in English to NoAm at 1430-1500 UT via Shijak r-stat is back on air. This after its interruption that started on 30 July 2011 and fully interrupted at the beginning of August up today, 6 October 2011. Radio Tirana in Greek on MW via Fllaka R-stat at 1545-1600 was not broadcast. My staff informed me that Fllaka r-station has an order to not broadcast Radio Tirana programs on MW, yet. Please, check the next programs according to A11 ALR schedule. Keep in touch, (Drita Çiço, R. Tirana, 1621 UT Oct 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) So here`s the full previous SW schedule: ALBANIAN 0630-0900 daily Eu 7390 2030-2200 daily Eu 6165, 9860 2300-0030 daily NAm 7425, 9860 ENGLISH 0030-0045 .twtfss NAm 9860 0145-0200 .twtfss NAm 7425 0230-0300 .twtfss NAm 7425 0330-0400 .twtfss NAm 7425 1430-1500 mtwtfs. NAm 13625 1845-1900 mtwtfs. Eu 7520, 13735 2000-2030 mtwtfs. Eu 7465 2000-2030 mtwtfs. NAm 13735 FRENCH 1730-1800 mtwtfs. Eu 7465 1900-1930 mtwtfs. Eu 7465 GERMAN 1930-2000 mtwtfs. Eu 7465 ITALIAN 1700-1730 mtwtfs. Eu 7465 1900-1930 mtwtfs. Eu 7520 SERBIAN 1800-1815 mtwtfs. Eu 6015 (WRTH May update via DXLD) Glad to hear R. Tirana again. I could not hear any signal at 1850 Oct 6 on 13735, but I was using the portable receiver. Greece 15630 however could be detected. From 1959, on the main receiver, 13735 was heard with opening in English altho poor signal, undermodulation, and still announcing wrong frequency 13640 for 2000 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARCTICA. 15476, Sept 29 at 1241, 1315, no signal from LRA36, so suspected another silent Thursday. However, at 1348 a carrier was detectable, and at 1408 JBA but enough to het another JBA on 15480 15476, Oct 4: it`s Tuesday, but no trace of LRA36 carrier at 1239, 1355 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15476, LRA36 did not broadcast this Tuesday, Oct 4, as they did last Tue (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15476, Oct 6 at 1234, no signal from LRA36. However, I retuned to 15475 with BFO at 1243 and heard the 15476 carrier cut on at *1244:07 along with traces of modulation, so it`s on again this Thursday. By 1308 inaudible, nor at 1328, 1358, so may have gone right back off if not outfaded (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. EL CHASQUI DX – SETIEMBRE 2011 --- CQ, CQ, CQ, Aquí Pedro F. Arrunátegui para compartir algo con los que disfrutan y aman el DX latinoamericano; todas las horas son UT, desde la tierra de los Incas, les informo mediante este Quipus lo siguiente: 6060.00, R. Nacional Argentina, Buenos Aires, 10/09 0018-0105, 55555, programa trasmisión del partido de básquet entre Argentina y Puerto Rico. También trasmiten en paralelo la situación del partido de Racing con Bahía Blanca. A las 0058 hay QRM de una estación con notas musicales de apertura, pero la señal es tan fuerte que RAE se mantiene. NOTA: esta estación también la escuché el 25/08 entre 0938- 0955. Por lo escuchado, están trasmitiendo también en las tardes. La recepción lo he efectuado del 01 al 28/9 en compañía de mi sabueso Icom IC R72 en compañía del Mizuho KX-3 con una antena de hilo largo de 15mts. Muchos 128´s PFA (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, El Chasqui DX via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) I got my new G33DDC Excalibur Pro receiver by Winradio. Here some tips testing it over 10 MHz with the usual T2FD in Milano city. An image on my blog http://radiodxsw.blogspot.com/ Ciao Giampiero 11710.61, 30/9 0008, RAE, music, ID, talks, fair 15345.37 2/10 2200 Radio Nacional, Argentina, news, weather "Argentina está informada!" fair/good transmitter drifting (at 2206 15345.36) (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Italia, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Estimados condiglisteros, Quisiera señalar en mis últimos informes, lo de 30690, posible armónico de RAE 15345v. ¿Alguien en GBA, bien cerca de General Pacheco puede captarla en 30690vv? 73, (Guillermo Glenn Hauser, Oclajoma, Oct 4, condiglist yg via DXLD) Hola Glenn! Yo no vivo lejos de General Pacheco. De hecho estoy en el norte de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, a unos 20/25 kms de General Pacheco. Intenté escucharla en eeste preciso momento, 0035 UT pero nada llega en 30690 khz. A qué hora la reportaste en la QRG? 73 (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, ibid.) A esta hora en 30690 kHz, nada por lo menos con antena discono; ahora pruebo con los dipolos (Ernesto Paulero, 0056 UT Oct 5, ibid.) Alrededor de las 22 TU, pero tengo dudas. No está fuera del aire después de las 00 (días laborales) en 15345? Si funcione, debe aparecer todo el día, 17 a 24. Gracias por probar, (Glenn, ibid.) see UNIDENTIFIED 30689 ** ARGENTINA. 10000 kHz, LOL, the TX is ON! Hi, Enrique friend of the GRA group, confirms to me, that the station LOL time signal is on air from ARGENTINA -freq. 10000 kHz time TX, power 2 KW 1400 to 1500 UT, good hunting! 73 and good dx :D (Mauro - Giroletti -Swl 1510- -IK2GFT- 30 Sept, playdx yg via DXLD) ** ARMENIA. 7269.41, 1/10 2329, Voice of Russia, via Armenia, ID, news, Russian, transmitter off frequency, good // 7285 via Moldova, good (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Italia, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 12362, 3/10 2035, VMW Wiluna, Australia, meteo info, maritime service, weak/fair sounded // 12365 12365, 3/10 *2030, VMC Charleville, Australia, start meteo info broadcast, weak but clear, maritime station sounded // 12362 (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Italia, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 15340, 2/10 1155, HCJB Australia, Talks, music, ID in English at 1200, Indonesian (presumed), in LSB to avoid strong signal from Morocco on 15341.15 kHz. Fair (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Italia, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRIA. 6155. Good old times! At 0459 IS from "Blue Danube' and ID "Radio Oesterreich Internazional", "Radio Austria International" and also in French & Spanish but no more news in English & French from 0604 Mon-Fri as earlier. 22/9 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF 2001, 16m Marconi antenna), Oct Australian DX News via DXLD) 6155.033, ORF OE1 Moosbrunn program seldom on odd frequency, much Moericke and Rilke poet coverage, just heard with news and local Austrian weather at 0505 UT Oct 2, prediction 19 to 27 cC temp today (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 2, Stuttgart sunrise at 0522 UT, dxldyg via DXLD) ** AUSTRIA. Came at 1422 across 9655 from Moosbrunn, carrying Brother Stair, in this very moment saying that he does not preach in German to Germany or something like that, with pronounced reverb revealing that he was not in his "radio room". Limited frequency response and ringing artifacts were pretty obvious, in accordance with the horribly bad 64 kbps (encoded in stereo!!) Hotbird feed as presumed audio source (Kai Ludwig, in a meadow, Germany, Oct 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BAHAMAS. 1540, ZNS1 Radio Bahamas, Nassau, New Providence. 2317 October 1, 2011. Clear and fair in passing with female weather (high tomorrow 87, low 77), then, "Good evening Bahamas, this is your community announcements on the Bahamas Radio Corporation..." (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BELARUS. The Minsk transmitters have developed technical problems. At 1350 Radio Belarus on 7360, run by a unit consisting of 15 individual 5 kW transmitters, was found having very low modulation and that kind of mild hum often heard on Russian transmitters. // 7390 had badly distorted audio and a pretty loud buzz of 50 Hz harmonics. Still the same at 1515 recheck, but now 7360 was obliterated by Lampertheim with RL in Russian on 7355 when it faded up. The low power transmitters carrying BR 1 were there just like they were to be expected: 6040 and 6070 from the western border on almost equal strength, 7235 from 500 km further away was weakest and 7280, again from the western borderline, the strongest one. On 1515 recheck 6010, which at 1350 was obliterated by DRM from Issoudun, centered on 6015, had joined 6040 and 6070. All five ones had identical, nice modulation. At 1515 also two Minsk transmitters were finally on air with BR 1, so indeed signing on at 1500 as listed: 6080, with modulation more or less like the low power transmitters, and 6115 which behaved modulation-wise exactly like 7360, no surprise since it is such a 15 x 5 kW block as well (Kai Ludwig, in a meadow, Germany, Oct 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BELARUS. R. Belarus has a year-long contest with valuable prizes: http://www.radiobelarus.tvr.by/eng/contest.asp (via Abid Hussain Sajid, Pakistan, Oct 5, dxldyg via DXLD) ** BHUTAN. BBS 6035 still on old transmitter at 30 kW --- Got confirmation from BBS today, they are still using the old txer at 30 kW, new one to be back on air very soon, by Oct 2011. Watch out for special programs on the occasion of Royal Wedding on 13th Oct 2011 (Alokesh Gupta, VU3BSE, New Delhi, Sept 30, dx_sasia yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 4699.418 drifting, CP possibly, 0912, om en español till 1005, long om talk; fading out; thunder storm static, seems on every day recently, slow transmitter drift. 4 October [Wilkner, MR- Plantation] 4716.19, Bolivia, Radio Yura, Yura, 1009 with good signal, usual YL identificación en español 1 October, seems on between 0950 and 1020 for last fortnight a checked in the local Peru morning [Wilkner] (Bob Wilkner, NRD 535D - Drake R8 - Icom 746Pro, Noise reducing antenna, long wires, 60 meter band dipole suggested by Scott Barbour, Pompano Beach, South Florida, US, Cumbre DX via DXLD) 4716.70, R. Yatun Ayllu Yura, Yura, San Antonio de Quijarro, Potosí, 01/09 0006-0035, 33333, música, ID “Este es Radio Yatun, la voz de los Ayllus, desde Yura, San Antonio de Quijarro, Potosí, Bolivia``, programa infantil religioso, 0025 hay regular QRN y fue necesario escucharlos en LSB, luego se hizo difícil escucharlo. La recepción lo he efectuado del 01 al 28/9 en compañía de mi sabueso Icom IC R72 en compañía del Mizuho KX-3 con una antena de hilo largo de 15mts. Muchos 128´s PFA (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, El Chasqui DX via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 5952.45, 29/9 0036, Radio Pio XII, talks, fair. On 30/9 0105 good! With talks and nice songs (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Italia, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 6055.098, 23.9 2157, Radio Juan XXIII finally with a complete ID. Sent two recordings to Henrik Klemetz from the three last minutes before close down. Here are his comments: ``At 2157, 29 seconds in "todo el día yo oigo Juan 23.." female voice, unsure if a ”radio” precedes Juan 23. At 2201, 26 sec "{en] Juan 23 has escuchado...", female voice, final ann. No "radio" precedes the name. The final duo reading is a sort of prayer or blessing. No doubt that this is a stion ID. To find the station and the present address you ought to write "radio juan xxiii san ignacio de velasco" otherwise you get a weird person in Alicante in Spain with the same name. /Henrik Klemetz`` Henrik, Thanks a lot for your help with this one. Also note that the name in WRTH seems to be wrong – there is no mention of Radio Cultural Juan XXIII. On all pages I have seen the station is referred to as a plain Radio Juan XXIII. Noted almost every day from 2130-2202* with quite weak signal. TN (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin Oct 1 via WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DXLD) http://www.worlddxclub.org.uk/WDXC_archive_dxnews-2011-01.html BOLIVIA, I am building a 5 kilowatt transmitter and antenna system for Radio Juan XXIII. It will be on 6055. It is the first prototype with the new MOSFETS from Philips (BLF-278). It will consist of ten, 500 watt "drawers", with a ferrite based hybrid combiner. I am going to build them a LAZY H style antenna array. It will be four 5/8th wave elements, two over two, beaming broadside North / South. It should give about 8 dB gain, making the effective radiated power approximately 30 to 40 kW with a major lobe going into North America. I believe we should be testing near the middle of February 2011. (Jamie Labadia, DXLD) Radio Juan XXIII, Plaza 31 de Julio. San Ignacio de Velasco, Santa Cruz-Bolivia. Teléfono: (+591-3) 962 2188. E-mail: radiojuan @ hotmail.com Radiostation Juan XXIII - JUAN 23 – “the Catholic voice of Eastern Bolivia,” has been founded in the 60s to support the evangelization of the church in the Chiquitania, because at that time there were only dirt roads and it was impossible for missionaries to visit the rural communities. The radio was a important instrument to reach the people over long distances, to communicate the faith of the church and to promote social and cultural programs. Radio Juan 23 is founder and member of ERBOL, an association of more than 40 radio stations across the country. In order to serve the people Radio Juan XXIII transmits its program in shortwave (6055 kHz) and in FM. Its signal is received by about 420 rural communities across eastern Bolivia, a region called “Chiquitania”. Radio JUAN 23 conducts a variety of educational activities: “Educación Alternativa” with IRFA-(Instituto Radiofónico Fe y Alegría). A program to promote education by radio for people who had no opportunity to study in the school and a wide range of programs to strengthen the identity and the traditions of the “Chiquitanos”. Open Education, with workshops in the rural communities with current issues. In recent years Radio Juan 23 has focused on the contents of “Participación Popular”, National Dialogue, children and adolescents Code, Agricultural Reform, Forest and State Constitution. The Radiostation also promotes the development of tourism in the Chiquitania region and the “Misiones de Chiquitos“. Our website: http://www.sanignacio-diocesis.com/ (via Thomas Nilsson, ibid.) San Ignacio de Velasco, San Ignacio, or SIV is the capital of the José Miguel de Velasco Province People In 1996, the municipal government published the population as 12,600 persons. It is the largest city in Velasco, and the largest city between metropolitan Santa Cruz and the Brazilian border. Geography San Ignacio is located in the south-central region of the province of Velasco. It is connected to Santa Cruz via bus lines utilizing a dirt highway to San Javier in the province of Ñuflo de Chávez. From San Javier to Santa Cruz, the highway is paved. To the east, similar bus lines connect San Ignacio to the Brazilian city of Cáceres and utilized an unpaved road. The city has an airport (airport code SNG) with a dirt airstrip. San Ignacio is located on the man-made lake, Guapomo, which also serves as the city's supply of fresh water. Culture Spanish is the most commonly used public language. Due to the proximity to Brazil, some Portuguese is spoken. The most common indigenous language in San Ignacio and surroundings is Chiquitano. Nearly all of the people of San Ignacio are indigenous or mestizo, i.e. Camba. Post-WWII German immigrants have a small presence, as do Mennonites. The city is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Ignacio de Velasco (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ibid.) Energy-Onix cheating company Posted on August 1, 2011 by admin Energy-Onix Broadcast Company, Valatie 12184, New York (Albany), phone (518) 758-1690 --- Cheating their customers. On August 1, 2010 – a year ago - Radio Juan XXIII, based in San Ignacio de Velasco, Bolivia, made a purchase of a shortwave transmitter of five kilowatts (Pulsar 5000) to Energy-Onix, for a price of 65,000.- $US (sixty-five thousand dollar U.S.), bill of sale energy-onix [linked] paying in advance. The company offered to deliver the shortwave transmitter within a month: September 2010. However, in August 2011, a year after the purchase, we still have not received our transmitter and Energy-Onix company does not answer our demands. For this reason we make public our complaints, and inform to persons and companies that Energy-Onix Broadcast is not serious with his customers and that this company fails to fulfill commitments. The owner of the “transmitter people” of Energy-onix, Mr Bernie Wise, postponed the deadline for delivery several times, indicating problems hard to believe. The company sent a photo with the fully assembled transmitter “JOHN XXIII“ demanding payment of the invoice. After a visit to the factory we noticed that the photo is a fraudulent manipulation. They send a quote FREIGHT FORWARDER and later they told us that they have problems and have still not received important parts of the transmitter. _ First excuse: November 9, 2010 the Energy-Onix Company reported problems with the metal factory source, announcing shipment of the transmitter on Dec 6, only days later the Company made a statement “of a more realistic date for shipment will be Dec 20_. _ Second excuse: The company informed that they were conducting tests with the transmitter and offered to deliver the Short Wave Transmitter in the second week of January 2011 “Test should be completed and packing initiated by Jan 13. “Thank you for your patience”. _ Third excuse: on March 21, 2011 The company informed that all is ok and they just will finish the final test on April 15, 2011 “at that point we will arrange both shipment details for the transmitter”. _ Fourth excuse: On April 21, the owner of the company Mr. Bernie Wise indicates ironically: “Your order with us has the greatest priority …. And hopefully, we will complete the project by 7 May (2011)”. _ AND SO ON …numerous excuses and lies to tell us: we are not able to construct the transmitter – we are not willing to give back the money – be patient – don’t worry about – and so on. On April 28, Mr. Bernhard Wise explains that an employee is ill and can’t fulfill the commitment and we will have another delay, but “Final testing of transmitter by 12 May or sooner”. In short: almost a year after ordering and paying for a Short Wave Transmitter the “transmitter people” of the ENERGYONIX BROADCAST COMPANY are not able to construct the transmitter and are not willing to meet its commitments. WARNING --- BEWARE with Energy-Onix. You can’t believe them. They don’t tell you the truth. The have not the capacity to construct a working SW transmitter. (Copied from http://www.energy-onix.info/2011/08/01/energy-onix_cheating_their_customers/#more-1 via SW Bulletin Oct 1 via WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DXLD) Let us now all hope that R Juan XXIII now has got the delivery and are satisfied. Unfortunately the present status was not mentioned in the article. /TN (Thomas Nilsson, SW Bulletin Oct 1 via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 6134.8, 29/9 0109-0113* Radio Santa Cruz, end broadcast with usual Santa Cruz song (this time shorter). Off at 0113 (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Italia, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4845.20, BRASIL, R. Cultura Ondas Tropicais, Manaus, 4/09 2230-2305, 33333, programa transmisión de partido de football. TAMBIEN: 10/09 26:40 [sic]-0015, 44444, música regional, ID “Rádio Cultura Ondas Tropicais, 4825 kHz, Manaus, Amazonas” música romántica en español y portugués. NOTA: la escuché por segunda vez para escuchar el ID, la cual no la obtuve el 4/09. 4865.00, Verdes Florestas, Cruzeiro do Sul, 13/09 1015-1110, 44444, programa Difusora en la noticia, el jornal de la mañana, Slogan “Radio Verdes Florestas, 940 kHz, onda tropical 4865 kHz, perteneciente a la Fundación [sic] Verdes Florestas, Cruzeiro do Sul. La recepción lo he efectuado del 01 al 28/9 en compañía de mi sabueso Icom IC R72 en compañía del Mizuho KX-3 con una antena de hilo largo de 15mts. Muchos 128´s PFA (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, El Chasqui DX via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. Emissora não identificada em 6075 kHz --- Amigos, O dexista suéco Henrik Klemetz e outros colegas da Escandinávia têm mencionado uma escuta nos 6075 kHz que pelas caracteristícas levam a pensar em uma emissora brasileira, talvez como Educadora e localizada no Norte do Brasil, no enrtanto não existe qualquer menção nos orgãos oficiais ou de outros dexistas, por aqui não tenho escuta. Alguem sabe ou poderá tentar saber alguma coisa ? os colegas do Norte do Brasil poderiam checar ? Um trecho desta recepção pode ser ouvido em http://www.ipernity.com/blog/76129/home Obrigado, 73 (Samuel Cássio Martins, São Carlos SP, 3 Out, radioescutas yg via DXLD) See also UNIDENTIFIED for much more ** BRAZIL. Radio Canção Nova 9675 - Happening Now! Radio Canção Nova, 9675, Cachoeira Paulista, Brasil, is coming in here at 0002 UT on 01 October with a good level and reasonably QRM-free! S3-4 with QRM from adjacents 9665 and 9685. Light music and talk with typical booming IDs (Al Muick, Whitehall, PA USA, UT Oct 1, WinRadio G303e / 100m longwire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hello Al Muick, Thanks for info! Some hours ago I'd also received it on 9675, but I wasn't sure that it's Canção Nova. As I understand, they were off-air during 3 or 4 months (Vitaliy Lisovskiy, Ukraine, ibid.) Su 9675 dal Brasile è sempre Radio Canção Nova? Ciao a tutti. Per molte settimane, il trasmettitore brasiliano operante da Cachoeira Paulista su 9675 kHz mi è parso non attivo, poi la settimana scorsa per una sera ed una mattina l'ho notato in portante muta ed infine è tornata la modulazione. In un messaggio precedente l'ho segnalata, però già in quell'ascolto mi era parso che il parlato maschile in onda non fosse più quello pacato delle preghiere cattoliche ma quello enfatico tipo - lo dico apertamente - Super Rádio Deus é Amor. Questa mattina, verso le 0550 UT, ricevendola nuovamente con il G3 Etón c'erano in onda riflessioni bibliche urlate ed ho avuto la medesima sensazione. Siamo sicuri che la fase di inattività non sia servita per cedere l'impianto alla Igresia Pentecostal Deus é Amor o altra organizzazione simile? P.S. Casomai nelle ultime 24 ore fosse già circolata su questo argomento qualche notizia più certa non me ne voglia nessuno, io non posso essere in Rete fisso giorno e notte per controllare tutto in tempo reale (Luca Botto Fiora, G.C. 09E13 - 44N21, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, Oct 4, bclnews.it yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DXLD) 9675, Oct 5 at 0513, Brazilian YL with religious talk, poor. R. Canção Nova has recently reactivated, first reported by Al Muick, PA, early UT Oct 1. Vitaliy Lisovskiy, Ukraine, thought it had been off for 3 or 4 months. Also heard by Luca Botto Fiora, Italy. I cannot get so excited about the reappearance of yet another Brazilian gospel huxter polluting the shortwaves (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DX LISTENING DIGEST) more below ** BRAZIL. 9645.38, 30/9 0041, Rádio Bandeirantes, talks, poor 9674.99, 30/9 0035, Canção Nova, conversation in Portuguese, fair. Good signal on Oct 3 at 2115 with Holy Rosary 9819.78, 30/9, Rádio 9 de Julho, talks, weak, better on 2/10 at 0005 on 9819.76 kHz 11749.87, 29/9 2350, Voz Missionária, music, talks, poor, stopped at 2359 by CRI. On 3 October with fair signal at 2005. Modulation a little low. 11854.93, 3/10 2011, Rádio Aparecida, religious songs, weak/fair fading 11925.24, 28/9 2333, Rádio Bandeirantes, sport, weak 15189.89, 2/10 1915, Rádio Inconfidência, talks sport, fair signal but QRM from Radio Pilipinas, so heard in LSB (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Italia, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. BRASIL, Rádio Nacional da Amazônia, 11780, no data "thank you for your report letter" in 30 days for Portuguese report and US $3.00 sent via airmail. Letter came back via "Registered Priority" mail, and my report and $3.00 was returned. Wow. V/s. Luciana Couto, Coordinadora de la Radio Nacional da Amazonia. Letter was on letterhead showing coverage maps of both shortwave frequencies, and I was invited to tune in live via the internet and further enjoy their programs. Check this out!: The reply was written in SPANISH! Go figure (Al Muick, PA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also GABON. Their other SW frequency, 6185/6180, has zero coverage since it`s off ** BRAZIL [and non]. The disputed logging of Radio Inconfidência on 15190 at 2247 may well have been correct; I heard them at 2350 September 6 with full identification, SINPO 33333 and weakening. No other stations on the frequency. I see in the current Contact that Rich D'Angelo also heard them around that time (Arthur Miller, Wales, October World DX Club Contact via DXLD) WYFR Portuguese via Okeechobee uses 15190 in Portuguese 2200-0100 [really -0045*] so you need to hear an identification to be clear which station you are hearing (Mike Barraclough, ibid.) 22-9, 15190 R. Inconfidência, 0355 pop songs, S3 with very good audio quality, ID 0358 (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Rádio Inconfidência ondas curtas 19 metros --- Domingo, dia 2/10, às 18h30 sintonizei em 15190 kHz a Rádio Inconfidência de BH em perfeitas condições. Geralmente há emissoras internacionais interferindo, porém, nesta hora e dia, a propagação estava aberta somente para a Inconfidência. Ela transmitia o jogo entre Grêmio x Cruzeiro. Tudo indicava que a transmissão era através do "tubo". Os locutores não estavam presentes no campo. A qualidade o áudio destas ondas curtas se apresentava em boas condições. A Inconfidência transmite também em ondas curtas de 6010 kHz em 49 metros. 73 (Luiz Chaine Neto, Limeira sp, 2-10-2011, radioescutas yg via DXLD) UT or UT -3 Brazilian time? ** BRAZIL. Coordenadas geográficas de transmissores Amigos, Faz muito tempo que não participo da lista, mas sempre leio as mensagens da turma. Agora necessito de auxílio. Alguém teria um arquivo, ou poderia indiciar, onde encontro as coordenadas geográficas das estações de rádios do brasil, quer sejam e OM, OC e Tropicais? Tentei localizado no site da Anatel mas não achei. Fico super agradecido da ajuda. 73 a todos e boas escutas (Alexandre Deves Sailer, Viamão - RS, 3 Out, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Ola Alexandre, http://sistemas.anatel.gov.br/siscom/consplanobasico/default.asp No site da Anatel tem o link para o sistema SISCOM que tem todas as informações. 73s (Sarmento Campos, ibid.) ** BRAZIL. Carmen Miranda Report (Brasil SW survey) Recent Brasilian logs from various sources (Latest Log) [Status notes] "Ck" means the station has been reported as // to the freqs listed. NOTE -- Duplicate IDs may be due to list-logging. 2380v ZYG852 R Educadora, Limeira SP (7/11) Ck 3255 3325 R Mundial, Sao Paulo SP (7/11) 3355 R Educadora 6 de Agosto/Voz do Brasil, Xapuri AC (3/11) Ck 2380 [May relay 4885 Rdf Acreana at times] 3365 ZYG855 R Cultura, Araraquara SP (8/11) 3375v ZYF276 R Municipal, Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira (8/11) 4755v ZYF904 R Imaculada Conceicao, Campo Grande (3/11) 4775 ZYG207 R Congnhas (p) (9/11) 4805v ZYF273 Rdf do Amazonas, Manaus AM (9/11) [Logged up to 4808] 4815 ZYG640 R Difusora, Londrina PR (7/11) 4825 ZYG868 R Cancao Nova, Cachoeira Paulista SP (9/11) 4845v ZYF278 R Cultura, Manaus (8/11) 4865 ZYF203 Radio Verdes Florestas, Cruzeiro do Sul (9/11) " ZYG641 R Alvorada, Londrina PR (t) (9/11) 4875v ZYG810 R Roraima, Boa Vista RR (8/11) [Rptd up to 4879] 4885 ZYG362 R Clube do Para, Belem (8/11) " ZYF692 R Maria, Brasília, DF [Obsolete? Not in 2011 WRTH] " ZYF201 Rdf Acreana, Rio Blanco/Branco (3/11) 4895 ZYR200 R Novo Tempo, Campo Grande PR (7/10) " ZYF274 R Bare, Manaus-AM (Ex-Radio Globo) [2011 WRTH listed inactive] 4905 ZYF693 R Anhanguera, Araguaína TO (2/10) [In 2011 WRTH; Rptd on 4915 in 3/11] 4915 ZYF691 R Daqui, Goiania GO (9/11), Ck 11830 (//6080 at times) " ZYF360 Rdf Macapa, Macapa AC (6/11) 4925v ZYF271 R Educacao Rural, Tefe AM (p) (9/11) 4935v ZYF641 R Capixaba, Victoia ES (5/11) 4945 R Ondas Tropicais, Marituba (12/09) Ck 5045 [Not in 2011 WRTH] 4965 R Alvorada, Parintins AM (6/11p) [Not in 2011 WRTH] 4975v ZYG865 R Iguatemi, SP (12/10p) [2011 WRTH listed inactive] 4985 ZYF690 R Brasil Central, Goiania (9/11) Ck 11815 5035 ZYG853 R Aparecida, Aparecida OT (8/11) Ck 6135/9630/11855 5045 ZYG360 R Cultura/Cultura do Para (8/11)/R Guaruja Paulista (8/11), Belem PA (8/11) 5055 ZYF274 Radio Jornal a Critica FM, Manaus (2/11) " ZYF901 Radio Difusora, Caceres MT (3/11) 5940v R Voz Missionaria, Camboriu (9/11) Ck 9665/11750 [ex-R Guaruja Paulista] 5965 R Nova Visao (4/10) [Listed in 2011 WRTH as R Trans-Mundial] 5970 ZYE523 R Itatiaia, Belo Horizonte MG (9/11) 5990 ZYE773 R Senado, Brasilia DF (9/11) 5995 R Bandeirantes (spur) (6/10) Ck 6090, 9645, 11925 6000 ZYE852 R Guaiba, Porto Alegre RS (12/10) 6010v ZYE521 R Inconfidencia, Belo Horizonte MG (9/11) Ck 15190v 6020 ZYE850 R Gaucha Pto Alegre RS (9/11) Ck 11915 6060 ZYE726 Super Radio Deus e Amor, Curitaba PR (8/11) Ck 6120/9565/9585/9595/11725/11765/11805/11965 6070 ZYE765 R Capital, Rio de Janeiro RJ (9/11) 6080 ZYE726 R Marumby (9/11)/R Daqui (8/11), Curitaba PR; Ck 4915/9665 6090 ZYE956 R Bandeirantes, Sao Paulo SP (9/11) Ck 9645v/11925 6105 ZYE971 R Cancao Nova, Cachoeira Paulista SP; Ck 4825/9675 " R Filadelfia/Cultura Filadelfia, Iguazu PR (5/11) [Not in 2011 WRTH] 6120 R Super Deus e Amor, Sao Paulo SP (9/11) Ck 6060/9565/9585/9595/11725/11765/11805/11965 [Not in 2011 WRTH] " R Globo, Sao Paulo SP (4/11) [Not in 2011 WRTH] 6135 ZYE954 R Aparecida, Aparecida SP (1/11) Ck 5035/9630/11855 6150 ZYE950 R Record, Sao Paulo SP (4/11) 6160 ZYE245 R Rio Mar, Manaus AM (12/10p) " ZYE854 R Boa Vontade, Pto Alegre RS; Ck 9550/11895 [Obsolete?] 6185 ZYE365 R Nacional da Amazonia, Brasilia DF (10/10) Ck 11780 6195 R Nacional da Amazonia, Brasilia DF (7/10); Ck 11780 [Alt to 6185] 9505v ZYE951 R Record, Sao Paulo SP (3/11) 9515 ZYE726 R Marumby (9/11)/R Novas de Paz (12/10) Ck 11725 [2011 WRTH Marumby] 9530 ZYE858 R Transmundial, Santa Maria RS (11/10 [Reactivation] 9550 ZYE855 R Boa Vontade (t), Porto Alegre RS (7/11) Ck 6160/11895 9565v ZYE727 Super Radio Deus e Amor, Curitaba PR (9/11) Ck 6060/6120/9585/9595/11725/11765/11805/11965 [ex-R Tupi] 9585v ZYE969 Super R Deus e' Amor, Sao Paulo SP (9/11) Ck 6060/9565/11725/11765/11805 ex-R Tupi, rptd as R Globo (12/10) Ck 9565 9595v Super Radio Deus e Amor (4/11) Ck 6060/6120/9565/9585/11765/11965 [Not in 2011 WRTH] " R Record, Sao Paulo [Not in 2011 WRTH] 9630v ZYE954 R Aparecida, Aparecida SP (9/11) Ck 5035/6135/11855 9645v ZYE957 R Bandeirantes, Sao Paulo SP (9/11) Ck 6090/11925 9665v ZYE890 R Voz Missionaria (9/11)/Super Radio Deus e Amor (4/11)/ R Marumby (9/11), Florianopolis SC; Ck 5940/11750 [2011 WRTH as Missionaria] 9675 ZYE971 R Cancao Nova, Cachoeira Paulista SP (5/11); Ck 4825/6105 9685v ZYE963 R Gazeta, Sao Paulo SP (6/11) 9695v ZYE245 R Rio Mar, Manaus AM (9/11) 9820v R Nove de Julho, Sao Paulo SP (9/11) [//Aparecida at times] 10000 PPE Observatorio Nacional, Rio de Janeiro (9/11) 11715 R Marumby, Curitaba (7/11) Ck 6080/9515 [Not in 2011 WRTH] 11725v ZYE726 R Deus e Amor/R Novas de Paz/R Marumby (5/11), Curitiba PR; Ck 6060/6120/9565/9585/9525/11765/11965 [R Marumby listed in 2011 WRTH] 11735 ZYE858 R Transmundial, Santa Maria RS (7/11) 11750v R Voz Missionaria, Florianopolis SC (9/11) Ck 5940/9665 [ex-R Marumby] 11765 ZYE726 Super Radio Deus e' Amor, Curitaba PR (9/11) Ck 6060/9565/9585/9595/11805/11965 [ex-R Tupi] 11780 ZYE365 R Nacional da Amazonia, Brasilia (8/11) Ck 6185 11805 ZYE776 R Deus e Amor, Rio de Janeiro RJ (1/11) Ck 6060/6120/9565/9585/9595/11765/11965 11815 ZYE440 R Brasil Central, Goiania (9/11) Ck 4985 11830 ZYE441 R Daqui, Goiania (5/11) Ck 4915 11855 ZYE954 R Aparecida, Aparecida SP (9/11) Ck 5035/6135/9630 11895 ZYE856 R Boa Vontade, Pto Alegre RS (11/10) Ck 6160/9550/12035 11915 ZYE851 R Gaucha, Porto Alegre RS (9/11) Ck 6020 11925v ZYE958 R Bandeirantes, Sao Paulo SP (8/11) Ck 6090/9645 11935 R Transmundial, Santa Maria (10/10) [Not in 2011 WRTH] 11965 R Super Deus e Amor (10/10) Ck 6060/6160/9565/9585/9595/11765/11805 [Not in 2011 WRTH] 15190v ZYE522 R Inconfidencia, Belo Horizonte (7/11) Ck 6010 12035 R Boa Vontade? [Not in 2011 WRTH] 12175v R Deus e Amor (spur) (10/10) Ck 6060/9565/9585/11765/11805/11965 15190v ZYE522 R Inconfidencia, Belo Horizonte MG (9/11) Ck 6010 29090 R Rio Mar, Manaus AM, FM (9/11) [Studio link] (Harold Frodge, MI, Oct 5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Tnx, for a handy summary. I tire of having to put in all the Portuguese accents that people insist on deleting! But have made a few other spelling correxions (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DXLD) ** BULGARIA [and non]. At 1355 schedules with transmitter sites (Al- Dhabbaya etc., etc.) have been read out in Russian... no, in Bulgarian, on 7400. Of course Radio Bulgaria, suffering some co- channel interference from CRI in Russian, listed as running 100 kW from a quadrant antenna at Kashi. A channel sharing apparently too daring, since the target area of this Radio Bulgaria transmission is zone 29 where the situation must be expected to be even worse. Shortly after 1355 a second carrier appeared, first a few Hertz apart but then becoming synchronized with the existing one. That was Padarsko, joining the already running Kostinbrod for Russian 1400- 1500. At 1402 recheck I had to note that this approach still does not work: The audio circuits to Padarsko and Kostinbrod have still a different delay, resulting in a really bad echo. Strange; do they get no feedback about these ruined transmissions? Perhaps people in this particular case just switch to // 9400 where Kostinbrod runs alone; the modulation is somewhat cleaner (although still leaving something to be desired) and without the hum that accompanies 7400, and it is in the clear which again can't be said about 7400, due to Beijing 500 kW with Chinese to Africa in the 1400-1500 hour (Kai Ludwig, in a meadow, Germany, Oct 1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 14800, 2/10 1334, Radio Bulgaria, harmonic 2 x 7400 kHz, S 5, fair (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Italia, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CAMBODIA [non]. 9960, Oct 1 at 1255, romantic-sounding Cambodian song by M singer, over RTTY on 9960, but bothered by ACI from the DentroCuban Jamming Command on both 9955 and 9965. At 1259, 9960 is hit by a low het as habitually off-frequency Tainan, Taiwan turns on its transmitter for YFR in Vietnamese, and at 1259:40 there is an brief announcement but can`t tell from which. Palau goes off at 1300* and immediately reappears on 9965 with R. Australia in Chinese mixed with the Cuban jamming. 9960 until 1300 is the new clandestine via T8WH PALAU that Ludo Maes of TDP told me about at HFCC Dallas, Saturdays only at 12-13 since Sept 17, but the first chance I have had to log it, KPPM Radio, for Khmer People Power Movement. For more about it see http://www.kppmradio.org and Ron Howard also references: http://www.youtube.com/user/KhmerPeoplePowerMove http://www.facebook.com/pages/Khmer-Power-Movement-KPM/276670769252?v=info 9960, Wed Oct 5 at 1250-1253+, YL talk in Khmer squeezed by usual Cuban jamming noise; no heavy flutter on this unlike many Asian signals such as Thailand in English on 9890, as PALAU is far enough south/east to avoid auroral zone. It`s TDP`s Khmer Post Radio, via T8WH, Wed/Thu/Fri 12-13 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 1650 CKZW Montréal QC. “Radio Gospel 1650 AM Montréal Hello Andrew. When did this change occur? http://ckzw.ca/ (via ARC's mv-eko) Best wishes (Barry : -) Davies, (Carlisle UK, PERSEUS), Oct 4, MWCircle yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DXLD) I don`t think it is a change, Barry. On the link you sent it reads: Et La radio Gospel est en ondes tous les weekends sur le 1650 AM à Montréal: De 18 heures le vendredi à 19 heures le samedi. So I don`t think its an actual change. Wikipedia has a little on the same subject too (Andrew Brade, ibid.) What about the call letters? Best wishes (Barry : -) Davies, (Carlisle UK, PERSEUS), ibid.) Indeed: it had been CJRS, Radio Shalom, with, yes, a Jewish emphasis, but on UT Saturday can`t do that, so ceded to Christians, maybe also required to share by licence terms. But does the callsign really change to CKZW for 24 hours, or permanently? CJRS R. Shalom still exists on the web: http://www.radio-shalom.ca/EN/index-en.php Showing on schedule grid something called ``Radio CMM`` on Saturdays. Grid is already dated ``2012`` -- wait a minute, the Jewish year may have changed but not the CE one! Maybe CKZW is another of those imaginary calls like ``CPAM`` for the real CJWI on 1610 Montréal? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DX LISTENING DIGEST) CKZW is definitely an imaginary callsign being used by a religious group that leases time from Radio Shalom when they are off the air for the Jewish Sabbath. The group has been trying to get a station of their own over the years, but they have always been rejected by the CRTC for a variety of reasons. I think the CKZW callsign is what they would hope to use if they were to get their own station (Sheldon Harvey, Montréal, Radio H.F. - Canada`s specialist in radio communications, http://www.radiohf.ca WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. CRTC APPROVES MOHAWK-LANGUAGE RADIO LICENCE September 30, 2011 - 3:02pm — The Wire Report http://www.thewirereport.ca/reports/content/13016-crtc_approves_mohawk_language_radio_licence The CRTC said Thursday that it has approved an application from Brian Moon, general manager of Kahnawake Keeps It Country Station, for a broadcasting licence to operate an English and Mohawk-language FM radio station. The commission said Moon submitted that the station would operate on the 89.9 MHz frequency and aim to support local Mohawk and aboriginal artists by broadcasting their music as well as their concerts. The CRTC said Moon indicated the station would broadcast 95 per cent of its programming in English and the other 5 per cent in the Mohawk language. The station also proposed to broadcast six hours of spoken word programming and 120 hours of music programming, the commission said. The CRTC said that the application was consistent with the provisions set for Type B aboriginal radio stations and it has approved the licence (via Kevin Redding, ABDX via DXLD) ** CANADA. 6030, Calgary - CFVP relaying CKMX (AM 1060). Monday (UT), Oct 3, was not a “clear” Monday; the strong Cuban jamming was not turned off after Marti went off at 0300; cowboy drama “The Lone Ranger”; IDs and ads between segments; 0319 started “Gunsmoke starting William Conrad”; Calgary holding up well against the jamming (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 6160, 0730 English .... unable to determine which station, constant local noise on this frequency difficult to avoid even with three antennas. Need 49 meter directional dipole? 4 October (Bob Wilkner, NRD 535D - Drake R8 - Icom 746Pro, Noise reducing antenna, long wires, 60 meter band dipole suggested by Scott Barbour, Pompano Beach, South Florida, US, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** CANADA [and non]. CBC Radio One 1550 AM signs off tonight at 11:59 PM [Sep. 30]. It has been replaced with two FM stations, 97.5 Windsor and 91.9 Leamington. So if you can hear it, nows your last chance! A nice little item on the change over: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/story/2011/09/30/wdr-goodbye-am-frequency.html (Andy Reid, Ont., dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) The transmitter will go off at midnight EDT tonight (0400 UT). Also, I just found out from the host of the Windsor afternoon drive time show, Bob Steele, that they will be running a short "end of an era" item at approximately 1745 EDT (2145 UTC), so folks may want to check out their web stream for that. Make sure you select the Windsor regional stream! (Barry McLarnon, VE3JF, Ottawa, ON, ABDX via DXLD) Then what about this CRTC decision, issued today under streamlined procedures? APPROVED – Extension to 16 June 2012 of the time limit to implement the English-language FM radio programming undertaking CBEW- FM Windsor, Ontario, approved in CBE Windsor – Conversion to FM band and new transmitter in Leamington, Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2009- 349, 16 June 2009. This is the first extension to be granted by the Commission (Saul Chernos, 30 Sept, ibid.) Darned good question, Saul. I've heard from two different people at CBC Windsor that CBE 1550 will definitely be shut down at midnight tonight, and they should know. I seem to recall that the extension was requested because the Windsor FM transmitter was experiencing some interference issues, possibly related to IBOC from a Detroit station. I can only surmise that the issues were resolved somehow, so that the extension beyond September 30 is no longer needed. We'll find out for sure tonight, I guess! (Barry McLarnon, VE3JF, Ottawa, ON, ibid.) One more update: the interference issues with CBEW-FM were caused by a pirate in the Detroit area, which has been shut down, so there was no need to postpone the shutdown of CBE. The segment about the shutdown aired on CBE at about 1750. They used the audio from this TV story (mind the wrap): http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/story/2011/09/30/wdr-goodbye-am-frequency.html See y'all on 1550 tonight... I'll be on StarChat #mwdx as usual... (Barry McLarnon, VE3JF, Ottawa, ON, ibid.) For those of us with scant chance of a voice ID through the 1550 interference, remember that CBE might play "O Canada" after tonight's final sign-off (Steve Francis, TN, Sept 30, NRC-AM via DXLD) Based on my experience with previous CBC AM signoffs (I was in the transmitter building when they flipped the switch on CBL), that doesn't seem to be part of their SOP. CBL and CBM both went straight into repeating loops announcing the new FM frequencies, which continued to run for 24 hours or so after the official sign-off. No "O Canada" at either, and I don't believe CBA did one, for that matter. (But there is reason to believe there may be a repeating loop still up on 1550 for the next day or so, which might give some DXers a shot at hearing CBE without HSFB in the way.) s (Scott Fybush, ibid.) See also WESTERN SAHARA [non] CBE lives! Midnight has come and gone, and CBE is still on the air with the hourly CBC news. Curious. It's fighting it out on 1550 here in Rochester with something unID playing what sounds like 70s country rock. s (Scott Fybush, IRCA via DXLD) Still on the air at 12:05 ELT (Karl Zuk, N2KZ, near NYC, ibid.) CBE seemed to sign off during the local weather after the national news but, all of a sudden at 12:10 Eastern they kicked back on again! (Sheldon Harvey, Montréal, NRC-AM via DXLD) They faded. Avenue 1550 WI had Whiter Shade of Pale, which was kind of what CBE seemed to behave like, but resurfaced. The Ohio Spanish station in there. Interesting Sheldon in QC and me in ON had fade at same time (Saul @ Burnt River ON 0417 UT, ibid.) It's a jumble here in Rochester. CBE still going at 0021 [EDT] with Joni Mitchell, WZRK (1 watt?!?) rising from the noise with a strong "Avenue 1550" ID and promos for Lake Geneva businesses, WDLR (29 watts?!?!) with a "La Que Buena" ID before that. I'd say this will be an interesting channel with CBE gone, but it's actually a pretty interesting channel even with CBE still present for the moment. I used to have a nasty mixing product of my local 1370 and 1460 that would sit on 1550 and make the channel useless here, but it seems to have subsided. I think 1460's move to a new site a few miles away from 1370 helped. I know we haven't done anything different at 1370 that would have changed the situation. s (Scott Fybush, NY, 0424 UT, ibid.) I heard the Joni Mitchell song that Scott was hearing, but I don't think that was CBE. I had CBE disappearing again at 12:14 am. I did hear someone giving a partial website URL as 1550.com. I see that WHIT, Madison WI has http://www.hitradio1550.com and KSFT Saint Joseph, MO has http://www.oldies1550.com but not sure what I was hearing. The dominant station here is playing music; older songs but I haven't even been able to recognize any of the songs! (Sheldon Harvey, ibid.) Joni beats an absent carrier any day in my book! Then again, from my QTH, all I can do is enjoy this thread. Of course, you don't have to deal with 4QD-1548 as a pest (Brock Whaley, Honolulu, NRC-AM via DXLD) Sounds like they're having fun tonight. Great program with great sixties oldies and commentary. Way to go out (Dave Hochfelder, Albany, NY, 0354 UT Oct 1, IRCA via DXLD) That regular CBC national programming, still in after midnight news. I wonder what's going on. Geneva WI played Whiter Shade of Pale in case anyone heard that, also the Spanish station in OH (Saul Chernos, ibid.) That's the regular CBC national programming, hosted by Randy Bachmann (of Bachmann Turner Overdrive fame) - and it just went dead at 0025 EDT. Still a carrier up. s (Scott Fybush, ibid.) I heard that interruption in signal during the local weather following CBC news and did not return to listen. If this is indeed the end, what an undignified end to 61 years of service -- with on-again, off-again program interruptions followed by dead air. RIP, CBE! 73 (Bill Dvorak, Madison WI 0446 UT, IRCA via DXLD) For the last 45 minutes I'm getting the Spanish station from Ohio, "Que Buena", a relog; pretty strong for 29 watts. A PSA for Lake Geneva just appeared at 0116 EDT, so that's WZRK with a very mighty one watt signal (Jim Renfrew, Holley NY, 0521 UT, ibid.) Sheldon, my bet would be on "Avenue 1550", which is WZRK in Lake Geneva, WI. They've been booming in all evening long. I believe WHIT is a daytimer, and the 1550 in St. Joseph hasn't been KSFT in eons -- they're now ESPN with CLs as KESJ. WZRK's website is http://www.avenue1550.com and as I type this, they're playing an acoustic version of Rickie Lee Jones' "Chuck E.'s In Love". 73, (Rick Dau, South Omaha, Nebraska, Kenwood R-5000 (which is having issues this evening) + Quantum QX Pro loop, NRC-AM via DXLD) Last moments of 1550 CBE I spent some time this morning reviewing my overnight Perseus recording of 1550 around midnight ELT in hopes of reconstructing the rather jumbled mix of reception at the time of the sign off of CBE. What follows is a minute-by-minute replay of what I heard here in Pennsylvania. I hope it might help some folks make sense of what they were hearing during that time. It also introduces an interesting twist to CBE's operating frequency in the final moments of their broadcast. At around 1158 pm CBE is on top with Randy Bachman's Vinyl Tap program leading out with the Beach Boy's theremin on "Good Vibrations". WDLR- OH is in 2nd place with regional Mexican music and WZRK-WI is in third place with a mention of avenue1550.com. At 1159 ET there was a CBC Radio 1 local ID with only the 97.5 FM frequency mentioned. Over the next 5 minutes CBE faded and WDLR dominated but CBE was still in. At 1204:30 the local and regional weather was being given and CBE's audio dropped mid-sentence at 1205:00. At 1205:35 the audio returned for about 5 seconds, still in the middle of the weather, but the carrier frequency was actually 1550.05 rather than the previous 1550.00 (I can zero-beat the sideband audio and tell it's CBE, and the carrier line on 1550.05 was extremely strong). The carrier dropped abruptly again in mid-sentence at 1205:40 (there were at least 6 other carriers on 1550 spread between 1550.00 and 1550.02 at this point, by the way). Between 1206 and 1210 ET there is no sign of any CBE audio but at 1210:15 the audio from CBE comes back in the middle of "Maggie May" by Rod Stewart, back on frequency at 1550.00. "Maggie May" stays on top with a brief dip at 1211, ending at 1214:10; Randy starts to introduce the next song, saying "the Beat Farmers are a cowpunk band from San Diego..." and the audio drops mid-sentence at 1214:21 ET. Then, at 1215:48 the carrier and audio came back in the middle of their "Happy Boy" song ("hubba hubba hubba hubba hubba") and the carrier is now back on 1550.05 kHz. At 1216 Randy starts to introduce Joni Mitchell but the Spanish music is beating it out. At 1217 Joni's song "Carey" pops through and is pretty strong from 1218 to 1219, ending at 1220. At 1220:30 he introduces the next song by Joanie Sommers "Johnny Get Angry, Johnny Get Mad". At 1220:45 a promo for "Big Ed's Chowder House" and The Avenue 1550 pops on top of CBE but Joanie's song comes back from 1221 to 1223. Randy begins to introduce The Troggs "Wild Thing" but then the audio is gone at 1224:40, presumably for the last time. After that it's WDLR's " la que buena " slogan, more Spanish music and some unidentified vocal folk-ish music from presumed WZRK. Never got to hear "Wild Thing". I stopped checking the recording at this point, presuming they are off for good. The off-frequency carrier is still there even now (1100 am ELT Saturday) although it appears to be closer to 1550.04. I wonder if this indicates they may return with a tape loop as some have speculated. I also wonder why their carrier frequency changed at the end? I cannot recall there ever being an off-frequency station on 1550 (Brett Saylor, State College, PA, Perseus SDR and 16'x36' corner fed Superloop pointed at 30 degrees, IRCA via DXLD) What an odd way to end things! Ironically today October 1st is CBE 1550's 61st birthday. 73 (Bill Dvorak, Madison WI, ibid.) It's a little sad to see the end of CBE. They were my first Canadian QSL on January 14, 1964. After getting out of the Navy in 1970 I made a solo car trip around Lake Erie. On the north shore of the lake I spotted CBE's Xmtr site. I snapped a picture of the building with the big, bold CBE call letters clearly visible (Tom Jasinski, Joliet, IL, ibid.) I tried to catch this sign off last night, Oct. 1. As best as I could tell, CBE was still on at 12:05 AM ET. Seemed to me to go off during the weather, but then is was back on again in a few minutes. Again it went off maybe around 12:15 but I heard it pop back on again. Was gone for good at around 12:20. No sign of it this morn (Andy Reid, Ont., 1259 UT Oct 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, Here in Peterborough, the only CBC Radio on AM I get now is CBW in the middle of the night - some many km's away! (Andy Reid, Oct 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHAD [and non]. CHAD/BONAIRE/LITHUANIA, 6164.961, Stronger than RNW, RNT Radio N'djamena from Chad in French noted with news reading from 0500 UT Oct 2, when NHK Sitkunai in Russian ended, and RNW Bonaire in Dutch on 6165.0 co-channel started (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 2, Stuttgart sunrise at 0522 UT, dxldyg via DXLD) ** CHILE. 11665, CVC Internacional via Calera de Tango at Santiago in Spanish scheduled 23-02 UT was on prolonged service time this morning Sept 24, heard also in 0230-0300 UT slot, speech to crowd about historia and collegio (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews 1 Oct via DXLD) As also heard after 0500 by gh, plus 9780; see 11-39 ** CHINA. 4940, Voice of the Strait, Fuzhou. 1053 October 2, 2011. Presumed the one, though listed as 1200-1600 with VOS News Service channel in the WRTVH 2011. Chinese male and female, the usual 5+1 ChiCom time sounders at 1100. Clear and fair. Nothing listed on short- wave.info in Chinese from CNR on 4940 in the 1000-1100 range in Chinese in the China by-frequency query, but that conflicts with the p. 152 VOS entry. It would have been faster to just checked with Ron Howard, Monterey, CA, as he indicates per Aoki's database, this is listed as 0943-1600 daily in Chinese, and of course, is heard quite well from his location (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 5050, Beibu Bay Radio (BBR). Assume due to their National Day Holidays they are broadcasting mostly in Chinese now instead of the normal Vietnamese; Oct 2 at 1219 playing pop and patriotic Chinese songs; very few segments in Vietnamese (weather); ToH and BoH multi- language IDs (“FM 96.4 Beibu Bay Radio”); fair. Oct 3 and 4 also broadcasting in Chinese and // 9820. Ozy Radio (Australia) has not returned here yet. 5075, Voice of Pujiang, 1154, Oct 2. Their seasonal change back to their winter frequency (ex: 9705); // 3280 and 4950, which never change frequencies; radio dramatization in Chinese; all with fair reception (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. At 1445 I landed on a booming signal on 13710 with badly overprocessed audio of someone talking in American English about records released by Duran Duran, inserting snippets from songs but never playing a complete one. The whole thing made me wonder if the author has any knowledge of the subject, other than looking up Wikipedia. Sounded like VOA in the first moment, but very soon it became clear that it can't be them. Well, it was CRI, beaming with 500 kW from Kashi to Europe. The same on // 13790 from Urumqi, with the same overcompressed audio unlike one was used to from this site just a few years ago. Already at 1410 I noted a "funny" show with audience in Chinese, booming in on 9430: Also Kashi 500 kW to Europe. And at 1430 I had listed CRI Tamil under another strong open carrier on 11685. Usual suspect would be Samara, listed for TWR Urdu 1500- 1530, but also on Sundays? And again I came across CRI Tamil at 1437 on 13600, pretty strong from Kashi although not beaming EUwards, with kind of an Asian opera (not Pekingoper a.k.a. Firedrake). Also at 1430 I had some Chinese programming with a bad echo on 11805. HFCC shows only some IBB slot in Tajikistan, what a surprise. Shortly after 1500 strong Russian on 13860: Again CRI, 500 kW from "SZG" wherever that may be (Kai Ludwig, in a meadow, Germany, Oct 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 17920, Sound of Hope. In Chinese (presumed) with slight noise jammer at 1245, but on other // with bimbang Firedrake: 10300, 14970, 16100 on 23/9 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF 2001, 16m Marconi antenna), Oct Australian DX News via DXLD) [against KWT/MRA/TJK/UAE] Jamming against RFA Tibetan program at 06-07 UT, noted Sept 24: Noted spoken word program by CNR jammer on 21520, 21530, 21690 kHz. True Firedrake music on 21785 kHz, and different Chinese slow flute music on 21565 kHz. Today Sept 28th at 03-04 UT, at remote SDR unit post in Tokyo-JPN: 21580.030 at 0318 UT, S=8 signal in JPN, most likely a Chinese jammer on some technical measurement, only carrier noted until switch-OFF at 0324 UT. At 0320 UT RFA Chinese phone-in talk of two woman, S=8-9, probably RFA Mandarin from Tinian Isl-MRA, underneath heard another (jamming?) stn. China mainland jamming on Sept 29: 21580, against RFA Mandarin service, terrible mess of both, at 0508 UT Sept 29, S=9+30dB powerful on remote SDR unit in Tokyo-JPN. \\ 21725 from Tinian Isl-MRA, S=9+30dB, but much stronger than CHN jammer.\\ Both 17615 TIN and 17735-UDO kHz terrible mess of RFA Mandarin and CNR jamming. \\ 17855.040 from Saipan, but hit by rather regular CRI Beijing English transmission co-channel, registered at HFCC with 500 kW unit from Chinese capital, 0400-0557 UT. \\ 15615-TIN, 15635 from Yangi Yul-TJK, 13760 from Saipan, all mess of few echo jammers. 15490 Terrible echo sound jamming against VoA Tibetan service from Tinian-MRA, S=9+10dB noted on remote SDR unit in Tokyo-JPN, 0527 UT on Sept 29 (Wolfgang Büschel, Sept 24/28/29, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews 1 Oct via DXLD) ** CHINA. Steve Handler's 9/29/11 Firedrake Log --- Hi Glenn, Today's interesting log was 15750 which was the first time I have heard Firedrake on this freq. presumed to be targeting Sound of Hope's 1400- 1500 Mandarin broadcast. If so, why did they sign off at 1330? [BELOW] 10300, JBA 1228 11500, Good 1228, Strong 1257 13920, Strong 1258, Good 1326 13970, Weak 1229 14970, Strong 1258 15750, Good 1327 with occasional female voice underneath, presumed Sound of Hope. S/off at 1330. Good DX (Steve Handler, IL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Firedrake Sept 29: 10300, JBA at 1333 13920, very poor at 1332 15275, very poor at 1326 15750, good at 1329. Steve Handler, IL, was also hearing this and wondering why it went off at 1330. I find the answer in Aoki: ``15770 SOH Xi Wang Zhi Sheng 1300-1330 1234567 Chinese 100 95 Dushanbe-Yangiyul TJK 06848E 3829N SOH a11 15750-15795`` That is, SOH jumps around between 15750 and 15795, other frequencies where I believe we have heard FD in the past 16100, JBA at 1330; none in the 14s, 17s, 18s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Steven Handler's 9/30/11 Firedrake Log --- Hi Glenn, Here is yesterday's Firedrake log - 10300, Fair 1159 with sign off 1200.05 (only freq checked at this time) Scans 7900-18200 reveal the following- 10300, Fair 1222, 1232 11500, Fair 1222, 1232 13920, Good 1223, Excellent at 1240 16100, Weak 1242 16980, JBA-Weak 1245 Good Dx (Steve Handler, IL, Oct 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Firedrake Sept 30, before 1300: 10300, fair at 1254 11500, poor at 1254; none in the 12s 13920, poor at 1256; none in the 14s, 15s 16100, poor at 1258 16980, very poor at 1258 After 1330: 16100, JBA at 1332 11500, JBA at 1337 10300, very poor at 1337 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1000 UT Dance with the FIREDRAGON --- FIREDRAKES at 1000 in Arizona (heard w/ Drake R-8 , Slinky outdoor): 7970 (fair), 8400 (vacant), 10300 (poor), 11500 (good), 12230 (very good , and 12600 (fair). 73 and Good Listening! (Rick Barton, El Mirage AZ, Oct 1, NASWA yg via DXLD) Firedrake October 1, before 1300: 10300, good at 1256 11510, good at 1256 --- Sound of Hope finally wised up and got off VOR/Tajikistan frequency 11500?! See RUSSIA [non] 12500, good at 1256 13920, fair at 1256 No time to scan further up as I had to get back to 9960 for the Cambodian clandestine (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, Today`s Oct 1 Firedrake log brought an interesting catch, 13960 which I assume is targeting SoH. Searched 7900-18200 and found 10300, Weak 1326 14970, Weak 1323 15275, Good 1323 15900, Fair 1324 16100, Good 1324 16980, Weak-Fair 1325 13960, Strong 1422-1424 and Good at 1442 (No other frequencies found in use at either time 7900-18200) Good DX (Steve Handler, IL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Around 1330 Oct 1: 16980, very poor at 1326 16100, good at 1327 15900, JBA at 1326 15525, very poor at 1344 15275, fair at 1330, but gone at 1346 14970, very poor at 1330 13920, fair at 1330 13850, fair at 1331 10300, fair-good at 1332 Firedrake Oct 2: 16980, fair with flutter at 1249 16100, fair with flutter at 1249 14700, very poor at 1252 13920, JBA under fax? At 1253 13850, very poor at 1253 13130, poor at 1254 12500, good at 1255 11500, very poor at 1255, mixing with VOR/hum; not 11510 again 10300, good with flutter at 1255 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12230, 2/10 1316, Firedrake, China, usual music for jamming, fair // 14700 14700, 2/10 1330, Firedrake, Chinese music // 12230 fair 15900, 2/10 1338, Firedrake, Chinese jamming music, weak // 14700 weak 15970, 2/10 1340, Firedrake, Chinese jamming music, weak // 15900 14700 16100 16100, 2/10 1341, Firedrake, Chinese jamming music, good // 15900 & others (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Italia, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17560, Firedrake against Voice of Tibet Oct 2 at 1423; weak (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Oct 4, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Firedrake, Oct 3, before 1300, thirteen at once: 7970, good at 1253 8400, fair at 1253; not heard here in some time, tho others have had it at earlier hours recently 10300, good at 1253 11500, poor at 1254 under VOR/Tajikistan carrier, hum 11990, fair at 1255 mixing with CNR1 jammer, unusual; 12040 just CNR1 12600, good at 1255 13680, fair at 1256 (RHC not on yet); nothing in Aoki, HFCC to explain 13920, very good at 1256 16700, good at 1257 14970, very good at 1257 15670, poor at 1258, mixing with CNR1 15900, poor at 1258 16700, fair at 1259; none in the 17s, 18s 1330 and after, eleven found at once: 15275, fair at 1330 without noise jamming too; 15278 VOT het 14700, poor at 1330 13960, fair at 1332 13920, very good at 1332 13130, good at 1333 13050, good at 1333, never reported before by me or in DXLD 12600, good at 1334 12500, very good at 1334 11500, poor at 1336, lo het with VOR/Tajikistan 10300, very good at 1336 7970, very poor at 1336 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, An interesting catch today Oct 3 was 13050. From 1328 to 1329 searched 7970-13920 From 1330-1345 searched 7900-18200 10300, Fair 1328 and 1337 11500, Weak 1328 and 1337 12500, Strong 1329 and 1338 12600, Fair 1329 and 1338 13050, Strong 1339 13130, Strong 1340 13920, Strong 1329 and 1341 13960, Good 1330 and 1341 14700, Good 1334 15275, Good 1335 Gone at 1348 re-check Good DX (Steve Handler, IL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Firedrake Oct 4, before 1200: 7970, very poor at 1153 10300, fair at 1153 No time for a full scan as it`s over to MW for MEXICO Before 1300: 17170, fair with flutter at 1243; no 18180 16980, fair with flutter at 1243, likely same site as = 17170 16100, JBA at 1245, likely different site than above 15900, very poor at 1240 14700, JBA at 1247 13920, very poor at 1248 mixing with fax, presumably Australia 12600, very good at 1248, quite a contrast to the abovers 11500, fair at 1249, lo het, CCI from Tajikistan 10300, very good at 1251; no 7970 now Firedrake Oct 5, before 1300. All signals had heavy flutter. Ratings reflect strength, not quality. WWV tri-hourly E-mail advisories had K=3 at 1200, K=4 at 1500, but ``No space weather storms were observed for the past 24 hours. Space weather for the next 24 hours is predicted to be minor. Geomagnetic storms reaching the G1 level are likely.`` I daresay storms were already underway. 10300, fair at 1241 11500, fair at 1241 12500, very poor at 1245 12600, fair at 1245; none in the 13s 14700, fair at 1247 14970, fair at 1247; none in the 15s 16100, poor at 1248 After 1330: 10300, poor at 1338 11500, poor at 1338 13960, very poor at 1337; none in the 12s 14970, poor at 1337 15275, fair at 1333 with 15278 het 16100, very good at 1334 16700, good at 1334 16980, good at 1334 Firedrake, Oct 6, before 1300, all with lots of flutter: 15900, good at 1236 14970, fair at 1236 13960, fair at 1238 12600, very good at 1240, much better than all the others 11500, fair at 1241 with CCI, het from VOR/Tajikistan, q.v. 10300, fair at 1242 After 1300: 10300, poor at 1324 12025, very poor at 1322, under CNR1 jamming 13960, fair at 1318 14970, good at 1319 15275, fair at 1309, het from 15278, V. of Tibet 15285, fair at 1320, het from 15288, up from 15275 in meantime 15900, good at 1319 16100, poor at 1320 16980, very poor at 1320 17170, good at 1321; no 18180 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA. 5909.940, Radio Alcaraván, Lomalinda, at 0410-0415 UT Sept 24, S=9+10dB logged here in EUR receive post, ID at 0415 and 0422 UT, also frequency given, many times. Much romantic music, Mexican trumpets - and also a lot of fervor. My favorite radio station from Latin America (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews 1 Oct via WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DXLD) ** CONGO DR. 5066.34, 3/10 1745 tent. Radio Candip, Bunia, Congo, poor, low mod (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Italia, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COSTA RICA. 5954.28, 30/9 *0115, Radio República, via Elcor, start of broadcast, jamming was already on, fair signal but overall poor (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Italia, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CROATIA. Hi everyone, According to a news item carried today on the European mail reflector Euroradio, also carried on the French language mail reflector Rglobe, Croatia is to shut down its MW station on 1134 kHz on the 29th of October. Regards, (André Coville, France, Oct 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Already seen this? http://www.mail-archive.com/irca@hard-core-dx.com/msg52151.html The date mentioned herein, after multiple reproductions (a more original source would be good), is just the end of the A11 season, so one has to wonder what will become of Glas Hrvatske on shortwave. By the way, all Deanovec transmissions are already for some time now run with a 10 kW transmitter only. "Official" data that still specifies 100 kW is worth nothing. The operator openly explains the 10 kW operation here: http://www.oiv.hr/broadcasting/terrestrial/analog-radio/analog-radio_en.aspx All the best, (Kai Ludwig, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: 1134-Croatia to Cease Transmitting This Month? Hello All, According to a report posted on the ODXA reflector by Andre, 1134-Croatia will cease transmitting on October 29th. If so, this will take away one of the very few "big gun" TA signals that west coast DXers could hope to hear when conditions were good. To my knowledge, 1134-Croatia was the only to TA to have been received on barefoot Ultralights here on the west coast, having been heard here (and by Dennis Vroom and others) on a barefoot PL-310 (and Eton E100) in the autumn of 2009. 73, (Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA), ultralightdx yg via Stephen Airy, IRCA, via Barry Davies, MWC yg via DXLD) Could this just be a misinterpretation of a program announcement? For instance, at the end of the 0200 UT English insert on SW, times and frequencies are always announced including the MW outlet. The script always includes a date up to which the MW schedule is valid, usually at the end of an A or B season. I always figured this was to reflect the time change for the transmission due to the change between summer and winter time. Of course a 600 kW transmitter is expensive to operate, so if Croatian Radio is having a money crunch, this facility could be shut down. Croatian Radio has an extensive FM network for domestic use, and European listeners can use the 3985 and 7410 frequencies (Steve Luce, Houston, Texas, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) It's amazing how well 3985 is heard in NA for only 10 kW; antennas must be excellent (petertherock7, ibid.) Hello, just for your info: About a week ago the state of affairs was such that Zadar 1134 kHz would be in use 18:00-00:45 CET also during B11, just as it is the case right now. So it would be of interest to see the original reports referenced in the American lists. It appears that they should be put aside until further word from the transmitter operator arrives (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Croatia signs off at 2345 UT so east coasters still have hours of darkness to hear them. West coasters will still have a small window of opportunity in the darkest days (Chuck Hutton, IRCA via DXLD) Re: Croation [sic; it`s CROATIAN --- gh] MW 1134 --- This may well explain the apparent misunderstanding. Of course the frequency announcement is valid until Oct 29 only because as of Oct 30 the use of 3985 will be extended and 7410/6165 be replaced. The complete B11 schedule for Glas Hrvatske will be: Zadar-Nin, 600 kW on 1134: 1700-2345. Deanovec, 10 kW: 0600-1650 on 7370, 1655-0555 on 3985. Wertachtal and/or Nauen [GERMANY] and/or Issoudun [FRANCE]: 100 kW each on 7375, 1/ to South America 2300-0400, 2/ to North America East 0000-0400, 3/ to North America West 0200-0600; different azimuths each, so apparently indeed again three different transmitters. Singapore, 100 kW to Australia / New Zealand: 0700-1100 on 17860. The 1134 kHz transmitter has been built during the eighties for coverage of Central Europe, with a directional antenna, providing a gain of 7 dB to this direction, thus also further on towards North America. It was never meant for domestic coverage, thus in previous years only on air from the late afternoon til the next morning. In March of last year the airtime has been cut back to the current few hours in the evening. Actually the facility is 1200 kW, with a pair of two 600 kW transmitters. In September 1991 its antenna has been damaged in fighting, knocking the station off air until it could return with 600 kW on a makeshift antenna in January 1992. The antenna had been fully restored only in 2003/2004. The power stayed at the 600 kW level used since 1992. Nin is meanwhile the only active mediumwave transmitter in Croatia. All the other ones, meant for domestic coverage, have been shut down in April 2008. This also included the DRM on 594 that seriously interfered with the use of this frequency in Germany and Bulgaria, thus after some time the DRM testing had been confined to the daytime hours. Meanwhile the co-channel operations that suffered back then do longer exist as well. And a word about Deanovec: The site has, besides the closed mediumwave transmitters (alongside the DRM one on 594 also a 100 kW on 1125), also one 100 kW and two 10 kW shortwave transmitters. At present only one 10 kW transmitter is in use, and it will be so also during B11 on 7370/3985. Registration data that still reads 100 kW does not reflect the real transmission parameters. See also http://www.oiv.hr/broadcasting/terrestrial/analog-radio/analog-radio_en.aspx Perhaps someone can forward this to the other lists where the item about 1134 kHz circulated (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 3, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Glenn, You mentioned hearing KVOZ-890 in your last post. Down here in southeast Houston, the dominant station from just past local sunset until after midnite (with a few fades) has been Radio Progreso from Cuba! Driving home from work yesterday afternoon, they were easily as strong as KQUE-1230 "Radio Ranchito!" Many nights I have been able to use the music played on Radio Progreso 890 as my "fall-asleep" music, similar to that of Radio Enciclopedia on 530 kHz which is often very listenable at my QTH. BTW, Bruce Conti, in his paper titled "Progreso, Rebelde, and Reloj: The Three Todopoderosos," identifies the Progreso outlet on 890 as CMDZ Chambas, Ciego de Avila. 73 & Great DX, (Steve Ponder, N5WBI, Oct 4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 11435, Sept 30 at 0605, huge S9+25 open carrier, interrupted by loud data bursts at 0608-0608:44 or so, and again at 0613-0613:44 or so, every five minutes onward? Previously pinned on the Cuban spy numbers operation, altho without the analog voice or Morse cut numbers. 13805 & 13835 approx., Sept 30 at 1335 I am hearing lite pulse jamming, which must be spurs from the wall of noise on central 13820 vs R. Martí (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 15360, this Sunday at 1411 Oct 2, RHC has ceded the frequency to TWR Swaziland in Urdu; RHC also missing from 15120 (as always after 1400), 13880, 13680 (also a Sunday anomaly, despite nothing from Venezuela coming up.) Still on 15230, 13780 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 9790, Oct 6 at 0453, CRI via filthy squealing Habana transmitter also has parasitic squishy spurs circa +/- 9 kHz, adding to the mess from Russia via GUIANA FRENCH [q.v.] originating from 9735. Both end by 0500, whew, altho 9790 carrier often stays on much later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 9805, Oct 6 at 1111, R. Martí is well atop the DentroCuban Jamming Command, but the jammer is squeezing out pulsing spurs as far as 9755-9790, peaks also at 9725 in a clear spot, and 9855 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. SINGER ALLEGEDLY BANNED FROM CUBAN RADIO STATIONS Songs of the famous Cuban singer-songwriter Pablo Milanés have been banned on Cuba’s nationwide network of radio stations from 26 September 2011, reported Café Fuerte. Pablo Milanes has been a symbol of Cuban revolutionary culture for decades, but he now seems to have ended his days of glory in the state-owned Cuban radio. A censorship order allegedly was transmitted orally by an unidentified person from the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television to local stations broadcasting in eastern provinces such as Holguin, Santiago de Cuba and Granma. Radio officials are quoted as saying that they do not expect to receive it in writing. A source close to the artist in Havana confirmed that versions of the censorship order had been circulating since 26 September. The Cuban Institute of Radio and Television controls 96 stations in 72 different municipalities, 17 provinces, including six national channels and the international Radio Habana Cuba. 22 of the stations are located in Havana. The Radio and Television institute and the Ministry of Culture operate as separate institutions, without mutual dependence. The Ministry of Culture are said to have denied that any censorship of music takes place. (Source: freemuse.org)(October 3rd, 2011 - 13:25 UTC by Andy Sennitt, Media Network blog via DXLD) 2 Comments on “Singer allegedly banned from Cuban radio stations” #1 lou josephs on Oct 3rd, 2011 at 19:23 All of his music should be on right now if BBG was smart on Radio Marti. But hey they aren’t that smart. #2 Keith Perron on Oct 4th, 2011 at 06:08 This is not the first time something like this happened. In 1993 his music was also banned from Radio Havana Cuba. I suspect it has to do with the fact they many of the lyrics in his older songs call for protests and the Cuban’s are getting worried, because they see what has happened in the middle east (Media Network blog comments via DXLD) ** CUBA [and non]. RADIO/TV MARTÍ TEXTING IS ‘CYBERWAR’ http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/10/03/2437103/radiotv-marti-sending-news-to.html The Cuban government said that Radio/TV Marti could disrupt the island’s cell system by sending up to 24,000 texts per week to local cell phones. By JUAN TAMAYO Cuba alleged Monday that Radio/TV Martí is violating the country’s laws and may disrupt its cellular text-messaging system with a computerized system that can send up to 24,000 text messages a week to cell phones on the island. Developed for mass marketing campaigns, the system makes it almost impossible to block the texts because the computer makes them look as though each individual message, or SMS, was sent from a different telephone number. Radio/TV Martí is using the text messages to deliver the same kind of news and information that the U.S. government-run stations already broadcast to the island, said stations director Carlos García-Perez. Cuba’s government controls and censors all the mass media on the island as well as access to the Internet. But at the end of last year, Cubans owned 1 million cell phones that could receive SMS, according to official figures. “We try to get our information into Cuba through whatever means are possible, and text messaging is increasingly available in Cuba,” Garcia-Perez told El Nuevo Herald. The text messaging program is “within the guidelines for the use of cell phones” and “certainly not intended to disrupt anything,” added Tish Wells, spokesperson for the Office of Cuban Broadcasting (OCB), which supervises the Martí stations. Cuba took a more dire view of the effort, however, with the government’s CubaDebate Web page branding it a part of a U.S. government “cyberwar” against the communist system. The text also was read Monday on a Cuban TV news program. The Cubadebate report complained the system “will be able to bombard Cuban cellular telephone users with 24,000 text messages a week, in open violation of Cuban laws and international agreements.” It did not detail which laws or agreements. “I don’t know what they are talking about,” said García-Perez. “We work openly, publicly, transparently. We have nothing to hide.” The Cuban report added that the “gigantic cyberwar operation threatens to seriously affect the normal functioning of the SMS services offered to Cuban cellular users,” but did not explain how that could happen. García Pérez said Radio/TV Martí, created by the U.S. government to break the Cuban government’s monopoly on the mass media, began sending the computerized SMS messages to the island in March or April. A Cuban blogger in Spain has been using the same system to send his messages since October under the name Cuba Sin Censura. But the details of Radio/TV Martí’s effort came to light only after the contract for the computerized SMS services was published in Cuba Money Project, a Web page that tracks U.S. government spending on Cuba-related programs. The contract between the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), which runs all U.S. government TV and radio stations, and Washington Software Inc. is for $84,000 for one year starting Sept. 15. One-year extensions could bring the total to $464,000. It requires the Maryland-based firm to be ready to send up to 24,000 text messages per week to telephone numbers that the BBG will provide, “using a variety of tools to counter foreign government-sponsored Internet censorship controls.” The Money Project report, based on U.S. government documents obtained by journalist Tracey Eaton through the Freedom of Information Act, noted that one of the companies that was considering bidding on the contract had asked if the SMS campaign was legal. “We are concerned with the legality of sending these types of notifications to people in another country. Does the U.S. government take all legal responsibility for these messages?” the unidentified company asked in one document. The BBG replied that the winner of the contract “assumes all responsibility under this requirement and should consider all aspects of this requirement before submitting an offer.” Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/10/03/2437103/radiotv-marti-sending-news-to.html#ixzz1ZqZgi3Ci (via Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DXLD) ** CYPRUS. BBC World Service with some feature about China at 1435 on 21470, a frequency one associates with Ascension or Seychelles or the like. But no, it's Cyprus, with English for Africa which was different programming than English to Asia, see under Thailand (Kai Ludwig, in a meadow, Germany, Oct 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EAST TURKISTAN. 11769.966, XJBS PBS Xinjiang in Chinese observed at 0628 UT, and XJBS PBS Uighur service from very same site at 0630 UT on 11884.982 kHz (Wolfgang Büschel, Sept 27, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews 1 Oct via DXLD) ** ECUADOR. Reactivación Radio Oriental, 4781.6 kHz, Tena. Desde Tena, en la provincia amazónica del Napo, nuevamente en el aire las ondas de Radio Oriental, captada el sábado 6 de marzo [sic: 2010y], con programación musical del tipo social protesta muy popular por los años 70's. Con intérpretes como Facundo Cabral, Alberto Cortez, Mercedes Sosa. Mencionando frecuencia en AM 1100 kHz. Salio del aire sin cierre a las 2331* http://dxdesdecolombia.blogspot.com/2010/03/reactivacionradio-oriental-47816-khz.html (Rafael Rodríguez, Colombia, via SW Bulletin Oct 1, 2011 via DXLD) Point being, I assume, that it was reactivated a sesquiyear ago. In 11-39 it was reported to have just been reactivated (again?) (gh) 4815, Radio Buen Pastor, Saraguro, Loja. 1048 October 2, 2011. Male preacher in presumed Quichua. Very good (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. The Abis transmitter that carries Radio Cairo on 15080 has, as observed shortly after 1500, not only lots of hum and rather badly distorted audio, it also puts a strong FMing spur on 15065...15070. At the same time another Abis transmitter on 15160 mutilated a muezzin with very bad distortion (Kai Ludwig, in a meadow, Germany, Oct 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ERITREA. 9820.03, Voice of the Broad Masses of Eritrea, 0344-0355, vernacular talk. Euro-pop music. // 7174.99. Both frequencies fair. Oct 1 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** ERITREA [and non]. 7130.031, Probably also weak signal of Eritrea sender at 0322 UT Sept 24, and accompanied ETHIOPIAN white noise jamming broadband 7128 to 7136 kHz (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews 1 Oct via DXLD) Voice of the Broad Masses of Eritrea and others. Log of 7130 / 7175 / 7200 / 7205 / 7210 / 9705 / 9730 / 9820 kHz on Sept 28, around 0333 to 0415z UT. This morning Ethiopia switched on their three wideband "White Noise Jammer", subject Eritrean AM stations underneath couldn't identified so far. Only AM signal peak was visible on 7130, 7175, and 9820 kHz from Eritrea. Wideband noise jamming on 7125-7137 kHz at 0404 UT, 7162-7189 kHz at 0407 UT, and 9810-9829 kHz at 0412 UT Sept 28, S=7 signal noted on remote Perseus units in Italy and Austria. Fair signal from Asmara Eritrea on 7205 kHz. Ethiopian Radio Fana on 7210 kHz, slightly weaker than Eritrea on 7205 kHz. Radio Ethiopia on even frequency 9705.000 kHz. Also at 0445 UT Sept 29, S=6 signal here in EUR (Wolfgang Büschel, Sept 28/29, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews 1 Oct via DXLD) ** ETHIOPIA [and non]. 9720 AWR, Agat. Russian on 28/9 from 1330 almost fully covered by Ethiopian DRM jammer vs Eritrean broadcast. Same white noise DRM jammers were noted on 7130, 7175 and 9820. Their jammers are covering around 14 kHz as DRM transmissions (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF 2001, 16m Marconi antenna), Oct Australian DX News via DXLD) ** ETHIOPIA [and non]. ETHIOPIA AND ITS "PRESSURE TO BEAR" ON VOA AND DEUTSCHE WELLE Posted: 01 Oct 2011 The Guardian, 29 Sept 2011, Caelainn Barr via Greenslade Blog: "Both Voice of America (VOA) and Deutsche Welle (DW) have had their radio and internet services jammed within [Ethiopia]. This occurred particularly during the May 2010 elections and in 2011 against the backdrop of the revolt in North Africa. A VOA spokesperson said: 'Three VOA stringers have had to flee Ethiopia because they were harassed for reporting VOA's Horn of Africa service during the 2005 national election. Another stringer fled Ethiopia because she was being repeatedly harassed, even after she stopped working for the service.' Ludger Schadomsky, head of DW's Amharic service, said: 'The government is putting a lot of pressure to bear on DW and VOA to have certain opposition people removed from the airwaves.' DW have allegedly been told by Ethiopia's minister of communications, Shimles Kemal, that the jamming of their services was 'owing to interviews DW had conducted with "terrorist organisations."' It is alleged that this relates to an interview with the Ginbot 7 political opposition leader, Berhanu Nega. Schadomsky said: 'We have made it clear we will not be arm twisted into self-censorship. The present climate of fear leads many of our prospective partners in Ethiopia, and even in the Diaspora, to decline our interview requests. "We have family back at home" is the standard line.'" (kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD) -- VOA and DW are the two most popular Amharic-language services broadcasting to Ethiopia. DW's shortwave relay station in Rwanda provides a good signal into Ethiopia. BBC World Service does not have an Amharic service (Kim Andrew Elliott, ibid.) ** EUROPE. Europirate-Holland: Radio Marconi, 6324.7 AM, 2222-2255, 10-01-11. SIO: 322. Lots of different types of music, rock, oldies. Het from Radio Universe-Holland also on frequency. Radio Universe, 6300 AM, 2325-2332*, 10-01-11. SIO: 121. In the clear after moving here from 6325. Just a carrier at first but improving so could hear dance music, then talk and ID by OM in Dutch accented English before sign off. email: radiouniverse@hotmail.com (Chris Lobdell, Box 80146, Stoneham, MA 02180, CumbreDX via DXLD) ** EUROPE. Laser Hot Hits is using 6970 at deadline; earlier last month they had moved from 6940 to 6975 (Mike Barraclough, Allen Dean, late September? October World DX Club Contact via DXLD) ** FALKLAND ISLANDS [non]. Nueva AM en Rosario [ARGENTINA] 1400 kHz, RADIO MALVINAS ARGENTINAS, se trataría de una nueva emisora de Onda Media de carácter “no oficial” que emite desde Rosario, Provincia de Santa Fe, Argentina, según información que pude leer de su sitio en Facebook. La emisora anuncia que salen al aire en prueba, y brinda su siguientes teléfonos de contacto: (0341) 437-3431 y 437-5360.- Del citado sito se lee en la descripción del usuario: “Medio de comunicación de la ciudad de Rosario, el cual está fundado en los principios de los ciudadanos y el derecho a la libre expresión, donde la realidad pueda expresarla todo ciudadano sin filtros y sin censura, por esta razón llegamos nosotros para romper el hielo, esta nueva radio es posible gracias a la nueva ley de servicios audiovisuales, y a todos los radiodifusores que luchamos día a día contra los monopolios”. - Existe una foto donde el propietario y director de esta radio -sin licencia-, Sr. Gustavo Martín Izquierdo (partidario de Frente Para la Victoria de Rosario), está abrazado con el Lic, Juan Gabriel Mariotto, actual Presidente de la Autoridad Federal de Servicios de Comunicación Audiovisual (AFSCA).- Permítanme señalar lo siguiente respecto a esto: Es importante que en la Argentina existan medios de comunicación alternativos e independientes, y que una radio sea un instrumento para que la gente pueda expresarse libremente y exponer sus ideas e inquietudes sin censura, como bien refiere el dueño de esta emisora. Sin embargo, es importante destacar que para lograr estos fines se necesita primeramente contar con un permiso para operar una emisora de radio, siendo que éstas son consideradas servicios de interés público –no solamente una forma de ganar dinero a través de la publicidad, la venta de espacios y difundiendo propaganda “oficial”-. En ninguna parte de la actual Ley de Servicios de Comunicación Audiovisual Nº 26.522 dice expresamente que el Derecho a la Libre Expresión es motivo suficiente como para que cualquier persona tenga derecho a salir al aire con una emisora de radio. Para ello la misma norma prevé un procedimiento para que quien se crea con este derecho pueda obtener la correspondiente licencia. Desde que se sancionó la Ley 26.522, existen numerosas emisoras de AM y FM que han salido al éter sin respetar esta premisa, y que un porcentaje importante de las que ya existían no han solicitado al Ejecutivo se arbitren los medios como para facilitar el acceso a una licencia. -(El último proceso de adjudicación de licencias en FM tuvo lugar a fines de 2006, y desde entonces no hubo otro similar, pese a que la nueva legislación en materia de radiodifusión entró plenamente en vigencia a mediados del 2010)-. Las adjudicaciones que se otorgan actualmente, son en su mayoría, trámites administrativos promovidos en aquella época. Lo cierto es que - pese a lo que digan las autoridades del AFSCA - el descontrol de los medios de comunicación en la Argentina, sigue existiendo y es un tema que está lejos de ser solucionado, puesto que no existe una clara y eficiente política de control del espectro por parte del Estado, que permita que la radio en el país pueda funcionar como es debido y cumplimente los fines y principios que aparecen en el preámbulo de la actual Ley de Medios. Si se detecta una emisora ilegal, lo lógico sería que el AFSCA intime a su propietario a cesar emisiones, y en su caso, a adecuarse a la ley solicitando el acceso a una licencia en los términos de los actuales artículos 21 y siguientes de la Ley 26.522. Por lo visto, estamos muy lejos de que suceda esto, dado que el propio Organismo es el primer sujeto que incumple la ley. El Artículo 12 de la Ley 26.522 al establecer las misiones y funciones de la Autoridad Federal de Servicios de Comunicación Audiovisual dice en su inciso 15 que el AFSCA deberá “Declarar la ilegalidad de las estaciones y/o emisiones y promover la consecuente actuación judicial, incluso cautelar; adoptando las medidas necesarias para lograr el cese de las emisiones declaradas ilegales”. Si a eso le sumamos que Juan Gabriel Mariotto, Presidente del citado Organismo y candidato oficialista a vicegobernador por la Provincia de Buenos Aires, aparece en actos públicos y en fotografías abrazado con gente que tiene a su cargo este tipo de emisoras que operan sin licencia, entonces es dable pensar que aquello suceda... No soy partidario del cierre de emisoras, pero la realidad es que sin control de parte del Estado, jamás tendremos el espectro de frecuencias debidamente ORDENADO y lo único que seguirá existiendo en consecuencia, es el caos en el éter, donde cada uno hará lo que se le da la gana, causando perjuicios e interferencias, no solo a otros radiodifusores, sino además a otros servicios de comunicaciones, y en definitiva, afectando el derecho del público en general (los oyentes), de poder sintonizar en buena forma la radio que deseamos escuchar. (Marcelo A. Cornachioni, Lomas de Zamora, Argentina, Oct 2, condiglist yg via DXLD) He`s against all these pirates (gh, DXLD) ** FINLAND. SWR now on air --- 11690, Scandinavian Weekend Radio, Virrat, 1550-1557, 01-10, SWR now on air with the last program of the year. Listened with pop music program, comments in Finish by male and identification: "Scandinavian Weekend Radio". At 1557 CRI began transmission on the same frequency and eclipsed SWR. SINPO 24322. On the air till 2100 UT, frequencies: 11720, 11690, 6170 y 5980 kHz, depending of the hour. Web: http://www.swradio.net/index2.htm (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Friol, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Did they say it was the last of the year? Normally first Saturday every month plus some holidays. I don`t see anything about that on website (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** FINLAND. 11720 1.10 1155 Scandinavian Weekend Radio spelade in finsk variant av Mälarö kyrka. DO 11720, 1.10 1155, Scandinavian Weekend Radio played a Finnish variation of the Swedish tune “ Mälarö kyrka” (Dan Olsson, Furulund, Sweden, SW Bulletin Oct 2, translated by editor Thomas Nilsson for DX LISTENING DIGEST) For your information about Swedish geography, The lake Mälaren drains, from southwest to northeast, into the Baltic Sea at Stockholm Centre. Mälarö Kyrka (Church) is a well known and lovely Swedish tune recorded by many artists (Thomas Nilsson, ibid.) ** FRANCE. 17580, Oct 4 at 1406, S. Asian language with long-path echo. This is YFR in Bengali via Issoudun, 500 kW, 74 degrees. With Issoudun you have to be careful since they sometimes run two unsynchronized transmitters, but this echo sounded just right for LP/SP. Short-path is off-the-back; the great circle long-path exits Africa over Somalia, then all-water across Indian Ocean, south of Australia and NZ near Macquarie Island, across the Pacific entering North America at La Paz BCS. Much of that is in darkness, of course (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GABON. [Cf. BRAZIL]. Al, I noticed on a recent QSL response from Africa Num. 1 in Gabon that Guy Kalenda (the program manager) stamped my RR cover letter with the Broadcaster stamp, signed it and wrote by hand "Rapport OK". That's what some QSLs look like these days, I guess! (Bruce Jensen, California, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GABON. 19160+, Oct 2 at 2003, JBA carrier, slightly on hi side compared to WWCR 12160. Possibly the second harmonic of ANO 9580 is showing up again now that HF propagation has improved. Bears further monitoring; might have been something local, however, as quite steady level, still at 2047 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. 3995, HCJB Kall-Eifel startet sehr schoen in deutscher Sprache auf 3995.081 um 0356 UT. Jetzt um 0448 UT in englischer Sprache ueber einen missionierten Chinesen, auf genau 3995.000 ...x.002 kHz; die 80 Hertz down 'eingewandert' (Wolfganag Büschel, Sept 28, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews 1 Oct via DXLD) ** GERMANY. 5980 1.10 Igår morse gick Hamburger Lokalradio alldeles lysande med härlig radionostalgi. Med tysk perfektion så var frekvensen 5980,000. Idag skall man köra en specialsändning 06-12z med anledning av sammanslagningen av DDR med Västtyskland den 3 okt 1990. Av en händelse var jag på resa just den dagen. Och mellanlandade just i Hamburg och blev välkomnad med sekt vid gaten på flygplatsen. AHK via NORDX 5980, 1.10, Yesterday morning Hamburger Lokalradio came through with fantastic signal and wonderful radio nostalgia. With German precision the station was spot on 5980.000. Today a special broadcast 06-12z due to the merger of DDR and West Germany on Oct 3 1990. Just by a coincidence I was travelling that day and had a stopover in Hamburg and was welcomed with Sekt [a German and Austrian type sparkling wine] at the gate at the airport. AHK via NORDX (Anders Hultqvist, Dalarö, Sweden, NORDX via SW Bulletin Oct 2, translated by editor Thomas Nilsson for DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. Re 6005, Radio 700: The broadcasting station website is http://www.classicbroadcast.de where webmaster Burkhard Baumgartner DF5XV says: Classic Broadcast is a non-commercial organization based on private hand (sic). The core objective of this website is to keep in mind the mainly analogue broadcast technology of the last decades for the next engineering generation. Regarding the equipment and the technical specifications, Classic Broadcast is focused on history-charged companies like Rohde & Schwarz, Telefunken and Siemens. Of course all transmitter with accessories are in a fully operational condition and will be used in a professional manner day after day. So let's keep the antenna fire burning! (Mike Barraclough, October World DX Club Contact via DXLD) 6005, 3/10 1809, Radio 700, Germany, news, ID, talks about Albania, fair/good (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Italia, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) in German, I assume, R. Tirana relay, the only way it gets on SW now (gh, DXLD) ** GERMANY. 9480, Radio Gloria International, *0800-0857*, 02-10, identification: "Radio Gloria International on Short Wave", male, comments, English, pop music. 45444. (Méndez) 9480, MV Baltic Radio, *0900-0925, 02-10, tuning music, identification: "MV Baltic Radio", German and English, "MV Baltic Radio, we broadcast on 6140 kHz for Europe and 9480 kHz for the World". Parallel with 6150 with good signal in both. 45444. (Méndez) Despite announcing the 9480 kHz transmission with only 1 kW power in both Radio Gloria and MV Baltic Radio, seems to put on air very high power, perhaps 100 kW, like 6140 kHz. The signal strength on 9480 and 6140 for MV Baltic Radio was about the same during the transmission. (Manuel Méndez, Logs in Friol, 27 Km. W of Lugo, Spain, Grundig Satellit 500 and Sony ICF SW 7600 G, Cable antenna, 10 meters, faced WSW, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. Re: Sendepreise bei Media Broadcast Hi Glenn, it seems that a misunderstanding about this PDF file is around: It is not about selling off equipment, it is an official price list for flatly leasing out a transmitter to a customer. For shortwave this list has no meaning anymore since Deutsche Welle withdrew from the Wertachtal and Nauen facilities. The old business model from the postal office days, which was the same one than, as examples, at Litomysl and Rimavska Sobota (thus the numerous repeats Radio Prague and Radio Slovakia International used to do), is simply dead there. What is now in place are individual arrangements for each transmission customer, and in general the single hour of airtime becomes the cheaper the more airtime a customer uses. Also for MW and LW this is only half of the truth at best. Even for FM things are a bit more complicated. All the best, (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [and non?]. Radio Liberty in Russian on 7205 apparently switches sites shortly before 1400. At 1357 it went off, at 1358 another, somewhat stronger carrier came on only to drop off again immediately and after some moments finally stay on in the second attempt. This other transmitter has noticeably more compressed and almost booming audio. Eibi lists this as site switch from Lampertheim to Biblis. Perhaps it's rather the other way round, or 7355 (cf. under Belarus) in fact came from Biblis as well, since both signals were basically identical. At the same time TWR IS was booming in on 7215. What will emerge of that, "Sie hören den Evangeliums-Rundfunk über Astra und Trans World Radio Monte Carlo"? Haha, of course not, at 1400 the feed switched over to a roar that turned out to be an audio effect, introducing a children`s programme (so it seemed) in Russian. Origin of that was Wertachtal, which could perhaps be involved on 7205, too. At 1510 I noted a faint signal on 17485, still not faint enough for not immediately recognizing the voice of Bro. S. Wertachtal to Africa, so classical backscatter it seems. See also Austria. See also UK for DW 6075/15330 (Kai Ludwig, in a meadow, Germany, Oct 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. 15640, Oct 2 at 2119, DW ending sports report of which there will be only three more before DW ``cancels lots of programs``, but to be replaced Oct 30 by one about football. 2120 into `Learning by Ear`, not language lesson but about sexually abused teenager in South Africa; unpleasant, tho necessary programming, I suppose. This frequency via RWANDA will not last past A-11 either, 295 degrees and inadvertently USward too, as DW already abandoned its NAm audience. 21840, Oct 4 at 1242, German, so it can`t be from Germany but is likely from DW. Listed 80 degrees via Sines, PORTUGAL. Takes a break at 1300-1400 so I don`t often hear 21840. Most of the other usual 13m frequencies were audible too this early, only 13 minutes after local sunrise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also UK: DW relay ** GERMANY [non]. Nuechtern betrachtet darf man feststellen, dass damit die Daseinsberechtigung fuer den deutschsprachigen Hoerfunkdienst der Deutschen Welle entfaellt. Deutschsprachige Podcasts werden in grosser Anzahl auch von den ARD- Hoerfunkstationen und insbesondere vom Deutschlandradio produziert. Einer Deutschen Welle bedarf es dann nicht mehr. Ich muss immer an diejenigen treuen Hoerer der DW denken, die in dieser schoenen, neuen Welt das Nachsehen haben. Gruss Wolfgang Sober view may be found that that the Raison d'être for the German Hoerfunkdienst [listenradioservice] the Deutsche Welle is not necessary. German-language podcasts are also in great numbers by the ARD Hoerfunkstationen especially from Germany and produced radio. One Deutsche Welle is not needed anymore. I must always think of those loyal listeners of the DW, which in this brave new world have a disadvantage. Gruss, Wolfgang (Wolfgang Thiele, Germany, A-DX Sept 27 via BC-DX 1 Oct via DXLD) ** GOA. 15175, AIR, 1512, Oct 3. AIR IS; 1513 assume start of their Gujarati Service; subcontinent music; fair (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 7450, unID help please --- Hi Everyone, Last night from 2200 to 2300 UT there was a huge signal on 7450 in the 41m band. Nothing was said and it was non stop music with some great tunes. One of which was The Chain by Fleetwood Mac. Can anyone offer a possible identity for this one. Thanks, (Gary Drew - Hertfordshire, Sept 30, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ERT Thessaloniki? // http://www.ert3.gr during the day on 9935 kHz. 73 (Harald Kuhl, Germany, ibid.) Probably Voice of Greece. VOICE OF GREECE (ERA-5) SW schedule effective from 27/03/11 to 30/10/11 2200-2300 7450/323 ERT3 15630/285 9420/323 <<<<<<<<<<<< !!!!!!!!! !!!! (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) 9420, Voice of Greece, Avlis. Not on the air on SW at 0500 on 28/9. Silence on 15630. Radio Filia also was not on the air on 11645 but on MW 666 there was an usual program in Bulgarian. Strike noted in past two weeks: they are played only symphony or light instrumental music on all MWs and on for example on 29/9 at 1530 on // 9420, 15630, 9935(!). But sport reportage as exception was at 1635 on MWs 792, 981 and all transmitters of their second program (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF 2001, 16m Marconi antenna), Oct Australian DX News via WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DXLD) 9420, Oct 1 at 0544, nothing audible from VOG; tho propagation makes it iffy, Romania was in OK on 9655, so suspect VOG was really off. Not audible on 11645 either. At 1328, 15630 had a very poor carrier, but not even that at 1344. At 1557 again a carrier and bits of modulation, presumably VOG, edged by horrible DRM noise from 15640. Perhaps VOG is becoming sporadic? John Babbis points out that Luca Botto Fiora, Rapallo (Genova), Italy, had reported at 2339 UT Sept 30 to playdx yg: ``Grecia in onde corte spenta. Ciao a tutti. Da qualche giorno osservo che la Grecia in onde corte è spenta. Non so se riaccenderà, può darsi, in caso contrario non mi meraviglio, anzi l'ho fatto quando era ancora accesa, visto che la crisi economica greca non è cosa di ieri.`` [translated] ``For several days I observe that Greece is off shortwave. I do not know if they will fire up again, maybe, otherwise I would not be surprised, indeed I have been that they were still on, as the Greek economic crisis is not something from yesterday.`` However, in his every-evening monitoring reports, John did log ERA, UT Sept 30-Oct 1: 2200-0200+ on 7475 and 9420. Press reports previously quoted in DXLD asserted that despite all Greece`s problems, and cutbacks in domestic broadcasting, the external SW service was secure due to its popularity among mariners, etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hello Noel: Beneath all the noise, 15630 seems to have something on right now at 1620 UT. Nothing right now on 9420 and 9935. I know that the journalists were on strike earlier in the week, and there is something going on about consolidation of Radiophonikos Stathmos Makedonias in Thessaloniki with Shortwave, FM, and AM. It seems that the help is getting pay cuts and they are only just doing their jobs; nothing more, including us monitors. I have had no word from Vafeas or Charalampopoulos at ERA5 for the past year. Cheers, (John Babbis, Oct 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thanks Noel: At 1438 UT; much noise on 15630, 9420 quiet but could be there, and never able to get 9935 here. It would be interesting to hear whether Greece sent Vafeas and Charalampopoulos to HFCC at Dallas with Greece's bad economy. I doubt it. Regards, (John Babbis, ibid.) Hello John, Thank you for your mail. I didn't check at around 1620, but I did check before I went to bed at around 2140 UT and could not hear VoG. This Sunday morning there was again nothing to be heard at tune in 0600 UT+. I'll keep my ear to the speaker and see what happens. It must be very disappointing not to hear from Vafeas or Charalampopoulos over such a long time, especially considering all of the monitoring that you do for the station. I'll ask Glenn if either of them attended the HFCC meeting in Dallas. Greetings from Blackpool, and I hope you are continuing in good health. 73 from (Noel Green, ibid.) No one from Greece was at HFCC Dallas (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Thanks Glenn: Now we know how tough things are in Greece. They missed a good chance in Dallas to talk in person to Radio Iran about moving off of 9420. But, if ERT3 gets axed from Avlis 1, they might drop 9420 to save the electricity and go with just the original two transmitters, Avlis 1 and 2. At 1805 UT; noisy on 15630, quiet on 9420 and 7450 (John Babbis, ibid.) 15630, Oct 1 at 1934, Greek talk and music, fair, with squishy-spur 15628 QRM from 15610 WEWN. VOG has been reported missing by several listeners the past few days, but it was certainly on at this time. Maybe disrupted irregularly by strikes or financial situation. Oct 2 at 1552, very poor fluttery signal on 15630, presumably VOG as nothing else scheduled (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi all, At my location, at 0830, no signal from Avlis. (11645 17705 9420 15630) Probably due to poor propagation conditions --- but I'm not sure! Regards (Jean-Michel Aubier, France, Oct 2, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Not propagation Jean-Michel. I have not heard the station for at least three days now (Noel R. Green (NW England), ibid.) VOG was also silent yesterday Saturday. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 2, ibid.) Hello Glenn, I have been in touch with John Babbis conerning VoG as, for at least three days now (I think maybe longer), there have been no broadcasts audible at tune in 0600 UT+. I tried again around 1430 on Saturday but didn't hear them, and this Sunday morning there is still nothing. But I see that John has heard them on 7475 and 9420 after 2300. I wrote to John saying that I would ask if you saw or met anyone from the VoG at Dallas - I don't recollect that you made any mention of doing so in your recent report. Possibly the situation is due to strike action rather than any cut back in broadcasting, as I seem to remember it being reported that the Greeks were adamant that SW broadcasts were to continue. John also mentions some reorganisation taking place, but he also tells me that he has not heard from those he reports to for a long time. 73 from (Noel Green, Oct 2, DXLD) Re: Greece - Avlis silent? I have a log of them on 7475 kHz on Saturday, 1 October 2011, 2337 UT. SINPO 55343 in presumed Greek, talk programme. I didn't think it would be worth waiting for an ID for this one! But it seems that would have been better under these circumstances. Wait until the EU finds out there's scrap metal to be sold in Avlis. Noted absent on 9420, where Iran has had a clear channel for a few days now. (GRC still heard on 21 Sep, but Iran only without VoG during band scans on 29 Sep and 1 Oct.) 73, (Eike Bierwirth, Leipzig / Germany, Perseus, DX-10 Pro Active Antenna, Oct 2, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re: Greece - Avlis silent? BACK. Heard at 1540 tune in on 15630 and 9420 (JM Aubier, France, Oct 2, ibid.) This is my reception report for Saturday and Sunday UT October 2, 2011: SATURDAY 10/1 SUNDAY 10/2 2000 2100 2200 2300 0000 0100 0200 MHz. Az. Kw. Station 00000 15441 45344 XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 7.450 323 100 AVL 1 ERT3 XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 00000 00000 00000 00000 15.650 105 100 AVL 1 ERT5 15221 15241 00000 XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 15.630 285 100 AVL 2 ERT5 XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 55455 25442 45344 45344 7.475 285 100 AVL 2 ERT5 15441 25442 35333*54555*43444*43444*43444 9.420 323 170 AVL 3 ERT5 *Iran Radio co-channel interference. Regards, (John Babbis, Silver Spring, MD, USA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Back at least this Sunday afternoon. VOG with Greek Football live coverage at 1640 UT Oct 2, on both 9420 [no QRM of co-channel] and 15630 kHz S=9+25 dBM powerhouse. Thessaloniki relay on 9935 kHz on S=9+15dB level here in western Europe. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) 9420, Oct 3 at 0521, no signal from VOG when it is normally audible; nor 15630 at 1411 check, as sporadic operation (or new reduced schedule?) continues (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) VoG did not 'resume' on Sunday after the usual maintenance break at 1100UTC (as reported previously, it had not been on air earlier), so must have come on air some time between then and 1540. I heard them on air at 1855 past 1900 on 15630, 9420 and 7450, but when tuned again at 2100 the station was not on air. 9420 had an enormous signal from Iran in Arabic instead. So, not quite time for the scrap metal merchants to move onto the Avlis site yet !!! As yet, there are no signals at 0600 / 0900+ UTC today Monday. 73 (Noel R. Green (NW England) Oct 3, ibid.) Nothing heard of VoGreece on Oct 3rd in 0900 til 1400 UT slot yet. Nothing on 9420, 9935, or/and 15630 kHz neither. Instead 15630 nice Korean clandestine Voice of Wilderness from Dushanbe Yangi Yul site noted in 1300-1330 UT time slot, flute music piece. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) Good afternoon Noel: My niece heard last night and I heard it in Greek this morning at 1400 UT on the Athens and Thessaloniki Internet Radio Stations that Greece was laying off 30,000 State workers by December 31; nothing in this morning's paper about it. On my reception report of today, you will notice that all three transmitters in Greece were quiet during my reception period of 2000-0200 UT. Perhaps they fire up only to do the futball games; mustn't make the natives mad! New name in Greece for layoffs-"temporarily placing in labor reserve." Regards, (John Babbis, ibid.) GREECE SETS NEW DEFICIT TARGETS, LAY-OFFS GREECE has unveiled new budget deficit targets and plans to trim its civil service to meet creditors' demands ahead of a euro-zone meeting that could free up an eight billion euro ($A11.17 billion) loan. The 17 countries that share the debt-challenged euro currency will meet in Luxembourg on Monday in an effort to reach an agreement on releasing the bailout tranche which has been blocked by auditors for the past month. Divided euro-zone ministers will seek to avert a Greek default, which could send stock markets into a panic, deal an unprecedented blow to the European currency and bring the world back to the brink of a fresh financial crisis. British Prime Minister David Cameron warned on Sunday the euro-zone must act decisively as it was posing "a threat to the worldwide economy," he told BBC television. Following its consultations with EU and IMF auditors, the government also unveiled a plan to shrink the bureaucracy by placing 30,000 civil servants temporarily in a "labor reserve". Greek civil servants' jobs are protected by the constitution, but the government overcame the obstacle by placing in reserve those workers close to retirement and scrapping various state organizations and putting their employees in reserve. Greece estimates it will save 300 million euros in 2012 by implementing this measure (via John Babbis, DXLD) LABOR RESERVE? No part of the package is more contentious than the plan to lay off state workers — who make up a fifth of the Greek workforce and are guaranteed jobs for life under a constitution that bans firing them under nearly all circumstances. The Greek government plans to begin layoffs by putting 30,000 workers in a “labor reserve” by the end of this year. They would be paid 60 percent of their salaries for a year, after which they would be dismissed. But the government has yet to announce how the plan would work. If most workers placed in the reserve are near pension age and planning to retire soon anyway, the savings would be negligible and the inspectors are likely to be unimpressed (Source??? via Babbis, ibid.) John, Well staffed Labor agreements started already by PASOK political party under Andreas Papandreou in 1981 year, when these "guaranteed jobs for life" were common on all state work departements and public enterprises. I hope also the Greek Orthodox Church will pay their real estate asset taxes now, 5 EURos for a square meter, and the very rich 2000 Greek millionaire families too, -- as usual in Germany too. regards wolfy (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Good evening Wolfgang: And so it goes here, too. That's the way of life in Greece, the working people get the short end of the stick and the rich never pay their fair share or any share. It looks as though those in "labor reserve" will get 60% of their pay for one year and then get retirement pay (or is that what they call dismissal?) That is how it looks to me. Probably most of this "labor reserve" will be State employees ready to retire anyhow. My fellow worker at GPO went on sick leave for a year at full pay, a $25,00 [sic] buy-out to abolish his job, and then went on full retirement at the age of 55 years. Only in America! (Greece, too?) Regards, (John Babbis, ibid.) ERA-5 Voice of Greece off short waves from Oct. 1: 0300-1000 on 15630 0500-0550 on 11645 0600-0750 on 17705 0800-1000 on 11645 1100-1000 on 9420 1100-1650 on 9935 Radiophonikos Stathmos Makedonias 1100-2250 on 15630 1700-2250 on 7450 Radiophonikos Stathmos Makedonias 2300-0250 on 15650 2300-0450 on 7475 (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, Oct 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) You mean this is their complete non-schedule? Some of those frequencies ae still being heard part of the time (gh, DXLD) ERA-5 Voice of Greece back on SW on Oct. 3 around 1500 UT on 9420 and 15630, but not on 9935 (Radiophonikos Stathmos Makedonias). Surely there is no transmissions on Oct. 1 and 2. 73! (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) And Radiophonikos Stathmos Makedonias on 9935 back on air around 1600+ UT. 73! (Ivo, ibid.) Voice of Greece noted with very good strength on 9420 and 15630 1521 October 3 (Mike Barraclough, Letchworth Garden City, UK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. NEWS4U FROM ERT WORLD --- Inaugurating its new program, ERT WORLD, airs the English speaking, news cast entitled NEWS4U. NEWS4U, which premiers on Monday, October 3rd, 2011, aims to bring the latest from Greece and the world to its international audience, and the Hellenes of third and fourth generation. The newscast will be broadcast live daily around the globe (Monday to Friday), at 16.30, Greek time. PRESENTED BY: NIKOS ANGELIDIS, MARIANNA PETRAKI EDITORS IN CHIEF: NIKOS ANGELIDIS, TITIKA-MARIA SARATSI EDITORIAL TEAM : ELENH KOROVILA, RISSOS HARALAMBIDIS, KATERINA THANASOULA PRODUCTION COORDINATOR : NEKTARIA DRAKOULAKI DIRECTED BY NIKOS PARLAPANIS, IRENE KOKKOTA http://www.ert.gr/webtv/index.php/2011-06-03-13-11-34/item/443-coming-soon-on-ert-world.html ERT World From Wikipedia, [q.v. for satellite info] ERT World (formerly ERT SAT) is an internationally-broadcast Greek language channel run by Greece's national broadcaster Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT). Programming includes a mix of news, discussion-based programs, drama, documentaries, entertainment shows as well as sports coverage including live games from Greece's top soccer league- Super League Greece. (via John Babbis, MD, WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DXLD) It seems this is television; who needs SW? ** GUAM. 5765-USB, AFN not heard every morning, but audible Oct 4 at 1255 in hash from WTWW 5755. Not much better vs noise level after 1300 when WTWW had switched to 9479 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUATEMALA. 4054.978, Radio Verdad, Chiquimula. 0031 September 30, 2011. Spanish male (the pastor owner/op distinct voice), marimba filler music. Excellent (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The October issue of Radio World América Latina has an article about R. Verdad, with Dr. Madrid`s portrait on the front page. Unfortunately, he says he was unable to download it: http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/newbay/rwla_201110/ It`s on page 4, by Rubén Guillermo Margenet (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUIANA FRENCH. 9735, Oct 6 at 0452, the TDF relay of Voz de Rusia in Spanish is horribly out of whack! Huge signal for NAm to die for, but they won`t put English on it. Now it`s putting out splash/spurs as far as 9705-9775, peaking around 9706, 9721, 9749, 9763, i.e. at approx. 14 kHz intervals. Thankfully, it`s all gone by 0500*, but the range is also ruined by relay of China on 9790 via CUBA, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUYANA. 3290, VOG, 0945, Sept 29. Christian sermon in English; 0950 “This is the Voice of Guyana”; poor (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HONG KONG. UTILITARIA, 8828, HONG KONG VOLMET, QSL: Carta, v/s Leung Chi-Lan, Chief Aeronautical Communications Supervisor. Informe enviado a: Airport Meteorological Office; Second Floor, Air Traffic Control Tower, Hong Kong International Airport, Hong Kong. Demoró: 86 dias. En el informe escrito anote una enlace a una página web donde coloqué el audio de la escucha realizada. Buen DX (Rafael Rodríguez R. Bogotá D.C. - COLOMBIA, Imagenes y más en http://dxdesdecolombia.blogspot.com/ condiglist yg via DXLD) ** HONG KONG. RTHK Radio 3, 567 kHz, frequency-only "Hong Kong Harbour and FM Transmitting Mast" in 565 days for English report, and US $3 return postage. 30 days after follow-up via registered mail with another US $3 which was returned. This station was heard at my listening post on Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan. Accompanying letter from Mrs. Elsa Ng (for the Director of Broadcasting) apologizes for the delay but states my initial report was never received. So it seems my report to RTHK was another one of the victims of the Army Post Office mailings at Kandahar Airfield. As the count increases in this matter, I am becoming very disappointed in the APO. Perhaps it was military intelligence folks that snapped up the mail addressed to foreign places, but then one would imagine that I would have heard something about it by now. Also of note is the fact that this particular APO is run by civilian contractors. There seem to be a few stations issuing QSLs and then just sending the report back with the QSL. Is anyone else experiencing this? Perhaps they scan them and digitally store things these days. I wish I would have had such luxuries during my days as a CE. I hope next week brings even more results! 73 (Al Muick, Whitehall, PA USA, Oct 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. AIR Trivandrum 5010 off air? Usually loud here, not audible now at 1610 UT (Moses Vasanthan via DX_India facebook group, 29th Sept 2011 via Alokesh Gupta, dx_india yg via DXLD) Dear DX-friends, Thank you for this advice. I checked 5010 here in Denmark at 1700-1710 UT on Sep 29 and AIR Trivandrum was not heard here either. Instead I heard Malagasy on 5010 in French with Afropop music, best in USB: 44333 with CWQRM in LSB. Best 73, (Anker Petersen, ibid.) Hello friends, I have contacted AIR Trivandrum officials regarding their absence on 5010 kHz. The lastest break down yesterday (29 Sept 2011) evening and today morning is that their aerial had fallen down yesterday at 5.19 pm (1139 UT). It was put back today (30 Sept 2011) and the service is available from 7.30 am (0200 UT). Rather fast rectification by AIR standards! I have already monitored them today on their morning frequency of 7290 signing off at 0430 UT. By the way I listen regularly to this station as it is from my native place. I have also visited the station some years back. 73 (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Raj Bhavan Road, Hyderabad 500082, India, Sept 30, dx_india yg via DXLD) ** INDIA. 15050, Sept 30 at 1258, open carrier with hum and tone, flutter but S7-S9+10. 1300 cut off tone and Sinhala opening of AIR without any IS or theme music; 1302 a song; 1305 to OM chanting. Is that for a religion of some sort from the state broadcaster? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. NATIONAL FREQUENCY ALLOCATION PLAN 2011 INDIA Dear Friends, The National Frequency Allocation Plan 2011 isued by Govt. of India is now available in: http://wpc.dot.gov.in/Docfiles/National%20Frequency%20Allocation%20Plan-2011.pdf 73 (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Raj Bhavan Road, Hyderabad 500082, India, dx_india yg via DXLD) 277 pages pdf, extremely detailed; includes both international (ITU regions 1, 2, 3) and national allocations (gh, DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 3325, RRI Palangkaraya, 1350, Oct 1. The best signal on the band by far this morning. Man and woman in Indonesian, songs, “Palangkaraya” at 1358, 1400 repeated notes on electronic keyboard, time pips, woman with ID. Good (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening from my car with Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna. Editor of World English Survey and Target Listening, available at http://www.odxa.on.ca dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 3325, Oct 3 at 1240-1250, lively Indonesian talk, mostly YL, i.e. RRI Palangkaraya, best heard in some time (but still too much local line noise, especially below 5 MHz and MW; spotted an OG&E truck in the neighborhood a few days ago, but problem still not fixed.) Also had carrier on 4750 at 1252. 3325 was the OSOB, as nothing on 3185 where WWRB is normally still audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 4869.926, RRI Wamena-PP [?], acc dswci DBS list: RRI Cabang Pratama: 2000-2315, 0800-1400 UT, Bahasa Indonesia, ID: "RRI Wamena programa satu". Noted Sept 24 at 1255 UT and 1343 UT. S=3-4 very weak signal (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews 1 Oct via DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 9525, Voice of Indonesia, 1300, Oct 1. ID in Indonesian and then faded in English as woman read frequencies, ID, program lineup, news. Good, improving to very good (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening from my car with Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna. Editor of World English Survey and Target Listening, available at http://www.odxa.on.ca dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9525-, Oct 1 at 1311, finally Voice of Indonesia with decent reception during English hour, S9+22, good if not full modulation, still marred by some hum and intermittent audio dropouts, but not too often. Talk about the batik industry, outro as having been `Press Review`; 1312 ``Sound of Dignity`` VOI slogan, `Today in History` starting with someone born this date in 1917, a singer/songwriter from Java whose father owned a batik factory. 1317 on to `Focus` segment but MEGO; 1321 `News in Brief`; 1333 ending `Miscellany` with long IAD of at least 5 seconds, next `Music Corner`. Hope October will continue to provide improved reception. 9525-, Oct 4 at 1301, VOI in English with Banjarmasin guy discussing local weather with Jakarta anchorette, who also gave frequencies, contact and streaming info; fair with hum, another Tuesday `Exotic Indonesia` co-produxion with RRI Banjarmasin, Kalimantan Selatan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL. L'ONA CURTA AMB MUSICA Nº 58, 10/11 DISSABTE 0800 R. JOYSTICK via IRRS (1r DISSABTE DE MES) 9510 0800 R. CITY via IRRS (3r DISSABTE DE MES) 9510 0845 IRRS “39 DOVER STREET” (2n, 4t , 5è DISSABTE DE MES) 9510 0903 R.NETHERLANDS INT'L “CANTA AMÉRICA” 5955 9895 1800 WWCR “INTO THE BLUE” 12160 1900 VOA AFRIQUE “DU BLUES AU JAZZ” 17530 9815 1935 VOA AFRIQUE “REGGAE” 17530 9815 2000 VOA AFRICA “MUSIC TIME IN AFRICA” 4940 15580 2205 R. EXTERIOR DE ESPAÑA “MUNDOFONIAS” 7275 15110 17850 DIUMENGE 0605 R. EXTERIOR DE ESPAÑA “MUNDOFONIAS” 12035 0900 R. JOYSTICK via R.700 (1r DIUMENGE DE MES) 6005 0900 MV BALTIC RADIO (1r DIUMENGE DE MES) 6140 9480 0900 EUROPEAN MUSIC R. (3r DIUMENGE DE MES) -IRREGULAR- 6140 9480 0900 XVRB R. (3r DIUMENGE DE MES) 6045 0900 R. GLORIA INTL via R.700 (4t DIUMENGE DE MES) 6005 0912 R.ROSSII “BALLOON” 13665 1033 RFI AFRIQUE “L'EPOPEE DES MUSIQUES NOIRES” 15300 17620 1100 R. GLORIA INTL (1r DIUMENGE DE MES) –REPETICIO– 9480 1230 IRRS “39 DOVER STREET” –REPETICIO– 9510 1300 R. GLORIA INTL (4t DIUMENGE DE MES) 6140 9480 1505 VOICE OF NIGERIA “MUSIC HERITAGE” 15120 1900 VOA AFRIQUE “SOUL USA” 17530 9815 2000 VOA AFRIQUE “DU BLUES AU JAZZ” –REPETICIO– 9815 12080 2000 VOA AFRICA “MUSIC TIME IN AFRICA” 4940 15580 2012 R. ROSSII “EXOTICA” 7215 DILLUNS 1610 RFI AFRIQUE “COULEURS TROPICALES” (DILLUNS-DIVENDRES) 17850 15300 2000 VOA AFRICA “AFRICAN BEAT” (DILLUNS A DIVENDRES) 6080 15580 2010 RFI AFRIQUE “COULEURS TROPICALES” (DIL-DIV) –REPETICIO– 9790 7205 2105 VOA “AMERICAN GOLD” 6080 15580 DIMARTS 2012 R. ROSSII “DOCTOR BLUES” 7215 2105 VOA “ROOTS & BRANCHES” 6080 15580 DIMECRES 1815 VOICE OF NIGERIA “EVERGREENS” 15120 1835 R.TAIPEI INTL “JADE BELLS & BAMBOO PIPES” 6155 2012 R. ROSSII “BALLOON” –REPETICIO– 7215 2105 VOA “CLASSIC ROCK” 6080 15580 DIJOUS 2000 WWCR “INTO THE BLUE” 15825 DIVENDRES 1930 VOICE OF NIGERIA “NIGERIAN POPULAR MUSIC” 15120 2012 R. ROSSII “ENDLESS APROXIMATION” 7215 DIES I HORES UT. LA SELECCIO DE PROGRAMES ÉS TOTALMENT PERSONAL I SUBJECTIVA --- A més de les freqüències recomanades, els grans serveis internacionals com la VOA o RFI en fan servir altres en parallel. Moltes emissores emeten via satèllit i alguns programes es poden escoltar als webs d'aquestes en streaming o descarregar en podcast. Per a més informació consulteu Internet. Us faig arribar una actualització dels meus llistats de programes. Bona tardor. (Rafael Martínez, Barcelona, Catalunya, Sept 30, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL. Concursos en emisoras Onda Corta --- Recopilación de concursos activos en diferentes emisoras de onda corta: Radio Rumanía Internacional: http://cuadernodebitacoradx.blogspot.com/2011/09/nuevo-concurso-de-radio-rumania-int.html La Voz de Turquía: http://cuadernodebitacoradx.blogspot.com/2011/10/pregunta-del-mes-de-octubre-en-la-voz.html Radio Canadá Internacional: http://cuadernodebitacoradx.blogspot.com/2011/10/nuevo-concurso-de-el-castor-mensajero.html La Voz de la Rep. Islámica de Irán: http://cuadernodebitacoradx.blogspot.com/2011/10/concurso-de-fotografia-en-la-voz-de-la.html Un saludo (Javier Robledillo, Elche (Alicante), EA5-1028 http://cuadernodebitacoradx.blogspot.com/ noticiasdx yg via DXLD) See also BELARUS ** INTERNATIONAL INTERNET. PLEASURE RADIO LAUNCHES ON INTERNET By Dan Miller, XBIZ.com Tue, Oct 04 2011 03:00pm PDT XBIZ Newswire http://newswire.xbiz.com/view.php?id=139248 LOS ANGELES — Pleasure Radio, a new Internet radio station covering the adult industry, has launched with three weekly live shows. Based in Phoenix, Pleasure Radio broadcasts on PleasureRadio.fm and is also available through Android radio apps that can be found in Google, MiKandi and AdultAppMart and are available for download in more than 250 countries. Adult industry newcomer Tony P. created Pleasure Radio in an effort to connect fans with the adult industry “through the power of radio.” “We also wanted to assist organizations like FSC and ASACP to clear up misconceptions and misunderstandings on the adult entertainment industry,” said P., a native of California who grew up in El Paso, Texas. Derek D and Peter Dickem host the live flagship Pleasure Radio show every Tuesday from 4 to 6 p.m. PST [sic], and then again from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursdays and 8 to 10 p.m. every Saturday. Today’s show will feature Kay Brandt, a producer/director for JewelBox Films and Digital Playground, and Jesse A. from MiKandi. Dickem is a Phoenix-based producer, performer and webmaster. Pleasure Radio, which launched on Sept. 16, is also fully licensed to play mainstream music which it does throughout the day. The station broadcasts 24 hours a day to accommodate to its growing international audience. P. said Pleasure Radio is making all its interviews available on demand in addition to airing encore shows prior to the next live broadcast. There are three versions of Pleasure Radio, the free app (with ads in all marketplaces), the ad free version for 99 cents in Google only, and the hardcore version (no ads, with hardcore radio, videos and images) in Mikandi and AdultAppMart for $1.99. “What we want to do with Pleasure is create a cool adult radio station where everyone can talk about anything to do with sex and adult entertainment without censorship,” P. said. “The generation is changing and we want to be on the forefront of breaking taboos and telling our listeners that it’s ok to have those fantasies and fetishes because we have them too. Most importantly, we want to truly exercise our right to free speech.” He continued, “We didn’t want to make it just any podcast, we wanted to make it into a full-blown radio station. Our motto is that it’s adult entertainment radio for adults by adults.” (via Yimber Gaviría, DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. CHINA LAUNCHES ITS FIRST SPACE LABORATORY MODULE --- Hi Glenn, On September 29 China successfully launched its first space laboratory module. The 8-ton module is named Tiangong-1 (pinyin: Tia-ngo-ng yi-hào), or “"Heavenly Palace” which is what the Chinese in ancient times called outer space. Video of take off is posted at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49aGnLOpdZs I would imagine that all the news programs on the various Chinese SW stations tomorrow will be talking about this major accomplishment (Ron Howard, San Francisco, Sept 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. IRIB's Sirjan transmitters noted at 1455 with Russian and very low modulation on 13720 (Kai Ludwig, in a meadow, Germany, Oct 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ISRAEL. 9235, 29/9 0030, Galei Zahal, nice Hebrew songs, talks, fair/good 15850, 3/10 2050, Galei Zahal, Israel, OFF AIR (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Italia, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9235, Galei Zahal, 0510, Oct 3. Hebrew, interview with many mentions of Israel. Poor (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening from my car with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna on the car roof. Editor of World English Survey and Target Listening, available at http://www.odxa.on.ca dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Not 9236? ** ISRAEL. At 1454 I came on 13850 across something almost extinct now, the Kol Israel IS. Didn't they use also a second transmitter for their last remaining shortwave broadcast in Persian, above the 19 mB? Yupp, there it was, on 15760, stronger than 13850 and with a slight hum that did not appear to be on the // outlet. At 1500 program started with a lengthy, apparently canned opening with read out of web addresses etc., then into live news. No trace of Iranian jamming on both frequencies (Kai Ludwig, in a meadow, Germany, Oct 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY. Who ticks on 657? Hi, someone is ticking and beeping on 657 kHz in Europe. It is pretty strong here in Leipzig (Germany), no less than the RAI signal but with a separate fading curve, so not coming from RAI. They are a little faster than second ticks, and every 28 seconds a 400 Hz tone is "played" (both USB and LSB). The signal can be heard on remote receivers all over Europe, e.g., in the background of Ukrainian Radio when listening from Moscow, and fighting powerhouse RAI when using the mother Perseus in Italy. Sound sample: http://tinyurl.com/67qsuqc Any ideas? 73, (Eike Bierwirth, Leipzig / Germany, 0015 UT Oct 3, Perseus + DX-10 Pro Active Antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Rai. Also on my local 1116 and 936, and many others transmitters (Roberto Scaglione, Sicily, http://www.bclnews.it ibid.) Hello Fellow DXers, I can hear the ticking also on 657 when I turn my loop antenna towards Europe. There's an American domestic station near that frequency but turning the loop nulls it out. The ticking is really strong here and as a quess, it may be slow Morse being transmitted but I can't read Morse. The only way that I know of to identify the culprit is driving around with a loop antenna for direction finding but Europe is a huge land mass. Another possibility for tracking it down would be triangulation by three listening posts?? [later:] I received a report on another radio forum of a European beacon on 500 kHz. I tuned there at 0200 UT and copied the same ticking and tone but much stronger. I stand corrected on the time and date of the reception of it on 657. It was October 3 at 0145 UT. Perhaps this ticking and tones are a spur or harmonic of the 500 kHz beacon if that's what I was hearing. Location unknown but on 500 best reception is with my loop antenna set at 70 degrees at my location. I'm baffled (Rich Brock, Near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, Using a Grundig Satellit 750, Super Zepp Antenna and Loop, HCDX via DXLD) Hi, thanks to Roberto, the ticking is apparently a night-time mode for the Rai transmitters in Italy. Most of them are usually on the air only from 0500 to 2300, with the exception of 24/7 Napoli-657 and Milano-900 which continue with the Notturno programme. Last night, also the others remained on the air with the ticking signal. On 657, there are also transmitters in Bolzano and Pisa (25 and 55 kW, resp., per WRTH 2011) which can be the source of the ticking, while Napoli continued with the regular RAI programming that I heard in the background. The ticking was also strong on 1116 kHz, and here it was interrupted every now and then by normal Italian-language programming for a few seconds; a faulty audio feed connection might be the reason for the jumping between Rai and ticks, but this gives us quite a clue as to the origin of the ticks. On 1116, there are transmitters in Cuneo (20 kW), Palermo (10 kW) and smaller ones in Bari and Aosta. For my location in Germany, the signals probably comes from Cuneo in northern Italy. I also heard the ticks on 999 kHz with a slight delay (far less than 1 second) from the transmitters in Perugia, Rimini, Torino, and Vibo Valentia. The delay made the 400 Hz tones sound almost like Morse code. It is quite a thing the 657 ticks made it all the way to Pennsylvania, congrats to Rai on your log! But how did they get on 500 kHz?? There are two unID offshore beacons LGT and MCR on 500 kHz, presumably off the coast of North Africa (Libyan oil rigs?), as reported by NDB enthusiasts on http://www.classaxe.com/dx/ndb/rww/ but never reported in North America, and those beacons are not usually ticking either. Have to check that, next night. 73, (Eike Bierwirth, Leipzig / Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN [non]. 21560, Oct 2 at 1415, something weak in English, i.e. NHK, 152 degrees via Issoudun, FRANCE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KAZAKHSTAN. Drowning preacher in English, recorded through a poor PA system, at 1410 on 9345: Bible Voice Broadcasting. Listed as "Alma Ata" 200 kW, which so far indicated the transmitter plant near Almaty (Dmitriyevka if I recall the name correct). However, reportedly this site is apparently dead, so it would have to be Karaturuk, a high power site a considerable distance away from Almaty. Same story for 9900, where I came at 1425 across another English- speaking preacher. HFCC suggests Family Radio, for the same zone 41 target, "Alma Ata" with 100 kW (Kai Ludwig, in a meadow, Germany, Oct 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Drowning? ** KOREA NORTH. 9335, Voice of Korea, 1303, Oct 1. After national anthem into English, man with ID, program lineup and news. ID “This is the V-O-K, Voice of Korea.” He had trouble pronouncing the “ea” in Korea and spoke it as “Kareer”. Good, //11710 poor (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening from my car with Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna. Editor of World English Survey and Target Listening, available at http://www.odxa.on.ca dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, I have wondered if he learnt English in Basten (gh, DXLD) At 1505 Voice of Korea came in pretty strong on 15245, riding over some co-channel interference. Pretty decent modulation, good enough for recognizing the acoustical properties of the studio. // 9335 much weaker and apparently also not so well modulated (Kai Ludwig, in a meadow, Germany, Oct 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [and non]. THE AIR WAR OVER NORTH KOREA http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htiw/articles/20110929.aspx September 29, 2011: North Korean refugees, operating from South Korea, have led the psyops (psychological warfare) effort against North Korea in recent years. They started shortwave radio transmissions with U.S. government funding and launched helium balloons loaded with DVDs and leaflets. The South Korean government had halted its official propaganda as part of an agreement with the North in 2004. But the torpedoing of a South Korean warship and the shelling of Yeonpyeong Island last year changed all that. The South Korean military has jumped in with both feet. The Joint Chiefs of Staff established a psyops unit. It resumed transmissions of the Voice of Freedom, an FM propaganda network. Voice of Freedom is produced in Seoul and then relayed via the military´s Mungunghwa 5 satellite to six FM transmitters along the DMZ. Programs include plenty of pop music in the popular (in North Korea) "trot" style. The station plans to expand to AM, a better choice as there are few FM receivers in North Korea. The military has joined the dissidents in distributing leaflets via balloons. Five ton trucks with printers aboard can produce up to 80,000 leaflets a day. The trucks receive the design and layout of a particular leaflet via a roof-top satellite dish. The leaflets are chosen from a database of 1,300 that are jointly produced by American and South Korean psyoperators. There can be as many as three launches a month if the wind and weather are right. A new leaflet is tried each month. Some South Korean lawmakers have objected to the military targeting North Korean civilians, but the effort continues. Another outlet is loudspeakers. Four have been set up in the DMZ. Measuring 4 by 3 meters, they can be heard 12 kilometers away during the day and twice as far at night. Each cost about $165,000. But they have yet to be turned on as North Korea threatened to shell any speaker that starts broadcasting. -- Hans Johnson (via Zacharias Liangas, DXLD) Would that be the Cumbre DX Hans Johnson?? (gh) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. Probably Radio Free North Korea. 1211-1217 UT 15645, 15565, 15720 1311-1325 UT 15645, 15630, 15500 1313-1314 UT 15565, 11640 1346-1355 UT 15630 1411-1425 UT 11570, 15630 1515-1555 UT 7590, 11560 1613-1645/1700 UT, 5 Frequencies \\ 7590, 7520, 7530, 6240, 6230 kHz 2011 and 2111 UT 7480 and 7505 kHz. und S=9+10dB Signal, z.Zt. Ortssenderqualitaet probably Radio Free North Korea 1311-1355 UT 15645 kHz. Strategie ist, wie auch gegen US BBG-IBB/RFA oder VoTibet die Jammingstaaten mit haeufigen Wechseln zu beschaeftigen (Wolfgang Büschel, Sept 25, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews 1 Oct via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5985, Oct 6 at 1329, open carrier hetting 5986v MYANMAR; 1330 piano music opening Shiokaze from JSR Tokyo; poor reception but intonation sounds Japanese today rather than Korean (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. SEOUL TOWER RADIO/TV TOWER PHOTOS For all of you who just love those tower photos, I've posted 15 photos of Seoul Tower and the two additional towers alongside it, all taken on Saturday night (for most of you, I realize it's still Saturday afternoon). I also included some information about them. http://www.wtfda.info/showthread.php?6653-Seoul-Tower-(tower-photos) <- cut and paste the link as the parentheses cause it to cut off the last character in the link --- or else find it under "DX Equipment" in the forums for lack of a better place to post it. [works OK even with cutoff; login not required --- gh] Seoul Tower is one of two main communications sites in the area and also a massive tourist attraction with an observation tower overlooking the city. The site isn't as beautiful as the Qingdao Tower to our west in China and not as "pimped out" as the Pyongyang TV Tower (referring to the huge army of 33 green satellite dishes at its base) three hours to our north, but nevertheless it's quite the sight to see! I got some good dusk and night photos as well and was able to confirm that reception is more or less the same up there as it is on the ground, although a few of the signals originating from directly below me were a little staticy. I love it when a country's top tourist site is a TV tower :) (Chris Kadlec, Songtan, Korea, Oct 1, WTFDA via DXLD) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 11530, Oct 3 at 1337-1400+, V. of Mesopotamia with enjoyable nonstop Kurdish music, S9+20 but still sounding marginal, via UKRAINE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [and non]. IRAN/IRAQ, Iranian Jammer and Kurdish Clandestines: 3964.050 bubbled signal, a lonely Iranian jammer at 0330-0415 UT Sept 28. On 4878.967 kHz noted a strong Iranian Bubble Jammer, accompanied by additional annoying 924 Hertz interference tone, against Kurdish clandestine station on 4879.887 kHz. The latter one moved down 10 kHz! At 0344 UT to 4869.887 kHz, wandered additional few Hertz to x.890 kHz. But the Iranian radio section of Secret Service didn't realize the move of the concerned subject, and kept holding 4879 kHz frequency area for jamming, just for 'nothing' (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews 1 Oct via WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DXLD) ** KUWAIT. 15540, Oct 1 at 1934, hunting for R. Kuwait 18-21 English broadcast, could only detect a JBA carrier; while Greece was sufficient on 15630. Is it just propagation? At 2007 and 2030 chex, could not hear anything on 15540, 17550 or 11990. 15540, Oct 2 at 1910, quick check finds R. Kuwait still there with feature talk in English, whew; couldn`t hear it yesterday. However, by 2055 toward end of two-sesquihour English broadcast, it had become JBA; after all, it`s nearly midnight in Kuwait. Also checked for Arabic to C&W NAm on 17550: at 2002, VP signal presumably this, inaudible by 2055 tho supposedly on until 2400. MOI seems to have an insufficient understanding of SW propagation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LITHUANIA. The current schedule of MW-broadcasting from the territory of Lithuania, UT: 612 kHz - Vilnius – Virshulikes - 50 kW: 0300-0500 - Radio Liberty (Belarusian) 1200-1500 - Voice of Russia (Russian) 1500-2100 - Radio Liberty (Belarusian) 2100-2200 - the Polish Radio abroad (Belarusian) 1386 kHz – Sitkunai - 500 kW: 0330-0400 - Radio Japan (Russian) 1600-1700 - the Polish Radio abroad (Belarusian) 1700-1800 - Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Russian) (Alexander Dyadishchev, Ukraine /"open_dx" via RusDX Oct 2 via DXLD) ** MADAGASCAR. Radio Madagasikara. 4910 Antananarivo. Sept 25, 2011, Sunday. 1620-1644. Malagasy talk and music? No ID heard, but there is no lower sideband so it must be Madagasikara! Fair, no lower sideband. Later, 1745-1809, definitely Madagascar. Two OM's talking, presumably in Malagasy although interspersed with French. Many mentions of Malagasy and Madagascar whilst I was listening. Child? or YL singing at 1756. ID "Madagasikara" at 1759. Fair - good till 1800. No lower sideband. Also nothing at all on the old frequency, 5010. At and after 1800, QRM from Voice of America relay, 4930 via Botswana. Up to 1800 EiBi lists this as targetted to Zimbabwe, but changing at 1800 to "Central Africa". It has certainly made a mess of Madagasikara; now noisy, distorted and fadey. Jo'burg sunset 1606. 4910 Antananarivo. Sept 26, 2011, Monday. 0305-0330. Afro music. ID at 0310 "Madagascar", followed by YL talking. Fair at first but deteriorating rapidly. Must be full daylight in Madagascar by now. No lower side band. All gone by 0330. Jo'burg sunrise 0354. Two days later, Sept 28, 2011, Wednesday. 0230-0316. Quickchecks. Afro-ish music, YL with id at 0236 "Madagascar". Strong signal but quite badly distorted. LSB suppressed again (last night Ron Howard in California was reporting a more AM-like signal). Rapidly fading out by 0310, gone by 0316. Must be well into daylight in Madagascar, sunrise here in just over half an hour. Jo'burg sunrise 0352 (Bill Bingham, RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5010, Radio Madagasikara, 0233-0250, carrier + USB. Back on this frequency again. Tune-in to Afro-pop music. IS at 0235. National Anthem at 0235:25. Lite instrumental music and Malagasy talk at 0237. Afro-pop music. Poor to fair with thunderstorm static. Oct 1 (Brian Alexander, PA, WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DX Listening Digest) UNIDENTIFIED**. 6135.29, 1453, Oct 03, UNID carrier not strong enough to produce any decent audio to 1459:35 s/off. Obvious het against R Sana'a on exact 6135.00 which closed about 9 secs later. Am fairly confident this is Radio Nationale Malagasy which Ron Howard says he heard on 6135.27 on Sept 24 but adds that measurements on his Eton E1 tend to be very slightly lower than the actual frequency. Same unID also noted Sept 30 and Oct 01 in same time period. Can anyone confirm? (Martien Groot, Schoorl, Netherlands /TenTec RX-340, 30 m. longwire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Martien, Yes indeed, am happy to confirm you did in fact hear the carrier from Madagascar. I was listening at the same time and had clear // reception with 5010. So based on hearing the same sign off time and the same unique frequency, there can be no doubt that you did hear them. Very nice reception on your part, as the 6135+ frequency is not often reported. Ron 5010, R. Madagasikara, 1433-1505, Oct 3. African Hi-Life music; monologue and ID in believe French; ToH Hi-Life music and children singing. An unusual day for me to find this with equal levels of both USB and LSB, along with AM; normally the USB is much stronger. Light AIR QRM. 6135.28 was clearly // until suddenly off the air at 1459, with 5010 continuing on (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. Today a peak visible on the Perseus screen here in Germany: 6135.284 kHz til 1500 UT, probably R. Madagasikara MDG, Sanaa also signing off on even 6135 kHz. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) I also checked this frequency on Sept 24, see the screenshot below. Only carriers were noted and too weak for audio. I didn’t check on Saturday Oct 1. The weather was too good, the grass needed the lawn mower and also a bicycle trip called for attention. Those two stations on 6135.0 and 6135.29 need more attention. First observed by Martien Groot in the Netherlands. Both stations still too weak for audio. Most likely the station on 6135.0 is R Sanaa and the one on 6135.29 is R Malagasy. As you can see below their sign off times are within two minutes, /TN (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin Oct 2 via WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DXLD) What I suspect is R Nationale Malagasy was there again this afternoon but only carrier noted. Difficult to measure exact frequency but seems 6135.30. Regarding your question of greyline reception take a look at this link http://www.norfolkamateurradio.org/pdf/talks/Greyline_Propagation_G0KYA.pdf where he concludes: In conclusion - greyline paths • Greyline paths above 40m on mutual sunrise or sunset may not be that much more efficient • Greyline paths on 160m/80m on mutual sunrise are definitely more efficient • The G-VP8 results showed around a 4-6db enhancement • Greyline enhancements on 160m are more noticeable – they are the ONLY likely possible times for antipodal contacts (via Martien Groot, Netherlands, SW Bulletin Oct 2 via DXLD) ** MADAGASCAR. REMARKS BY CHARLES CAUDILL, PRESIDENT OF WORLD CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING, AT HFCC/ASBU B11 IN DALLAS by National Association of Shortwave Broadcasters on Sunday, September 25, 2011 at 8:49pm http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=283666714996448 [Sept. 15, 2011] Thank you very much. It is a great pleasure and an honor to greet each of you on behalf of World Christian Broadcasting and our international station KNLS, Anchor Point, Alaska. Soon – shortly after the beginning of 2012 we will be able to greet you on behalf of Madagascar World Voice, our new station on the island of Madagascar. I also bring you greetings from Kevin Chambers, our Director of Engineering and Andy Baker, our Vice President of Development. They are here today. That new station and the some $11,000.000 US dollars we are spending on expansion is the reason I have been asked to speak to you today. On numerous occasions, I and others of our management team have been asked “why are you expanding your use of shortwave when most everyone else is cutting back by reducing the number of languages they broadcast, thereby reducing the number of people they employ and thus reducing their budgets by numbers like 14 million and even 40 million US dollars each year.” That is a great question and one that we have given much consideration. We are a non-profit corporation. One hundred percent of our income is derived from donations. Obviously, we must act wisely and be excellent stewards of the funds we receive or those funds will shop coming. Believe me our donors are well aware of the changes that are occurring in the shortwave community, so we have found it necessary to communicate those decisions clearly and truthfully. Here is at least a part of our thinking process as we have made our decision to expand our shortwave capabilities and our determination that the future of shortwave broadcasting is bright! The Mission Statement for World Christian Broadcasting states that WCB exists so that people in places best served by broadcast media become aware of the Good News of Jesus Christ and want to hear more. Quite frankly, we can think of no way to better accomplish that than through shortwave broadcasts. Since July 23, 1983, for more than 28 years, we have used that tried and true method to reach our listeners with that message of hope. It appears we have more listeners today than ever before. We feel our content, our message, is key to retaining those listeners. We use a magazine format. We talk about the news, current events, sports, health, medicine and spiritual things. We draw the line, however, in trying to tell our listeners what to do. They must make their own decisions as to what they should do or what risks they should take. It is they, after all, who must live with the consequences of their actions. During those 28 years we have learned that building relationships with our listeners is not an easy thing. Finding listeners is hard. Keeping them is hard. Our efforts are all about listener engagement – the making of personal, finely cultivated relationships that are as satisfying for our listeners as they for us. Gone are the days when broadcasters could just shine the spotlight on themselves and expect the listener to accept whatever may be said. That lazy, ineffectual approach of talking to listeners is so over that we need a new word for just how over it is. Our goal is to make friends with each individual listener. Relationships with listeners are very much like those with friends and family members. Neglect, arrogance, abuse, and other negatives are damaging. Respect, nurturing and communication are beneficial. It pays to be honest, to be genuine, to be vulnerable and to be the best we can possibly be. As with all relationships, it takes time, it’s a little scary, but it is definitely worth the extra effort to let our listeners know we honestly care about them, their family and their future. We at World Christian Broadcasting try to never forget that there maybe another broadcaster out there with a similar mission whose programming staff also has a deep dedication to engagement. And we know they’ll be more than happy to give our listeners what they need and deserve. The message is key. Even one soul is worth the effort. Another reason we have opted for shortwave for our future is that our budget is limited. In order to make that budget go as far as possible, there is no question that we can reach more people on a regular basis with shortwave than with any other method. With an annual budget of something over $3,000,000 we will be able to broadcast 50 to 60 hours daily from our two broadcast facilities. Those 50 to 60 hours will be produced by six different services – English, Russian, Chinese, Arabic, Latin American and African. Obviously, we cannot do everything on that limited budget, but we can literally talk to millions of people using shortwave. We don’t have the luxury of being able to cut 40 million or even 14 million from our budget as some international broadcasters can. Our idea is that God has given us the ionosphere. Our job is to make use of it. There are millions of analog receivers in the world – some say – 600 million, some say 1.5 billion, some say as many as three billion. Regardless of the number, those receivers will not be turned off tomorrow. Those receivers will have listeners for years and years. Look around, even though technology advances with great rapidity, there are still newspapers. I receive mine every morning. There are still AM radios and FM receivers and they are still making more. And you can still buy books. They are still being published. Even though Amazon is making a fortune selling electronic digital reading devices, they still sell books. My point is – no medium disappears over-night. Our belief is that shortwave will be here for a long, long time. Sure, we use other media and will continue to use the internet and social media. After all, we do own the words, so as long as we can afford it we will continue to send our messages out in any way possible – but, our future is shortwave. Our job is to “take the Gospel into all the world.” Unfortunately, relatively few people in some parts of the world have access to the internet. Let me give you an example. Only 1% of the people of Madagascar have access to internet. Kevin Chambers and his wife Nancy live there most of the year. They are not only familiar with the lack of internet accessibility, they are also aware that most of that access is not reliable enough to listen to a broadcast. Interestingly, most of those people who do use the internet in Madagascar use an internet café. Another example would be the much larger population of China. A recent report stated that two-thirds of the people of China do not have internet access and it is a fact many of those who do – go to internet cafes for communication. It is our belief that folks using an internet café will not spend their money to listen to a religious message. Sure, there is a very large group of people in China who can afford the computers necessary to be involved with the internet. There are literally millions. But the fact remains that there are many more millions who cannot make that purchase. Just as there millions in the US or any country who can’t afford that kind of purchase. The best way to reach those folks is with shortwave broadcasts. We simply don’t want to miss the potential audience of some 870,000,000 Chinese listeners who don’t have access to internet. A similar problem occurs when we would like to send out messages via satellite. Millions and millions do not have satellite receivers. Someone recently made a presentation to our Russian Service. They wanted our Russian programs and they wanted us to pay to broadcast them via satellite. Just a little research revealed we would have very few listeners because of the price of the phones and other receivers that are available in Russia. Interestingly, there are still many broadcasters using shortwave to reach the Russian people. I went on the internet last week and found that for the B-10 season there are 6,500 hours each week being sent throughout Russia in the Russian language. 40% of that total is being sent out by the Voice of Russia and Radio Mayak. The Russian broadcasters know that if you want to reach the more remote areas of Russia you must use shortwave. Even though many technology changes have occurred in Russia since Perestroika, most of those changes have occurred in the large metropolitan centers, especially Moscow and St. Petersburg. Of course, we want to reach those areas, but we also want to reach Siberia – shortwave is the only way. There is little or no internet or cell phone capability in Siberia. What about the use of smart phones? Many have applications that can receive satellite broadcasts. During 2009 2.2 million cell phones were sold in Russia. In 2010 that increased to 4.3 million. Nearly all of those are in St. Petersburg and Moscow. Estimating that there may be as many as 10 to 12 million cell phones in Russia, it would not be feasible for us to spend the money to buy time on a satellite. By the way, the average smart phone in Russia in 2010 cost $500 US dollars. For 2011 they have decreased in price to $400 US dollars. Not many of us would want to spend that kind of money. There is no indication that the Russian government will be willing to spend the money necessary to build an infrastructure of fibre optics that will allow the east and far eastern parts of Russia to catch up with St. Petersburg and Moscow. Shortwave will remain the primary means of communicating with the remote areas of Russia – by the Russians and by World Christian Broadcasting. Very clearly, there is another aspect of communicating with our listeners that we must consider. In some countries there are gatekeepers – governments that do not want their citizens to hear certain messages. It is much less difficult and less expensive to block internet messages than shortwave messages. In fact, there are no cheap ways to jam shortwave. There will always be a fear in some countries as to who is watching and listening to any kind of communication, but fortunately, shortwave listening is very private. The last thing I want to mention as being the reason we will continue to use shortwave is DRM. We have bought into the DRM philosophy and technology. Our transmitters are digital ready. If there were sufficient numbers of receivers out there, we would begin our broadcasts from Madagascar in digital rather than analogue. We believe that when it becomes possible for inexpensive DRM receivers to be available worldwide, shortwave broadcasts will increase in number, just as the quality of the reception improves. We believe there will be commercial opportunities available that are not apparent with our analog broadcasts. We certainly feel we will be able to sell time to program producers, who want to get a quality sounding message around the world. We are anxious for that day to come. I am sure I have not given you any new ideas. I am just as sure that those of you who are decreasing the number of hours you send out via shortwave, have considered the same things we considered and I have mentioned. We simply have come to different conclusions. Nevertheless, we are quite confident in our decisions and let me leave you with this – our special thanks to those who are decreasing your shortwave hours – you have just left a larger audience for World Christian Broadcasting. Thank you very much (NASB Facebook via Alokesh Gupta, dxdlyg via DXLD) ** MALAYSIA. 5964.70, Klasik FM, 1327-1344 Sep 27. Regional vocal music, chatty M announcerr in Bahasa Malaysia. Fair in noise. 6050.02, Asyik FM, 1301-1320+ Sep 25. Berita nasional in progress; back to local program at 1311 with regional vocals, YL announcer, and jingles. Fairly good signal (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, Drake R-8, 100-foot RW, Cumbre DX via WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DXLD) 5964.71, 2/10 2330, RTM Klasik Nasional, talks, music, weak (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Italia, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5964.6 Klasik Nacional, 1300, Oct 3. Relay of the National RTM News; 1310-1311 they always seem to have a type of National RTM PSA following the news; // 9835 Sarawak FM with news and PSA. News was NOT // 6049.52 Asyik FM, but the PSA was. 6049.52, Asyik FM via RTM. Has been a while since they last used this off frequency transmitter. Recently had been consistently on 6050.02. Also reported off frequency on Oct 3 by Martien Groot (Netherlands). 1251, Oct 3 at 1300 with 1+1 pips; local news in vernacular; 1305 break in the news for singing “Asyik FM” station jingle; 1310-1311 carrying a National PSA audio feed // 5964.6 Klasik Nacional and 9835 Sarawak FM; 1311 no longer //; pop songs. Oct 4 also noted on 6049.52 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6049.51, RTM Kajang, 1506, Oct 03, Malay loudly hetting Xizang PBS to 1602:16 s/off. Recent NF, down from 6050.02 where I had previously heard them for at least two months (Martien Groot, Schoorl, Netherlands /TenTec RX-340, 30 m. longwire. Dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6050-, Oct 4 at 1151, HCJB has an audible het again, so RTM has switched back to their off-frequency transmitter. Indeed, on Oct 3 at 1506-1602, Martien Groot in Netherlands had RTM Kajang back on 6049.51 after at least a bimonth on 6050.02 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also SARAWAK [non] ** MALI [and non]. /SWAZILAND, 5994.997, ORTM Radio Mali from Bamako, observed in like vernacular gargling Arabic at 0508 UT Oct 2. News read by lady. Before til 0445 UT TWR Africa from Manzini Swaziland on exact 5995.0 kHz in tentatively Chewa program. Antenna direction in 005 degrees azimuth, which result in a more than fair signal into Europe (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 2, dxldyg via DXLD) ** MAURITANIA. 7245, Friday Sept 30 at 0611, IGIM is on and chanty (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7245, ORTM, *0609:40-0625, abrupt sign on with Qur`an. Local music and Arabic talk at 0623. Good. Oct 1 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) 7245, Oct 3 at 0517, IGIM is already on with strumming, much earlier than usual, good signal. At 0530, a speech in Arabish. 7245, Oct 6 at 0504, IGIM is on much earlier than usual, mixture of almost autotuned singing, strumming and exhortations; special occasion? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 800, MÉXICO, XEQT, Veracruz, Veracruz. 1100 September 30, 2011. Tune-in to last 30-seconds or so of the Veracruz state anthem (the standard choral version all seem to use -- the XE anthem presumably preceded it before my tune-in). Then, male XEQT ID (no "la Poderosa" slogan heard, or XHQT 106.9 la Poderosa for that matter, the FM listed as simulcast here). Quickly faded down. Surprised to catch this on a difficult channel locally, where the big XEROK is the dominant Mexican, along with lots of other co-channel mess. 1090, MÉXICO unidentified. 1103 October 2, 2011. Mexican anthem with no state anthem following, male inspirational script, faded out with multiple other Spanish stations on channel. 1090, MÉXICO, XEMCA, Pánuco, Veracruz. 1111 October 2, 2011. Mexican anthem popped up through the co-channel, followed by the Verzcruz state choral anthem, male call letters ID, ballads and Mexi-tunes. Abridged pile of junk: JRC NRD-535; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Aqua Guide 705 Radio Direction Finder; Sangean PR-D5; Sony ICF-7600GR; GE SuperRadio III; RadioShack DX-399; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X in-room random wire (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Re: ``800 XEZR La Traviesa Zaragoza, Coah. 2,000 2,000 Would those closer to it please check its modulation. (I shall be astounded by any replies, as no one has replied to any of my other queries about Mexicans, unIDs.) gh`` Not closer but this was doing well with decent modulation although their English ID was a tad distorted programming. My log entry: 9/24/2011 0401 UT out of slow Spanish music into English "You are listening to radio station XEZR Zaragoza Mexico - with a power of 2000 watts. Channel eighty?" mixed with some domestics. Noted later in the tape using "La Traviesa" slogan. 73 (Wayne Heinen, CO, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 720, Sept 29 at 0528, full ID for Radio Coahuila, Saltillo at this odd time, making SAH with WGN about the same as the one KSAH makes, also in Spanish from San Antonio, Tejas. Cantú shows only 250 watts at night: Maybe Radio Coahuila is the group name, or a generic: 720 XEDE La Kaliente Saltillo, Coah. 8,000 250 Sunrise MWDX Sept 29, UT: 580, Sept 29 at 1154 UT, lots of birthday greetings, including to someone in Múzquiz (Coahuila), and several in Tejas, 1157 ``La Rancherita del Aire``: 580 XEMU La Rancherita del Aire Piedras Negras, Coah. 5,000 2,500 610, Sept 29 at 1157 UT, ``visítenos en Nueva Rosita``, and two-letter call interjected. N.R. is a nearby city to: 610 XEBX La Primera Sabinas, Coah. 5,000 500 610, Sept 29 at 1158 UT, ``G-S`` truncated ID had overtaken frequency: 610 XEGS La Ley Guasave, Sin. 1,000 500 650, Sept 29 at 1209 UT, `Panorama Agropecuario` farmshow, into weather segment discussing hurricane threat. Had just heard same on XEGS 610 and this time confirmed they are //, stronger on 650 with hum, i.e.: 650 XETNT Radio 65 + FM 106.5 Los Mochis, Sin. 5,000 1,000 760, Sept 29 at 1211 UT, choral NA ending way late, 1212 Radio Geny ID, ``viva México``: 760 XENY Radio Geny Nogales, Son. 5,000 100 870, Sept 29 at 1213 UT, mañanitas from XETAR had SAH and CCI from an SS in the USA: q.v. 870 XETAR La Voz de la Sierra Tarahumara Guachochi, Chih. 10,000 D 1050, Sept 29 at 1217 UT, ``Radiorama, Mil Cincuenta AM`` (1050 could be pronounced both this way and Diez Cincuenta, strangely enough). Cantú has no such name on 1050, but it`s a group. Googling leads right to XED Mexicali which Cantú has as: 1050 XED W Radio Mexicali, B.C. 10,000 D I thought W Radio and Radiorama were competitors; did they sell XED? Sunrise MW DX Oct 2, UT: 610, Oct 2 at 1218 UT, ``Grupo Chávez, Radio K``, and ``una experiencia en el cielo``, Sunday-morning religious show. Seemed // 650, but not definite with two receivers. If so, that would be XEGS Guaymas, Sinaloa once again. Googling confirms there is a group by that name in Sinaloa, including La GS on 610, and La Ley on 650, but the `Radio K` would have been ``Radiocast``: http://es-es.facebook.com/pages/Chavez-RadioCast/132376413473133 770, Oct 2 at 1214 UT, singing ID ending in ``Digital``. I thought maybe it was one of those ``Éxtasis Digital`` outlets, but none listed on 770 in Cantú. 1030, Oct 2 at 1228 UT, ad for a giveaway, 1229 ``Grupo Jota`` and romantic music. I can`t find any Mexican radio group by that name on 1030 or anywhere else; maybe was name of musical group. Sunrise MW DX Oct 3; LSR here now 1228 UT: 710, Oct 3 at 1201 UT, ``Grupo B-M Radio``, noticias W&M alternating, several mentions of ``aquí en Ciudad Cuauhtémoc``: 710 XEDP La Ranchera Cd. Cuauhtemoc, Chih. 7,000 100 See http://www.gbmradio.com/byfabian/ 720, Oct 3 at 1200 UT, ID mentioning Saltillo, Coahuila. I have yet to hear the listed slogan or call letters in Cantú: 720 XEDE La Kaliente Saltillo, Coah. 8,000 250 770, Oct 3 at 1230, mentions ``Cuarenta Principales``. The only 770 Top-40 in Cantú is: 770 XEREV Los 40 Principales + FM 104.3 Los Mochis, Sin. 5,000 100 And then at 1231 does mention Los Mochis and a 5-letter XH- FM call, (listed XHREV), 6:31 timecheck. 800, Oct 3 at 1205 UT, ad for Zaragoza, Coahuila, OK modulation, so 800 XEZR La Traviesa Zaragoza, Coah. 2,000 2,000 With KQCV OKC (not yet daytime) nulled as best I could, also audible the station with extremely distorted modulation, previously suspected to be XEZR, but soon gone. Next suspect for this further east is: 800 XEDD La Tremenda Montemorelos, N.L. 10,000 2,500 XEROK CiJz was not being heard at this time! 900, Oct 3 at 1208 UT, timecheck for 6:08, Radio Vida [? not Reina], introducing a program but first, a huge local adstring, including several businesses on ``Carretera a Álvaro Obregón``, already traced to Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, one of them with website http://www.maquinariaw.com which is Wiebe, seller of heavy industrial and agricultural machinery, mostly imported from USA: 900 XEDT La Reina Cd. Cuauhtemoc, Chih. 5,000 1,500 1410, Oct 3 at 1218 UT, conversation mentioning Secretaría de Educación Pública, so certainly a Mexican, also something about incendios (fires) in Mazatlán. It`s hard to pull Mexicans thru all the US QRM on upper regional channels. As I feared, there is no Mazatlán station here in perhaps national newscast, altho there is one in Los Mochis: 1410 XECF La Mexicana + 93.3 FM Los Mochis, Sin. 10,000 500 Pre-sunrise MW DX Oct 4, UT: 630, Oct 4 at 1158 UT, discussion of dólares/pesos exchange rates, continued conversation past 1200 with no ID. Probably XEFB Monterrey NL with news format; some other DXers are wondering what else makes it north of border on 630 700, Oct 4 at 1158 UT, ``Stéreo Éxitos`` heard as tuned by, probably multi-station mention, and would have to research which of all the 700s has such a sibling on FM 900, Oct 4 at 1211 UT, ads mentioning ``Carretera a Álvaro Obregón``, i.e. Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, which was also mentioned in ``cerca de la glorieta Cuauhtémoc``; Cantú: 900 XEDT La Reina Cd. Cuauhtemoc, Chih. 5,000 1,500 Pre/sunrise MW DX Oct 5, UT: 660, Oct 5 at 1218 UT, talking about a fiesta, mentions Meoqui; 1222 phoner about collecting water in the fog on the fifth of October; 6:23 timecheck ``en Radio 6-60``, keeps mentioning Mercado Juárez, also Mercado Morelos; 1226 ad, ``aquí en Delicias``. Meoqui is a neighboring town. Cantú shows: 660 XEACB Radio 660, La Tremenda Cd. Delicias, Chih. 3,000 1,000 710, Oct 5 at 1209 UT, local news by M&W alternating, about armed robbery of a jewelry store owned by the family of the local diputado, got away with 75 kilopesos of loot, yesterday at 10:07 in Cuauhtémoc, 6:11 timecheck. I think they were blaming the Beta gang if not Zeta: 710 XEDP La Ranchera Cd. Cuauhtemoc, Chih. 7,000 100 This is the dominant 710 station most mornings, and you`d never know KGNC exists till later. I`ve heard it many times, but more interested in catching programming and more local clues which might help others, than dismissing it as a relog, as I am not counting Mexican or any other totals, anyway. 780, Oct 5 at 1206 UT, Ciudad Victoria mentioned in null of KSPI; then at 1207 KSPI audio drops off, but the XE has faded. Presumably: 780 XESFT La Triple T San Fernando, Tamps. 5,000 1,000 As C.V. is the state capital of Tamaulipas, and San Fernando is halfway to the border from there, altho there is another Tamaulipan on 780 in Tampico. 790, Oct 5 at 1229 UT, gobierno federal, Hora Nacional PSAs, 1230 full ID for R. Fórmula, 5-letter call, 10,000 watts. (No sign of KNST Tucson which was inbooming here 24 hours and 6 minutes earlier.) Cantú shows two Fórmulas on 790, one a 250-watter in Guadalajara, unlikely, and the other: 790 XENT Radio Fórmula + FM 97.5 La Paz, B.C.S. 10,000 750 The uncopied 5-letter call probably applied to their FM. At first I feared they were just relaying XERFR 970 DF, but it`s 50 kW. 800, Oct 5 around 1200, again getting extremely distorted talk modulation; little chance of understanding a word of it. DF for SSW [or NNE], as best I can tell vs KQCV OKC to the SSE, still suspect: 800 XEDD La Tremenda Montemorelos, N.L. 10,000 2,500 Listeners in S Tejas should be able to hear this all day and confirm whether it`s the culprit. 850, Oct 5 at 1157 UT, non-IBOC noise, in null of KOA. Must be open studio-transmitter link. Note: turn on STL first, then main transmitter. 1200 noise stops, SAH continues with KOA, 1201 choral NA; 1204 sign-on by Chihuahua station, ``Renacimiento`` which is reborn for another day: 850 XEM Radio Renacimiento Chihuahua, Chih. 5,000 500 Pre-sunrise MW DX Oct 6, UT: 560, Oct 6 at 1208 UT, Casas Luxor sponsors time & temp, in Monclova, XE- ID, ``Son Noticias, La ---``, starting newscast with named W&M: 560 XEGIK La Acerera Monclova, Coah. 1,400 250 O yes, heard this before and speculated name means ``steel mill``. Google says ``steelmaker`` with the definite article, but feminine?? Maybe it refers to la ciudad being this rather than individual workers. Of course one hopes that women are indeed among them. 580, Oct 6 at 1148 UT, ad for Culebra Restaurant in San Antonio, ``la tienda de la raza``. Since there`s only a non-Spanish Texan on 580 in Lubbock, I can only assume that border outlet per Cantú 580 XEMU La Rancherita del Aire Piedras Negras, Coah. 5,000 2,500 has listeners in SATEX, and/or frequent travellers to there on US 57 620, Oct 6 at 1149 UT, ID for ``B-U, La Norteñita``: 620 XEBU La Norteñita Chihuahua, Chih. 5,000 1,000 650, Oct 6 at 1204 UT, choral NA ends, XETNT ID with FM 106.5: 650 XETNT Radio 65 + FM 106.5 Los Mochis, Sin. 5,000 1,000 Not the dominant signal it used to have; too early now for SRS boost? 760, Oct 6 at 1152 UT, acknowledging morning show staff, ID for ABC Radio, 50,000 watts, Paseo de la Reforma; XEABC, 760 AM 760 XEABC ABC Radio México, DF 70,000 10,000 So Cantú gives it 20 kW more 760, Oct 6 at 1202 UT, NA and ID from Antena 760, Chihuahua Capital: 760 XEES Antena 760 Chihuahua, Chih. 10,000 1,000 900, Oct 6 at 1159 UT, XEW chimes, phone numbers ``en la cabina``, mixing with some other SS stations this early: 900 XEW W Radio + FM 96.9 México, DF 250,000 250,000 I also heard Monterrey and Veracruz mentioned, where there are also 900 stations, Vcz being an XEW relay, but unsure whence 900, Oct 6 at 1228 UT, ending `Mundo del Trabajo` about mujeres empresarias, programa sindical (union-sponsored), 1229 R. Vida ID, 6:29 timecheck, saludos. I`ve logged this slogan before such as Sept 21, but none listed on 900 by Cantú and assume most likely is: 900 XEDT La Reina Cd. Cuauhtémoc, Chih. 5,000 1,500 UT-6 timecheck rules out all other listed Mexicans on 900 (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MICRONESIA. 4755.44, PMA-The Cross Radio, running past 1204, Sept 30. Someone forgot to turn off the Xmtr again! Non-stop sermon in English (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MICRONESIA. NEW ON RNZI - MICRONESIAN RADIO NOW Media Release http://www.radioheritage.com September 29 2011 RNZI Airs New Radio Heritage Documentary, Micronesian Radio Now Join us from Monday, October 3 2011 as we bring you an exclusive review of radio broadcasting in today's Federated States of Micronesia on the new Mailbox program from Radio New Zealand International. The program includes reviews of todays radio scene on each of the island states of Chuuk [Truk], Kosrae, Pohnpei and Yap, looks at the differences between the islands, and reviews some of the challenges facing public radio in this North Pacific nation. You can listen directly via shortwave radio from RNZI in New Zealand, or audio on demand [for the following month] with full details of current broadcast frequencies [both DRM and analog] and times possible for your area as well as audio downloads at www.rnzi.com. FSM as it's better known, developed its local radio stations during the period of US Trust Territory of the Pacific status, and these stations form the core of the FSM Broadcasting Service headquartered on Pohnpei today. As well as public stations V6AK Chuuk, V6AJ Kosrae, V6AH Pohnpei, and V6AI Yap, there are only two commercial radio stations in the country, the rest being run by a wide range of churches and missions. Probably the best known is V6MP The Cross, which broadcasts on 4755 Shortwave across all of FSM and to Palau, Saipan and the Marshall Islands. This station started out in a converted shipping container. You'll also hear recent air checks from each of the FSMBS AM radio stations, and each with very distinctive local programs, as well as a taste of contemporary Micronesian music. So join us from Monday, October 3 2011 as we explore the contemporary radio scene in the Federated States of Micronesia on the Mailbox program from Radio New Zealand International http://www.rnzi.com You can also use our fully up to date guides to contemporary AM and shortwave radio stations in the Federated States of Micronesia with free access to our PAL Radio Guides at our global website http://www.radioheritage.com Use our Google Search to find more features about broadcasting in the North Pacific including KYOI Saipan, WXLG Kwajalein and others. ____________________________________________________ Radio Heritage Foundation is a registered non-profit organization connecting popular culture, nostalgia and radio heritage across the Asia and Pacific region. Our website is www.radioheritage.com. To be removed from this mailing list email 'Please Remove' to info@radioheritage.net. Annual Supporters are welcomed and recognized online at www.radioheritage.com where you can make a donation today. (David Ricquish, RHF, Sept 29, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Several of the stations in The Federated States Of Micronesia stream, mind you only at 8K Mono/8hz [sic] but it's better then nothing. V6AI is my favorite. They play American music while speaking not only in English on the air, but Yapese. I've had contacts with some of the on air DJ's and management there; they are very nice people. Here's one of the streaming links: http://www.fm/yap/radio.htm I've even had my voice featured on V6AI, with 500 W on 88.1 and 10 kW on 1494 kHz as a voiceover talent/artist. (Paul Walker, Afternoons, 3 till 10 pm, "97.5 The Hound" WDDH Ridgway, PA, http://www.houndcountry.com IRCA via DXLD ** MONACO [and non]. Trans World Radio Autumn Listening World shows they will move from 9800 to 7220 from October 30 for the morning English broadcasts, listed as 0800-0850 daily, no variations to times at the weekend as at present. Presumably this is via the Monte Carlo transmitter, 6105 currently via Nauen remains in parallel (Mike Barraclough, October World DX Club Contact via DXLD) ** MOROCCO. 9575 was recently in the talks for being off I think, but there it was with Medi 1 and not really good modulation, at 1417 wrapping up "My heart will go on". Co-channel interference, more than one signal it seemed, further worsened things. And the other Nador transmitter, listed as using 15341 at this time? Indeed there was a 1 kHz het, so awful that it made me tune away immediately. Boy, why do they do this??? (Kai Ludwig, in a meadow, Germany, Oct 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MOZAMBIQUE. Radio Mozambique, Emissora Provincial de Niassa. 1260 Lichinga. Sept 25, 2011, Sunday. 2150-0006. Portugese OM announcer with western light pop music and songs. One of the less-commonly heard (at least in Jo'burg) Mozambique stations. Mentioned "Maputo" at 0000 followed by a modern version of the old (1960's) LM Radio jingle. Happy memories! And again at 0005. Poor. Jo'burg sunset 1606. Radio Mozambique, Emissora Provincial de Cabo Delgado. 1224 Pemba. Sept 26, 2011, Monday. 0006-0009*. Another uncommon Mozambiquean. Afro choir singing to 0009*. Fair. Jo'burg sunrise 0354 (Bill Bingham, RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS. 1395 kHz Seagull test http://members7.boardhost.com/PirateRadio/msg/1317354314.html (via Derek Burroughs Jr, Sept 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Website indicates it`s on 1602 kHz, and licensed aboard a ship, but apparently trying 1395 too (gh, DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. Holanda: Anuncio de Radio Nederland. Desde el 30 de octubre nuestras emisiones nocturnas se reducen a solo una hora. La primera por los 49 metros en la frecuencia de 6165 khz desde las 0000 hasta la 0100 UT, y la segunda y última será desde las 0200 a 0300 UT, también por la misma frecuencia de 6165. En cuanto a las emisiones de La Matinal hacia el área del Caribe, México y Centroamérica de las 1200 UT, pasarán a los 9810 khz en vez de los 6165 actuales. No habrá cambio en nuestra programación hasta finales de marzo del 2012, y publicaremos en nuestra web la revista Guía de Programación de Invierno correspondiente al período del 30 de octubre del 2011 al 31 de marzo del 2012. Su envío se hará sólo por correo electrónico. FUENTE: (Cartas@RN http://bit.ly/r34zLv Via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, Oct 2, DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. KBC have posted that they will start testing on October 8. http://www.kbcradio.eu/ (Mike Barraclough, DXLD 11-39 via WORLD OF RADIO 1585) KBC Radio stops testing on 531 kHz on 7 October --- The website of Dutch-based KBC Radio states that the tests on mediumwave 531 kHz from Burg, Germany will stop on Friday 7 October. Until then, the tests are at 1500-1800 UT. As previously reported, KBC Radio will start testing on 6095 kHz shortwave on Saturday 8 October. The tests will be each Sat & Sun at 0900-1600 UT. The schedule of programmes is on this page. http://www.kbcradio.eu/?page_id=478 (October 4th, 2011 - 16:49 UTC, by Andy Sennitt, Media Network blog via WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DXLD) Speculation continues on site for 6095, LUXEMBOURG OR LITHUANIA?? (gh) ** NEW ZEALAND. 9655, RNZI at 1001 on Oct 1 with news then oldies music program at 1005. This is supposed to be on 6170 and RNZI's website shows no change. Frequency closing announcements at 1057 advising to tune to 9655 then IS so this was obviously a mistake. (Mark Coady, Editor, Your Reports, Listening In, Ontario DX Association, Cumbre DX via DXLD) One could presume that the automated whatever (dunno whether it would be in Wellie or up at the tx site ESE of Taupo) has been fouled up by the change to daylight time? That took place a week ago, their early Sunday 25 Sept. However, one would also presume the system would be run on UT! 73, (Theo Donnelly, ex-NZ, BC, ODXA yg via DXLD) ** NIGER [and non]. 9704.992 at 0555 UT, Voix du Sahel-Niamey Niger 9705.005 at 0557 UT, R Ethiopia 9704.990 at 0645 UT, Voix du Sahel-Niamey Niger 9705.004 at 0650 UT, R Ethiopia. Sept 27 On Oct 1st at 0505 UT 9704.989 Voix du Sahel-Niamey Niger 9705.000 R Ethiopia (Wolfgang Büschel, Sept 26/27/Oct 1, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 1 via DXLD) ** NIGERIA. 15120, Sept 30 at 0607, VON with ID, Nigerian news in English, fading S9 to S9+12 peaks along with big hum. With BFO on, carrier is obviously unstable too. Still no sign here of a test on 15200 too (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Nigeria is alive, noted at 1505 on 15120 in English, accompanied by a rather pronounced buzz. Appears to be still the old Ikorodu site near Lagos, since the new transmitters near the new capital Abuja have apparently been built only for maintenance and to use their antennas for ham radio purposes. Will they ever put them into operation? (Kai Ludwig, in a meadow, Germany, Oct 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re Abuja: Will it ever be used for broadcasting? How many years have been passed since these transmission units have been built, for how many years now is maintenance all that takes place there? I think more than a year has passed since an inauguration of the equipment has been announced as imminent the last time. Personally I do not believe that it will ever be put into real program operations until I hear it, especially in light of this: http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/nigeria-broadcasting-corporation-may-be-scrapped (Kai Ludwig, Oct 2, shortwavesites yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DXLD) 15120, Oct 3 at 0528, poor signal with hum more than modulation, unusable, but signatures of V of Nigeria. Wolfgang Büschel reports that the reason the new three-transmitter site at Abuja isn`t operational is that altho completed 22 months ago by Thalès-Thomcast, it still hasn`t been paid for by the government. Meanwhile a visiting German ham gets to test the extremely hi gain antennas with 100 watts input. This may also explain the recent reports of another VON on 15200, which I have yet to hear (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15120, Oct 6 at 0447 tuning down the 19m band I found it to be dead, not even Australia, until I got to a steady S9+10 signal here with a big hum over drumming. VON, of course, as soon IDed, more drumming in runup to 0500 transmission. Carrier is also unstable, warbling with BFO on. 0456 NA ends, only horrible hum for a minute, then YL ID, as to N Africa and Europe, under the hum and ripple with date, programme summary, including at 0530 `Moving On` including ``lovely, lovely Nigerian music``; 0630 `Insight`, 15 minutes of analysis. She also plugs programming on the 1800 transmission. 0500 ID and talking drum, opening half-hour news magazine said to be also on http://www.voiceofnigeria.org where I sure hope reception is unhummy, but the computer is off. It was the OSOB until I found a much weaker VOA Botswana on 15580 at 0502. When, o when, will VON ever switch over to their brand-new transmitters at Abuja? If the hum is a studio or link problem, will they too still sound awful like this?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) NIGERIA - für die Afunker, -- aber man sollte auch mal nach R Nigeria Ausschau halten ... > Abuja-Nigeria Oct 3 to 15. Operation as 5N7Q in CW and RTTY mode. > QSL via DF8DX. Ich erspare mir die Arbeit mit der Übersetzung, hi ... wenn's denn so alles stimmt, sind 22 Monate nach Fertigstellung der Station die Fränkli noch nicht gezahlt worden. Das könnte auch ein plausibler Grund sein, dass Abuja-alt 7275 kHz nicht mehr - oder kaum - gehört wurde. wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 1, A-DX via BC-DX via DXLD) 22 months after new TX site Abuja completion by Thales-Thomcast, see full payment comment, below: Antenna commission on 06 July, 2011: The transmitting station project of the Voice of Nigeria (VON) embarked upon about five years ago has been completed and is set for commissioning by President Goodluck Jonathan. Meanwhile, the Minister of Information and Communications, Mr. Labaran Maku has tasked the organization to promote Nigeria's Foreign Policy with the five billion Naira facility project. Mr Maku spoke while inspecting the project at Lugbe, Abuja on his first day of duty, having been reappointed as Minister of Information and Communications. The Director General explained that the station consisted of a Broadcasting House, Transmission Station and Electrical Unit. Some of the equipment installed on the facility include three Transmitters, two heavy duty 1000 KVA generators, one domestic generator, two fixed athena and one rotating antenna. Jijiwa pointed out that the rotating Antenna was designed to transmit signals to distances which the fixed type cannot reach such as countries like Chile and India. B u t : The VON Boss, said that all the equipment procured were digitally compliant; - in his words; "the facility is yet to be officially handed over by the contractor since full payment has n o t been made for the job done." [WORLD OF RADIO 1585] He noted that the Ministry of Finance had approved the payment of the next stage of the project and that VON was in the process of paying. Jijiwa also stated that President Jonathan had approved the procurement of 33kv high tension lines needed to power the station and that delivery would be made in two weeks. Nice photos of the rotating antenna, and full report here Photos taken by Bodo Fritsche, ex DL3OCH, now DF8DX / 5N7Q. Bodo Fritsche, ex DL3OCH, now DF8DX / 5N7Q on the air via the huge antenna on Oct 3 to 15. Operation as 5N7Q in CW and RTTY mode. QSL via DF8DX. Bodo, DL3OCH compira presto un viaggio nel West Africa, in particolare trasmettera da Abuja, Nigeria con il call 5N7Q nel tempo libero dopo alcuni lavori di manutenzione in alcune stationi radio. Sara attivo dal 3 al 15 Ottobre 2011. Qualche info in piu. Bodo lavorera da una delle piu grandi antenne completamente rotabili per le onde corte nel mondo con oltre 20dbi di guadagno dai 40 ai 10 metri.Un mostro! Usera solo 100 watts, infatti i segnali non saranno un problema, sopratutto alla luce di questo picco propagativo di questi giorni. 5N7Q sara operativo in CW e RTTY. QSL via DF8DX (Andrea Borgnino-ITALY, IW0HK - HB9EMK, SW TXsite Sept 29 via BC-DX via DXLD) ** NIGERIA. 7275.0, Radio Nigeria Abuja is noted on very weak signal level these days, reported only by fair signal from southern path to Brazil. Today very weak signal, maybe on reduced transmitter power at present, compared to 7245 Mauritania and 7335 Tunisia at same 6-8 UT time slot (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 27 via WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DXLD) This one being the domestic service, different. And another Tunisian transmitter blox 7275 until 0627* (gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. TCS Returning --- Dear DXers: I just got this from John Poet on his Facebook site: Thank you for your support. We are making arrangements for relay transmissions from what is becoming a network of free radio stations which should cover most of the United States and Canada. In particular, our strength in the far west and far north will be much greater than we were ever able to manage on our own. Our first program will hopefully be delivered to relaying stations within the next few weeks. Let us hope we can hear The Crystal Ship again in a few weeks. 73's (Noble West, BMSS, TN, Sept 30, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6924.53, Captain Morgan Shortwave, 0305- 0307, blues music. ID. Email address. Fair to good. Oct 1 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** OKLAHOMA. 102.3, the pirate in SE OKC carrying farrightwingnut programming, I have heard with spotty reception in NW OKC, so when I was in SE OKC I made a point of monitoring its local-quality signal. Previously I had heard a *local commercial* go by at the top of an hour, so listened for it again UT Sept 30 at 0300, and there it was: Red Dawn Hunting & Survival at 6103 SE 15 in Midwest City, ``across from Rose State College``. (I was listening from the RSC campus, by coincidence, after a Paul Winter+ performance.) Phone 405-732-0717, http://www.reddawnok.com website also given. Slogan ``when zombies come knockin`, you`re the one rockin```. Don`t they realize this flashmob stuff is not for real? Or is it? Google on ``zombie apocalypse`` including CDC which has more of a sense of humor about it, but that`s the big bad government: http://blogs.cdc.gov/publichealthmatters/2011/05/preparedness-101-zombie-apocalypse/ 0301 cut back into Republic network programming of Alex Jones. The local commercial transitions are not smooth, evidently automated. Among products on Red Dawn website, which doesn`t mention the pirate, is ``Tacticle nylon gear``; are those related to testicals? I would not be surprised if Red Dawn is responsible for running the pirate. If not, they certainly know who is, in order to advertise on it. This was previously reported in DXLD 11-31, from July 27 posts on the radio-info.com Oklahoma board: ``It's on the SE side of town off of Sooner Rd. (Ryan Beam, ibid.) That's pretty good coverage. Is it a legitimate station or translator? (Scooby214, ibid.) Try 6215 SE 89th. Been there, DF'ed that. Tinfoil hat not included. LOL! (OKCRadioGuy, ibid.)`` However that would be 74 blox due south of Red Dawn. A frequent `national` advertiser on 102.3 from Republic/GCN/Alex Jones is Berkey Water Purifiers, http://www.berkeywater.com with which Adam Lock is involved in his post-WWCR career. Remember him? He was program director(?) and appeared on `Ask WWCR` before the coup a few years ago. There are licensed 102.3 stations in OK at Woodward, Antlers, and Sand Springs (the latter being KRMG-740`s new FM simulcaster). It`s a hefty 50 kW on a once-class-A channel, and KWDQ is 100 kW, both of which can get into OKC`s edges, especially with a little help from the troposphere. FCC FM Query also shows there are APPs for 102.3 in Del City, right next to MWC, as well as OKC proper. If one of those comes thru, goodbye pirate --- unless the applicant is the pirate operator. What we now hear on 102.3 is the same programming that was on 107.1 a few years ago from a house just north of downtown OKC, and it could certainly move again, frequentially and even geographically. FCC FM Query also shows a 102.3 gospel-huxter translator APP for Keno, Oklahoma. What? Altho there are casinos all over OK, never heard of that place. Google map showing service contour has it centered near Klamath Falls, OREGON. http://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?list=0&facid=139148 Oops! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN [and non]. 15140, Oct 4 at 1356-1357:15* RRI IS ending its Russian service, over much weaker signal; 1359 western music with a beat, S7-S9 with flutter, 1403 brief announcement seemed to mention Oman. This is the usually inaudible English hour of R. Sultanate of Oman (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Later that same hour: 15140, R. Sultanate of Oman. 1442, Oct 4 in English with non-stop uplifting, positive mind-set generic clichés (“Connect to the value of life”, etc.); 1451 long list of events in history; 1500 chimes + bell rung once; into Arabic (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAKISTAN. 3975, R. Pakistan, Islamabad. All three transmitters were in order at 1700 on 28/9 with news in English // 11590, 15265. At 1706 ID "This is Radio Pakistan". Checked later at 1740 there were different programs on 3975 and on 11590 // 15265. Earlier only on Saturdays before English news at 1600 (now at 1700) there was a weekly political discussion in English from 1510 to 1600. Whether there is now such a program on Saturdays before 1700 on 3975? (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF 2001, 16m Marconi antenna), Oct Australian DX News via WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DXLD) ** PALAU. Landed shortly before 1430 on 9965 where an agitated host and a likewise agitated sidekick were wrapping up a programme in Chinese. Of course World Harvest Radio from their Palau transmitters, remarkably strong. Well, it's not summer anymore (Kai Ludwig, in a meadow, Germany, Oct 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 1725 kHz, GA, PNG beacon very poor (CW narrow filter only) 1349 UT; 1737, KUT, PNG beacon very poor (CW narrow filter), 1347 UT (Steve Ratzlaff, NE Oregon, R75, longwires, Oct 2, IRCA via DXLD) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3205, NBC Sandaun. As of October 4, this has been off the air for many days now. 5960, R. Fly, 0944, Sept 30. OM DJ in Tok Pisin; several mentions of “Radio Fly Friday night”; 1003 their usual “Special” program with interviews; 1032-1045 segment of all songs in English (Dolly Parton “Think About Love”, Cyndi Lauper “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” and ABBA “Dancing Queen”); island songs; ID “95.3 FM”; 1102 tuned out; poor to almost fair (Ron Howard, Calif., Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5960, R. Fly, Tabubil [sic]. Surprisingly loud and clear tonight with a Pidgin ID at 1057, followed by a frantic, squawking English pop song. Heard on 3/9 (Dennis Allen, Milperra NSW (Icom R75, Realistic DX160, Dipole), Oct Australian DX News via DXLD) ** PERU. UNID ANDES (PERU?) - 4774.95, very interesting (i.e., non- Tarma?) situation here. Noted weakly at 1000+ past 1045, peaking to fair QSA at 1035 or so but then diving and nearly done at 1045, on 9/28 and 9/29, better on latter morning. Only fair signal at peak with prototypical Andes morning folklorico pgm, featuring very rustic fare: funky huaynos with guitars, bass, yipping vocalists, quenas and fiddles, etc. Almost entirely segued programming, very few announcements. This type of música del campo sounds rather Southern Peruvian to me, but that's just a guess. High-pitched OM live deejay announcement in Spanish at 1025 with time/check and probable frequency/ID (could only make out "... de la mañana y .... minutos" and "kiloHertz"). Quick canned ad also noted at 1043 with OM and YL interchange, couldn't get much more. Bad atmospheric noise, thanks to Sol and his flare. NOTE: List-loggers would immediately point to Radio Tarma, but (a) this station certainly doesn't sound to me as slick an operation as R. Tarma, although RT would have an amanecer andino type program around this time; (b) the RT 'live' webstream was NOT relaying this 4774.95 signal -- and last time I heard Radio Tarma (with 100% ID) was in Feb 2011 --- and at that time, the onda corta signal was being relayed via the webstream (with the online programming delayed by a minute or two). (c) There has been a report out of Europe of an LA on 4774.96 as Radio Tarma, but it perhaps was only a presumed ID, don't know. While this may indeed turn out to be Tarma, feels less than 50/50 to me, so a very interesting mystery. Best case is a new station here on this frequency (Ralph Perry, Wheaton, Illinois, Drake R8B; Japan Radio NRD- 545; Eton E1; Hallicrafters SX100; Knightkit Star Roamer, Dentron Super Tuner + Ameco PLF-2 + Palomar P-408, Longwires (150' + 100'); Tuned Multi-Turn 20" Small Loop; Single-Turn Coax Loop, Sept 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hello Ralph. Regarding the UNID Andean station on 4774.95. On Sept 13 I got a positive ID for this one at 2301z. Just to be sure I sent the recording to Henrik Klemetz who says: at 13 sec. OCX4. 1510.... OCX4. 4775 onda corta tropical...., frecuencia modulada estéreo".., at 38 sec. a very clear "Radio Tarma". So after all it is this one still here and Ralph, I think it is this one you also heard over there. 73 (Thomas Nilsson, Engelholm, Sweden, ibid.) 4774.95, thanks to all for help in determining that R Tarma is apparently the Peruvian here in the mornings. Was hoping for something more surprising / interesting than this favorite Andes station, but IDs of R Tarma by several fellow DXers of the broadcasts on this precise fqy seem to leave little in doubt. Thanks to Thomas N, Dario M, Pedro A and Henrik K! Last winter I was able to hear R Tarma with very nice signals, quite often, so eventually I also should be able to hear an ID to set my mind at ease, too, hi. Yesterday hrd this station again, not even a third as strong as I've heard R Tarma in the past, but with clear "cinco de la mañana . . . " time/checks during the 1000 hour and also references to " . . . nuestra programación de la mýsica nacional ..." One other question remains to be answered, though: just how many live pgm streams does R Tarma produce? I previously would have thought just one, relayed on AM, FM and onda corta. But at least one morning this week, I noted unique, independent programming 'live' on onda corta versus the live webcast's program. Surprising to hear a morning folklorico pgm with live t/cks on the shortwave fqy, and then a second, unique (not the O.C. being relayed) morning folklorico pgm with live t/cks on the webstream. The shortwave programming was the beloved, very funky tuba huayno type, featuring what could only be recordings of a small Andean village's folkloric marching band. On the other hand, the webcast carried music that I'd call techno-folklorico, being very fast-paced huaynos, staccato and endlessly repetitive, on synthesizer with electronic percussion. Rather unpleasant stuff, at least for my ears, as I am a traditionalist in this regard, hi. What is this world coming to? hi The R Tarma website seems to indicate shared programming for AM and FM. I have written them to try and sort this out (Ralph Perry, Wheaton, Illinois, Drake R8B; Japan Radio NRD-545; Eton E1; Hallicrafters SX100; Knightkit Star Roamer, Dentron Super Tuner + Ameco PLF-2 + Palomar P-408, Longwires (150' + 100'); Tuned Multi-Turn 20" Small Loop; Single-Turn Coax Loop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Interesting that the music is referred to as "música nacional", not "música del campo" (Henrik Klemetz, condiglist yg via DXLD) 4774.95, 13.9 2301, Radio Tarma --- I saw Ralph Perry’s tip in DXPlorer of a unid Andean station and checked in some of my saved Perseus recordings. In the recording from Sept 13 the station was there and strong enough to catch an ID. At first I couldn’t hear what they said so I sent the recording to Henrik Klemetz who says this: This is indeed Radio Tarma. At 13 sec. "OCX4. 1510.... OCX4. 4775 onda corta tropical...., frecuencia modulada estéreo".., at 38 sec. for me a clear "Radio Tarma". The letters in both call signals sound different from those in WRTH, but OCX4 and the frequencies can be heard quite well. Their early morning transmission on SW usually starts with a combined ID in Spanish and another one in English (American accented!). So keep your ears open for this carted ID. Needless to say, such an ID would be less appropriate for MW/FM. /Henrik Klemetz Henrik, again many thanks for taking the time to listen and for the comments. TN (Thomas Nilsson, ibid.) Thanks, Thomas -- I heard the MP3 of your log, shared by Henrik (actually that mp3 was recorded by Fredrik Dourén; my recording was much weaker). You had stunning reception there, almost as good as from the Radio Tarma webcast! The ID was clear as a bell. This was also confirmed as Tarma by Pedro A in his new Chasqui DX. So the only remaining mystery is this: Why would Radio Tarma have a different "live audio" on its website from its shortwave signal? This week, they have been different live programs -- in the past, I've heard them sharing a program. /Regards, Ralph Perry via DXPlorer I believe at certain times they have different programs on shortwave/mediumwave and FM and they can stream only one program on the web. 73, Harald Kuhl via DXPlorer. Confirmed in the article below – FM is different! /TN Radio Tarma 4775 kHz Located high in the Andes Mountains, Radio Tarma broadcasts from a location over 3.000 meters above sea level. The city of Tarma is approximately 250 kilometers east of Lima. The city's population of 150.000 enjoy temperatures that range from 6 to 23 degrees centigrade with an average temperature during the year of 15 degrees. The principle economic activities of the region are agriculture, livestock and commerce. There are numerous archeological monuments recognizing the achievements of the Incas. Radio Tarma was founded on 17 April 1958. On medium wave it operates on 1510 kHz using the call sign OCX4J. The AMSA transmitter has a potential output of 3.000 watts. A Kley transmitter with a power of 500 watts is kept on hand for emergencies. On shortwave the station operates a 1.000 watts Koley transmitter on 4775 kHz with a call sign of OCX4E. The 500 watt FM transmitter utilizes 99.3 MHz and a call sign of OCW4A. The station broadcasts simultaneous programs on medium wave and shortwave. The stereo FM outlet transmits separate programs. The studios are located at Molino del Amo 167 in Tarma. The transmitters are located about 4 kilometers outside of the town. The medium wave antenna is polarized vertical 48 meters high. The shortwave antenna is a TIPO dipole 29 meters long and 15 meters above the ground. The four element FM antenna is located on top of the studio and office building in Tarma. Radio Tarma is a fairly good verifier of listener reception reports. The station replies with a full data form letter from Mario Monteverde Pumareda, gerente general. Spanish language reception reports and return postage can be sent to the station at the following address: Radio Tarma, Molino del Amo No167, Tarma, Junin, Peru. Source: Richard A. D'Angelo, NASWA Journal, August 1993 & http://www.hard-coredx.com/nordicdx/andes/peru/info/tarma.html Available recordings: http://www.thomasn.sverige.net/4774.944_20110731-0300-OCX4W-R_Tarma.mp3 great recording by Fredrik Dourén http://www.thomasn.sverige.net/4774,95-110913-2301z.mp3 recording by Thomas Nilsson http://www.thomasn.sverige.net/4775-Radio_Tarma-EE-ID.mp3 provided by Henrik Klemetz (SW Bulletin Oct 2 via DXLD) Even more below on Tarma ** PERU. 4789.92, PERÚ, Radio Visión, Chiclayo, Lambayeque. 1046 October 2, 2011. Spanish preacher with female replies and audience responses. Very good (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, DX LISTENING DIGEST) And see 780 below ** PERU. 780.00, R. Victoria, Lima, 12/09 2230-2310, 44444, Durante la verificación de las estaciones AM de Lima, he encontrado hoy que R. Victoria trasmite en // con radio Visión de Chiclayo; ello lo efectúa muy temprano y luego a las seis de la tarde (hora peruana), 2300 luego de dar término a su programa y dar el [sic] ID de R. Victoria, inicia también el //. He verificado en los 4790 y es la misma señal. Luego en los 780.00 escucho el ID "Desde Chiclayo, trasmite R. Visión en los 780 kHz" 980.00, R. Primavera, Chiclayo, Lambayeque, 5/09 0405-0526, 33333, mxf, ID “Radio Primavera, la primera en el folklor” mxf, ID “Que chévere Primavera Radio”. NOTA: esta estación la escuché un momento muy bajo, cuando estaba escuchando Radio RCN, así que hoy me quité el clavo. WEB: http://jovenesadventistaslaprimavera.blogspot.com/ 1170.00, R. Layzon, Cajamarca, Cajamarca; 13/09 0045-0150, 33333, programa Grupo Internacional Samanta, (sobre curanderismo) advs Tienda Automotriz, lo mejor en motos y carros, véalos en 11 de Febrero 1158, Cajamarca. ID “Layzon Radio 1170 kHz y 90.6 FM”, programa Las lagunas y su Misterios, ID “Ahora en Chota 93.7 FM, Layzon Radio, Jirón Merino 138, Cajamarca”. WEB: http://www.layzonradio.com/amonline.php 1180.00, NEW STATION, Radio NSE, Lima, 15/09 2005-2155, 44444, de carácter religioso católico, ID “NSE, otra manera de hacer radio..” ID “Hay más alegría en dar que recibir, escuchando Radio NSE”. Logré comunicarme vía e.mail con el sacerdote Esteban Vélez, L.D.; me informa que ellos están en prueba en Lima, inicialmente con 1 kW y luego será de 10 kW. La oficina está provisionalmente en Av. Salaverry 862, Lima, (Oficina de Lumen Dei); su local está en construcción. También tiene estaciones en Arequipa, 590 AM, Cusco canal 27 UHF. Las trasmisiones las están efectuado en // desde Barcelona, correo es nselima @ nseradio.com [so what does NSE stand for?? --- gh] 4774.95, R. Tarma, Tarma, Junín, 28/09 2250-0005, 44444, mxf, programa Antena Deportiva, ID ”Por Radio Tarma Internacional” new sobre el percance en el Monumental. Slogan: “OCX4J 1510 kHz Onda Media, OCX4E 4775 KHz Onda corta tropical y OCW4A 99.3 FM, trasmite Radio Tarma, desde Tarma, Junín, Perú..” NOTA: Para los que deseen grabar el slogan, ellos la repiten cada inicio de hora. Your UNID station, Ralphus !!!!!!! [WORLD OF RADIO 1585] 4790.00, R Visión, Chiclayo, Lambayeque. 7/09 0425-0510, 44444, programa ``La Voz de la Salvación``, música religiosa, ID “Por Radio Visión”. 4940.00, R. San Antonio de Villa Atalaya, Atalaya, Ucayali, 2/09 1200- 1240, 44444, programa Ventana al Mundo, news, ID “Por su Radio San Antonio de Villa Atalaya.`` [non] 5025.00 CUBA, R. Rebelde, Bauta, 3/09 1050-1059, 44444, programa transmisión de campeonato deportivo, ID Por Radio Rebelde” NOTA: los escucho perfectamente hasta que a las 1000 Radio Quillabamba los cubre con su s/on. [quiere decir a las 1100 --- gh] 5025.00, R. Quillabamba, Quillabamba, Cusco, 3/09 1100-1120, 44444, s/on de la estación, no tocan el himno nacional, de frente dan un adv y luego de inmediato pasan el noticiero programa, Panorama Mundial, news. El ID “Radio Quillabamba” (vm) lo dan primero en español y luego en quechua. Hablan sobre el accidente aéreo en Chile, ID “Panorama Mundial a través de Radio Quillabamba” [WORLD OF RADIO 1585] 5120.40, R. Ondas del Suroriente, Quillabamba, Cusco, 8/09 2340-0025, 44444, advs Zapatería Gálvez, ahora con lo mejor en zapatillas y calzado, ID “Ondas del Suroriente..” advs ENACO, la empresa nacional de coca, Slogan “Radio Ondas del Suroriente, trasmitiendo en los 1530 kHz Onda Media, 5120 kHz onda corta y 96.5 FM`` [WORLD OF RADIO 1585] 6173.90, R. Tawuantinsuyo, Cusco, 24/09 2300-2346, 22222, programa Gran Maestra Carla Méndez (esoterismo, naturista) advs Casa Naturista en Plaza Bolívar 207 en la ciudad de Quillabamba. NOTA: Fue necesario escucharla en LSB, pues en los 6175.00 estaba trasmitiendo R. China, lo cual imposibilitaba escucharla en AM, a R. China, también la tuve que escuchar en USB para poder identificarla. [150 kW, 280 degrees via ALBANIA] La recepción lo he efectuado del 01 al 28/9 en compañía de mi sabueso Icom IC R72 en compañía del Mizuho KX-3 con una antena de hilo largo de 15mts. Muchos 128´s PFA (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, El Chasqui DX via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** PERU. 4774.9, Perú, Radio Tarma. Tarma, 1005 español, noted this time generally local morning here and in Perú. 4986.454 tentative Perú, Radio Manantial, Huancayo, 0015 with om and mx; reactivation as noted several days [Wilkner] 4940, Perú, Radio San Antonio de Atalaya, 1020 español, with strong but distorted signal on September 30 [Wilkner and XM -Cedar Key] 5120, Perú, Ondas del Suroriente, Quillabamba, 2330 October 2nd [XM- Cedar Key] 6047, Perú, Radio Santa Rosa, Lima, 1100 to 1120, 23 September, very narrow filter on Drake R8 [Wilkner] 6173.833, Perú, Radio Tawantinsuyo, Cusco 0840 to 0850 narrow filter for program en español, 4 October [Wilkner] Noted 0900 October 1 by XM-Cedar Key. 73s de (Bob Wilkner, NRD 535D - Drake R8 - Icom 746Pro, Noise reducing antenna, long wires, 60 meter band dipole suggested by Scott Barbour, Pompano Beach, South Florida, US, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** PHILIPPINES. Did FEBC Bocaue on 11750, listed with Lahu 1400-1430, stay on air beyond this slot? At 1431 there was some further away sounding signal, with talk on a music bed. Unfortunately I did not pay further attention (Kai Ludwig, in a meadow, Germany, Oct 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. 17700, R. Pilipinas/VOP, 0200, Oct 3 (Monday). Not their usual format; in English; R. Pilipinas ID; Tagalog ID for segment that was a FM relay; program “Asian Voices” in English with series of interviews about “Community Radio” in various countries; 0233 “This is the P-B-S News”; mostly poor (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** POLAND. AUDIOCLIP: WITOWO RADIO --- Polish coastal station, broadcast coastal warnings in English and Polish on 2720 kHz, 2130 UT. The audioclip is available here: http://blog.libero.it/radioascolto/10656336.html 73's (Francesco Cecconi, QTH. Central Italy, RX: ICOM R71, condiglist yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DXLD) ** QATAR. LEAKED DOCUMENTS EXPLAIN EVENTS AT AL JAZEERA There has been a cascade of rumours about the shock resignation of Al Jazeera’s Wadah Khanfar. While some point to diplomatic reports of a power struggle between Islamists and secular liberals, others suggest that the former Director General had become too close to the Americans. The WikiLeaks cables, however, give a vivid insight into what was happening behind the scenes at the media giant, confirming a tussle between elements identified as ‘Islamist’ or ‘radicals’ on the one hand and ‘liberals’ on the other. There was, though, no suggestion that Khanfar had entered into a cosy relationship with the Americans. On the contrary, the 420 documents published by WikiLeaks suggest that it was an uneasy and, at times, unpleasant relationship. Read more from Middle East Monitor http://www.middleeastmonitor.org.uk/articles/middle-east/2889-leaked-documents-explain-events-at-al-jazeera (October 3rd, 2011 - 10:50 UTC by Andy Sennitt, Media Network blog via DXLD) ** ROMANIA. At 1434 I noted on 11945 some classical music which then was slowly faded out, simultaneously the live mic up, and after adding some thumps to the music the talk in Arabic started. Radio Romania International, with modulation leaving a bit to be desired also with the almost brand-new transmission equipment. And at 1520 folk music on 5945: Ukrainian, from the small 100 kW Saftica site (Kai Ludwig, in a meadow, Germany, Oct 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. [Re 11-39]: 1 Comment on “Inside the Russian short wave radio enigma” #1 Kai Ludwig on Sep 29th, 2011 at 11:26 Well, recently was in last year, when the breaks had been discussed in “hobby monitoring circles”, to use the term coined by a well known professional organization… Frankly, I’m generally less than enthusiastic about this US reporting style that emphasizes emotions instead of plain facts, of which no new ones are being offered here. And the key point that “the buzzer has arrived in the Internet era” is almost absurd, beyond pointing out that owning an ordinary shortwave portable (that’s all that is needed to hear this signal in Europe at night, the radio just needs to be tunable to 4625 kHz) is almost exotic now. Here are the key facts in the dryest possible format. This is a copy of a Geocities page that has been deleted like almost all other ones, difficult to find, which may explain why still speculations circulate about this matter that ceased to be a mystery about a decade ago: http://sites.google.com/site/stationuvb76/january-2009 By the way, the Povarovo transmitters have already been used for broadcasting, too. Radio Zvezda, the station of the Russian forces, went out there on 990 kHz until they replaced mediumwave for Moscow area by 95.6 MHz (Media Network blog comment via DXLD) ** RUSSIA [non]. 11500, Oct 1 at 1302, open carrier with flutter, maybe Just Barely Modulated? Once again, must be VOR, scheduled Hindi during this hour via TAJIKISTAN, which usually fails to modulate, also for English in previous and following hours. At least, no co-channel from Firedrake/SOH, which was on 11510 today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA: WWCR ** RUSSIA [and non]. At 1434 there was on 12010 an open carrier, or rather one without program audio but a combination of hum, with a prominent 100 Hz component, and a rather high-pitched whine. Samara, already on for VOR German. At 1457 retune it had a continuous tone, something I never heard on a Russian transmitter before. Usually they interrupt the test tones because the limiter/compressor would suck them up to 100 percent and modulating the transmitter over an extended period this way is not permissible. Finally after 1500 there was the programming, with reception suffering not only from the transmitters own hum and whine but also adjacent-channel interference from presumed Chinese jamming against RFA on 12005, presumed RFI via Meyerton on 12015 and even splash from Padarsko on 12000. See also China for possible Samara carrier on 11685 (Kai Ludwig, in a meadow, Germany, Oct 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also GUIANA FRENCH ** SAIPAN. 9720, Oct 6 at 1110, service in Indonesian I at first assume is VOA, but it`s scheduled to be RNW via Saipan at 1100-1158. This was underneath an extremely distorted talk-only signal, language unknown, also on 9720, see UNIDENTIFIED. At 1115 I`m sure I heard a VOA jingle on the clear signal, so a feed mixup?? At 1157-1158* I did hear RNW IDs, sounded like Dutch and Spanish, as they do in breaks. Both this and the distorted signal went off at 1158. Could they both have originated from IBB Saipan, two transmitters, one out of whack? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SARAWAK [non]. MALAYSIA: CONTROVERSIAL RFS IS BACK! After a period of silence controversial online radio station Radio Free Sarawak expects to continue its campaign to address land grabs and corruption in Sarawak. KUCHING: Radio Free Sarawak is back after an almost four months hiatus. It is re-launching this week with an expanded team and greater ambitions. It kicks off with a two hour daily times lot from 6 – 8 pm (1000-1200 UT) on the shortwave 17560 kHz bandwidth [sic] Broadcast is also available online via the website http://www.radiofreesarawak.org According to its media release, the RFS “will continue to focus on the concerns and interests of the ordinary people of Sarawak, mainly rural folk, who currently have no access to an independent news source.” “We will also address urban and Malaysia-wide issues in recognition of its popular following among internet users and listeners from other states,” said the statement. RFS has been credited for the Chief Minister Taib Mahmud-led Barisan Nasional coalition’s losses in the mixed and rural constituencies in Sarawak in the April state polls where BN won 55 seats while the opposition made inroads with 15 seats, whilst one seat, Pelagus, went to independent George Lagong. This was an unprecedented victory for the opposition. Political analyst had also pointed a distinctive swing in votes for the opposition in rural and Malay-mixed areas in Sarawak. According to RFS statement today, the station aims to address issues such as land-grabs, disenfranchisement and corruption, which the government controlled broadcast network neglect. “The station will reach out and listen to the voices of the people of Sarawak and work on exposing the problems that have resulted in Malaysia’s richest state becoming home to many of its poorest people. “Expect to hear voices also from the opposition parties, who achieved nearly half the votes at the state election (despite BN vote rigging), but who never get adequate recognition from the licenced media,” said the statement. SOURCE: Free Malaysia Today http://bit.ly/qnYLje (Via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, and Mike Cooper, Atlanta, WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DXLD) FreeMalaysia.com, October 3, full article: http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/2011/10/03/controversial-rfs-is-back/ Assuming time given in local, that is 1000-1200 UT (Mike Barraclough, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DXLD) Thanks, Mike; I assume the station opened at 1500 UT as I have been checking earlier, and did not hear it before then. Only two transmitters are on air as Mike reports - 9935 has not appeared (machine gun type noises observed on there - OTH radar?), and it's not heard on alternative 7450 either. Their sign-off time is now required. (Noel R. Green (NW England), ibid.) Radio Free Sarawak confirmed in re-active on Oct. 3 at *1000-1156* UT on 17560 kHz via Dushanbe. http://ndxc.org/aoki/binews/bx/rfs-20111003-1145_17560.mp3 de Hiroshi (S. Hasegawa, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) MALAYSIA [sic], Radio Free Sarawak again on short waves from Oct. 3: 1000-1200 on 17560 DB 100 kW / 132 deg to SEAs in Bahasa Malay 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, Oct 4, WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17560-, Oct 6 at 1145, I would dearly like to DX the reactivated Radio Free Sarawak, 10-12 via TAJIKISTAN, but all I can get is a JBA carrier at 1145; it`s slightly on the low side compared to RA on 9560. No better at 1157. If any signal from the E Hemisphere is going to make it here on 16m before sunrise, it`s Romania in English on 17510, and it wasn`t audible either. Would clandestines please pick more suitable frequencies for audibility in deep North America? Just kidding. Those further east should have a better shot at it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAUDI ARABIA. BSKSA general program, with two female presenters, noted at 1440 on 21505. Rather muffled audio, accompanied by crackle, as observed also at 1510 on 15435 (Kai Ludwig, in a meadow, Germany, Oct 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SIKKIM [and non]. 4835, *2228-2340 INDIA, 26.09, AIR Gangtok (operational after recent earthquake!) Sanskrit ann and long recitations by vocalists and background choirs on shift celebrating "Mahalaya". AIR has been broadcasting this annual, religious tradition in the very early morning (0400-0600 AM Indian standard time) since 1932 as a count down of the Indian festival of Durga Puja 45333, heard // AIR Kolkata 4820 under Lhasa (32442), 4880 AIR Lucknow (45444), 4895 AIR Kurseong (53/5444 CWQRM in LSB only) and 4940 AIR Guwahati (45444). Only the parallels of Lucknow and Guwahati were synchronized, while Gangtok was 10 seconds delayed and Kurseong 60 seconds delayed! No other AIR stations were audible in the 60 mb in Denmark (Anker Petersen, Denmark, dx_india yg via DXLD) ** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5019.867, probably Solomon Isl. BC, Honiara signal at 0744 UT Sept 24. Noted on remote SDR rx unit at Brisbane-AUS. Scheduled 07-20 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews 1 Oct via WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DXLD) 5019.9, SIBC 1000 weak here, September 30 [XM-Cedar Key] (Bob Wilkner, NRD 535D - Drake R8 - Icom 746Pro, Noise reducing antenna, long wires, 60 meter band dipole suggested by Scott Barbour, Pompano Beach, South Florida, US, Cumbre DX via WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DXLD) ** SOUTH AFRICA. Talk Radio 702 --- Hi Glenn, Re your comments about 702 in DXLD 11-39. Re: Wasn`t 702 originally in a ``homeland``, like Boputhatswana? (gh) This is the old medium wave transmitter I discussed in my rant about LM Radio (DXLD 11-36). It is still listed by Sentech as allocated to 702 Talk Radio (or Talk Radio 702 as they often call it now). Yes, they are on 92.7 FM , but retain their old name. The 702 kHz transmitter is (or was ?) at Ga Rankuwa, north of Pretoria, and yes, Ga Rankuwa was at one time part of the now- disbanded Bophuthatswana homeland. However, so far as I am aware, even in those days (and it was before my time here) 702 was always an English-speaking station targetting Johannesburg, Pretoria, and surrounds (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg, Oct 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Capital Radio? (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. REE noted around 1440 on 21540 with radioplay in Spanish and on 21610 with Arabic, playing a music reminiscent to C&W fiddle stuff (Kai Ludwig, in a meadow, Germany, Oct 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) No QuwaitRM on 21540? (gh) ** SRI LANKA. 7189.75, 29-30/9 0023 & 0055 SLBC, Sri Lanka, (presumed) woman talks, slow Asian songs, weak (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Italia, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN. Strongest station here in southern Germany Sept 29 at 0400- 0430 UT slot was R Omdurman Sudan on 7200 kHz (Wolfgang Büschel, Sept 28/29, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews 1 Oct via DXLD) Amid Eritrea/Ethiopia radio war 7200, 30/9 0240, Sudan RTVC, slow man voice song, ID at 0245 "Huna Omdurman", talks, song, time pips, ID and news at 0301. Good (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Italia, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non]. 13620, Oct 6 at 0449, R. Dabanga with singing IDs as soon as I intuned, mixed with 1000 Hz tone jamming, // 13730 with its very different jamming of oscillating noise; during this semihour both via MADAGASCAR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non]. 17745, Sudan Radio Service via Sines, Portugal, 1535, Oct 2. African pop song; 1540 PSA in English about pollution, the environment, recycling, how to do compost, etc.; “A healthy environment means a healthy living for all”; “Conserve the environment. A message from Sudan Radio Service”; back to music; mostly fair. MP3 audio at http://www.box.net/shared/k6s8n1j7d883df8bg1x4 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN SOUTH. VOA REPORTER HELPS ‘PUT SOUTH SUDAN ON THE MAP’ Thursday, 29 September, 2011 Press Release Washington, D.C. — September 29, 2011 — Voice of America reporter John Tanza Mabusu is getting credit for successfully pushing the world’s largest online map sites to recognize the new Republic of South Sudan, which gained independence more than two months ago, but is still not shown on most maps. “When South Sudan was declared an independent nation, we were all excited,” says Tanza. So, he was surprised when online sites didn’t quickly update their maps to reflect the emergence of the new nation on July 9th. VOA journalist John Tanza Mabusu Tanza, a native of South Sudan who works for the VOA program, South Sudan in Focus, decided to launch an online petition calling on Google maps, Microsoft and other sites to make the change and show South Sudan as a separate nation from its neighbor to the north. The petition, which he organized in his private time, caught the attention of Google Maps. The site, which said it had already been gathering data for the change, promptly placed South Sudan on its map. “I don’t want to make a big deal of this,” Tanza told one of his VOA colleagues, “Nation building is a long process, and there are the small steps you need to achieve on an individual basis.” Tanza, who has reported extensively on the country’s long struggle for independence, has now been recognized by a number of media organizations, which credit him with ‘Putting South Sudan on the map.’ He says the attention has helped get the maps changed, but he gives the credit to those who took the time to join the campaign. “I have been receiving congratulatory messages for taking this initiative. But the truth is, I need to thank them for signing the petition,” Tanza says. And he says he’s optimistic that all the mapping services will soon make the change. For more information contact Kyle King in Washington at kking@voanews.com, or visit our website at www.voanews.com. (VOA PR Sept 29 via DXLD) That`s nice, but what an indictment of online map sites, having to be petitioned to do the obvious!! (gh, DXLD) ** SUDAN SOUTH. World’s youngest nation joins ITU The International Telecommunication Union has announced that the world’s newest country, South Sudan, has joined ITU to become the Union’s 193rd Member State, effective from 3 October 2011. The country, which gained its independence on 9 July, 2011 has already been allocated the international dialling code +211 by the ITU, following the country’s recognition by the UN General Assembly. The dialling code became active on 28 September. “We are delighted to be able to welcome South Sudan as an ITU member state so soon after attaining full nationhood. The government of South Sudan clearly recognizes the importance of information and communication technology (ICT) as an engine of social and economic development. We will work alongside the national authorities to leverage the power of technology, to help lift the country to new levels and fulfill the national motto of ‘Justice, Liberty, Prosperity’,” said ITU Secretary-General Dr Hamadoun Touré. The accession of South Sudan as an ITU Member State implies its adhesion to the Radio Regulations, the international treaty which governs the use of radiocommunications among the world’s nations, giving it full access rights to the frequency spectrum and satellite orbit resources managed by ITU. A high-level ITU delegation led by Brahima Sanou, Director of ITU’s Telecommunication Development Bureau, recently met with government ministers in South Sudan with the aim of acquiring first-hand information on the country’s needs and challenges in the area of ICT development. The first such visit by ITU, the mission paves the way for the delivery of focused assistance to the country as it embarks on its development path (Source: ITU)(October 5th, 2011 - 15:40 UTC by Andy Sennitt, Media Network blog via DXLD) How about radio callsign prefices?? (gh, ibid.) They don't have a separate prefix yet. The wheels of bureaucracy turn slowly. At present, Sudan and South Sudan share the same prefixes: ST and 6TA - 6UZ (Andy Sennitt, ibid.) ** SURINAME. 4990, Radio Apintie, Paramaribo, 0600 strong alas garbled; 0730-0800 om and music, better signal at 0900 (Bob Wilkner, NRD 535D - Drake R8 - Icom 746Pro, Noise reducing antenna, long wires, 60 meter band dipole suggested by Scott Barbour, Pompano Beach, South Florida, US, Cumbre DX via DXLD) Date? ** SWAZILAND. 9500, Sept 29 at 0508, preacher in African English, praising a lord and citing Zechariah, poor. Is TWR, 100 kW, 5 degrees from Manzini at 05-08 per HFCC. 15360, Oct 2 at 1411, S Asian song, from TWR in Urdu, and this time in the clear with usual collider RHC missing. TWR IS and off at 1416* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWITZERLAND. Re: MW tips in Bocca di Magra, Italy - 558 kHz Hi Giampiero, thanks for the logs on your blog. Regarding: "558 20/9 1835 Voice of Russia in German, via Monte Ceneri Swiss TX, Surely NOT 200 KW but low power! poor to fair only with loop!" Last night V of Russia on 558 kHz for sure was running on high power: very good reception on a portable radio Degen DE1126 here in Central Germany. 73 (Harald Kuhl, Sept 28, MWCircle yg via DXLD) ** TAIWAN. Sound of Hope, Sept 22/23: 2200-2300 7105 \\ 7565 2300-2400 7310 \\ 7525 1100-1300 7280 1300-1400 7310 1400-1500 9450 1600-1700 11765 UNID in Chinese Sept 23 1130-1200 12175 (R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, Sept 23, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews 1 Oct via DXLD) Marked in AOKI list, as Sound of Hope, 100 kW in Yangi Yul, TAJIKISTAN 1234-1236 UT 11560, 1333-1335 UT 7595, 1430-1405 [sic] UT 15780. 1506-1508 UT 12195. 2204-2207 UT 7565, 2305-2308 UT 7525 kHz. Sound of Hope SOH via Taiwanese SW site. 1103-1104 1133-1134 1203-1205 1233-1235 UT 7280, 1304-1305 1333-1335 UT 7310, 1601-1602 1631-1633 UT 11765, 2203-2204 2232-2234 UT 7105 kHz. (Wolfgang Büschel, Sept 25, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews 1 Oct via DXLD) Venerdì 30 settembre 2011 (E5), 2154 - 7970 kHz, prob. SOUND OF HOPE TAIWAN, Cinese, parlato OMs/YL. Segnale sufficiente - insufficiente Jamming non ascoltato (Luca Botto Fiora, G.C. 09E13 - 44N21, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) 7970, Sound of Hope, 1223, Oct 3. For the third time in recent months have heard the same ID at the same identical time; starts with religious song; spelled out: “w-w-w-s-o-u-n-d-o-f-h-o-p-e-o-r-g” followed by “Sound of Hope” in English. What I once found very difficult to ID, now seems to be fairly easy (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAJIKISTAN. 7245, Tajik Radio, Dushanbe. A comment in English heard at 1342 on 26/9 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF 2001, 16m Marconi antenna), Oct Australian DX News via DXLD) ** TAJIKISTAN. 11500, Oct 6 at 1323, open carrier with hum, flutter, also at 1359. Presumed usual VOR failure via TAJIKISTAN, supposed to be in Hindi this hour. Firedrake was mixing earlier at 1241 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** THAILAND. At 1435 BBC World Service on 12095 came in quite poorish. Of course, we're no longer supposed to tune in at all, and it`s the Nakhon Sawon transmitter now, beaming to zone 41 instead of Europe as it once upon a time used to be from the UK sites (Kai Ludwig, in a meadow, Germany, Oct 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET. **CHINA**. 6130, Xizang PBS, Lhasa, 1443-1521, Sept 25, Tibetan fading in // weaker 6025 on first day back after a few weeks' absence. Their Chinese service on 6050 also noted back on air 1505 struggling with co-channel RTM Kajang (Martien Groot, Schoorl, Netherlands /TenTec RX-340, 30 m. longwire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST via WORLD OF RADIO 1585) Hi Martien, Was nice while it lasted! Sept 25 noted their return to 4820 (so again mixing with AIR Kolkata) and 4920 (again mixing with AIR Chennai). Also heard 6200, // 4920. Was an unusual day to hear AIR Guwahati on 4940 strongly mixing with Voice of Strait. Normally VOS has sole possession (Ron Howard, Monterey, CA, USA, ibid.) ** TIBET [and non]. CHINA [Tibet Autonomous Region], CNR Tibet is back on air on Sept 25. Nachdem die Tropenbandfrequenzen 4820, 4905 und 4920 kHz aus Tibet {seit dem 7. Sept abgeschaltet waren, wegen Jahres- Wartung vom 7. bis 25. September}, ist nun auch die englische Webseite http://en.tibetradio.cn/index.html nicht mehr verfuegbar. Die chinesische Startseite http://www.tibetradio.cn/ ist noch erreichbar. 73 (Christoph OE2CRM A-DX, Sept 24 via BC-DX Oct 1 via DXLD) Wenn die Beobachtung in der AOKI Liste aus den Vorjahren stimmt, gilt die Reparatur-Revision in Lhasa fuer dieses Jahr vom 7. bis 25. September. Ausserdem sind neben 4820, 4905 und 4920 kHz auch die anderen Kanaele in Lhasa-Tibet 5935, 6025, 6110, 6130, 6200, und 7385 kHz betroffen. CNR Lhasa 594 / 1134 / 1377 (ex1332) kHz 300 kW, 13 x 50/100 kW SW transmitter. Die Masten versteckt zwischen den Fabrik- und Lagerhallen. 2 MW Masten. 2 x 3 Mast Quadrant Corner-Reflector(?) Rundstrahl-Antennen. 14 Grossmasten auch ueber der Landstrasse. 3 log-periodische Antennen. 29 38 58.20 N 91 14 55.90 E * und noch 181 Tibetbilder zusaetzlich: Re CNR Tibet - Das ist nur die schiere Anzahl der Sender, die Chinesen schalten aber gerne Einheiten zusammen, wie auch in Albanien z.B. 2 x 150 kW usw. Hier die Registrierung mit 100 kW, gleichen Typ nutzt auch R Tirana. Zho = Chinesisch, Bod = Tibetanisch, aber der Sendeplan ist differenzierter, da sollte man sich bei der Nagoya Clubseite oder der Aokiliste kundig machen. 4820 2000-1800 42SE,43SW LHA 100 0 925 Zho CHN CNR RTC 4905 2050-1805 42SE,43SW LHA 100 0 925 Bod CHN CNR RTC 4920 2050-1805 42SE,43SW LHA 100 0 925 Bod CHN CNR RTC 5240 2050-1805 42SE LHA 100 268 146 Bod CHN CNR RTC 5935 2000-1800 43SW LHA 100 85 141 Zho CHN CNR RTC 6050 2000-1800 42SE,43SW LHA 100 290 205 Zho CHN CNR RTC 6110 2050-1805 42SE LHA 100 220 140 Bod CHN CNR RTC 6130 2050-1805 42SE LHA 100 290 205 Bod CHN CNR RTC 6200 2050-1805 43SW LHA 100 85 141 Bod CHN CNR RTC 7240 0900-1800 42SE LHA 100 290 206 Zho CHN CNR RTC 7240 2000-0300 42SE LHA 100 290 206 Zho CHN CNR RTC 7255 1000-1805 43SW LHA 100 85 141 Bod CHN CNR RTC 7255 2050-0200 43SW LHA 100 85 141 Bod CHN CNR RTC 7385 0930-1805 42SE LHA 100 290 206 Bod CHN CNR RTC 7385 2050-0200 42SE LHA 100 290 206 Bod CHN CNR RTC 7450 0900-1800 43SW LHA 100 85 141 Zho CHN CNR RTC 7450 2000-0300 43SW LHA 100 85 141 Zho CHN CNR RTC 9490 0200-1000 43SW LHA 100 85 141 Bod CHN CNR RTC 9580 0200-0930 42SE LHA 100 290 206 Bod CHN CNR RTC 11860 0300-0900 43SW LHA 100 85 141 Zho CHN CNR RTC 11950 0300-0900 42SE LHA 100 290 206 Zho CHN CNR RTC Ausserdem sollte man auch die vielen Aussendungen von XJBS PBS Xinjiang aus den grossen Sendezentren nahe Urumqi auseinander halten. Fuer den Inlandsdienst bei CHN Urumqi SW domestic site, 15 tx 50-100 kW. 58 Masten. 43 58 26.04 N 87 14 56.35 E und 35 km weiter westlich der CRI Auslandsdienst: CHN CRI Urumqi FOREIGN SW site, 100/500 kW 26 Masten. 44 08 46.86 N 86 53 42.70 E Da sollen z.Zt. auch noch Ersatzsendungen auf 13840 und 15300 kHz laufen: PBS Xizang XZDT, a11 Sept 7-25 only 13840 0000-0600 1234567 Chinese CHN 13840 0600-1000 12.4567 Chinese CHN 13840 1000-1030 1234567 Chinese CHN 13840 1100-1200 1234567 Chinese CHN 15300 0100-0600 1234567 Tibetan CHN 15300 0600-0630 12.4567 English CHN 15300 0630-0730 12.4567 Tibetan(Khams) CHN 15300 0730-0950 12.4567 Tibetan CHN 15300 0950-1300 1234567 Tibetan CHN (Wolfgang Büschel, Sept 25, BC-DX 1 Oct via DXLD) ** TIBET. CHINA, CNR Tibet Livestream via XJBS Xinjiang and Lhasa- Tibet. Die Erreichbarkeit der Seite haengt also von der IP ab, hier wird von der "Gegenseite" irgendwie gefiltert. Mit meiner direkten "deutsche Telekom IP" ging es nicht, via russisch Proxy ging es gut zu: (also hat nix mit dem Cache zu tun...) ersniffte Links: Tibetan Broadcast Chinese Broadcast Kam Dialect Broadcast City Life Broadcast Als fuer WMP - Klick: ... hier kommt gerade auch englische Musik (roger-D, NET-RADIO Sept 25) Dann steuere ich bei der Gelegenheit mal die aus Xinjiang bei Die Sprachen (Chinesisch, Uighur, Kasachisch, Mongolisch) habe ich noch nicht zugeordnet (Thomas Adam, Germany, NET-RADIO Sept 25 via BC- DX 1 Oct via DXLD) ** TURKEY. At 1425 a radioplay on 9840 left me at a loss, so looking it up afterwards was the only option: Voice of Turkey with Turkish for Europe, as a plain list-log in all its glory (Kai Ludwig, in a meadow, Germany, Oct 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. Non-stop music test via BABCOCK from Sep. 29: 1300-1315 on 9605 WOF 300 kW / 182 deg to NoAF 1300-1315 NF 7325 WOF 125 kW / 182 deg to NoAF DRM, ex 9800 1300-1315 on 11640 WOF 300 kW / 102 deg to NoAF 1315-1330 on 9795 WOF 125 kW / 090 deg to NoAF, cancelled 1315-1330 on 15230 WOF 300 kW / 150 deg to NoAF 1315-1330 on 17505 WOF 125 kW / 152 deg to NoAF 1330-1345 on 9605 WOF 300 kW / 182 deg to NoAF 1330-1345 NF 6050 WOF 125 kW / 180 deg to NoAF DRM, ex 9800 1330-1345 on 11640 WOF 300 kW / 102 deg to NoAF 1345-1400 on 9795 WOF 125 kW / 090 deg to NoAF 1345-1400 on 15230 WOF 300 kW / 150 deg to NoAF 1345-1400 on 17505 WOF 125 kW / 152 deg to NoAF 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, Sept 29, DX LISTENING DIGEST) If all these are for North Africa (as stated), "090" must be a typo - presumably 190 (i.e. Morocco). Even "102" looks odd - that bearing is for Israel/Lebanon/Syria/Jordan/Saudi/Gulf rather than North Africa. 182 is Algeria. 150/152 is Tunisia/Libya. What are these for? (Chris Greenway, UK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) This has already been explained by Dave Porter at Woofferton, to Wolfgang Bueschel, and in my logs: ``Hi Wolfie, Regrettably it's not as exotic as you suspected! I can confirm those frequencies are registered and they are on our schedule. We are using the time slots and the changes in frequency and modulation mode to train our staff at the Babcock Media Management Centre in London for the remote operation of the Woofferton site when we are not staffed out of office hours. At present our colleagues in the Babcock Control Room in Bush House look after us but soon that is closing when the BBC transfer to their London W1 studio centre. Hence the need to train our staff in the other control facility. We needed to be able to run a real schedule and then we put faults on our transmitters so that the MMC staff can work out how to re- establish the service, etc. Vy 73, Dave`` (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) That`s a little bit faulty interpretation by Ivo at Radio Bulgaria. As Dave Porter in Woofferton explained already, it's only a >TRAINING TOY< for the MMC staff, they use only available transmitters and antennas at this 13-14 UT time slot. Chris, do not overestimate that registration target content. see http://www.hfcc.org/data/a11/a11allx2.zip 28W = target western 28 - Central & Eastern Europe, not Baltics 9795 1345-1400 28W WOF 125 90 11640 1300-1345 28W WOF 300 102 17505 1315-1400 28W WOF 125 152 15230 1315-1400 28W WOF 300 150 27S = target southern 27 - UK, France, Benelux 6050 1330-1345 27S WOF 125 184 7325 1300-1315 27S WOF 125 182 9605 1300-1345 27S WOF 300 182 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) 30/9, Babcock `cello frequencies are vacant on all: 9605 9800 11640 9795 15230 17505 (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) And you were checking when? 1300-1400 UT? (gh, DXLD) 15230, Oct 1 at 1347, BaBcoCk music loop mixing about equally and with SAH against RHC; also in clear on stronger // 17505. These and unchecked 9795 are scheduled 1315-1400 from Woofferton for staff training purposes. First time I have heard it on 15230; did Babcock assume the frequency was open since RHC refuses to participate in HFCC? Another set are scheduled from Woofferton at 1300-1345 on 9605, 9800-DRM and 11640 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [non]. 15370, Saturday-only BBCWS, what language will it be in this week, Oct 1? At 1308, not French, not English, presumably Somali, frequent particle ``wa`` heard, by two OM periodically going into paroxysms over crowd noise, evidently a Saturday-afternoon stupid ballgame involving Somalis? HFCC shows Somali at 13-16 on day 7, Aoki shows French, both with site: CYPRUS. Other schedules have shown part of the trihour in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. Get it while you can, since less than four weeks are left now: At 1427 I landed on 15330 with DW German via Woofferton, very good but with a lame, docile interview with some industry boss that made me tune away immediately. Of course still // 6075, at this time from the doomed Rampisham site, considerably poorer (even the tiny 5 kW from Brest on 6070 was equally strong) since 6 MHz is just a too low frequency during daytime when not being operated from within the target area. Noted Woofferton also at 1507 on 15265 with Polskie Radio in Ukrainian, very loud both RF- and audiowise. At 1520 noted the BBC World Service on 6195, from Skelton, of course for Europe --- in Pashto, for immigrants in London or whoever may be the target audience for Dari/Pashto/Persian here. See also Cyprus and Thailand for 21470/12095 (Kai Ludwig, in a meadow, Germany, Oct 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 17820, Sept 30 at 1308, large open carrier atop DW Hausa via Portugal. This is the favorite time for IBB Greenville-B to turn on for a few minutes, to be sure the transmitter will be working for the 1700 VOA Portuguese broadcast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WETA VIDEO REPORT EXAMINES THE 1942 BEN SHAHN MURAL IN THE "OTHERWISE UNREMARKABLE" VOA HEADQUARTERS BUILDING. Posted: 05 Oct 2011 WETA-TV (Washington), "Around Town". Peter Winant: Video report (1 min 35 sec) about the "remarkable" Ben Shahn 1942 mural "The Meaning of Social Security" in the "otherwise unremarkable" VOA headquarters building (kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD) -- The 1930s era Wilbur J. Cohen building may be "unremarkable," but it's built like a tank. It sustained only cosmetic damage from the August earthquake. See also VOA's Ben Shahn mural page. http://www.insidevoa.com/visit/tour-mural/ (Kim Andrew Elliott, ibid.) ** U S A. LENCZOWSKI: DON´T JUNK CRITICAL LEVERAGE OVER BEIJING SILENCING VOA PROGRAMMING WOULD END U.S. SUPPORT FOR CHINA´S FREEDOM 1 Comment and 6 Reactions|ShareTweet|Email|Print| By John Lenczowski http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/28/dont-junk-critical-leverage-over-beijing/?page=all#pagebreak As China´s increasing economic, espionage and military might threaten ever-greater influence over the United States, why would we even consider junking our most cost-effective leverage over the future of Chinese policy? If permitted to stand, the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors` (BBG) proposal to eliminate Voice of America (VOA) shortwave radio and satellite TV broadcasts to the Chinese people will harm our national security posture. The problem here is part of bigger issues: Should we have relations with foreign peoples or just governments? Should we shape foreign opinion or let foreign propaganda do so? Neglecting relations with opinion leaders has been a persistent policy problem. Failing to gain foreign public sympathy with U.S. ideals and objectives makes it is harder to achieve them. But winning sympathy means having friends and even intelligence sources who believe in freedom. Jasmine Revolutions erupted in four Arab states, yet Washington had no relations with the revolutionaries. Most Arabs have U.S. policies explained to them by al Jazeera. Most Afghans have them explained by the Taliban. Now the BBG is about to renounce the most powerful form of "soft power" we have over China: our ability to inform, inspire and connect with the Chinese public - the ordinary people whom the regime fears more than anything else - and help the Chinese people communicate with one another. Cutting VOA broadcasts to China is designed to "save" $8 million and shift it to expanded Internet outreach. However worthy the Internet may be, only a fraction of the Chinese population is connected to it, and Beijing censors it and even has shut it down. While Chinese Internet usage is severely limited, shortwave broadcasting reaches the entire country and is the favored method of communication by the regime itself. The regime cannot identify VOA listeners and therefore cannot punish them. The BBG justifies its decision with specious statistics "showing" a tiny VOA audience - statistics gathered by a Chinese state-sanctioned polling company through interviews and Internet polls. Responses are monitored by a regime that has punished listeners of "subversive" broadcasts. Because it would be crazy to admit listening to VOA, the statistics more accurately measure the size of the crazy population of China. Furthermore, audience size can change radically overnight under conditions of political crisis. The BBG argues that broadcasts will continue to China by Radio Free Asia (RFA). Fine and good. But RFA has a different mission than VOA. It, like Radio Free Europe, is designed to serve as a "surrogate domestic free press" whose programming concerns developments within China itself - news and information suppressed by the communist regime. The VOA has a separate and equally important mission. It explains U.S. policy and helps foreign audiences understand America. Both missions are essential and cannot effectively be melded into a single station. During the Cold War, Alexander Solzhenitsyn called our radio broadcasts "the mightiest weapon that the United States possesses to create mutual understanding between America and the oppressed Russian people." Recognizing this in the 1980s, we strengthened our broadcasts to the Soviet empire. They were arguably the most influential instrument we had to embolden domestic resistance to that regime. They not only connected us with the people, they enabled the people, who established underground lines of communication with their radios, to communicate among themselves, organize and create a critical mass of resistance. When asked about the importance of radios to the rise and survival of the Solidarity movement in Poland, Polish President Lech Walesa replied, "Would there be life on earth without the sun?" Similarly, VOA inspired the pro-democracy 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations, which were cruelly suppressed by our current "trading partners." U.S. policy has long hoped that Chinese economic reforms would translate into political reforms. But this has not happened. Instead, we see China pursuing Cold War policies: 25,000 spies in the United States; relentless cyber-attacks on our corporations, government agencies and China experts; nuclear proliferation to Iran and North Korea; massive military buildup; regional hegemonism; and propagandizing its people and armed forces that the United States is the "main enemy." Meanwhile, as we steadily lose our economic and military edge over Beijing for $8 million - not saved, but reprogrammed - we are throwing out what may be our most powerful leverage: our alliance with millions of its oppressed people for whom dissent is still rewarded with slave labor in the Chinese gulag. We may wake up one day to the reality that Beijing is poised to subject us to strategic blackmail while we are in a state of strategic inferiority. We then may have no choice but to kowtow and become one of China´s tributary states. One of the few things that could prevent such a scenario would be political change prompted by the Chinese people. Only one strategic asset can help promote such change: our ability to support the Chinese people´s desire to reclaim their freedom and their human dignity. Their capability to do so, like that of the peoples of the Soviet empire, depends heavily on our ability to communicate with them now and give them the instruments to communicate with one another. The VOA´s China broadcasts already contribute mightily to this capability, and prudence dictates that they must be preserved. John Lenczowski, formerly President Reagan´s Soviet affairs adviser, is president of the Institute of World Politics. He is author of "Full Spectrum Diplomacy and Grand Strategy" (Lexington Books, 2011) (Washington Times [Moony] via Zacharias Liangas, Greece, Sept 29, DXLD) ** U S A. ACCORDING TO THESE TWO, VOA REPORTS ONLY ABOUT THE USA AND SHOULD BE REINTEGRATED WITH US FOREIGN POLICY. Posted: 02 Oct 2011 Washington Times, 28 Sept 2011, John Lenczowski: "The BBG argues that broadcasts will continue to China by Radio Free Asia (RFA). Fine and good. But RFA has a different mission than VOA. It, like Radio Free Europe, is designed to serve as a 'surrogate domestic free press' whose programming concerns developments within China itself - news and information suppressed by the communist regime. The VOA has a separate and equally important mission. It explains U.S. policy and helps foreign audiences understand America. Both missions are essential and cannot effectively be melded into a single station." Heritage Foundation, 30 Sept 2011, Helle Dale: "Close congressional oversight would be a good beginning, and the long-term objective should be reintegration of the BBG into the U.S. government’s foreign policy strategy and organization. The firewall of independence from day-to-day political influence that the BBG was designed to represent has too often become a justification for rebuffing legitimate congressional concerns or even State Department priorities. As the BBG moves forward with its strategic review and planning, it is clear now that Congress should be a partner." (kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD) If Dr. Lenczowski's description of VOA were true, VOA would have a much smaller audience than it does now. If Mrs. Dale's vision for USIB is fulfilled, even that small audience would disappear. A bit of research would have revealed that VOA's Chinese output is hardly limited to U.S. policy and information about America. VOA Chinese provides extensive coverage about China, and, in fact, has entire programs devoted to the subject. VOA must provide news and information about China, or, otherwise, it would not have an audience in China. RFA, of course, also provides news and information about China. It was founded on the incorrect premise that VOA does not do so. The result is a great deal of duplication between VOA and RFA. A possible solution would be to force VOA and RFA to stick to their nominal specialties, but that would force the Chinese audience to tune to two stations to get all the news. BBC World Service, with a smaller budget, has a larger audience than all of USIB combined. It manages to provide news about its target countries, the world, and Britain, "effectively melded into a single station." As for Mrs. Dale's "reintegration of the BBG into the U.S. government’s foreign policy strategy and organization," an overseas example of this type of structure would be China Radio International. CRI is firmly in line with Chinese foreign policy. It also has a very small audience to show for all of its costly media investments. The audience for international broadcasting seeks credible news above all else. The status quo, for now preserved by Congress, is inadequate to the problem of tiny audiences for USIB in China, caused by massive Chinese interdiction efforts, and more so by the vast and competitive domestic media environment of China. More about this in my strategy paper about US international broadcasting to China. See previous post about same subject (Kim Andrew Elliott, ibid.) ** U S A. IN OPM JOB SATISFACTION SURVEY, RESPONSE RATE FROM BBG IS UP, BUT SATISFACTION RATINGS ARE STILL NEAR BOTTOM. Posted: 02 Oct 2011 Washington Post, 24 Sept 2011, Joe Davidson: Want to know how federal departments and large agencies fared in a broad survey of federal employees? Check out this table from the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey [especially pp. 41 and 45]. The Office of Personnel Management conducts an annual survey of the workforce to learn how federal employees feel about their workplaces. ... OPM also was one of two agencies that improved in three of the four areas. The Broadcasting Board of Governors was the other. Its improvement needs to be encouraged because it continues to perform below the government-wide average." See also BBG Watch, 23 Sept 2011 (kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD) Evidence that the BBG might remain at the bottom of the job satisfaction ratings is that the BBG is advertising a job vacancy for digital research analyst, responsible for digital media and web metrics. It's a GS-14. The BBG is also advertising for a research analyst, responsible for direct radio, radio placement, satellite television, television placement, and digital media, as well as sample design, fieldwork, survey questionnaires, and web metrics. It's a notch lower at GS-13. The supposedly platform-agnostic BBG is placing digital media higher in a new audience research pecking order. Perhaps this is because digital media audience, which accounts for only a very small fraction of the total BBG audience, is more difficult to find through research.(Kim Andrew Elliott, WORLD OF RADIO 1585, ibid.) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1584 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW 9479, Thursday Sept 29 after 2100; and on WWRB 5051, UT Friday Sept 30 at 0331 after a minute of dead air; and on WRMI 9955, UT Friday Sept 30 at 0525 check, mixed with strong pulse jamming. Tnx a lot, Arnie, my friend in Habana! Further WRMI airings this weekend are: Fri 1430, Sat 0800, 1500, 1730, Sun 0800, 1530, 1730, plus more on Mon/Tue/Wed. For complete sked see http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html On WTWW: UT Sunday 0400 on 5755; on WBCQ: UT Monday 0300v on 5110v- CUSB. Remember our NEW airings via Hamburger Lokal Radio, Germany, 1 kW: Saturday 0930 on 5980 [Oct 1 only, a preview] Tuesday 0930 on 5980 [From Oct 4, weekly] On WRN via SiriusXM 120: Sat & Sun 1730, Sun 0830 WORLD OF RADIO 1584: first airing 0330 UT Thursday Sept 29 on WRMI; then Thursday 1500, 2100, Friday 1430, Saturday 0800, 1500, 1730, Sunday 0800, 1530, 1730. On WTWW: Thu 2100 9479, UT Sun 0400 5755 On WBCQ: Thu 2130 7415, UT Mon 0300v 5110v-CUSB On WWRB: UT Fri 0330 5051 NEW on Hamburger Lokal Radio, Germany: Saturday 0930 on 5980, special preview, but regular time from Oct 4 will be Tuesdays 0930. On WRN via SiriusXM 120: Sat & Sun 1730, Sun 0830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5755, UT Sunday, Oct 2 after 0400, WORLD OF RADIO 1584 confirmed on WTWW; further airings this weekend: Sunday 1530, 1730 on WRMI 9955; UT Monday 0300v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; on WRN via SiriusXM 120: Sunday 1730 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9954.957, Radio Miami International carried probably Radio Libertad program in Spanish. Boring stuff at 0406 UT Sept 24. Tiny weak signal logged here in EUR, S=5 only, just readable program content (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews 1 Oct via DXLD) Didn`t realize WRMI was that far off-frequency, amid the jamming (gh) ** U S A. UNIDENTIFIED. Sabato 1 ottobre 2011 (VR5000), 0543 - 9980 kHz, UNID religiosa USA. EE, shouting Allelujas OMs. Segnale buono - sufficiente (Luca Botto Fiora, G.C. 09E13 - 44N21, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) Viz.: 9980, WWCR on wrong frequency again! Oct 1 at 0545, there is Brother Scare, poor signal with flutter, missing from 5890; and // 3185 WWRB which was slightly ahead, during revival meeting. Per own website, transmitter schedule still dated 20 August shows WWCR-4 is supposed to be on 9980 at 12-02, 5890 at 02-12, altho program schedule has it non- continuous. PDF program grid already updated to October 1 still shows 5890 at 05-11 (except Saturday 0230- with non-BS programming until 0500), and 9980 at 14-21 (except Sat -20, all-BS except 20-21). 5935, Oct 1 at 1248, WWCR extremely strong ruining R. Rossii classical music on adjacents 5930 and 5940 from DVR, during thinly-dramatized Bible discussion, not University Network, not // PMS on 11775 Anguilla. That would be `Unshackled`, scheduled Saturdays 1230 on WWCR-3, but supposed to be still, and previously was, on 7490 after 1200. Another wrong frequency! [and non]. 5890 & 5935, Oct 3 at 0527, you never know whether WWCR will be inbooming or propped-out; this time the latter, poor signals so not overloading the neighborhood for a change. (Some WWCR transmitters are also operating far below rated 100 kW.) Whew, at 1253, 5935 is not on the air like it was a couple days ago, so R. Rossii again unscathed on 5930 from DVR, much stronger than // 5940 with music (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DX LISTENING DIGEST) OK, DVR == Dalniy Vostok Rossiya == Russian Far East; this used to be employed in IDs ** U S A. 3185, Oct 3 at 1240, no trace of WWRB which usually has not faded out completely yet, leaving 90m to Palangkaraya 3325. So has it moved up to 9385 already? Not there either by 1311, but Brother- Scaring at next check 1327. 3185, Oct 6 at 0524, no signal from the Brother Scare service of WWRB. 0529, there he is on 9385, poor signal, much weaker than 9330 WBCQ and 9370 WTJC, so like BS via WWCR, he`s again stuck on a day frequency in the nightmiddle. Still no 3185 at 1100, and at 1105 I am getting something weak on 9385 aside stronger WEWN 9390. By 1124, it`s a service with shouting, but not BS blathering. Finally at 1142 R.G. can be heard on 9385, still poor signal until buildup after sunrise. Can both stations have failed to make the change to night frequencies for BS, or is this some misguided change or experiment? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15610, Sept 29 at 1409, Mother Angelica crax a joke and provoxe laffs, as her modulation also crackles continuously; plus squishy spurs at plus and minus 9 and 18 kHz, i.e. 15592, 15601, 15619, 15628, but not much around at the moment to be QRMed. 7555, Oct 3 at 0515, WEWN Spanish is missing: nothing but the hash from France on the hi side which always forces one to sidetune to lo side of WEWN. JBA signals at 0526 on 11870 and 11520 indicate the other two WEWNs are still on. All three confirmed on at 1334: 12050 with squealy Spanish, 13580 with spurry English, 11550 OK Spanish 7555, Oct 6 at 0503, R. Católica Mundial is missing again, clearing area for French ute hash above 7555. So one third of WEWN`s transmitters is AWOL. Unfortunately it`s the good one which is neither squishy nor squealy! Barely audible at 0532 on 11520, 11870 which maybe propagate somewhere else. 11550 also missing at 1317 Oct 6, while 12050 was squealing and 13580 squishy-spurring as usual. By 1400, 11550 was on with strong open carrier, still no modulation at 1404. I assume that was WEWN as scheduled, since it`s on exactly 11550.0 unlike Taiwan which can`t attain such precision and isn`t scheduled in this segment; R. Azadi via Kuwait however is listed on 11550 until 1430 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. At 1440 I stumbled over a preacher, screaming in English on 21670, accompanied by a nice hum. Ah, that's a transatlantic signal, Cypress Creek, now labelled as WHRI, a call still mentally wired to the defunct Noblesville site. I think the best ever signal I had over a daylight path on a high frequency from North America. See also Kazakhstan for Family Radio on 9900 (Kai Ludwig, in a meadow, Germany, Oct 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9265, WINB World Int'l B'casters, Red Lion PA; 2148-2202+, 26-Sep; Shouting English huxteress ragging on how women dress; "It's the uncleanness in them.", "Sex, sex, sex, sex.", "Sex is God in this country." (I know exactly what this woman needs!) Pgm is Agressive Christianity; e-mail livingword@agressivechristianity.net (I should ask them what their plans are for 10/21/11.) Program close at 2252 into long piano interlude. WINB ID spot at ToH into Spanish Radio Visión Christiana pgm La Voz Alegre with addys in Fort Lauderdale & Matanzas Cuba. SIO=544 w/ weak ute. 13570, WINB World Int'l B'casters, Red Lion PA; 2045-2059:34*, 29-Sep; Agressive Christianity English huxteress waxing about sacrifice, discipline, obedience, etc. "You need to sober up" -- in regards to morbid obesity. (At least she isn't shouting!) 2059 first few notes of U.S. Nat'l Anthem into WINB ID spot & off. SIO=322+ with muted audio; weak pulse & loud clatter burst QRM. They did not come up immediately on 9265 at 2100, but noted there at 2108 with song[sing?]-song English huxteress (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow- tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. Additional transmission of WYFR in English via BABCOCK: 1000-1100 on 9955 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg to EaAs [= T8WH PALAU] 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, Sept 29, DX LISTENING DIGEST) As if WRMI needed even more QRM; tnx a lot! (gh, DXLD) ARMENIA: WYFR Family Radio in Punjabi to SoAS noted on Oct. 2/3 1400- 1500 on 7529.4 ERV, instead of nominal 7530.0 (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, Oct 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. FOR THIS INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTER, SHORTWAVE WILL CONTINUE "UNTIL THE FINAL END OF EVERYTHING," IE 21 OCTOBER "PROBABLY." Posted: 04 Oct 2011 Radio Survivor, 3 Oct 2011, Jennifer Waits: "Now that it’s October, my thoughts have turned to the pronouncements by Family Radio that the end of the world will take place on October 21. As we reported, the worldwide Christian radio network spent a fortune advertising the May 21, 2011 'Judgment Day,' and its founder Harold Camping had to back pedal after the predicted rolling earthquakes and rapture didn’t pan out. Although Camping had included an end of world prediction of October 21, 2011 in his original discussions about May 21; he was forced to reconsider his biblical interpretation of the rapture and after May 21 described the events of that day as 'spiritual,' rather than physical. On June 9, Camping suffered a stroke and has been off the Family Radio airwaves ever since. ... [His audio message] posted on September 23, providing an update about his recuperation and delving further into his teachings about October 21. In the 6-minute message Camping says, ... 'We would have not been able…to bring about the tremendous event that occurred on May 21 of this year, which probably be finished out on October 21 that’s coming very shortly. That looks like it will be at this point it looks like it will be the final end of everything.'" See also the WYFR Family Radio website (kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD) ** U S A. 790, Oct 4 at 1221 something with Fox News, VG signal really at a sunrise peak here (1229); after some national ads, ID at 1224 as KNST, News-talk, Tucson AZ. I was drawn to check 790 after hearing IBOC noise on 780 and 800, no doubt from this, unlisted as such in 2011 NRC AM Log. Nor here: http://topazdesigns.com/iboc/station-list.html Hard to believe it`s not 5 kW day power, altho soon fades down. It`s only 5:24 AM MST. Here`s the FCC notice about KNST`s PSRA; all of these seem to be as of 2007y: http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=5188 which implies starting in October, KNST can run 500 watts PSRA starting at 6 am ``Advanced time``, even tho time is NOT advanced in AZ! So Arizonans get to start PSRAs at 5 am local unlike any other state? Pre-sunrise authority was supposed to be based on 6 am local clock time, whatever it is. Tucson official October sunrise is not until 1330 UT. KNST day and night patterns are about the same, with broad lobes toward east and nulls, but not sharp ones, toward KABC. And what`s the point of a PSRA for KNST? Night power is 500 watts too (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 870, Sept 29 at 1213 UT, XETAR, Chihuahua, usually totally in the clear, is now getting CCI from another Spanish station, generally separable by rotating DX-398, and obviously American with PSAs about United Way and IRS with those names pronounced in English, then ``8-70 AM, Radio Variedades`` ID. Surely it`s KFJZ Fort Worth. 2011 NRC AM Log does not have this slogan and shows it as SS:RELigious, but certainly not now, plugging their variety of music. There are two other little US stations on 870 in CO and MO, neither listed as Spanish at all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi, You mention a Spanish station on 870 with the slogan Radio Variedades and suspect KFJZ in Fort Worth TX. For what it’s worth, KLSQ Whitney NV is also using the slogan ”Radio Variedades”, see http://radiovariedades870.univision.com/ 73 (Håkan Sundman, Helsinki, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This is KLSQ from a Las Vegas suburb. 73 KAZ (Neil Kazaross, IL, IRCA via DXLD) Well, that`s better! I would still like to confirm that KFJZ is NOT using that slogan. Maybe I can pull it in daytime, if not hear from a Metroplexer. Googling around, I get old hits on KRVA-1600, as Radio Variedades (so that`s where the call came from), altho now it is Vietnamese. How do you say Variedades in Vietnamese? Gióng. NRC-AM Log 2011 does not have KLSQ as Radio Variedades either, but Google agrees it is. KFJZ has a PSRA of 500 watts, and in Sept should have stepped up to full day power of 1000 watts at 1215 UT (October: 1230). Direxional with a broad pattern but null toward WWL. KLSQ is 24 hours with night power 430 watts. Night pattern has major lobe to NW, plus little lobes with one toward me and some nulls with one toward WWL: http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/666479-79198.pdf So I try again Oct 4 around same time, 1206 UT and hear CCI to XETAR from a station mentioning 103.7 in both Spanish and English. That does not fit for KFJZ where KVIL 103.7 is separately owned; and there is no 103.7, not even a translator, anywhere in Nevada. Nor in New Orleans, as WWL was still audible on 870 at 1208. At 1220 I was still getting a fast SAH, I believe between WWL and XETAR. WWL will only become a greater problem as sun rises later and later (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re: KLSQ http://radiovariedades870.univision.com/ They've been using the R. Variedades slogan for at least a couple of years. I can get them here in IL on great sunset skip nights since the west BOGs null WWL very well. I've also had them a couple times at night, perhaps when they've had a glitch and not switched to night power? 73 KAZ KFJZ website is http://www.radiofortaleza.net/ (Neil Kazaross, Barrington IL, ABDX via DXLD) OK, I concede, must have had KLSQ, tnx. And I can`t get KFJZ, R. Fortaleza on daytime groundwave; too weak and too far. Maybe around sunset, WWL permitting. I still haven`t heard KLSQ again at similar sunrise times (Glenn Hauser, Enid, Oct 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 890, Oct 4 at 1209 UT, Spanish preaching in null of KTLR OKC; 1210 mentions San Antonio, Plainview. Presumably KVOZ in Del Mar Hills (McAllen, RGV) TX, which isn`t that far away from the direxion of OKC. In Oct KVOZ should still be on 1 kW night pattern until 1230 UT with null toward WLS and not much toward me either, not yet 10 kW ND day (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) KVOZ 890 has been suspected of commonly running day power at night for a decade. 73 KAZ (Neil Kazaross, Barrington IL, ABDX via DXLD) Del Mar Hills, TX is actually nearer to Laredo, if that makes more sense (David R. Block, primetimesw yg via DXLD) Yes, it might as well have been licensed to Laredo; why bother with DMH, which isn`t even in the Rand McNally atlas? I was going by the only address listed for KVOZ in the NRC AM Log, which is McAllen, but it`s the HQ of Cadena Cristiana based there. Laredo is still a long way from Plainview; I guess they have even more affiliates up there. Also heard it briefly Oct 5 with more references to Texas towns. Why doesn`t KTLR if not WLS object? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 890 KTXV in Mabank, TX (serving DFW from the southeast) could probably also raise a stink. The Wikipedia link for Del Mar Hills on the KVOZ article redirects to Laredo. Imagine that!! :-) So you are very right, why NOT just say Laredo??? I think that this is one of those cases where they were trying to find an "unserved community" to have a better shot at a license. Hence the Flower Mound, Highland Village, Highland Park, Lewisville, Carrollton, Plano, Garland, McKinney, Allen, Sanger, Pilot Point, and Denton all being cities of license of various DFW rimshot FM stations and a few AM ones as well (David R. Block, primetimesw yg via DXLD) ** U S A. 1030, TEXAS, KCTA, Corpus Christi. 1101 October 2, 2011. Spanish female mentioning PO Box 200207, San Antonio, TX (no copy ZIP), into crying preacher in Spanish. Not an XE as hoped, just this one, and by 1119 recheck, local level with Spanish male and female scripture reads (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Does KNX break format? UNIDENTIFIED. 1070, Sunday Oct 2 at 1237 UT, I am hearing an Alleluiah [pick your spelling] song from E/W in null of KLIO Wichita, and with the fast SAH caused by KLIO being off-frequency. KNX Los Ángeles is the usual station heard this way at night and sunrise, but aren`t they all-news?? To make it more confusing, at the moment, KLIO is talking, but it`s soon on to country gospel music at 1240 (rather than the usual True Oldies format!). At 1240 still choral religious music from the other. KNX program schedule does not admit to any such deviation, http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2010/09/22/knx-1070-on-air-schedule/ but if it ever does go gospel, before 6 am Sunday would be the time to do the least damage. Can anyone confirm? There is hardly anything westward from here except KNX, but I see that KBCL, 250-watt daytimer in Bossier City [Shreveport] LA is `Praise 1070`, so maybe that was it, still propagating. However, there was no sign of any news-talk station, and KNX should have been in there. IBOC from 1080 KRLD abuzz but that nulls about the same direxion as from the 1070 station (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DX LISTENING DIGEST) As far as I know, KNX only breaks format for talk programming, e.g. "Food News" at 10 am. 73 (Tim Hall, CA, Oct 2, ABDX via DXLD) Glenn, Local KNTH-1070 here in Houston has been playing Adult Contemporary Christian music on Sunday nights lately. Could this be your station? 73 & Good DX, (Steve Ponder, N5WBI, IRCA via DXLD) Glenn: -- The only "religion" I've ever heard on KNX in 30+ years of listening is the weekly Mormon Tabernacle Choir 'cast originating (still?) at KSL, and that always started no later than 6AM PLT on Sunday mornings. Very 73z -- GREG HARDISON, CA, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, Yes. If you want news from KNX between 1230 and 1300 UT (during DST), you're out of luck. During that half-hour they carry the weekly broadcast of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (Rick Lewis, WA, IRCA via WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DXLD) Radio: KNX WILL DROP JOSEPHSON'S COMMENTARIES; AM RADIO UNDER ATTACK KNX (1070 AM) is discontinuing Michael Josephson's "Character Counts" commentaries after more than 14 years on the station. Effective Oct. 17, the commentaries will be gone. Josephson is philosophical about the change, writing at CharacterCounts.org, "I want to express sincere and unequivocal gratitude to CBS and KNX for providing me this platform to talk about ethics and character for 14 1/2 years." Quoting Dr. Seuss, he adds, "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." No real word from KNX regarding the issue, but it fits with their general move -- and to be fair, the move among all stations -- to remove such content from their airwaves. The last time I heard an editorial on KNX was years ago, and it was among the last stations in town to run them. I imagine that there was some research behind the decision before it was finalized. The new instant ratings system in place allows programmers to see what causes tune-outs among listeners, if indeed that was the case. Another attack on AM . . . http://www.dailynews.com/ci_19006921?source=most_viewed (Los Angeles Daily News, via Kevin Redding, TN, ABDX via DXLD) KNX is a shadow of its former self; same with KFI. Remember the KNX Drama Hour? KFI Farm and Home Hour? 73 Grumpy old man in SoCal (Tim Hall, ABDX via DXLD) Well said. I've never liked the garbage KFI and other similar formatted stations do but for some reason that I don't understand KFI gets good ratings. In general I don't like talk radio; it seems to me that a lot of the callers just want to hear their voice on the radio. On to something else about KFI. Thanks to Scott Fybush I got the nickel tour of the KFI transmitter site in April, 2010. Their new tower has the coolest looking capacitive hat (50 feet). I took a few photos; actually more than just a few. They're here; not surprisingly the one with the description KFI is the first one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcgibson55/sets/72157623814821388/detail/?page=8 There are a bunch of other studio/transmitter site/tower photos on my flickr site as well. Like Tim I'm old and grumpy and in Southern California. 73 (Dennis Gibson, ibid.) I think KFI does well because they have some local talk shows and if they don't work they make changes. They range from state and local politics to coverage of local stories. I listen sometimes on the drive to work (Bill Handel) and the drive home (John and Ken). I don't listen to KNX that much. Sometimes when I'm driving I'll listen in for traffic. I miss the drama hour but I do catch food news sometimes when I'm driving (Martin Foltz, ibid.) > KNX is a shadow of its former self; same with KFI. > Remember the KNX Drama Hour? KFI Farm and Home Hour? Yes I do. I always liked to end the day at 9 pm with the KNX Drama Hour - it was even better than When Radio Was, as KNX had a very extensive collection of radio shows from Dragnet to Gunsmoke to The Whistler, and everything in between. And I remember when Food News Hour was on every day at 10 am - my mother liked listening for cooking ideas (now it's on for 3 or 4 hours on Saturdays). KNX became more of a watered-down commentary and news-talk format after George Nicholaw was let go in 2004. He ran the station very well since its glory days in the 80's (especially miss Bill Keene in the Traffic and Weather center). Then KFI's manager came to KNX in 2004 and tried to "news- talk-ize" it, basically ruining the format brick by brick. First thing to go was the Drama Hour, along with the landmark teletype clatter, and the Focus on the Family commentaries were cut in the same way the Character Counts essays have been. Then the jingles changed, C-QuAM was replaced with iBOC, etc., and I suddenly noticed how the hosts would, instead of launching into the next story, just sit and comment, ruminate, or joke about the previous story instead of moving onto the next as if to drag out the story so fewer per hour wouldn't have to be aired (to just appear to be long-form journalism). All in a span of 4 months. I'll take KCBS or WBBM any day over the current KNX presentation. KFI was also a super class-act before they went all-talk in 1988. They had a solid and wide mix of music, short talk programs, live half-hour call-in gameshows, daily puzzles, a couple prominent weekly syndications like Dr. Ruth, and a nightly Top-10 countdown from 9 to 10pm every night. Plus they had a great news and traffic department, and their very own soap-opera style morning show, Lowman and Barkley. All in Kahn (70's) and then Harris stereo (80's). Thankfully I still have several hours of recordings from these stations from back-in-the-day (Darwin Long, Empire, LA, ibid.) Well said. I loved the Drama Hour, and listened to Lohman and Barkley all through college (I think the soap opera was called "Light of my Life"). Speaking of morning show serials, does anyone remember Chickenman on WCFL? 73 (Tim Hall, ibid.) KNX ripped into Phoenix with a blast furnace hot signal. I worked in Chandler, AZ at night because we often would have to work with radioactive sources and the people I worked for did not want a lot of people around. We would go out about 9 and eat lunch behind the building and listen to the KNX Drama Hour. Never missed it (Kevin Redding, ibid.) ** U S A. 1110, Sept 29 at 1218 UT, rather startled to hear Qur`an being sung by a tenor, then interrupted by some English words, presumably translation; 1221 onto unsung talk in Arabic(?). Could not get a null on it, and could not separate it from KFAB. Surely it is one of the Texans, either the newish KVTT Mineral Wells (The Metroplex), which I thought was Christian, and tho 50 kW days has a big null toward us; OR KTEK Alvin (Houston), a 2.5 kW daytimer listed as BizRadio (in English) by NRC AM Log. I`ll assume the latter, with a pattern aimed right at us (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Attention Houstonians: is 1110 Islamic? (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. 1190, Oct 3 at 1226 UT, blues music from NW/SE. No doubt KVCU, the student station at Boulder CO, a rarity. Another AM station which dares to play music is 1130 KWKH Shreveport LA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1310, Oct 3 at 1222 UT, ``News-talk 13-10, KZRG`` IDs, items about St Louis & St Charles, but this is really Joplin MO, the station which got kudos for tornado coverage (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Another AM goes silent – 1450 kHz --- RADIO DISNEY has taken its WBYU-A/NEW ORLEANS silent. The station's Silent STA filing with the FCC says that the company is "in the process of seeking an agreement to assign the license ... with a broadcaster who is still to be identified." (allaccess.com via Brock Whaley, HI, Sept 30 for DXLD) ** U S A. WDND 1620 changing formats SOUTH BEND -- Radio listeners scanning the airwaves in recent weeks for sports scores and information have probably been a little startled when the dial reached 1620 AM, the city's ESPN-affiliated station. Instead of former University of Notre Dame football player Mike Golic, co-host of the popular "Mike and Mike in the Morning" show, listeners likely found heavy rotations of Beyoncé, Bruno Mars and Taylor Swift. For now, says Artistic Media Partners President Arthur Angotti, the former talk-format sports station will be simulcasting with 92.9 FM, the company's pop-contemporary station. "It's only temporary," Angotti said of the format change. Angotti said the station dropped its affiliation with ESPN a few weeks ago, after both sides were unable to reach a contract extension. . . http://articles.southbendtribune.com/2011-09-28/business/30215632_1_radio-station-music-formats-angotti (via Kevin Redding, ABDX via DXLD) ** U S A. FALL CONDITIONS BRINGING BETTER RECEPTION OF KCJJ 1630 KCJJ AM Stereo 1630 has been booming in here at times Saturday evening in SC. When their signal peaks I am hearing them in full AM Stereo with good separation on the Delco UX-1. Most of the summer their signal has been very weak here. I have been hearing them off and on the past few weeks but not really strong enough for AM Stereo copy. Their signal will kick on the STEREO indicator light a lot of the time but I guess the signal needs to be a certain strength before the stereo separation really kicks in. I thought they might not be actually running AM Stereo lately but apparently their signal strength just hasn't been high enough to hear them in full separation on the UX-1 most of the time. 73 - (Todd WD4NGG Roberts, Oct 1, ABDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DXLD) Where is ``here``? I have to look him up by callsign: Hilton Head Island, SC. Format is talk and AC per NRC AM Log (gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DXLD) And where is KCJJ? Iowa City IA ** U S A. Program acquisition costs on public radio --- while this varies widely from station to station, KUNM`s October program guide Zounds gives the figures, glasnostly unlike most stations, which can give you an idea of comparative costs: http://kunm.net/pdf/Zounds_20111001.pdf KUNM is also celebrating its 45th anniversary. While you`re at it, you may want to make KUNM a regular station to listen to as I do, lots of original musical and other programming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. CALL CONGRESS TODAY! EXPRESS YOUR SUPPORT FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING In an unprecedented move, Rep. Denny Rehberg – Chairman of the House LHHS Appropriations Subcommittee – has just released a draft funding proposal without it being considered by his subcommittee or the full Appropriations Committee. This bill contains three very troubling proposals: The bill eliminates advance funding for local public broadcasting stations. Since the 1970’s Congress has approved a budget for public broadcasting two years in advance to prevent undue government influence over public broadcasting programming. It prohibits stations from using vital federal funding to purchase NPR programming, which millions of listeners rely upon every day. It eliminates funding for Ready To Learn – a key program that funds children’s educational programming on public television; programming that has been proven to improve student achievement across the country. While this bill has not been approved by the House, it will serve as a starting point for negotiations over a final appropriations bill. It sends a clear signal: Federal support for public broadcasting is in serious jeopardy! Please call the office of [insert your Representative] to express your support for public broadcasting. Please leave a message urging your representative to stand up for this essential public service. If you would prefer to send a letter to your representative, click here. Thank you! Jeff Nelson and Stacey Karp 170 Million Americans for Public Broadcasting Join us on Facebook 170 Million Americans for Public Broadcasting is a collaboration of public radio and television stations, national organizations, producers and our viewers and listeners throughout the country in favor of a strong public media in the United States. This project receives no government funding. Privacy Policy | 170 Million Americans http://www.170millionamericans.org/ 170 Million Americans for Public Broadcasting 480 Cedar Street St. Paul, MN 55101, USA ©2011 All rights reserved (via WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DXLD) ** U S A. OCCUPATION MOVEMENT NEEDS AMATEUR OPERATORS http://www.occupytogether.org As most of you are aware, the occupation movement is fighting the involvement of corporate personhood, and corporate influence in our politics. They are also fighting political corruption. They need communications in major cities, and in cities where communications are hard to conduct. If you can volunteer your station / communications skills, please contact the web address above. There should be a "contact us" link. The job of radio amateurs would be to conduct point to point simplex communications using whatever modes you are proficient at. The use of repeaters is also needed at times. HF communications might be needed off and on between certain areas where long-haul comms are critical. The communications needs will vary from one city to another. @WeOccupyAmerica on twitter is a former amateur operator and sent out the call for help to radio amateurs a few days ago. You may contact @WeOccupyAmerica as well, to see how you can help (via Shortwave America, Oct 4, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DXLD) ** U S A. HOW FOX NEWS FORCED CNN TO BECOME LESS LIKE CNN INTERNATIONAL. Posted: 04 Oct 2011 Chicago Sun-Times, 29 Sept 2011, Abdon M. Pallasch: "'[Fox News] certainly altered the landscape of cable news,' said Larry Stuelpnagel, a professor of broadcast journalism at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. 'Before Fox came along you could watch CNN and see a lot of news from around the world. Fox came up with a formula for talking about the news, instead of reporting it. They started talking and they made a lot of money. That model has been picked up by both CNN and MSNBC.' That forced CNN to turn inward and scale back its ambition of focusing more American attention on the outside world, Stuelpnagel said. 'I’m in the business of training journalists,' Stuelpnagel said. 'Here we train them to be "fair and balanced" in every sense of the words. You can only get that sort of perspective when you’re physically there. When all you’re doing is pontificating on events you haven’t witnessed, and throwing your own spin on it, I think the American people get shortchanged. When I travel and see CNN International, you get much different news than you get here. You get the worldview. I miss that.'" (kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD) ** URUGUAY. “Historias del SODRE”, un libro que aún no se puede comprar. Publicado el octubre 2, 2011 por La Galena del Sur http://lagalenadelsur.wordpress.com/2011/10/02/332/ The Early Years of Short Wave-SODRE http://imgur.com/a/8Qblr#.TmrfIuKG78s.wordpress (Horacio Nigro, via Ian Baxter, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) Since URUGUAY appears so seldom in DXLD, you may wonder why it comes after USA? Because URUGUAY comes after UNITED (gh, DXLD) ** UZBEKISTAN. 15735, Oct 3 at 1304, NHK English, fair with some hum, as Uzbekistan would rather relay foreigners than present Radio Tashkent to the world any more. R. Japan English scheduled 1300-1330 at 141 degrees, 1400-1430 at 163 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN. Surprise when landing on 7250 at 1403: Oops, German, on shortwave?! On this frequency of course Radio Vatican, introducing a statement the pope gave in his mother tongue, followed by hurray about his recent trip to Germany. Same program considerably weaker on 5885, only almost // since it was about two seconds ahead of 7250. Does Santa Maria di Galeria use delays to smooth out power consumption or was it just the routing? 5885 was also cleaner and without the hum that plagued 7250. Remarkable, since 7250 is 250 kW, indicating a transmitter installed between 1976 and 1997, while 5885 is 100 kW, pointing at vintage equipment from 1957...1966. And of course, as is always the case at SMG, no phat Optimod in use (Kai Ludwig, in a meadow, Germany, Oct 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. Re: CBE 1550 Windsor ON --- Well, with them gone, 1550 will be clearish from here towards the east and I can hope to nab the clandestine Saharan Algerian area station on 1550 that I had years ago when split onto 1544. 73 KAZ Barrington IL Grafton WI (Neil Kazaross, 30 Sept, NRC-AM via DXLD) Neil, you should have no trouble with the RASD Algerian clandestine on 1550. They were smokin' loud at 2230 UT (1830 EDT) on Monday (at Cape Cod QTH). Strongest TA at times, even higher on the Perseus display than the Almighty 1521, likely because of moderately auroral conditions. Of course for me, the Hartford, CT area station is in the rearward cardioid antenna pattern null. You would be shooting right at it, but luckily it is flea-power enough that a strong TA could still take it out on your end (Mark Connelly, WA1ION, ibid.) ** YEMEN. 6135.00 vs 6135.29v: see MADAGASCAR [and non] ** ZAMBIA. 5915, ZNBC, 0244-0300, Tune-in to Fish Eagle IS. Choral National Anthem at 0251. Local African music and vernacular talk at 0253. Weak. Poor in thunderstorm static. Oct 1 (Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA, Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZANZIBAR. Radio Tanzania Zanzibar. 6015 Dole. Sept 26, 2011, Monday. 0305-0406. Nothing heard. Not there today. QRM splashing onto this frequency from BBC WS via Ascension on 6005, but it is very weak and would be unheard if Zanzibar was on-air. Jo'burg sunrise 0354. Radio Tanzania Zanzibar. 6015 Dole. Sept 28, 2011, Wednesday. Missing at quickchecks, 0307, 0316, 0411. Jo'burg sunrise 0352. Radio Tanzania Zanzibar. 6015 Dole. Sept 29, 2011, Thursday. Missing at quickcheck 0404. Jo'burg sunrise 0351 (Bill Bingham, RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6015, Radio Tanzania Zanzibar. As of Oct 3, this has been off the air for about two weeks. Not looking too good for them! Checked from about 0257 to 0321 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Who's off frequency on 940? I'm playing around with my Misek phaser and am noticing 940 to be an interesting channel. The main station, semi-local is pretty much exactly on 940, but I'm also able to hear an oldies station ("Tell Laura I love her, ....etc.) is on 940.174 playing Big Bad John right now (0611 UT). I'm seeing another carrier on 939.878 as well, and some faint traces on 939.989 and 939.962. Seemed to ID simply as "Oldies" at 0612. Who??? [Later:] I guess I can answer the question myself. Looked at the MW Offset list, and sure enough, XEMMM in Mexicali, Mexico is on exactly that frequency with oldies format. Must be them! Still an interesting frequency, though (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria BC, IRCA via DXLD) I have also been hearing that het for ages around sunrise (gh, OK) UNIDENTIFIED. 1710 kHz log from Michigan 10/2/11 DXing from West Michigan - times/dates in UTC 1709.974 kHz, UNID Pirate - 0415 UT 10/2/11 - Something different on 1710 tonight, faint but coming up to audio during fade-ups. Heard parts of Pink Floyd's "Money" at 0415 and repeated again at 0419. At 0429 a heavy metal song was played. At 0432 official sounding announcement "..the use of this channel..." and faded. At 0451 it sounded like a documentary program with talk over dramatic music concerning the 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash and the atomic bombs it was carrying. Then into more talk of nuclear weaponry including many old newsreel clips about the atomic bomb. This was in and out of the noise. Still present at 0535 UTC with the same subject matter. By 0600 UTC, Radio Celestial owned the channel with music and later preaching on 1710.03 khz. A re-check at 0930 UTC revealed the same 1709.974 signal still present. This one was unlike any of the other stations I've caught here before. The frequency offset doesn't match Radio Celestial or Radio Soleil Int'l (unless Soleil has changed within the last year?) I never did catch any kind of station ID or live announcement. Seven distinct frequency offsets were noted on 1710 during this time. It sure would be interesting to know who each is. 73, (Tim Tromp, Muskegon, MI, Microtelecom Perseus SDR + phased BOGs, IRCA via DXLD) Tim, Possibly one of those carriers could be a pt 15 operating from St. Paul, MN. It is one of many different x-band frequencies the Hmong community have used. FTS (Todd, ibid.) If its a legal part 15, there's no way a St Paul, MN based Part 15 AM would be heard in Michigan (PAUL B Walker, ibid.) Well, legally anyway. They do not care about rules (FTS, Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone, ibid.) UNIDENTIFIED. Anomaly on 3840 kHz with UNID pirate 10/1 0343 UT heard someone playing 20s and 30s big band music over the hams trying to DF the culprit. Also heard by Powell E. Way III in Silverstreet, SC on an Eton E-10, nekkid (Kevin Redding, Crump, TN, ABDX via dXLD) I heard them on a Naked Grundig G8 in Laurens, SC. The Slop Buckets are ALWAYS coming up and QRMing the AM Window, so it could have been a pissed off AMer getting even. I never did hear an ID, so unlikely a normal Pirate. 73, (Kevin Raper, KJ4HYD, CE WCKI WQIZ WLTQ, [tagline:] There is no limitation to the fidelity of AM radio. From a mathematical standpoint, AM does better in frequency response than FM. - Leonard Kahn, ibid.) UNIDENTIFIED. 4699.408, 0930-0940 español, weak signal, difficult to follow, transmitter drift constant, 30 September [Wilkner, MR- Plantation FL] 4699.432, Unid - "Radio San Miguel, Riberalta" speculation, 0950 noted en español, weak and drifting, off at 1020 recheck 1 October (Bob Wilkner, NRD 535D - Drake R8 - Icom 746Pro, Noise reducing antenna, long wires, 60 meter band dipole suggested by Scott Barbour, Pompano Beach, South Florida, US, Cumbre DX via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 4781.521, 2344.... 'Senor y Senores" [sic], "policia?" YL singing en español sudden off with yl alto voice ballad" at 0009. signal faded after 0004, 23 September; 2330 to 2340 om en español long talk, 22 September [Wilkner] 4781.55, unID, 26 September, 2350 to 0000 fair signal, fade. "Carla observations. FM move would be appropriate for Ecuador.... more difficult for Bolivia", "FM and AM are popular en Peru; not Onda Corta now". Same seem true for Brasil [South Florida] (Bob Wilkner, NRD 535D - Drake R8 - Icom 746Pro, Noise reducing antenna, long wires, 60 meter band dipole suggested by Scott Barbour, Pompano Beach, South Florida, US, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ?? Who`s Carla? Did you mean this was in English?? (gh, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 19-9, 5846.9 S7 // 1670.52 at S20 (i.e. 3.5X!!) pirate with oldies, S7 (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Time? Did you mean a Greek pirate? Seems there are usually details missing from your logs! I suppose this could conceivably result from the base frequency in the transmitter being 835.26 which is multiplied for intentional 1670.52, but also showing up on further integral harmonix of 835.26 (x 7 = 5846.82) (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Yesterday early during the morning, I listened to something very strange (strange to me, at least) on 5996 kHz at 1037 UT as a little bip...pib...bip! There was so much local noise, but, even though, I noted something which called my attention. Could be any numbers or time station? Cubans use to broadcast in the same band on similar frequencies. I send you a short piece of audio on 5996 transmission. I hope you may respond me soon! Thank you, amigo, (Leonardo Santiago, Acarigua, Venezuela, Sept 29, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I was going to say I bet you were really tuned to 4996, where there is RWM, the Moscow timesignal station. However, your beeps are considerably more than 1 second apart, like 2-3 seconds, so I really don`t know what that could be. I see no reason to suspect Cuba (Glenn to Leonardo, via DXLD) Hi Glenn, Thank you very much for the information. I don't agree with you about my tune on 5996 kHz as to be Russia. Remember, it was not 4996, it was 5996. Moreover, as you said, the beeps are very different. I could compared this because I tune Russia Time station over the past days, and their beeps are not equal. Of course, now I also think it couldn't be Cuba. I you find any additional information about my beeps, so please share this with me. Thank you, Mr. Glenn (Leonardo, ibid.) What I meant was: Since the beeps were not one second apart, I am NOT going to say you were really listening to 4996. These must not be timesignals (gh, DXLD) Hi, Glenn! Thanks again for helping! Even Rafael Rodríguez in Bogotá did not know what it could be. We have to wait to know. Maybe it could be something very interesting. 73s, (Leonardo Santiago, ibid.) UNIDENTIFIED. 5999, Oct 6 at 0514, beeps at slightly irregular intervals, not timesignals, as I counted 50 of them in one minute. Appears to be plain CW, beating against something weak on 6000 (Cuba already off), and aside 5995 VOA Hausa via São Tomé at 0500-0530. This is the same thing that Leonardo Santiago in Acarigua, Venezuela asked me about hearing on 5996, Sept 28 at 1037, and sent me a clip. If it can be heard that late, it`s not trans-Atlantic. One might have suspected Mali 5995 messing around before *0600. A wayward ute? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. What shall we do with the 6075+ station which is so difficult to nail. I have uploaded some recordings by me and Arne Nilsson on my website if someone wants to make an effort. There must be something in there pointing to a certain station. It now looks that it is a northern Brazilian station. 73 (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6075.742, 2.10 0105, UNID LA. In a mail this morning AN reports that the station is on again after a few weeks silence. I checked my recording from this night but unfortunately my recording only had music. Read more about this mystery below where you also can listen to some recordings. AN & TN (Arne & Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin 2 Oct via DXLD) The mysterious LA-station on 6075.72 A very mysterious station was first observed here by Arne Nilsson on Aug 16 with LA music and short talk in between. The talk was weakly modulated. When the recording was checked by Henrik Klemetz he said the language sounded Spanish and it “might” be possible they say “R Kawsachun Coca”. Also the other information in the recording was very hard to catch. Further listening to the recordings indicated that the language sounded a bit Portuguese. The time announcements were definitely in Spanish, Henrik says. The following weeks both AN and I set our Perseus receivers for tight watch and recording of this station. Unfortunately China switches on their transmitter on 6075 at 2356z for one hour broadcast when it is switched completely. Several attempts to check for parallel with the R Kawsachun Coca webstream proved useless because their webstream was down at every attempt. Both Henrik Klemetz and Fredrik Dourén listened to my recording from Sept 8 and were indeed very puzzled. The ID “might” again sound like “Radio Kawsachun Coca” but both were very uncertain. Something didn’t match as it normally should. Carlos Gonçalves listened to a recording from Aug 23 and he was also very puzzled and his first thought was a drifting Brazilian. Also Mauno Ritola listened to this recording but he was just as puzzled as we are. On Sept 17 it was possible to check the station and the RKC webstream simultaneously. The conclusion was that it was not at all the same. RKC has a very Bolivian style with many ID’s and the unID had a more western music style with few IDs. The station has been silent from Sept 18 until this morning Oct 2. The recordings below are uploaded to my website and I hope you will take the time to listen and see if it is possible to get some more information. The recording made by Rafael Rodriguez in 2008 is enclosed for comparison of ID of R Kawsachun Coca. Recordings: 6075 R Kawsachun Coca Rafael Rodriguez http://www.thomasn.sverige.net/6075-KHz-Radio-Causaki-Coca.mp3 110917 0110z TN http://www.thomasn.sverige.net/6075,723-110823-0226z.mp3 110823 0226z TN http://www.thomasn.sverige.net/6075,726-110830-0218z.mp3 110830 0218z TN http://www.thomasn.sverige.net/6075,732-110905-0052z.mp3 110905 0052z TN http://www.thomasn.sverige.net/6075,732-110905-0056z.mp3 110905 0056z TN http://www.thomasn.sverige.net/6075,74-110917-0110z.mp3 110827 2349z AN http://www.thomasn.sverige.net/6075-110827-234950z.mp3 110904 2335Z AN http://www.thomasn.sverige.net/6075-110904-233542z.mp3 (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin Oct 2 via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 9720, Oct 6 at 1110, extremely distorted talk-only signal atop clear Indonesian from RNW via SAIPAN, q.v. I can`t find a // on 31m, such as 9805 Martí, 9635 CVC, 9550 RHC. 1135 still the same awful mix. On 9680 there may be a // under the dominant RRI which includes music: that would be Taiwan and/or China; but I can`t be sure. Nothing else is scheduled on 9720 itself. Both 9720 signals go off at 1158* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 9805, Oct 6 at 1327, distorted talk. No jamming, and nothing scheduled here after Martí -1300*. Spur? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 11500, Chinese speaking station at fair level but noisy, heard between 0930-1030, 12/9. Firedrake has been heard periodically here in the past (Dennis Allen, Milperra NSW (Icom R75, Realistic DX160, Dipole), Oct Australian DX News via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 11792, Oct 3 at 1401, approx. center of extremely distorted talk; intonation sounded Spanish, but not sure. Quickly compared to strong 25m Spanish signals, RHC, Martí, WEWN, REE but no matches, nor anywhere else scanning the band. Stopped at 1406 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. (maybe Radio RSD) noted on Sep. 18 & Oct. 2, but not on Sep. 25: 1700-1740 on 12130 KCH 100 kW / 180 deg to EaAF Sun only (maybe 1st & 3rd) (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, Oct 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) What`s RSD?? UNIDENTIFIED. At 1507 I noted on 15280 a transmitter with pronounced buzz. Audio was distorted and muffled, with a hard gate in the chain. Have unfortunately not noted down the language, so that's all I can say about this unlisted transmission (Kai Ludwig, in a meadow, Germany, Oct 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 15300, Another Chinese speaking station with announcements at 1100, 14/9. Quite strong but unable to ID, and nothing in the HFCC or Aoki. There seems to be quite a few of these appearing lately (Dennis Allen, Milperra NSW (Icom R75, Realistic DX160, Dipole), Oct Australian DX News via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. Around 1510 the range between about 15555 and 15630 was filled with loud splatter. Could not find a transmission with matching modulation, thus not determine the culprit (Kai Ludwig, in a meadow, Germany, Oct 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. A bad buzz covered around 1440 the range between about 21690 and 21710. I can not associate a certain transmission with it, and I can not rule out either that it was something semi-local (Kai Ludwig, in a meadow, Germany, Oct 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 21820-USB, Oct 3 at 1414, 2-way ``puta-madre`` colloquial Spanish, also mentioned barco, so probably poachers. Also intruders, as 13m SWBC band officially extends up to 21850 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 22000, Oct 4 at 1241, 2-way SSB in Spanish, whistling, and I don`t even have to turn on the BFO as the FRG-7`s even-MHz Wadley-loop birdie is sufficient. Could be legit maritime comms (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 25615, Oct 2 at 2029, 2-way in Spanish, AMish mode, lowest of lots of ``11-meter`` freebanders propagating now, South America? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 30690+, Oct 2 at 2049, with F2 MUFs soaring, time to search again for harmonix 23-31 MHz. Found two very weak carriers here hetting, so could it be that Morocco and Argentina 15345v are both harmonicizing to het each other here too? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 30690v, checking again for the possible harmonix from 15345v Argentina and/or Morocco: Oct 3 at 2055 I am again getting two very weak carriers, still at 2135 and as closely as I can measure it, the stronger one is about 30690.2 so fundamental would be 15345.1. The other one is a lot weaker. As 2200 approaches, the nominal closing of Morocco, on a second receiver YB-400 with BFO I monitor 15345, which certainly sounds like Morocco, while on the FRG-7 I have BFO near 30690 at a different pitch. If both vanish at the same time, that will pin the harmonic on Morocco. But they don`t, both still going at 2210, when I find that the 15345+ station is now Spanish, ergo Argentina. Will try again. At this hour, 30+ MHz propagation from Argentina would be more likely. 30690 was fading a bit, indicating it is really propagating, not something local. Meanwhile, those who can measure frequencies to two or three decimal places should have no problem making a match to one or the other. I compare 30690 to RFI/GUF 21690, presumed to be on-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also ARGENTINA 30692, 30689, approx., very weak carriers at 1412 UT Oct 5. Also at 1315 UT Oct 6 just below 30690- and approx. 30692. This makes them unlikely to be propagated second harmonix from Morocco and/or Argentina. Still need to hear them in the nightmiddle for a total ruleout. However, I asked porteños on the condiglist to check whether they could hear RAE on 30690v, via groundwave, and Ernesto Paulero reports it at 2206 UT Oct 5, SINPO 23222 --- so it`s possible that harmonic could propagate far away. 15345v is on the air M-F 17-24 UT, Sat 2000- 0230 Sun per Aoki. WRTH adds: Sun 1800-0300 Mon. Weekends are R. Nacional rather than M-F external service. Morocco is on 15345v from circa 1500 until 2200v (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dear Mr Hauser, Enclosed please find a money order toward your work. I have enjoyed both the weekly World of Radio program and the always informative DX Listening Digest for many years. Keep up the excellent work! (Robert W. Gruska, Glendale NY) acknowledged on WORLD OF RADIO 1585 To be acknowledged in following WORs: Thanks to Rodney Scribner, Pittston ME, for a check in the P-mail to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702, ``in memory of Rocky`` (gh) Thanks for DXLD every week, Glenn. Always enjoy. All the best a (Andy Reid, with a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com) CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Detailed report on HFCC B11 NASB and Continental Electronics Host First HFCC Conference in USA http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=283501225012997 Opening Remarks at HFCC/ASBU B11 Conference by Oldrich Cip, Chairman http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=283562795006840 Remarks by Charles Caudill, President of World Christian Broadcasting, at HFCC/ASBU B11 in Dallas http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=283666714996448 [as under MADAGASCAR in this DXLD] Comments by Lauren Libby, President of Trans World Radio, at the HFCC/ASBU B11 Conference http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=283567301673056 (via Alokesh Gupta, VU3BSE, New Delhi, dxldyg via DXLD) VANCOUVER ISLAND RADIO LISTENERS/DXERS SUMMIT Join the Vancouver Island radio enthusiasts for the Saturday morning radio social at Drumroaster Coffee House - in Cobble Hill. Saturday morning - 10:00AM On - October 22, 2011. Guests likely there: Dr. Walter Salmaniw, Ian McFarland, Nick Hall- Patch, Yours truly, Brian Chapel and maybe some "special" guests! If you wish to "register" your participation at this event, please send me an e-mail. Colin Newell is the editor and creator of Coffeecrew.com, DXer.ca and BobHarris.com Amateur Radio VA7WWV - Victoria B.C. Canada | Twitter.com/dxerca (Newell, IRCA via DXLD) DX-PEDITIONS ++++++++++++ Kai Ludwig logs Oct 2 (something that almost never happens) Today we had again summer-like weather with about 25 degrees, making one really forget that it is meanwhile October --- until the sun sets and it rapidly cools off. Did an extended walk already yesterday, so opted for something else today, something I suspect I did not in at least three years: Taking radio and headphones out to a meadow not far from here. Found that shortwave is still alive but with not much European voices left. Of course it was great fun, but after spending close to six hours I fear that such monitoring sessions and compiling a report afterwards will be a rare exception also in future. So here it is (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 2, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) All integrated above by country (gh) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ CIA WORLD FACTBOOK 2012 [paperback] A country-by-country guide to the world—the product of sixty-nine years of CIA intelligence. From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, The CIA World Factbook 2012 offers complete and up-to-date information on the world’s nations. This comprehensive guide is packed with detailed information on the politics, populations, military expenditures, and economics of 2012. For each country, The CIA World Factbook 2012 includes: Detailed maps with new geopolitical data Statistics on the population of each country, with details on literacy rates, HIV prevalence, and age structure New data on military expenditures and capabilities Information on each country’s climate and natural hazards Details on prominent political parties, and contact information for diplomatic consultation Facts on transportation and communication infrastructure And much more! Also included are appendixes with useful abbreviations, international environmental agreements, international organizations and groups, weight and measure conversions, and more. Originally intended for use by government officials, this is a must-have resource for students, travelers, journalists, and business people with a desire to know more about their world. 160 black-and-white illustrations Link: http://www.amazon.com/CIA-World-Factbook-2012/dp/1616083328/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1317574464&sr=8-1 https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/ (Via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, DXLD) NEW KLINGENFUSS PRODUCTS FOR 2012: High solar activity provides excellent HF conditions! Dear friends, we're now working on our new products - 2012 Super Frequency List on CD - 2012 Shortwave Frequency Guide - 2012 Frequency Database for the Perseus LF-HF Software-Defined Receiver - Supplement January 2012 to the 2011/2012 Guide to Utility Radio Stations to be published on 10 December 2011. Full-resolution title page graphics can be found at http://www.klingenfuss.org/r_2012.jpg http://www.klingenfuss.org/s_2012.gif If you are able to supply additional new frequencies and stations, your cooperation would be highly appreciated. Please let us have your data by 15 October 2011. The printed Supplement will be attached free to all copies of the 2011/2012 Guide to Utility Radio Stations sold after 1 January 2012. Those customers that did acquire the 2011/2012 Guide to Utility Radio Stations before that date may download the pertinent .PDF file free from our website, after 1 January 2012. The continuously updated product Digital Data Decoder Screenshots on CD is highly successful and now covers more than 8,100 (eight thousand one hundred!) screenshots from 1997 to today. Feed your PC with this CD and the "slide show" will keep you busy for a few days - or weeks! After more than five years of doom and gloom, solar activity finally resumed in 2011. Currently we have sunspot numbers around 100 peaking 170 in September, resulting in excellent HF propagation conditions and long-distance communication. At this moment, solar activity remains very high. New HF e-mail services, stations, networks and frequencies continue to emerge on a regular basis. HF e-mail booms and service providers continue to expand. No other publisher considers this revolutionary development accordingly. . . Latest references see http://www.klingenfuss.org/ref.htm (via Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 3, DXLD) WORLD OF HOROLOGY +++++++++++++++++ WORLD RADIO DAY UNESCO's Executive Board approved item 13 of its provisional agenda "Proclamation of a World Radio Day" to be celebrated each 13 February. It's an interesting initiative, although it probably would have been more valuable twenty years ago. The Executive's decision: _Recommends_ to the [UNESCO] General Conference that it proclaim a World Radio Day and that this Day be celebrated on 13 February, the day the United Nations established the concept of United Nations Radio; _Invites_ all Member States, organizations of the United Nations system and other international and regional organizations, professional associations and broadcasting unions, as well as civil society, including non- governmental organizations and individuals, to duly celebrate the World Radio Day, in the way that each considers most adequate; _Requests _the Director-General, subject to the final resolution of the General Conference, to bring this resolution to the attention of the Secretary-General of the United Nations so that World Radio Day may be endorsed by the General Assembly. The decision is available in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese and Arabic as 187 EX/13 at the bottom of the page http://www.unesco.org/new/en/executive-board/187th-session/main-series/ -- (Jaisakthivel Via Bruce Girard, Montevideo, Uruguay | HCDX via DXLD) Read UNESCO’s full World Radio Day proclamation here (PDF). http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002112/211271e.pdf SOURCE: The SWLing Post UNESCO Proclaims World Radio Day – February 13 http://bit.ly/oLSzIk (Via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, DXLD) LANGUAGE LESSONS ++++++++++++++++ EiBi has a 9/23/11 Update: And speaking of EiBi here are some new three letter country codes in use (via EiBi) (via Harold Frodge) Bonaire is now BES, ex-ATN Bulgaria is now BGR, ex-BUL Myanmar is now MMR, ex-BRM Netherlands is now NLD, ex-HOL Palau is now PLW, ex-PAL (MARE Tipsheet Oct 1 via DXLD) When you take a look at this list today, you will find NLD and BGR taken back to HOL and BUL and Myanmar has got another new symbol: MYA. In fact there exist two lists (!!!): http://www.itu.int/cgi-bin/htsh/mm/scripts/mm.list?_search=ITUstates&_territories http://www.itu.int/cgi-bin/htsh/mm/scripts/mm.list?_search=ITUstates&_territories=Y The first list does not contain Netherlands Caribbean ! So which one is valid actually and what we should think about the changes changed again? (Or have I missed something?) (Karel Honzik, CZECHIA, HCDX via DXLD) The "new" codes you are referring to came from an ISO 3166-1 document. ISO stands for Internartioanl Organization for Standardization and was set up to define arbitrary systems. The codes you mention were actually created in 1974 and modified until the current ISO 3166-1 listing. I would assume that ITU is finally getting with the times and upgrading their designations to match the rest of the world (Bob Combs, ibid.) Well, here is a third one: http://www.itu.int/cgi-bin/htsh/mm/scripts/generic.list?_n=COUNTRIES&_foto=y&_foto_del=y The intended difference between the first two seems to be that one of them contains only member countries of the ITU - which of course does not contain the Netherlands Caribbean, as that is not an independent country nor a UN or ITU member. The other list contains "countries and territories" for practical purposes and includes most of the little stuff that DXers love to log. Indeed all three lists have reverted to BUL and HOL and turned Myanmar into MYA (ex MMR ex-ex BRM). Apparently someone needs to be kept very busy with thinking about good abbreviations. 73, (Eike Bierwirth, ibid.) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ PETITION ON SPECTRUM GIVEAWAYS ON THE WHITE HOUSE’S NEW WE THE PEOPLE WEBSITE http://www.spectrumbs.info/ SpectrumBS.info === J.H. Snider's Coverage of the BS Behind the Federal Government's Spectrum Giveaways to the TV Broadcasters and Others Dear Readers: I wanted to let you know about a new petition on spectrum policy that I created on We the People, a new feature on WhiteHouse.gov. Please consider adding your name to mine and passing along this petition to anyone else you think might support the cause. The White House URL for the petition is: http://wh.gov/2qN If this petition gets 5,000 signatures by November 02, 2011, the White House will review it and respond! We the People allows anyone to create and sign petitions asking the Obama Administration to take action on a range of issues. If a petition gets enough support, the Obama Administration will issue an official response. Below is a copy of the petition: WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO: require that spectrum lessees be charged market rates like other lessees of public assets such as land and buildings. Since World War II, the Federal government has given away as much as $480 billion in spectrum rights to the private sector, including wealthy individuals and highly profitable corporations such as TV broadcasters, satellite operators, and mobile phone carriers. In the early 1990s, Congress mandated that spectrum rights be allocated by auction. But most spectrum rights have continued to be given away, often with a pretext of public interest obligations that are unenforced and later renegotiated. The Obama Administration has engaged in much talk about spectrum auctions and fees, but most spectrum rights have continued to be given away. When the government transfers spectrum rights from the American public to private corporations, the public should receive fair compensation for its property (via Benn Kobb, Oct 4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [INTRUDER ALERT] OVER THE HORIZON RADAR Hi friends, as I know the following countries are using OTHR systems on shortwave: Argentina, Australia, China, Cyprus (UK and NATO), France, Great Britain, India, Israel, North-Korea, Russia, Turkey, USA. Bearings are often difficult, because the reflections are scattering too much. Waiting for OTHRs from Monaco and Andorra ;-)) Attached: A Russian burst OTHR hopping on 14 MHz (no intro tone!) 73 from (Wolf, INTRUDERALERT mailing list (Via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) TV ANTENNAS Both Winegard and Channel Master have freshened up their web sites. Winegard now confesses that DTV doesn't get out as far as good old NTSC. Their strongest antennas now claim 45-60 mile pickup. Channel Master has a new 'Masterpiece' line with some interesting entries. Boy! Do you pay a lot for a quick spray of black paint! Also remarkable is the adaptation to the new DTV world. All antennas are now hi-VHF and UHF. I love the concept of the add-on low VHF kit. How about a kit for European VHF TV? http://www.winegard.com/home/index.php http://www.channelmaster.com/Channel_Master_Digital_HDTV_Antenna_Outdoor_HD_Antenna_s/3.htm (Karl Zuk N2KZ, WTFDA via DXLD) HOW THE POWER OUTAGE IMPACTED SAN DIEGO BROADCASTERS Gary Stigall of San Diego SBE has prepared a comprehensive report on how the September 8, 2011 massive power outage affected a wide variety of San Diego broadcast stations (first URL below). Here is one very memorable account. Leon Messenie, Director of Engineering and IT for KPBS-FM/TV, San Diego, is quoted as saying, "KPBS does not have [a] generator at either the KPBS studios nor the transmitter site. When the power went off we were completely off the air. Ironically, I was in our Station Manager, Deanna Mackey's office, discussing our option for generators when the power went off...." There are many important lessons to be learned from this relatively brief outage and Gary gives some helpful advice (second URL). Had the outage been a bit longer, many of us may have been scrambling for drinking water, food and fuel. http://tinyurl.com/SBE36PowerOutageReport http://tinyurl.com/SBE36LessonsLearned (CGC Communicator Oct 3 via Kevin Redding, ABDX via DXLD) READ MY KAITO AN200 ANTENNA REVIEW [mediumwave] https://sites.google.com/site/zliangas/kaito-an200-antenna-review (Zacharias Liangas, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) IF A SHORTWAVE CONSUMER RECEIVER COULD DO WHAT THIS SHORTWAVE MILSPEC TRANSCEIVER CAN DO, SHORTWAVE BROADCASTING MIGHT REBOUND. Posted: 01 Oct 2011 illustrated: http://kimelli.nfshost.com/index.php?id=12163 Rohde & Schwarz press release, 28 Sept 2011: "The new software version 7.0 for the R&S M3TR and R&S M3SR Series 4100 radio families from Rohde & Schwarz significantly simplifies communications in the shortwave band. ... The quality of shortwave links heavily depends on ambient transmission conditions such as solar radiation and atmospheric ionization. The software automatically adjusts the transmission rate to accommodate prevailing conditions. ... For exceptionally poor conditions, Rohde & Schwarz offers a last-ditch voice transmission method. Last-ditch voice enables reliable voice transmission even when the noise is stronger than the voice signal, i.e. with a negative signal-to-noise ratio." (kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD) CARDBOARD RADIO CAN BE RECYCLED WHEN YOU'RE DONE WITH IT | Geek.com http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-cetera/cardboard-radio-mp3-speaker-can-be-recycled-when-youre-done-with-it-20110928/ (via Kevin Redding, ABDX via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC See also USA: KNST +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Radio World: NRSC UPDATES IBOC STANDARDS http://www.radioworld.com/article/nrsc-updates-iboc-standards/24363 The National Radio Systems Committee adopted an updated version of its in-band, on-channel digital radio broadcasting standard, NRSC-5-C. The membership adopted the changes at a meeting during the Radio Show in Chicago. The new version includes more than 70 modifications that take into account newer features of HD Radio, including asymmetrical sideband transmission and the FM power increase. The NRSC said a major part of the work has been the update of "reference documents" by iBiquity Digital Corp., which contain the technical details of the standard. NAB and CEA co-sponsor the NRSC. NAB EVP/CTO Kevin Gage commended the group, made up of engineers who volunteer their time. He said the updates provide for a more robust digital signal and improved coverage. CEA SVP Research And Standards Brian Markwalter said HD Radio is gaining momentum, citing recent announcements from automakers like Toyota, Lexus and Kia that indicate “more consumers will be using this technology in their cars, and today's improvements to the standard will make the consumer experience even better." The IBOC Standards Development Working Group, chaired by Dom Bordonaro, chief engineer, Cox Broadcasting – Connecticut, developed “NRSC-5-C, In-band/on-channel Digital Radio Broadcasting Standard.” The working group is a subgroup of the Digital Radio Broadcasting Subcommittee, which adopted the changes. Andy Laird, vice president and chief technology officer for Journal Broadcast Group, co-chairs the subcommittee with Mike Bergman, vice president of new digital technologies at Kenwood USA. The updated standard will soon be available on the NRSC website, following a final review (via Kevin Redding, ABDX via DXLD) This dead horse will never go away. It looks like they will keep shoving it into cars (Joe Consumer doesn't care what's in the dash). The idea of any portables is DEAD, no walkmans. A walkman like portable flopped that Best Buy tried to carry and home type radios flopped that various retailers tried to carry. So where does this leave us ???? Is radio only going to be for a car in the future as this seems to indicate ??? (starship20012001, ibid.) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See BELARUS; CROATIA; ETHIOPIA; GREECE; ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ MADAGASCAR; MICRONESIA; UK PROPAGATION +++++++++++ PROPAGATION THOUGHTS Have recognized a propagation pattern in the past, of enhanced morning reception on the LA/USA circuit, better signals out of the LA and esp. the Andes, one or more days after a major solar flare, when the SF, A and K indexes are all moving downward and back toward 'normal' ranges. Not so much the absolute value of the indices, it seems, but rather the direction (downward) and magnitude of index movements. Presumably, in the aftermath of the flare, things are settling down 24-72 hours later and I suspect ionospheric conditions perhaps pass through an optimal range that enhances USA/Andes during this period. This is of course not hard science, just a seat-of-the-pants type observation. But based on that underlying view, I've been hitting the predawn 60 meter band this week, looking for a better morning opening to Peru, etc., in the aftermath of the dramatic solar events we've been seeing. But so far haven't seen anything extraordinary as Solar Flux and the rest have been hanging around at elevated levels due to repeated events on the sun. Have seen SF numbers for the past several days at 168, 138, 133 and still-elevated A and K Index numbers, too. But if my casual past observations hold true, I am still hopeful for a nice morning of Andes signals in the next few days, as SF finally rides on down to a more normal level, along with the A and K indices. In the meantime, can report progress as we've gone from almost no signals other than the mega-transmitters on the 60 mb. band (mornings ago) --- to stations showing up again tho not strong yesterday --- to better sig levels today. The progression is at least a positive one (Ralph Perry, Wheaton, Illinois, Drake R8B; Japan Radio NRD-545; Eton E1; Hallicrafters SX100; Knightkit Star Roamer, Dentron Super Tuner + Ameco PLF-2 + Palomar P-408, Longwires (150' + 100'); Tuned Multi-Turn 20" Small Loop; Single-Turn Coax Loop, Sept 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ARRL PROPAGTION BULLETIN, Sept 30 Good summary of recent hi-flux conditions: http://www.arrl.org/w1aw-bulletins-archive/ARLP039/2011 (via gh, DXLD) Geomagnetic activity ranged from quiet to severe storm levels during the period. Increased activity on 26 - 28 September was due to effects of an expected CME from 24 September. Increased activity early on 29 September was due to nighttime sub-storms. Increased activity on 01 - 02 October was due to a solar sector boundary crossing (SSBC) prior to the onset of high speed stream (HSS) effects from a favorably positioned coronal hole (CH). FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 05 OCTOBER-31 OCTOBER 2011 Solar activity is expected to be at low to moderate levels during 05 - 15 October with a slight chance for M-class flare activity from Region 1305 until it crosses the west limb on 07 October, and the return of old Region 1295 (N24, L=57) on 08 October. A decrease to low levels is expected during 16 - 17 October after Region 1295 rotates off the west limb. During 18 - 25 October, activity is expected to increase to low to moderate levels with a slight chance for major flare activity as old Region 1302 rotates back onto the visible disk. Activity is expected to return to low levels for the remainder of the forecast period (26 - 31 October) after old Region 1302 rotates off the west limb. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit from 05 - 17 October. There is a slight chance for a proton enhancement from 18 - 27 October due to the return of old Region 1302. No proton events are expected during 25 - 31 October. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at mostly normal to moderate levels. High levels are expected during 9 - 14 and 28 - 31 October due to influences from coronal hole high speed streams. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be mostly unsettled on 05 October due to a CME arrival. Activity is expected to increase to active levels on 06 October due to continued CME effects. Activity is expected to decrease to mostly unsettled levels during 07 - 09 October as effects from the CME subside and a negative polarity coronal hole moves into a geoeffective position. Activity is expected to continue to decrease to mostly quiet levels during 10 - 27 October. During 28 - 30 October, activity is expected to return to mostly unsettled levels due to a positive polarity coronal hole. Finally, activity is expected to decrease to mostly quiet levels on 31 October. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2011 Oct 04 2337 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 2011-10-04 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2011 Oct 05 125 15 5 2011 Oct 06 120 18 5 2011 Oct 07 120 8 3 2011 Oct 08 115 8 3 2011 Oct 09 115 8 3 2011 Oct 10 115 5 2 2011 Oct 11 115 5 2 2011 Oct 12 115 5 2 2011 Oct 13 115 5 2 2011 Oct 14 110 5 2 2011 Oct 15 110 5 2 2011 Oct 16 110 5 2 2011 Oct 17 115 5 2 2011 Oct 18 120 5 2 2011 Oct 19 125 5 2 2011 Oct 20 125 5 2 2011 Oct 21 125 5 2 2011 Oct 22 125 5 2 2011 Oct 23 125 5 2 2011 Oct 24 125 5 2 2011 Oct 25 125 5 2 2011 Oct 26 125 5 2 2011 Oct 27 125 5 2 2011 Oct 28 125 8 3 2011 Oct 29 125 8 3 2011 Oct 30 120 8 3 2011 Oct 31 120 5 2 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1585, DXLD) ###