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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1590 HEADLINES: *DX and station news about: Albania, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Canada, Cuba, France and non, Guam, India, Indonesia, Iran, Korea, Liberia, Libya, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mauritania, Micronesia, Netherlands non, Poland non, Russia, Sudan non, Syria, Taiwan non, Thailand, Uganda non, USA SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1590, November 10-17, 2011 [all times are now unshifted] Thu 0430 WRMI 9955 [repeated 1589 this week] Thu 1600 WRMI 9955 [repeated 1589 this week] Thu 2200 WRMI 9955 Thu 2200 WTWW 9479 [confirmed] Thu 2230 WBCQ 7490 [confirmed] Fri 0430 WWRB 3195 and 5051 [confirmed] Fri 0600 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Fri 1530 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Sat 0900 WRMI 9955 Sat 1600 WRMI 9955 Sat 1830 WRMI 9955 Sun 0500 WTWW 5755 [confirmed] Sun 0900 WRMI 9955 Sun 1630 WRMI 9955 Sun 1830 WRMI 9955 Mon 0400v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB [confirmed] Mon 1230 WRMI 9955 Mon 1630 WRMI 9955 Mon 2230 WRMI 9955 Tue 1030 HLR 5980 Hamburger Lokal Radio Tue 1630 WRMI 9955 Wed 1630 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/ EDITOR`S NOTE: We are way behind, and falling further behind. This issue with cutoff early Nov 10, could not be completed before early UT Nov 14 (gh) ** ALBANIA. Re: should R. Tirana, Albanian to NAm at 00-01 move from 7425 to 7420 as gh suggests? At 0030 UT 7460 kHz channel is totally free here in EUR, but 7430 suffers by Erevan powerhouse S=9+25dB, Kashi on 7425 less strong, and also same level PBS Nei Menggu Hohot China on 7420 kHz. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, UT NOV 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7425 - R. Tirana - Heard just after sign on at 0002 with a brief musical fanfare to OM with ID in Albanian. YL next with news and sports into local music past 0025. Signal was very good, strong & steady, with no QRM from CRI. Slight hum from V. of Russia on 7430, which had a huge signal (S. Wood, Harwich, Mass., Drake R8B, 25 x 50 N/E Superloop antenna, UT Nov 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Tirana back in English at 0230 on 7420? I wasn`t sure if or when R. Tirana would put English on 7420 at 0230 UT as I recommended, but tune in at 0238 UT Nov 4 and there is a fair signal in English on 7420, presumably R. Tirana. Talking about Mediterranean villages, and into music. Modulation sounds like RT, somewhat muffled. But there is no interference, 10 kHz away from nearest stations on 7410 and 7430. Please check 7420 before 0255 UT tonight and report on reception quality where you are. Tnx, (Glenn Hauser, 0244 UT Nov 4, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) But no replies, too late to reach many quickly. Went off around 0258. Wolfgang Büschel points out that Hohhot, Inner Mongolia is also on 7420 at this time, but we never hear anything from it here. Since there`s only one broadcast in English to NAm left from R. Tirana, we wanted it to be in the evening instead of 1530 on 13640, when it`s not been propagating well and fewer are able to listen. So has 0230 [except UT Mondays] replaced 1530? Apparently: no carrier heard at 1531 Nov 4, tho there are plenty of other signals on 13 MHz. The Albanian hour at 00-01 should also have moved from 7425 to 7420 due to Chicom QRM, but did not check that yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7420 - R. Tirana - Press review with feature on Mediterranean beaches in Albania at 0236 in English. Then into feature on destruction of intellectual life in Albania by communist regime. Signal very good with only slight static (Stephen Wood, Harwich, MA, Drake R8B, 25 x 50 N/E Superloop, UT Nov 5, ibid.) After hearing 7420 the night before, I was sure to be listening UT Nov 5 at 0227 when an open carrier turned into the haunting R. Tirana IS; good signal S9+22 with flutter, better than Nov 4, and usual modulation not up to par. Sign-on in English already at 0229:40, 0230 right into news from Albania, skipping any frequency/schedule announcement, either waiting until it becomes stable, or not wanting to mention only the two broadcasts which are left. Reception does not improve during the semihour; 0242 goes to music until 0254:30 closing theme and off at 0255*. Stephen Wood in Massachusetts was also listening, and reports ``signal very good with only slight static.`` I am pleased that we now have a clear frequency with no co- or adjacent-channel interference. So R. Tirana has moved its last English broadcast to our evening and on a clear frequency. I`m sure they would like to hear from other listeners how it`s coming in. Signal might be stronger on 6 MHz band, but more QRM. Earlier at 0018 UT Nov 5 I checked the Albanian hour, and found it still on 7425, heavy collision from China, and unusable. Hope RT also shifts that to 7420. In Massachusetts, Steve Wood said R. Tirana on 7425 was a huge signal with no interference from China, UT Nov 3 at 0002-0025+, but that`s certainly not the case further west. UT Nov 6, R. Tirana is still on 7425 for Albanian at 0000, with heavy QRM from China, but on 7420 for English at 0230 [except UT Mondays], in the clear as checked 0254 during closing music. 7425, Nov 7 at 0010, R. Tirana atop China QRM, but by 0039 China is gaining as RT stix to this frequency instead of shifting to clear 7420. Since it`s UT Monday, no check of 7420 at 0230 English. 13640, Monday Nov 7 at 1530, R. Tirana reconfirmed gone, replaced by 0230 on 7420 in English to North America, except UT Mondays. 7425, Nov 7 at 2359, R. Tirana IS, fair with lite CCI from China; 0005 R. Tirana is atop, but why not shift Albanian hour to the really clear frequency of 7420? 7420 is now on the official schedule for English 0230-0300 UT Tue-Sun. Coincidentally, Sigitas Zilionis has planned a special broadcast in English to North America from LITHUANIA at 0200-0400 UT Nov 12 and 13 only, and asks R. Tirana not to use it on those dates. This was not in the original B-11 HFCC planning. I wonder what it`s about? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 7420, Nov 9 at 0237 check, R. Tirana English to N America is missing this UT Wednesday. Wolfgang Büschel also found the earlier Albanian hour from 0000 on 7425 missing, just China to be heard in Germany. As for the coming conflict with Lithuania on Nov 12-13 which wanted to use 7420 for a pirate special to North America in English at 0200- 0400, I suggested to Sigitas Zilionis that they use 7415 instead which is now open, and an ex-pirate frequency in North America. He replies: ``Glenn, Excellent idea, thanks! We'll go for it``. Gary Drew forwarded info from the SW pirates yg that the special is for the 28th birthday of Radio Waves International, but shown as only on early UT Sunday November 13 at 02-04. (Also Friday Nov 11 to Eu 21- 23 on 6055; Sunday Nov 13 to Asia 1330-1530 on 9895). Wolfgang Büschel points out that the latter broadcasts will apparently have to pre-empt scheduled Iran relays by ZRC Sitkunai. Now via Robert Scaglione, RWI, address in France, http://go.to/rwi publicizes that their special will indeed be on 7415 at 02-04 Nov 13 only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7425, Noted only CRI Kashi in English service on that channel at 0006 UT Nov 9. Noted also in Iowa on Jerry Strawman's post, and as well as on US East coast Perseus monitoring receivers too. 7425 Radio Tirana from Shijak was silent today Nov 9th at 0000-0100. Listen to the attached 7425 kHz recording made at 0033 UT Nov 9th, hit heavily by 500 kW powerhouse from V of Russia Yerevan relay in Spanish next door on 7430 kHz. And on 7420 kHz in Europe noted well NRMB PBS Nei Menggu broadcast from Hohot in Chinese too. Though that's not the case in North America. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7460, 7465, and 7520 to 7530 kHz are FREE channel at 0000-0100 UT too. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- So, I would STRONGLY suggest to use for Radio Tirana transmission at 0000-0100 UT the channels 7465 or 7520 kHz instead! btw. an Utility RTTY station uses 7455 kHz channel at that time, UTE list says 24 hrs. And ?Cuban? BUBBLE JAMMING transmitter parked on 7537 kHz at 0023 UT Nov 9, the whole night span (monitoring post in southern Germany, Wolfgang Büschel, Nov 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) At 0237 check Nov 9, R. Tirana is also missing from 7420 (nor 7425). Maybe by luck it will also be off when ZRC wants it? (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Thank you for replies, Wolfy and Glenn. Short Wave Shijak r-station is 'off ' air due to the blocked r/relay at Shijak - reported us on 8 Nov the staff at Shijak r-station, while Fllaka instead broadcasts Radio Tirana 1st Ch., audio signal is fed to the Fllaka transmitter by FM receiver (Drita Çiço, RTSH-Monitoring & Frequency Manager, RADIO TIRANA, ibid.) [and non]. 7425, Nov 10 at 0004, R. Tirana in Albanian, not too much QRM from China tonight, but at 0015 can tell there is another station under with SAH, and there is also adjacent interference from 7430, which is VOR via ARMENIA. It would still be better for Tirana on clear 7420. At 0238 checking the 0230 English broadcast, it`s back on the air after a link failure the previous night, but on 7425 again instead of 7420. Drita Çiço says this was an error and it is still supposed to be on 7420. Sufficient signal but undermodulated. I still haven`t caught any opening schedule announcements since B-11 began (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALGERIA. ARGÉLIA, 891, R. Algérienne, Ouled Fayet, 2326-..., 06/11, Arabic, talks, unreadable, extremely weak modulation level on a very strong carryer, prgr parallel to 549; 54444, QRM de PORTUGAL. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANGOLA. 4949.77, Rádio Nacional, 1952, local music with excited DJ, readable, despite very low audio (a pity, since the signal is about S9+20 here). 29 Oct. 7216.75, Rádio Nacional, 1928, presumption it's this, based on frequency only, as there was no audio. 29 Oct (David Sharp, NSW, Australia, partial list of equipment: FT-950, NRD-535D, R8, R30A, Timewave 599ZX, various Palstar and MFJ accessories, Quantun Phaser, various Sangean and Tecsun portables, EWE aerials, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARCTICA [and non]. 15476, Nov 3 at 1303, no sign of LRA36 on this Thursday, but I had no time to chase it for another hour or two; instead producing WORLD OF RADIO 1589. 15476, it`s Tuesday Nov 8, so another perfunctory check for LRA36 in case they turn on the transmitter during alleged schedule: no carrier detectable at 1325 and a couple later chex. But there`s always Thursday when the probability is slightly improved. 15480 music splash was also a problem, i.e. now AWR, 70 degrees via Nauen, Germany at 13-15; unheard but registered on the other side is a squeeze from YFR, 85 degrees also via Nauen at 13-15, or maybe something else from Wertachtal at 14-15. 15476, Nov 10 at 1312-1322, never any carrier detected this Thursday from LRA36 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. Re 11-43, RAE heard on 10840: Marcelo, será um feeder? (Sarmento Campos, Brasil, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Sarmento, Pode ser, quem sabe. Curioso é que chega com sinal um pouco mais fraco do que a emissão em OM. Ontem à noite cheguei a ouvir novamente, com identificação e tudo. Mesma programação dos 870 kHz. Como estava com sono, não cheguei a ouvir até às 05 UT novamente para ver se o sinal saía do ar. O Huelbe cogitou que poderia ser uma imagem, mas não me pareceu. Dei uma busca na banda de 25 metros e nada parecido. Mas vale a curiosidade de ficar procurando algo fora de banda. É uma das coisas que mais gosto. 73! (Marcelo Vieira, Maringá - PR, ibid.) Se não leram minha resposta do 22 de out em inglês: Ja expliquei que o sinal en 10840 vem da diferença de 11710 OC - 870 OM = 10840. Produto de mezcla nos transmissores vezinhos. 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Hi Glenn, I read but I have not got the point. As a matter of fact, I have already listened to feeders on higher bands modulating on SSB, specially from Argentina. But mixing neighbor tx is not usual. Usually internal images or some tx problem, but both should present an exact value of IF products or harmonic frequencies (a multiple of the fundamental frequency). Regards (Sarmento Campos, ibid.) Hi Sarmento, It is unusual, but there are other instances of MW and SW transmitters at the same site producing such mixing products at plus or minus the mediumwave frequency from the shortwave frequency, and this works out perfectly, 11710 minus 870 = 10840. So in this case it has nothing to do with transmitted multiples (harmonics) or receiver IFs (images). There have been a number of unIDs from European sites which turned out to have such a relationship, and I think occasionally elsewhere in Latin America. Certainly there are some SSB feeders from Argentina, but was this SSB? It would be quite a coincidence if they chose a frequency matching B minus A. Once again, local listeners in GBA might also be able to hear this on 10840. Also, since 11710 is really closer to 11711, the exact frequency should be closer to 10841. If that can be measured, it would be further evidence of my explanation. A similar mix might or might not appear on + 870 from 11711 = 12551, so please look for that. 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** ARGENTINA. 15345.17, RAE, Spanish, 2224, good with talk by a man, into tango, very unstable and warbly sounding transmitter if tuned in sideband. 28 Oct (David Sharp, NSW, Australia, partial list of equipment: FT-950, NRD-535D, R8, R30A, Timewave 599ZX, various Palstar and MFJ accessories, Quantun Phaser, various Sangean and Tecsun portables, EWE aerials, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6060, RAE, General Pacheco, 2215-2236, 03/11, Castilian, speech of the President of the Republic, weather report at 2229 followed by Argentinian music; 34432, QRM de BRAZIL. Parallel to 15344.9. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11710.59, RAE, 1018, noted as big het against presumed China on nominal; very poor copy in USB with Japanese talk by a woman, into tangos (David Sharp, NSW, partial list of equipment: FT-950, NRD-535D, R8, R30A, Timewave 599ZX, various Palstar and MFJ accessories, Quantun Phaser, various Sangean and Tecsun portables, EWE aerials, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Probably Nov 4 with other logs ** AZERBAIJAN. 9677.48, Voice of Justice, Stepanakert, *0501-0528*, Sat Oct 22, Azeri and Russian, IS, ID "...Stepanakert Ädalätin Sesi", news read by female voice, 34432, bad modulation and irregular (Patrick Robic, Leibnitz, Austria, DSWCI DX Window Nov 2 via DXLD) ** BAHRAIN. 9745, Radio Bahrain, 2330-0105, carrier + USB. Local music. Indigenous vocals. Local chants. Arabic talk. Weak. Poor with adjacent channel splatter. Nov 4-5 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** BANGLADESH. QSL: Bangladesh Betar, 4750, f/d National Monument card in 455 days for English report via Airmail with US $5.00 and English follow-up via registered mail with return receipt and three IRCs. V/S Abu Tabib Md. Zia Hasan, Senior Engineer, Research Wing. He had also previously emailed me to let me know he got the report, but never received the original. This arrived 48 days after follow-up. The station was heard while I was at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan on August 9 2010 at 1256 UT. 73 (Al Muick, Whitehall PA USA, received on a WinRadio G303e receiver with a 100m randomwire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4750, On Oct 30 heard with songs till 1459 UT, next announcement that the broadcast is cont[inuing] on FMs with news in Bengali from "NHK Radio Japan" and was close down on 4750 kHz (Rumen Pankov-BULGARIA, Nov 2, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 4 via WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DXLD) NHK in Bengali schedule see 1300-1330 UT 12035 kHz Singapore Kranji relay site. 1500-1545 UT FM Dhaka 97.6 MHz + 6 other BGD cities. (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) ** BELARUS. Hello Glenn, astonishment on Belarus Radio schedule today, acc to contribution in ng A-DX members didn't hear German service 20- 21 UT tonight. B-11 Belarus Radio German schedule read 1900-2000 6155 7360 7390 2000-2100 1170 6155 7360 7390 WRTH shows UT+2 hours time zone. But website Worldclock shows UT+3hrs now: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=285 Maybe German service changed to 1800-2000 UT? So the old summer schedule is still in effect? On 6155 I listened English service at 20- 21 UT. Has Belarus taken over Russia's new Standard Time zone? (Wolfgang Büschel, Nov 5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, a few weeks ago in DXLD under BELARUS or WORLD OF HOROLOGY we discussed Belarus staying on advanced summer time like Russia (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) 7382v, Noted distorted audio of Belarus Radio in Belarussian at 0630 UT Oct 30, and also at 0735 UT in range 7378 to 7384 kHz. Most probably a spurious signal of 7280 kHz, the stronger Belarus stn in 41 mb, compared to lower level on 7235 kHz. 11930, Belarus Radio Minsk was still on A-11 summer season schedule this morning at 0656 UT Oct 30. S=9+10dBm, SW TX switch off at 0700:22 UT. Belarus frequency to be replaced by 7255 kHz at 05-08 UT in B-11 season (Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 30, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11930, second day in row in winter season B-11, Radio Belarus Minsk is still on summer channel in 25mb, but registered usual 7255 kHz in 41 mb at 05-07 UT (Wolfgang Büsche, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I have a schedule with consideration of the proposed work and the MW transmitters: <> 0000-2400 279 0200-0100 6010 6040 6070 6190 7235 7280 0400-0700 1170 7255 1500-1700 1170 6155 1500-2100 1278 6080 6115 <> 1500-2100 1008 1026 1125 7265 (Alexander Egorov, Kyiv, Ukraine, "deneb-radio-dx" via RusDX via DXLD) Transmitting center Kolodichchi (Minsk) BelRadio 6115 kHz 1500-2100 75 kW (pie chart) [sic] 6080 kHz 1500-2100 150 kW (to the south) 7255 kHz 0400-0700 250 kW (to the east) 7255 kHz 1500-1700 250 kW (to the east) Radio station Belarus 7390 kHz 1100-1700 150 kW (to the west) 7360 kHz 1100-1700 75 kW (to the west) 6155 kHz 1700-2300 250 kW (to the west) Channel Culture 1125 kHz 1500-2100 150 kW Transmitting center Ponemun (Grodno) Belradio 6040 kHz 24 hours. 5 kW (pie chart) 7280 kHz 24 hours. 5 kW (pie chart) Channel Culture 7265 kHz 1500-2100 5 kW (pie chart) 1008 kHz 1500-2100 7 kW (Sergey Alekseychik, Grodno, Belarus / "open_dx" via RusDX, ibid.) 6040, presumed Belaruskaye Radio Grodno 2217-2300 Nov 6 listed Belarussian; Noted after co-channel R. Vatican 2227* with Russian sounding pops, ballads & anthem-like music; W announcer between selections; Metallica "Nothing Else Matters" in English; very poor & weak; wiped out by CRI-Sackville at *2300; no // noted (Scott R. Barbour Jr., Intervale, N.H. USA, NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 6055,095 28.10 2131 R Juan XXIII redan vid denna tid och med riktigt bra hörbarhet men en del splatter. Gick riktigt bra vid 21.40. AN 6055.095, 28.10 2131, R Juan XXIII already at this time and quite good audio but some splatter. Good signal at 2140. AN (Arne Nilsson, Sjulsmark, Sweden, SW Bulletin Oct 30, translated by editor Thomas Nilsson for DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 6134.84, R. Santa Cruz, 0852, transmitter suddenly on (and with a very bad audio hum); then sign-on announcements by a man, frequencies, Andean flute music then canned (reverb) announcement by a woman. 31 Oct (David Sharp, NSW, Australia, partial list of equipment: FT-950, NRD-535D, R8, R30A, Timewave 599ZX, various Palstar and MFJ accessories, Quantun Phaser, various Sangean and Tecsun portables, EWE aerials, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6134.83, Radio Santa Cruz, *0858-0915, sign on with choral music and Spanish talk. Flute IS at 0900:40. Opening Spanish ID announcements at 0901. Santa Cruz song at 0903 followed by local Bolivian music. Poor to fair in noisy conditions. Nov 5 (Brian Alexander, PA, WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DX Listening Digest) ** BOSNIA. 9685, QSL. The International Radio Serbia via Bijeljina- Bosnia site verified with a full data "Listeners Club" card in 75 days with a sticker and an out-of-date (27 March 2011 through 30 Oct 2011) "Radio Yugoslavia - Shortwave" program schedule (apparently there are some at the station that prefer the old name rather than the new name!). Although requested, the site was not noted on the card. The "200" in the P. O. Box number was crossed out and "72" was written in so it appears their postal address is now P. O. Box 72, Hilandarska 2, 11000 Beograd, Serbia (Rich D'Angelo-PA-USA, DXplorer Nov 6 via BC-DX Nov 9 via DXLD) ** BOTSWANA. Radio Botswana, 621 kHz (Selebi Phikwe) // 1071 (Jwaneng), 1215 (Mahalapye). Oct 24, 2011, Monday. 1835-1852. Afro music / song, then piece on marimba with YL singing. 621 fair, 1071 fair, 1215 good. As usual, 1215 is the best of the four Radio Botswana frequencies. 1350 (Tsabong) is totally missing tonight. Jo'burg sunset 1620. Radio Botswana, 621 Selebi Phikwi // 1215 Mahalapye. Oct 30, 2011, Sunday. 1720-1724, SeTswana with rap music. 1734-1740, SeTswana, YL's talking. Both very poor. Stormy tonight, with lightning QRN. No sign of usual // 1071 and 1350. Jo'burg sunset 1624 (Bill Bingham, RSA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOTSWANA. Voice of America relay, 9800, Selebi Phikwe. Oct 24, 2011, Monday. 1802-1809. Portuguese, sounds like news. Mentioned "Voice of America" at 1805, then talk about Angola with mentions of "Presidente" and "Luanda". Then went on to talk about Mozambique (like Angola, a Portuguese ex-colony) at 1808. Good, to Central Africa. Jo'burg sunset 1620 (Bill Bingham, RSA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4815, Nov 10 at 0013, sounds like Brazilian talk, ute QRM. Presumably R. Dif. Londrina. Surprised to hear anything semi- intelligible from LA, as all but strongest 60m signals are still mostly wiped out here by line noise level (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Answering my own question, posed previously, the location of Radio Verdes Floresta (the "other" Brazilian reported near 4865, other than R Alvorada) is Cruzeiro do Sul in Acre, which is about as far west in Brazil as one can get -- in the portion that juts into Eastern Peru, not too distant from Pucallpa. This tidbit of evidence plus the morning fadeout pattern would tend to support this possibly being Rádio Verdes Florestas in Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre, as Chuck suggested, and not R Alvorada (about as far EAST in Brazil as possible). So, all we need now . . . is an ID! Hi (Ralph W Perry, IL, Nov 2, dxldyg via DX LI STENING DIGEST) Ralph, I can hear that station in the evenings too, so I will try for an ID when I am listening in the evening and mornings (Chuck Bolland, FL, ibid.) Chuck, this should be fun to sort out, hope you're enjoying this, too. My working hypothesis, for now, is: - In the evenings, Alvorada appears to be what most DXers are hearing. Many reports, IDs, bigger city programming, etc. It all fits for this Londrina station. - But in the mornings, on this same general frequency, it may many days actually be Verdes Floresta (the station heard with religious programming at times, segued tunes and fading out late as 1100 thanks to the far western location). - But some mornings, Alvorada may be here, dominating the frequency -- the slick news show I've heard at times around 1030 or so might fit. And at least one very trustworthy DXer has gotten an Alvorada ID on a morning logging of a Brazilian here. Therefore, to move past "unID", an ID will be essential here for listeners. Another question is whether PFM (precision frequency measurement) would help differentiate the two stations -- that is, if they are solid and stable on different precision frequencies, such as one on xx.02 kHz and the other on xx.05 kHz, or whatever (Ralph Perry, Nov 3, ibid.) Ralph, I heard an ID this morning, but didn't understand it. Portuguese is not one of the languages I can understand. The ID was presented exactly at 1000 UT, so if you get a chance, try and listen in the mornings at that time. There's a religious program on prior to 1000 UT. The signal was muffled. I am a fair weather DXer. I can't hear ID's unless they are perfect. I use an Excalibur receiver which can measure the frequency to the cycle, so it's easy to pursue a station using the exact frequency measured. I will listen later today and in the morning again. Hang in there (Chuck Bolland, Nov 3, ibid.) I heard two sparkling clear IDs on R. Verdes Florestas on 4865 early Sunday morning (30 Oct 2011) in about a 10-minute period; I don't have my log handy near me, but it was roughly the time frame (during the 1000 UTC hour) you mention here. Had to get away from the city (went out to the rural San Mateo/California coast with a 450-foot wire), and that made all the difference. Many other Brazilians were audible too, as well as most of the 60 meter AIR (India) outlets including Shimla and even Port Blair. A great night DXing! 73, (Bruce Jensen, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Cool beans, Bruce! Thanks for that. So it seems Alvorada at night, Verdes Florestas in the mornings; and I still suspect that on occasional mornings, Alvorada may also take over the fqy at times. We need PFMs for both, perhaps a shorthand way to tentatively tell them apart (Ralph, ibid.) More on our log of Radio Verdes Florestas - 4865, 1020 UT, 30-October- 2011, 35333, with male announcer in Portuguese, Clear IDs heard twice in <5 minutes, good. Icom IC-R75, 400 foot wire, elevation 25 ft MSL near Half Moon Bay, CA (Bruce Jensen, WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4915.02, 0100-0200 Friday 21.10, R Daqui, Goiânia, GO. Portuguese ann, ads, Brazilian pop songs, ID's 0124, 0132 and 0144: "Rádio Daqui", frequency ann - extended broadcast, also heard Sat 22.10 at 0025, but not 22.10 at 2320 or on 29.10 at 0025. 35333 (Anker Petersen, on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire here in Skovlunde, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 5990, Rádio Senado, 0814, Portuguese, nice ZY pops, recorded "Sintonia, Rádio Senado" by man, then woman announcer. Best in LSB to escape R. Australia 5995 splatter. 4 Nov (David Sharp, NSW, Australia, partial list of equipment: FT-950, NRD-535D, R8, R30A, Timewave 599ZX, various Palstar and MFJ accessories, Quantun Phaser, various Sangean and Tecsun portables, EWE aerials, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 9645.38, 0523-0528'12, R. Bandeirantes, São Paulo, 23/10, Portuguese, YL/OM short talks, Brazilian songs - fair till 0528'12 when Vatican R. came on the frequency 9665.1, 0531-0547, Voz Missionária, Florianópolis, 23/10, Portuguese, Brazilian songs, OM/YL short talk at 0543'46 with mention of Missionária - fair, //5939.97 poor, 11749.87 weak 9675.01, 0548-0608, R Canção Nova, Cachoeira Paulista, 23/10, Portuguese, YL/OM talks with many mentions of "Nova", OM cathedral sermon - fair and better, // http://www.cancaonova.com/radioam.asx with delay via Firefox 9564.89, 0611-0620, Súper Rádio Deus é Amor, Curitiba, 23/10, Portuguese, OM sermon with music in the background - fair with local noise, //11765 fair-almost good and http://app01.truetech.com.br:8070/pr_superradioctba with delay via Firefox (Mikhail Timofeyev, St Petersburg, Russia, DSWCI member no. 2987, Drake R8A. Antenna: long wire (30 m), http://dxcorner.narod.ru HCDX via DXLD) 9564.873, Brazilian station in Portuguese, from probably Radio Voz Missionária, Camboriú, SC, at 0602 UT Oct 31, S=9+5dB, announcer mentioned web and club address. Odd 9819.737 at 0611 UT, ZYR96, R Nove de Julho, São Paulo, SP, Radio Catholica, see under ERITREA. 11925.207, R Bandeirantes, São Paulo SP, poor at 0645 UT Oct 31 (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4885, tentative, Rdif. Acreana, 0830, excited talk by Portuguese man, ballads. This is the most often-heard station ZY here but nothing close to an ID, could possibly be someone else. 2 Nov 9564.91, Súper Rádio Deus é Amor, 0820, weak and presumed, with Portuguese sermon by a man. Quickly improving and peaking by 0830. (31 Oct 9819.77, Tentative, R. Nove de Julho, 0810, talk by Portuguese woman would seem to indicate this, but there was nothing close to an ID. Partial copy only in LSB as this was causing a big het with unID on 9820. 31 Oct. 11765, Súper Rádio Deus é Amor, 1945, presumed with passionate Portuguese preacher, mixing with one other station but mostly on top. 29 Oct 11815.04, R. Brasil Central, 2015, Portuguese, noted in passing with nice Brasopops, all alone on freq. 29 Oct 15189.94, Rádio Inconfidência, 1937, Portuguese, presumed the one, weak, with banter between man and woman. All alone. 29 Oct (David Sharp, NSW, Australia, partial list of equipment: FT-950, NRD-535D, R8, R30A, Timewave 599ZX, various Palstar and MFJ accessories, Quantun Phaser, various Sangean and Tecsun portables, EWE aerials, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Brazil is being heard on several frequencies in my local morning including 15190, which is quite good sometimes. There is a buzzy noise on frequency which might be QRM from R. Africa. But I am definitely hearing Brazil at around 0800 UT (Noel Green, England, Nov 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15190, Nov 8 at 2218 past 2230, lots of lively Brazilian talk, promos, commercials, certainly R. Inconfidência, better signal than usual but lots of trans-equatorial flutter, now unimpeded with WYFR off 15190 for the season. 15190, Nov 10 at 0006, R. Inconfidência DJ greeting listeners as his program begins, until midnight [0200 UT]. Fair signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BULGARIA. 5900, Nov 3 at 0539 jazz now here, soon into Swingle Singers (or clones?), standard ID jingle of Radio Bulgaria. Do they use these in languages other than Bulgarian? Going strictly by HFCC registrations, 5900 runs M-F at 0530-0600, Sat & Sun 0500-0600, on two transmitters from Plovdiv, 300 kW at 306 degrees and 170 kW at 115 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BULGARIA. DRM transmissions from Sofia Bulgaria will continue until 30 November to the following schedule: TX Sofia Kostinbrod 0500-0800 6000 50 kW 306 deg to WeEUR HORIZONT Bulgarian Friday 0700-1000 11600 50 kW 306 deg to WeEUR HORIZONT Bulgarian Sat/Sun 1000-1300 11600 50 kW 306 deg to WeEUR HORIZONT Bulgarian Mon-Thu 1000-1030 11600 50 kW 306 deg to WeEuR EURANET English Sat/Sun 1600-1700 11600 50 kW 306 deg to WeEUR RADIO BULGARIA Bulg. {Russ?} 1730-1900 11600 50 kW 306 deg to WeEUR RADIO BULGARIA Ge/Fr/En. (R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, Oct 30, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 4 via DXLD) Sat&Sun, 0700-1000, 11600, 306 deg, Horizont Sat&Sun, 1000-1030, 11600, 306 deg, Euranet Kontakt: oder direkt an den Techniker Ventsislav Georgiev Laut Aussage bereitet man fuer die DX-Zunft eine eigene QSL-Karte vor. Also wer noch mal eine Kostinbrod-Sendung bestaetigt haben moechte... Ansonsten fuer Radio Bulgarien, die sich ja auch ueber Post freuen (Douglas Kaehler-D, A-DX Oct 31, ibid.) BNR schedule in DRM from Kostinbrod --- For people using DRM Dream gear or something else --- to decode the noise. 73 wb Betreff: BNR schedule in Drm from Kostinbrod Dear Sirs, We saw a posting into the wwdxc top news section, of a BNR schedule in DRM mode, which appears to be not correct. Please find the schedule of BNR transmissions via Kostinbrod, for your information: Mon-Thu, Time: 10.00-13.00, Freq: 11600, 306 deg, Horizont Fri only. Time: 05.00-08.00, Freq: 6000, 306 deg, Horizont Mon-Sun, Time: 16.00-17.00, Freq: 11600, 306 deg, Russian Mon-Sun, Time: 17.30-18.00, Freq: 9600, 306 deg, German Mon-Sun, Time: 18.00-18.30, Freq: 9600, 306 deg, French Mon-Sun, Time: 18.30-19.00, Freq: 9600, 306 deg, English ------------------------------------------------------------------ Sat & Sun, Time: 07.00-10.00, Freq: 11600, 306 deg, Horizont Sat & Sun, Time: 10.00-10.30, Freq: 11600, 306 deg, Euranet ------------------------------------------------------------------ All times in UTC, all frequencies in kHz. Transmitter power 50 Kw. I hope that will be of help for all of you. Thanks for the interest in our service and please send reception reports with a copy to frequencies @ bnr.bg for foreign language transmissions or to for the transmissions in Bulgarian. Best 73's, (Ventsislav Georgiev, Spaceline, 8 November via Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re: BULGARIA: Another SW site to disappear? Kostinbrod ``So yet another shortwave site that will go dark on Saturday. And it seems here we finally have the apparent reason for testing Kostinbrod on some Padarsko (a.k.a. Plovdiv) frequencies back in May: To make a decision about which site to keep.`` ``[Yes I too was suspecting one of these sites was disappear for the exact reason you give Kai (Ian)]`` In http://bnr.bg/Events/Documents/AnRep_2011_1.pdf one finds: "5.4.1.8. Optimization of the transmission network in the shortwave Radio Broadcasts were made to test the programs of Radio Bulgaria for short-wave region of Central and Western Europe and North America. Test trans-ments were made by the transmitters of the ROC Kostinbrod instead of the ROC Padarsko in order to use less power output while maintaining the service area." So it was indeed planned to use Kostinbrod for everything and shut down Padarsko. For some reason this has been changed and Padarsko kept instead. Somewhere I saw a mention that the DRM tests from Kostinbrod have not ceased yet, but can't find it back right now and, frankly, do not care for such dead horses anyway (Kai Ludwig, Nov 6, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) ** BURKINA FASO. QSL: Radio Burkina 5030, no data thank you letter in French confirming my report and wooden pen/pencil set in a wooden case with RTB logo on it via registered airmail in 574 days for French report sent via airmail with US $5.00 and follow-up report in French with US $10.00 sent via registered mail, return receipt. QSL received 69 days after follow-up. V/s. Ouezen Louis Oulon, Director of Radio Burkina and Knight of the Order of Merit (!). This station was heard at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan during my time there on April 1st 2010 at 1750 UT. M. Oulon states in his letter that Burkina Faso (RTB) now operates on shortwave 7230 kHz from 0800-1700 and 4215 [sic] kHz at 1700-0800. He does not state whether this is local or GMT time. In a separate paragraph at the bottom of his letter, he states (and I am translating here): "I am simply embarrassed to inform you that since recently, our shortwave transmitter is broken. I would be very happy for any initiative you could take to aid us to find a new transmitter." I would presume then that this is why they have not been heard recently. If anyone else wants to give some information to M. Oulon, his email address is louisoulon(at)gmail(dot)com. I will check sources and see if I can find a reasonably-priced used transmitter for them, and send M. Oulon the details in an email. I don't know what their budget is, but I know that *mine* does not allow for purchase of transmitters :-) 73 (Al Muick, Whitehall PA USA, received on a WinRadio G303e receiver with a 100m randomwire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BURMA [non]. Winter B-11 of Democratic Voice of Burma in Burmese: 1430-1530 on 6225 A-A 100 kW / 132 deg to SEAs 2330-0030 on 7510 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg to SEAs (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Nov 8 via DXLD) ** CAMBODIA [non]. 9960, Khmer Post Radio, via T8WH PALAU. Checking again this week to see if their supposed new schedule was for real. For the second consecutive Monday nothing broadcasting here during 1200 to 1300; so looks as if Wed-Thurs-Fri is still valid; with Sat- Sun with KPPM Radio (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 6030, by 0654 UT Monday Nov 7, Cuban jamming has abated lite enough with R. Martí in its sexahour silence, to audiblize some weak country music, no doubt CFVP Calgary. More of a problem is overload from RHC 6010 et al. for a few more minutes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. [6045:] R. Canada Int IS and ID in English/French heard in a repeated loop at 0620. But RCI is not scheduled in any language or frequency at this time. Checked AOKI who has KBS WORLD RADIO in Spanish from 0600-0700 on 6045 via Skelton. Must have been a punch-up error at Skelton selecting a wrong feed. Loop still running when checked at 0645. Final check just after 0700, and KBS WORLD RADIO in Korean now on-air, via Woofferton (again per AOKI), (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) No, 0600-0700 on 6045 is KBS via Sackville. Just another screwup because of standard time change just made, which if people were paying attention would have absolutely no effect on ISWBC (gh, DXLD) I don't see anything from Skelton Cumbria site. Did you get advice from old Aoki A-11 list ? 6-7 from Sackville, 7-8 from Woofferton relay site. Spanish 0600-0700 Eu 6045 (Sackville) Korean 2 0700-0800 Eu 6045 (Woofferton) 6045 0600 0700 27S,37S SAC 250 60 0 213 CAN KBS RCI Two registration entries, very same transmission. 6045 0700 0800 27S,28W,37NWOF 250 102 -12 611 Korean G KBS BAB 6045 0700 0800 27,28 WOF 250 102 0 905 KOR KBS KBS Babcock registered antenna type #611, but KBS registered antenna type #905. 905 is a Rhombic antenna Designation: RH l/_/h l = length of one side of the rhombus in meters _ = one half angle of the interior obtuse angle of rhombus in degrees. h = height of rhombus above ground in meters 611 is a Curtain antenna EHR(S)4/3/0.5 Curtain antenna, half-wave dipole array, dual-band, end-fed, tuned dipole reflector Designation: EHR(S) m/n/h m = number of half-wave dipoles in each horizontal row n = number of rows spaced half a wavelength apart one above the other h = height above the ground in wavelengths of the bottom row of dipoles Possible slew and the design frequency are entered in separate requirement fields. Who is right? 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) Hi Wolfy, Latest AOKI updated 6 Nov has Skelton for KBS in Spanish at 0600, however checking further, as you highlight: HFCC lists Sackville as does the KBS website so I guess AOKI has it wrong (Alan Roe, ibid.) ** CANADA. 6069.95, CFRX Toronto, 1146-1200 Nov 2. Traffic, weather, then man & woman discussing area news items; 1200 time check for "8:00" and into "NewsTalk 1010 Update" (news) with Dave Agar. Fair signal; QRM after 1200 from North Korea. (Wilkins-CO) CANADA - 6159.97, CKZU Vancouver 1329-1333 Nov 3. Traffic report, then "6:30 News" (local news). Fair in noise (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, Drake R-8, 100-foot RW, Cumbre DX via DXLD) 6159.99, CKZU Vancouver, 0748, presume it's this and not St. John's; weak with English talk by a man and brief comment by a woman, news or similar at 0800. All alone on freq. 4 Nov (David Sharp, NSW Australia, partial list of equipment: FT-950, NRD-535D, R8, R30A, Timewave 599ZX, various Palstar and MFJ accessories, Quantun Phaser, various Sangean and Tecsun portables, EWE aerials, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 6175, Nov 6 at 0519, continuous 1 kHz tone instead of V. of Vietnam relay which is supposed to run until 0528. No doubt another screwup somewhere between Hanoi and London and Montreal and Sackville due to clock changes: ADT had officially just ended in NB at 0500 UT, when 2 am became 1 am AST. Note: if you forget about local time and go strictly by never-shifting UT, no such problems, duh (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) And then:: ** CANADA. 9624.978, CBC North Quebec transmitter in Sackville parked during pause, still produced at 400 Hertz tone from Quebec the whole NAm night. Listened at 0604 UT S=9+20dBm strong carrier here in Europe (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The whole night? I would like to know how late it is heard (gh, DXLD) 9625, Re Heulen, 08.20...UT, 08.11.11 - mentioned by Herbert Meixner in A-DX ng. Noeh, das ist der Sender in Sackville 9624.980 kHz eingemessen, Northern Service Quebec hat seit 0610 bis 1200 UT Sendepause und laesst den Sender mit Messton von 398 Hertz durchlaufen. Glenn Hauser monierte, dann koennte man ja gleich irgendein CBC FM Programm uebertragen ... Ich schicke Dir mal einen Screenshot vom Perseus rx, da sind die 398 Hertz Peaks sehr schoen zu sehen. S=9+10 signal in London-UK. 9625 kHz 1200-0615 2-4 SAC 100kW 348degr (hfcc) Die Peaks links und rechts sind jeweils 398 Hertz entfernt, der Perseus rx in London ist geeicht bei 9624.998 also 2 Hertz Versatz, dann koemmt in der Formel dann 9624.980 fuer Sackville heraus (Wolfgang Büschel, Nov 8, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 9 via DXLD) Re Sackville 9625 - what a waste of energy this is, and why don't they put some programme content on the frequency instead of radiating just a carrier/tone. Surely they could obtain access to what is being radiated same time via St. John`s on 6160 and broadcast that. It used to be CBC Overnight, but I think it was changed some time ago (Noel Green, England, Nov 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9625, Nov 9 at 0608, CBC NQ is still running unexplained tones for minutes, even hours after closedown, but in B-11 not starting until 0606 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA [and non]. 11855, Nov 8 at 1314, CRI English. What`s it doing here? Sackville relay is supposed to be on 11885 like previous B-seasons (instead of 9650 in A-seasons). Yes, HFCC B-11 shows it on 11885 not 11855 at 13-14, 250 kW, 272 degrees --- so the puncher-upper double-digited the 5 instead of the 8. Fortunately, not much to bother on 11855, except 50 kW Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, as listed anyway (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) As soon as New Brunswick went off ADT, there were numerous errors in Sackville relay transmissions --- missing programing, tones, wrong frequencies, etc. We hope they`ve got it straightened out by now. (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11885, CRI English via Sackville, Nov 9 at 1354 ending `Media Scan`, not to be taken for a DX program, on correct frequency instead of mispunched 11855 yesterday (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHILE. QSL: CVC Voz Cristiana, 17680, f/d Transmitter Site card in 63 days for Spanish airmail report and US $5.00, to Santiago, Chile address. Card is completely in English and posted from Chile, although sporting a US return address. This is a very nice card on good stock, with about six different views of the transmitter facilities and antennas. No v/s (Al Muick, Whitehall PA USA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) f/d = full data. v/s = verification signer ** CHILE. QSL: HCJB (via CVC) 11920, f/d Young Listeners card in 66 days for Spanish report via airmail with US $3.00 return postage. I reported on a Portuguese program. V/s is Horst Rosiak. Also received a German newsletter and personal message from Iris Rauscher thanking me for my report and stating that the Portuguese and German services were purchasing time on CVC since their "shortwave antennas" closed in November of 2009. eMail is deutsch(at)andenstimme(dot)org. The QSL came from Ecuador with some beautiful postage stamps depicting the Galápagos Islands on the envelope. My grand niece and nephew appreciate the stamps! (Al Muick, Whitehall PA USA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Desculpem o atraso, mas iniciarei agora a postagem dos logs de escutas realizadas em viagem ao Sul da Bahia, mês passado: Rx utilizado DEGEN DE 1103, apenas com a antena telescópica. Escutas realizadas em Canavieiras (BA) - à beira do mar (Praia da Costa), sem ruídos: 13130, 12/10 0935, CHINA, Firedrake jamming, leve estática, 55454; (Arthur Antonio Raimundo, Goiânia GO Brasil, 16º40'50.91"S, 49º16'15.29"W, GH53IH76. 6 Nov, Radioescutas yg via DXLD) ** CHINA. Hi Glenn, Haven't has a chance to send Firedrake monitoring out in a while. Here is yesterday and today. 11-2-11 7970, Weak 1257 and 1340 10300, Weak 1250 Weak-Fair 1340 JBA 1451 11500, Fair 1341 Weak 1452 12230, Strong 1253 and 1341 12600, Weak 1253 Fair 1341 12670, Fair-Good 1254 and 1341 13920, Strong 1254 and 1342 13970, Strong 1255 Weak 1343 14700, Fair 1255 Weak-Fair 1343 16100, Weak 1256 Good 1344 16700, Fair 1345 11-3-11 7970, Weak 1237 and 1328 and JBA 1339 10300, Good 1237 and 1328 and Fair 1340 11500, Weak 1238 JBA 1340 11590, Fair 1327 and 1339 12230, Strong 1239, 1329 and 1340 13130, Fair 1239, 1329 and 1341 13970, Strong 1240 Good 1329 and 1342 14700, Strong 1240, 1329 and 1342 15535, Good 1343 15900, JBA 1243 16100, Weak 1242 Good 1343 17170, JBA 1242 Observation Opinions - I assume that Firedrake on 11590 at 1327 and 1339 appears to be directed against Radio Free Asia's Tibetan language broadcast registered for the B-11 broadcast season with HFCC for that frequency at 1100-1400 GMT. I also observed that at least two other Radio Free Asia's new B-11 season frequencies used to broadcast in Tibetan and registered with HFCC also had interference today. On 13625 I did not hear RFA but I did hear China National Radio at both 1240-1250 and 1320-1330. RFA also could not be heard on 15375 between 1320-1330 GMT; rather I heard both CNR-1 and a propeller sounding jammer on frequency that I heard. The same propeller sounding jammer has been heard both during September and October on frequencies used by the Voice of Tibet. Good DX (Steve Handler, IL, Nov 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Firedrake November 3, before 1300: 7970, fair at 1251 10300, good at 1254 with flutter 12230, poor at 1256 13130, very poor at 1256 13970, poor at 1257 14700, poor at 1257 16100, very poor at 1259 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11-4-11 14700, Strong 0141 14900, Fair-Good 0033, Strong 0141 15900, Fair 0029, 0032 and 0145 16100, Fair-Good 0032 and 0142 11-4-11 7970, Weak-Fair 1252 10300, Fair 1252 12230, Good 1253 12600, Good 1254 13130, Strong 1254 13970, Fair 1255 with Het 14400, Strong 1255 15900, Good 1256 (Steve Handler, Nov 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake Nov 4, before 1230: none found 18-12 MHz. Higher bands haven`t opened up yet a semihour before sunrise here. 10300, JBA at 1225 Before 1300: 12230, very poor at 1258; none higher Before 1400: 16100, good at 1354 15565, fair at 1354; presumably 2-3 kHz from a Voice of Tibet jump 14950, good at 1355 13970, fair at 1355 13130, good at 1355 12600, fair at 1354 12230, poor at 1357 10300, good at 1357 Before 1500: 7970, JBA at 1439; checked this since not heard earlier, but not a full rescan now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11-5-11 12670, Weak-Fair 0154 13850, Good 0153 13970, Fair 0153 14700, Weak 0151 14900, JBA 0152 16100, JBA 0147 (Steve Handler, Nov 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11-5-11 7970, JBA 1324 and 1340 10300, Weak 1311 and 1340 JBA 1420 Weak 1436 11500, Weak 1313 and 1342 Fair 1420 and 1436 11590, Fair 1335 and 1343 but not there at 1314 when checked 12230, Good-Strong 1314 Strong 1340 12600, Strong 1315, 1336, 1422 and 1437 12670, Strong 1422 Good 1437 13130, JBA 1316 and 1337 13970, Weak 1338 14700, Good-Strong 1317 Strong 1338 Very strong 1423 Strong 1438 15565, Good 1424 15760, Fair 1320 and 1339 15790, Good-Strong 1424 Fair-Good 1439 16100, Fair 1322 and 1340 16700, Fair-Good 1323 and 1340 (Steve Handler, Nov 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Firedrake Nov 5, a dozen at once before 1400: 16700, very good at 1340; none higher 16100, fair at 1341 15760, fair at 1340 14700, good at 1343 13970, poor at 1344 13625, fair at 1344; vs RFA in Tibetan via Tinian 13130, fair at 1343 12600, good at 1345 12230, good at 1345 11500, very poor at 1346 10300, poor at 1347 7970, very poor at 1347 After 1400: 15565, fair at 1409; only Family Radio in Oriya to India from Germany is scheduled here; presumably V of Tibet via Tajikistan jumped up to within 3 kHz of here from 15557 as in Aoki 11500, very poor at 1414 CNR1 jamming, some of it with echo, Nov 5 at 1418 on 9825, 9785, both vs VOA Chinese via Philippines, and also on 9450, vs. Sound of Hope, 100 kW via Paochung, Taiwan. Like a spoiled Child, the ChiCom try to yell so loud they cannot hear what their elders are trying to say to them. (Elders in the sense of far beyond them in political development.) 9395, Nov 5 at 1421, sounds like same YL speaking as on CNR1 9825, 9785 and 9450 jammers, but not //, or maybe far out of synch. Nothing listed here as legitimate or target. See also TIBET [non]. Firedrake Nov 6, after 8 am ChiCom time: 14700, fair at 0025 UT, none higher 13970, very poor at 0025 13920, poor at 0025 At 1330-1400: 7970, fair at 1331 10300, very good with flutter at 1334 11500, fair at 1334 12230, good at 1337 12600, good at 1337 13130, fair at 1337 13625, unlike 24 hours earlier, at 1339 the jamming against RFA Tibetan via Tinian is CNR1 instead of Firedrake 14700, poor at 1339 15760, very good at 1346 [see below] 16100, good at 1346 16980, good at 1346 17170, poor at 1346 After 1400, not a complete scan: 7970, very poor at 1436 13850, fair at 1426 with WWCR ACI 15770, very good at 1435, ex-15760 in previous hour; HFCC doesn`t show any targets on either, but Aoki has Sound of Hope via Tajikistan jumping anywhere from 15750 to 15795. None now in the 16s or 17s. See also UNIDENTIFIED 14439 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11-6-11 7970, JBA-Weak 1334 10300, Strong 1257, 1334 Good 1421 Strong at 1435 11500, Strong 1335 Fair-Good 1436 12230, Strong 1257 and 1335 12600, Strong 1258, 1335, 1422 and 1436 12670, Strong 1437 13130, Strong 1258 Fair 1335 13920, Strong 1336 13970, Fair 1258 JBA 1336 14700, Strong 1259 Weat 1337 w/het Fair-Good 1423 w/het Fair 1438 14950, Good 1423 and 1439 15760, Fair-Good 1338 15770, Good 1423 with Russian language station heard underneath, Polish Radio listed from Woofferton on this freq and time in Russian but no ID heard. Assume Firedrake was Targeting SoH. Heard Firedrake at 1432 and 1440 Good with no Russian station underneath and noted that per HFCC schedule they sign off in Russian at 1430 GMT. 15900, Good 1259 16100, Good 1255 and 1338 16980, Weak 1339 17170, JBA-Weak 1255 JBA 1339 (Steve Handler, Nov 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Firedrake Nov 7, before 1500: none in the 7s, 8s at 1452 10300, fair at 1442 11500, fair at 1442 12670, good at 1442 13970, very good at 1445; none higher Firedrake Nov 7, before 2400: 16980, poor at 2357 16100, very poor at 2357 Firedrake Nov 8, after 0000: 12230, good at 0016 13850, fair at 0021 14400, fair signal at 0024 but just barely modulated 14700, fair at 0023 14900, fair at 0023 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15900, Firedrake 0159, but went off just before 0200. Fair. Nov 8 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening from my car with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) November 8 before 0200: 16980, very poor at 0150 16700, fair at 0150 16100, very poor at 0150 14700, poor at 0152 13850, very poor at 0152 12230, poor at 0154 Before 0300: 14400, very poor at 0236 14700, poor at 0236 16100, very poor at 0237 16700, fair at 0237 Before 1300: 10300, good with flutter at 1257 11500, poor at 1257 with flutter After 1300: none in the 16s at 1328 14700, good at 1320 with flutter 13920, fair at 1315 12900, good at 1319 12500, very good at 1319 12230, good at 1319 Other jamming, CNR1: 17790, Nov 8 at 1329 there is CNR1 on a new frequency with super-hype announcer. Off at 1330* sharp after 2-tone, 2-pip timesignal. Must be because of new BBCWS Uzbek at 1300-1330 which Must Be Jammed: Right! Unheard victim is Cyprus site, 300 kW, 57 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 8 November 2011 - 14900, Firedrake heard at 0030 UT, parallel on 13850. Very good signal here in Houston. 11500, Firedrake heard at 1150, parallel on 12230. 12230 was very strong, 11500 only fair. It's not like the days back in the 70's and 80's, when the frequencies were filled with stations (Raymond Lang, TX, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Firedrake Nov 9, before 1400, found 11 at once: 12045, at 1352 mixing with Chinese, // 12230. Victim is VOA Chinese via Saipan this hour, also 11-13 via Tinang. Normally only CNR1 jamming would be employed, and that`s probably the Chinese I was hearing rather than VOA 12230, good at 1352; none in the 11s, 10s 13130, poor at 1358 13680, fair at 1356, mixing with presumed R. Farda; why jam this? 13920, good at 1356 13970, very poor at 1356 14700, very good at 1358 15565, very poor at 1358, het from 15562 15760, very good at 1358 16100, fair at 1359 16980, very poor at 1359 Did not get above 17 MHz before 1400 closing if any Before 1500: 10300, good at 1442; none in the 9s, 8s, 7s 13970, very good at 1440, none in the 11s, 12s 14700, very good at 1440 15780, very good at 1438, ex-15760 previous hour; none in 16s, 17s 18180, fair at 1440 11635, Nov 9 at 1355, CNR1 jamming vs something, i.e. VOA Chinese via Thailand at 12-14. Firedrake Nov 10, circa 1330: 17790, good with flutter at 1326; vs BBC Uzbek, CYPRUS. Tried BBC // 21590, and no FD heard but Chinese talk, CCI 16980, very good at 1328 15970, good at 1328 14700, good at 1328 13920, very good with flutter at 1333 12600, good at 1333 11500, fair at 1334 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. CHINA R INTERNATIONAL’S 70TH ANNIVERSARY CRI, China Radio International’s first broadcasting was initiated by Ms. Kiyoko Hara, a Japanese lady from Yan’an Xinhua Broadcasting station on Dec 03, 1941. To commemorate this important milestone, CRI in Beijing is conducting various events. One of those was the 70th anniversary celebration of CRI’s Japanese language department, conducted on Oct 17 at Broadcasting House Hotel in Beijing. Two hundred people attended the event, including the former and current staff at Japanese language department, Japanese media people who cover various issues in China, and some CRI listeners. I joined the CRI’s special 70th anniversary tour visiting Yan’an’s original studio, Yan’an Press Museum showing CRI’s broadcasting history, and the Old and New CRI Broadcasting House in Beijing. All tour participants were invited to this big celebration reception. Participated listeners had chances to see many announcers, whom they only recognize by their voices, and had enjoyable conversation with them. I personally brought the old letter and cards from R Peking dated back to the year 1953, which surprised many staff members at the current CRI Japanese department. One of the old staff who had worked at R Peking recognized the letter, and explained the signer was the head of the China Radio overseeing all Chinese radio organization, which was very unusual. The tour and the party were very enjoyable and memorable one (Toshimichi Ohtake/JSWC, Kamakura, Japan, DSWCI DX Window Nov 2 via DXLD) China and Japan were not getting along too well in 1941 (gh) ** CHINA [and non]. China Radio International B-11 [ENGLISH] 0000-0100 As 6005 6180 7425 9425 11650 11790 11885 0000-0100 Eu 7350 0000-0100 NAm 6020 9570 0100-0200 As 6075 6175 9420 11650 11885 0100-0200 Eu 7350 9410 0100-0200 NAm 6005 6020 9570 9580 0200-0300 As 11785 13640 15435(0230-) 0300-0400 As 9460 11785 13620 15110 15120 0300-0400 NAm 6190 9690 9790 0400-0500 As 9460 13620 15120 17725 17855 0400-0500 NAm 6190 0500-0600 Af 7220 17505 0500-0600 As 11880 15350 15465 17540 17725 17855 0500-0600 ME 17505 0500-0600 NAM 5960 6190 0600-0700 Af 11750 17505 0600-0700 As 11880 13645 15350 15465 17540 17710 0600-0700 ME 11770 15145 17505 0600-0700 NAm 6115 0700-0800 Af 15125 0700-0800 As 11880 13645 15125 15350 15465 17540 17710 0700-0800 Eu 11785 17490 0800-0900 Af 15625 0800-0900 As 9415 11880 15350 15465 15625 17540 0800-0900 Eu 11785 17490 0900-1000 As 9415 15350 17750 0900-1000 Eu 15270 17490 17570 0900-1000 sPa 15210 17690 1000-1100 As 5955 7215 11640 13590 13720 15190 15350 1000-1100 Eu 17490 1000-1100 sPa 15210 17690 1100-1200 As 1269 5955 9570 11650 11795 13590 13645 13720 1100-1200 Eu 13665 17490 1100-1200 Nam 5960 1200-1300 As 684 1188 1269 1341 5955 7250 9460 9645 9730 11650 11690 12015 1200-1300 Eu 13665 13790 17490 1200-1300 sPa 9760 11900 1300-1400 As 1341 5955 7300 9655 9765 9730 9870 11980 1300-1400 Eu 13670 13790 1300-1400 NAm 9570 11885 15230 1300-1400 sPa 11760 11900 1400-1500 Af 13685 17630 1400-1500 As 5955 7300 9460 9765 9870 11665 1400-1500 Eu 9700 9795 1400-1500 NAm 13675 13740 15230 1500-1600 Af 13685 17630 1500-1600 Af 6095 9720 1500-1600 As 1188 1323 5955 6095 7325 7405 9720 9785 9870 1500-1600 Eu 9435 9525 1500-1600 NAm 13740 1600-1700 Af 7420 7435 9570 1600-1700 As 1080 1323 6060 7235 1600-1700 Eu 7255 9435 9875 1700-1800 Af 7435 9570 1700-1800 As 1080 1323 6100 6140 7410 7420 7425 9600 1700-1800 Eu 6100 7205 7255 1800-1900 As 6165 1800-1900 Eu 6100 7405 1900-2000 Af 7295 9440 1900-2000 ME 7295 9440 2000-2100 Af 5985 7295 9440 11640 13630 2000-2100 Eu 5960 7285 7415 9600 2000-2100 ME 7295 9440 2100-2200 Af 7205 7405 11640(-2130) 13630(-2130) 2100-2200 Eu 5960 7285 7415 9600 2200-2300 As 5915 2300-2400 As 5915 6145 7415 9535 11790 2300-2400 Carib 5990 2300-2400 Eu 7350 2300-2400 NAm 6040 11970 (CRI webpages, thanks to alert by Harry Brooks in dxldyg, retyped and re-arranged by Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, dxldyg via DXLD) China Radio International B11 schedules North America and Caribbean http://english.cri.cn/7146/2010/03/30/2141s560015.htm Europe http://english.cri.cn/7146/2010/03/30/2141s560016.htm Asia http://english.cri.cn/7146/2010/03/30/2141s560017.htm South Pacific http://english.cri.cn/7146/2010/03/30/2141s560019.htm Africa http://english.cri.cn/7146/2010/03/30/2141s560021.htm (Harry Brooks, North East England, UK, Nov 3, dxldyg via DXLD) But there are no SW frequencies on these pages after the heading! (Glenn Hauser, Nov 6, ibid.) (NB - the skeds in the links above don't show up in Firefox - you'll need IE to view them - ar) It would be much easier and more convenient for everyone if they didn't have the schedules as .jpg picture files. Why do they always do that! Glenn, If you are using Firefox browser, Alan Roe pointed out that it won't show the picture file schedules but apparently Windows Internet Explorer will work fine with those pages (Harry Brooks, North East England, UK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST Yes, FIREFOX standard Browser doesn't work properly on this website. [95 % use Firefox these days ...]. Start with MS IE instead at: http://english.cri.cn/cribb/index.htm click to 6th level ! start / Radio / Radio Program Directory / Highlights / Livecast / Ways to Listen / Listening to Shortwave select / NoAM / EUR / AS / PAC / AF FM files at Asian cities not updated yet, still A-11. Wait another week, and Nagoya DXCircle In Japan will publish their unique CRI schedule for B-11 season http://www1.s2.starcat.ne.jp/ndxc/ http://www1.s2.starcat.ne.jp/ndxc/cn/criB11.htm like http://www1.s2.starcat.ne.jp/ndxc/cn/criA11.htm and forget all other huge websites. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) ** CHINA [non]. FRANÇA, 702, China R Int'l, Col de la Madonne (Nice) relay, 1308-..., 06/11, Mandarin, talks; 35342. One might assume this early catch could mean the signal would simply hold and improve, but that was (and is) not the case: they may improve a bit, then fade completely only to emerge later in the afternoon. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 17495, Nov 7 at 2355, open carrier with flutter, Nov 8 at 0000, 5-pip timesignal, CRI opening theme. HFCC shows Beijing site southwards in Cantonese, plus two more hours of Amoy (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 4750.0, 29.10 1340 Bangladesh Betar with music. Closedown at 1500. There is also a Chinese station on 4750.011 but too weak for audio at this time. Rechecked at 1515 when Bangladesh has signed off, the Chinese was heard with decent signal. No trace at all of RRI Makassar this day. At 2000 another Chinese was there, now on 4750,006, probably CRI is using more than one transmitter on this frequency. The Chinese was back on 4750.013 when checked again at 2115 (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin Oct 30, via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 4940, Voice of Strait, *0953, Nov 2. Open carrier by 0950; opened with IS chimes; clear “w-w-w dot v-o-s dot com” ID; in Chinese; time pips; poor. Saturday, Nov 5 from 1500 to 1530 with “Focus on China”; items about the national anti-drought plan, new air routes between Taiwan and China, etc; several “Focus on China” IDs; poor to almost fair (Ron Howard, Calif., Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 5050, Beibu Bay Radio on Nov 6. In the past they gave many IDs in Vietnamese for their FM stations, as well as ToH and BoH multi- language IDs which included English: “FM 96.4 Beibu Bay Radio”. Today none of these were heard. Their new ToH and BoH English ID is “Learn about the world. Know China. This is Beibu Bay Radio”. Edited MP3 audio at http://www.box.net/shared/qn0poqejndi242oh3x2q with ID in English at 02:29. The entire reception had light QRM from AIR Aizawl underneath. 1341-1353 in Vietnamese with pop music program; program IDs in English: “Top Music”. 1419-1441 still with “Top Music”; new ID in English at 1430. 1441-1459 special coverage of a music festival; DJs in Chinese (no Vietnamese used) along with a few brief announcements in English for the “song festival”; both indigenous and pop songs; sounds of the audience. 1500-1503 time pips; new ID in English; back to Vietnamese with “weather report” with long list of cities. 1504-1512 another segment of “Top Music” in Vietnamese. Still unable to hear anything of Ozy Radio (Australia) (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5050, Beibu Bay Radio on Nov 7. The new ID seems to actually be “Learn about the world. Get to know China. This is Beibu Bay Radio”; yesterday had a problem hearing the "Get to"; another day of AIR Aizawl QRM, which was stronger today (Ron Howard, Calif., Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Re 11-44: 6035, Yunnan PBS - Does anyone know if PBS Yunnan 6035 kHz is on the air? (Mark Davies, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Midst on the jungle: Yunnan PBS site #7 at Shalang 6035 kHz, 7210 (formerly 6937) kHz. Google Earth 25 09 54.64 N 102 40 42.58 E Google Maps Both frequencies not registered in HFCC B-11 table by the Chinese lady engineers. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Everyone, Does anyone know if PBS Yunnan 6035 comes on at 2230 as listed. I`ve tried several times but not a hint of them. Anyone have any info regarding this time? Thanks (Mark Davies, Anglesey, Wales, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6035, PBS Yunnan/Voice of Shangri-La. There has been some interest expressed recently here about this station, so I monitored it Nov 7. I can confirm the ID in English (“This is the Voice of Shangri-La, brought to you by Yunnan Radio”) was heard at 1200. So they play it at least at 1200, 1300 and 1400. Today their sign off was at 1500:32, per audio http://www.box.net/shared/jsd1fle5771cahpz24b0 Before sign off was in Vietnamese; ToH time pips; then interestingly played western classical music till off. The sign off time conforms to the Oct 29 reception by Martien Groot (Netherlands). Please note the unusually good reception today. Overall the propagation was very good! (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [non]. 15440, CRI, 0227 English. Man and woman with chit-chat and then previewing content of “East Meets West” program. Strong signal, 11/4/11 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening from my car with Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active whip; Editor of World English Survey and Target Listening, available at http://www.odxa.on.ca dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Harold, CRI, are you sure? Not scheduled here, but WYFR is; in HFCC: ``15440 2145 0300 10 YFR 100 285 0 805 1234567 301011 250312 D SPA,SPB,SP USA YFR FCC 3172`` Suspect another screwup in scheduling/transmission by RTI/WYFR, as RTI English at 02 is supposed to be on 9680, 5950 (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Thanks Glenn. I see that RTI is scheduled on 15440 via Florida around that time in Asian languages, so it may have been a feed error at WYFR. Adding further weight to that theory is that RTI has a program called "Feast Meets West" and the chit-chat I heard would fit the style of their programs that have male and female hosts, as does this one (Harold Sellers, ibid.) CBSD Voice of Taiwan International is scheduled on Okeechobee Florida- USA, 0200-0300 UT. 0200 Cantonese and 0230 UT Hakka languages. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) ** COLOMBIA. 5909.94, R. Alcaraván, 0838, tough copy with QRN; mostly EZL ballads with canned ancmts by a man. 30 Oct 6010.07, LV de Tu Conciencia, 0714, presumed with religious "sounding" talk by a woman (many mentions of "Dios"), best in USB with rumbling het on lowside. 2 Nov (David Sharp, NSW, Australia, partial list of equipment: FT-950, NRD-535D, R8, R30A, Timewave 599ZX, various Palstar and MFJ accessories, Quantun Phaser, various Sangean and Tecsun portables, EWE aerials, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6010.11, LV de tu Conciencia, 0815-0830, Spanish talk. ID at 0817. Local music. Fair. Nov 5 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** CONGO. 6115, Radio Congo, 1815, French, usual block of news, hosted by a man and woman; music bridges between segments. About the only time I can try for this, due to work obligations, is local Sat/Sun and it's usually there. Also don't get any cochannel from Belarus, as reported elsewhere. 4 Nov (David Sharp, NSW, Australia, partial list of equipment: FT-950, NRD-535D, R8, R30A, Timewave 599ZX, various Palstar and MFJ accessories, Quantun Phaser, various Sangean and Tecsun portables, EWE aerials, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CONGO DR. -Kinshasa, 5066.3, R.Télé Candip, Bunia, 1900-1904*, 04/11, French, songs, frequency announcement prior to a short drum beat & tune, then abruptly off; 24331, adj. uty. QRM. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CONGO DR [non]. 11690, Nov 8 at 0357, VTC/BaBcoCk fill music loop serves as IS, for R. Okapi opening in French with ID jingle at 0359.5; poor signal and almost the OSOB except for DVRussia on 12030, also poor by now. Is 04-05, 250 kW, 340 degrees from Meyerton, SOUTH AFRICA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COSTA RICA. Re 11-44, Radio República. Glenn, Elcor 5954 kHz is indeed located at the town or village of Guápiles, Cantón de Pococí, Provincia de Limón. The word Cantón must have the meaning of County for North American people (Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica, Nov 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 1210, Radio Rebelde (2)/Radio Sancti Spíritus, Sancti Spíritus, Sancti Spíritus. 2350 November 2, 2011. Spanish vocals, male canned "Rebelde de Habana" and instrumental theme at 0000, into pre- game baseball, parallel all the others. First noted Rebelde audio here in November, 2010, which Paul V. Zecchino DFed to approximately Chivirico, Santiago de Cuba (same site as Radio Revolución), obviously not the same as this one. November 4: confirmed it's Radio Sancti Spíritus relaying Rebelde. Tune-in 1054 with Rebelde programming, abruptly cut at 1058 with Radio Sancti Spíritus ID, into Cuban vocals, no longer parallel Rebelde network. So, obviously at time patching Rebelede. And on November 4-5, 2011: Rebelde with music at 2340 tune-in, a quick Radio Sancti Spíritus ID seconds before 0000, then back to Rebelde. And November 5: Rebelde until 1100, then open carrier for a few seconds, into Radio Sancti Spíritus ID and programming of Cuban vocals. But today, Rebelde audio (news) also remained under, so yet another station with Rebelde! (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, 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, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 5040, Nov 3 at 0534 RHC is off unlike the night before when it ran more than an hour overtime past 0600; how slipshod. 5745, Nov 3 at 1241, R. Martí is finally getting jammed on the fifth day of B-11; 5980 not so much, just lite pulses. It`s Nov 6 and RHC still hasn`t made any B-11 frequency changes. We may expect some this week, and maybe Arnie will say something about them on Sunday or Tuesday`s `DXers Unlimited`. Meanwhile, RHC`s Spanish DX program, `En Contacto`, continues at 1335 Sundays, among others on 15120 abutting 15125 REE via Costa Rica at the same time with `Amigos de la Onda Corta`, tho much stronger here on 15170. 15120 Cuban carrier is still on at 1404. I don`t see anything new yet at http://www.radiohc.cu/de-interes/frecuencias.html but this version covers Spanish broadcasts only, nor on the Union Jack language: http://www.radiohc.cu/ing/of-interest/frequencies.html 6030, Monday Nov 7 at 0403 I compare the jamming here to the other R. Martí frequency, 7365 [see IRAN]. Much lighter on 6030, but still some, mixing with another weak broadcaster, maybe Ethiopia. With BFO easily audible, and less so in AM mode: mixed with the jamming noise, or rather overriding/interrupting it, are series of beeps equally spaced, alternately 11, 12, 13 or 14 of them, with a pause in between groups. The beeps are of different pitches within each set, so could be some kind of message intelligence. Listened to this in wonderment for some five minutes. Never heard anything like it, and apparently correlating with or emanating from jamming transmitter. Please explain, Arnie. 5955, Nov 7 at 0655, heavy wall-of-noise jamming by Cuba still here with no evidence that R. República is still there underneath. See also CANADA 6030. Nov 7 I get to hear what happens at RHC English 0700 sign-off: 6010, 6050 and 6060 are gone by 0702, but 6150 stays on with restart of English hour! Better modulation than usual on that transmitter. `Ed Newman` still going at 0710 in `Weekly Review` laden with negative news about US. 6150 transmitter op asleep, or accidentally on purpose? Unknown for how long. True to form, 8 days after the rest of the world starts the B-11 season, RHC makes a number of frequency changes Nov 7, once Arnie has had a week to study(?) what the coördinating stations are doing. Most of the changes don`t make sense, unnecessary but just to show he`s doing his job, while other frequencies desperately in need of escaping QRM stay right where they are! Here`s what we discovered in the morning from 1352: 9550, still on before and after 1400 11690, stays despite all the RTTY on low side 11750, ex-11730 with weak signal, echo apart from 11760 different site 11760, stays with biggest signal; at 1401 open carrier, not sure if off or just a breakdown 11840, ex-11830 with second biggest 25m signal. 11830 had no interference, nothing in HFCC at 11-13. 11840 now gets bleedover from the DentroCuban Jamming Command against nothing on 11845. Way to go! 12040, stays but this transmitter has an awful humbuzz. The Chinese radio war is no longer there; what luck! 13670, ex-13680 until 1400* just in time to evade ACI from CRI via CANADA 13675 from 1400. 13680 did have some CCI, but so does 13670. Both KBS and CRI English via Kashgar are there at 13-14. 13670 had been RHC`s all-evening frequency on this band 13750, ex-13780, colliding with VOA Spanish until 1400 which has been on 13750 for many months. 13780 was a totally good frequency for RHC and no reason to move except to force VOA to move; how long will it take for IBB to notice and deal with it? 15120, absent at 1357 but may have just closed as in A-11? 15230, still way under CRI via Sackville at 13-15 15380, ex-15360. 15360 did have CCI at times. Now 15380 hits Saudi Arabia until 1400; also squeezed by ChiCom noise jamming on 15375 and later Spain on 15385 The studio is in the dark about all these changes, since the 1401 frequency announcement still gave all the old ones: ``15120, 15360, 15230; from *13 13680, 13780; from *11 11690, 11760, 11830, 12040; from *13 11730``. Everything went off by 1501. No doubt there will be more surprises in the afternoon/evening broadcasts from 1900. It was too tempting to check the slow-loading RHC Spanish website, which as of 1730 Nov 7 has already been updated. http://www.radiohc.cu/de-interes/frecuencias.html In IE, the weather info on the right overlaps the frequency info on the left! No matter what the sizing. Once again we have to unravel which frequency goes with which time(s) in this awful format. I`ve deleted the chaff of UTC after every time, and the meter bands: Buenos Aires 15230/13670 23-04 y 11-15/ 11-14 Nueva York 6010/11840 11-13/11-15 San Francisco 13780 13-15 Chicago 9850/6140 13-15/11-13 América del Sur 15380 11–15 Banda Tropical 5040 21–23 y 01-05 América Central 11750 13-15 Europa 13640 21-23 Norte Centro Suramérica 11760/6150 11-15 y 24-05/ 11-13 Caribe 6120/9710/11690 23-05/21-23/11-15 América del Sur 11840/97420[sic!]/13690 21-05/23-04/21-04 MESA REDONDA (Lunes a Viernes y días especiales) América del Norte 6000/9660 49/31 23–01 (Domingo) América Central 13680 14-18 Caribe 11690 14-18 América del Sur 15370/17750 14-18 América del Norte 13750 14-18 My notes on the above: I did not notice any of the 6 MHz frequencies, but might have earlier than when I started monitoring at 1352. Not noticed today on 9850; typo for now unlisted but heard 9550? Still shows 13780, not 13750, so maybe that was an error today? The final Sunday group are of course the long-dormant Aló, Presidente service relaying Venezuela, no longer named as such The undated English schedule page, http://www.radiohc.cu/ing/of-interest/frequencies.html without weather overlap shows one change indicating it is also new: Banda Tropical 5040 23-24 América Central 11760 19-20 América del Norte 6050/6000/6060 01-07/01-05/05-07 Norte Centro y Suramérica 6125 05-07 San Francisco 6010 05-07 Notes: ``banda tropical`` is not a target area. 6125 is new, replacing 6150. Arnie still refuses to clear 6050 for HCJB Clicking on other language-flags, no changes in Esperanto; French at http://www.radiohc.cu/ing/of-interest/frequencies.html now shows 13640 for Europe at 1930-2000, so that`s ex-17560. And Arabic at http://www.radiohc.cu/ar/de-interes/frecuencias.html shows 2030-2100 also on new 13640; 17560 was a huge signal here. The Portuguese page was under construxion, calling for login and password! DentroCuban Jamming Command still out of synch with hours when it is really `needed`, against VOA: 12000, Nov 8 at 0004, and 9885 at 0009, and 5890 at 0015, noise against nothing as VOA on standard time does not start until 0030 instead of 2330. 9825, Nov 8 at 0009, R. Martí about equal level with jamming. This frequency is Greenville at 00-01, Sackville at 01-03. Sackville usually comes in better here than Greenville RM, as the azimuth from Sackville, 227 degrees is more favorable for us that southward from GB, even tho power is less, 100 kW vs 250. 227 was once an antenna serving the USA, a country now deleted from the RCI schedule. 9885, Nov 8 at 1252 already has lite grind jamming and pulsing vs open carrier from VOA prior to *1300. Further RHC monitoring under new delayed B-11 schedule, Spanish u.o.s.: 13640, Nov 7 after 1930 confirmed in French as on new schedule to Europe; sufficient but not the monster signal which used to be on 17560. Was that really aimed at Europe? Aoki A11 showed 1930 French as non-direxional, while 20-21 in Portuguese and Arabic were 53 degrees, all with 100 kW. But I never noticed any disparity in strength during the entire sesquihour. 13690, at 0002 Nov 8, news sounder and news, ex-13670; 21-04 sked 11840, Nov 8 at 0005, still on, // new 13690 and old 11760. 11840 scheduled 11-15 and 21-05, i.e. entire Spanish span. 6120, at 0012 Nov 8; at 23-05 12040, humbuzz at 0016 Nov 8; deleted by next morning: see below 15230, still on at 0016 Nov 8; sked 11-15 & 23-04 15370, at 0017 Nov 8, music not // RHC SS; then Quechua ID and IS 5025, at 0156 Nov 8, R. Rebelde missing, but RHC 5040 is on; at 0554 vice versa 9740, at 0325 Nov 8 // 6120 an echo apart with Fidel. 9740 is new, not `97420` as typoed in RHC website sked at 23-04. By 0353, 9740 is poor with SAH, CCI, presumably with Iran in Arabic at 0230-0530, 500 kW, 250 degrees from Kamalabad. 6125, at 0552 Nov 8 in English, ex-6150 but still JBM with hum. The Austrians and Turkish Cypriots, thank you; and I thank you. 05-07 And in the morning Nov 8: 6150, at 1248 Nov 8, heavy mix with Chinese, and undermodulated. All three 6`s are scheduled 11-13 only 6140, at 1248 Nov 8 good modulation, less CCI, // 6150 6010, at 1250 Nov 8 // 6140, with CCI. Bad news for Colombia and Mexico, scheduled 11-13 to Nueva York 9850, at 1308 Nov 8, good clear frequency, ex-9550 which would not be; scheduled 13-15 to Chicago, following 6140 at 11-13. At 1401 after IS and ID I was ready to copy the usual frequency announcement, but they skipped it (until they can get it right, more or less?), but soon plugged today`s `Mesa Redonda` at 6:30 pm local [2330] on 9660 [new ex-9640] and 6000 11690 and 12040, both missing at 1312 and later at 1411. 11690 is on new sked at 11-15, but not defective 12040, altho it was still heard yesterday when other new frequencies had already started 11750 and much stronger 11760 are on at 1312 Nov 8, as is new 11840, still with jamming bleed from unneeded 11845. (At 1257, 11750 still had VOA with USG editorial about Taliban; 25 degrees USward from Tinang; after 1300 IBB changes 11750 to eastward from Biblis, not heard here) 13780, at 1316 Nov 8, not 13750 as heard yesterday, apparently a mistake, and VOA Spanish at 13-14 is unmarred again 13670, at 1316 Nov 8 with CCI, new ex-13680. Now the leapfrog between them will land on 13890 instead of 13880, but not yet audible. And maybe 13560. 13670 goes off around 14, an hour earlier than 13780, so in that sense replaces 15120 15230, at 1323 Nov 8 way under CRI/Sackville. In the clear at 1431 tho CRI is supposed to run 13-15 15380, at 1323 Nov 8 with ACI; also runs 11-15 12040 is back, Nov 8 at 2238, the RHC transmitter which refuses to die, rumble noise is louder than the modulation; missing yesterday and no longer on the B-11 schedule http://www.radiohc.cu/de-interes/frecuencias.html which first appeared Nov 7; unimproved as of Nov 9, it still displays the typo ``97420`` instead of 9740. 12040 gone again the next morning Nov 9 at 1353 check, and 11690 also gone again tho still scheduled 9660, Nov 8 at 2242, RHC Spanish // 6000 but an echo apart from it, different sites or feed routes. This is the `Mesa Redonda` split service nominally now at 2300-0100, but not today, still starting an hour earlier as if on EDT. Mainstream non // RHC at same time on 9710 // 13690, also an echo apart from each other. 11690, Nov 10 at 1335, RHC is back; altho on new sked, it had been missing a few days, so we were wondering. Also on // 11750, 11760, 11840, but no 12040 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [RHC situation above summarized on WORLD OF RADIO 1590 --- gh, DXLD] ** CYPRUS. 18970-18995, Nov 4 at 1440, OTH radar pulses presumed from here. I`ve yet to hear any broadcaster in B-11 on the 18 MHz band, tho a few are now registered. 15625-15665, Nov 8 at 1322, OTH radar pulses, from here? Or is China more likely as occupied 40 kHz instead of 25. Or elsewhere? Anyhow a fortunately chosen range as no broadcasters were audible amid, Greece being silent (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DIEGO GARCIA. ARQUIPÉLAGO DAS CHAGOS, 4319-USB, AFN, Diogo Garcia, unreadable talks, distorted audio; 34443, adjacent utility QRM as usual. A fair signal ruined by faulty audio. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DJIBOUTI. 4780, Rdif. TV Djibouti, Arta still OFF the air on Oct 19, 20, 22 and 23 at 1710-2030 (Anker Petersen, Skovlunde, Denmark, DSWCI DX Window Nov 2 via DXLD) ** EAST TURKISTAN. Incredible signal from Urumqi 4980 for the time -- Today listening a bit after ending my work on 1325 UT in the university I was surprised to hear Urumqi on 4980 with a poor to fair signal on my PL200 outside the outside the building with antenna full open! That time talks were heard (Zacharias Liangas, Greece, Nov 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. Re 11-44: HD2IOA back on: Their MW outlet does not seem to be in parallel. Announcing "1510 AM Radio Naval" they offer music and spoken word during the day, and PSAs and occasional time pips at night. Has been heard recently in Scandinavia. Per the Radio Naval website http://radionaval.webnode.es 1510 is being relayed by 100.3 FM in the coastal town of Esmeraldas. There is no mention of their SW outlet on 3810 on this site (Henrik Klemetz, Nov 4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3810-LSB, Nov 9 at 0616, HD2IOA with Spanish time announcements and accurate pips compared to WWV, every dekasecond. I recall they ID once an hour at an odd time, but no doubt what this is with standard format. Several others have reported this recently, apparently reactivated after a couple months. Henrik Klemetz points out that their MW 1510 as DXed in Europe is no longer //, altho sometimes inserts timesignals into programming. 3810 last logged here on Sept 8 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ERITREA [and non]. /BRAZIL Mess on this channel as usual. VBME Voice of Broad Masses, Dimtsi Hafash from Asmara with HoA music on 9820.003 at 0611 UT Oct 31, accompanied by ZYR96 R Nove de Julho, São Paulo, SP, Radio Catholica, in Portuguese, on odd 9819.737 kHz (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9730.03, Voice of the Broad Masses of Eritrea, 0315-0325, Horn of Africa music. Vernacular talk. Weak modulation. // 7174.99 - good. No other frequencies heard. Nov 5 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) 7175, Nov 8 at 0321, Horn of Africa music, fair with QRhAM SSB and occasional hets, presumed V. of the Broad Masses of Eritrea-2; Aoki B- 11 shows morning hours at 03-07, but I never hear it after 0500 when I am usually monitoring: off by then or outfaded? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA. 7210.8, tentatively Radio Fana 0323 language possibly Amharic. Man speaking and some nice instrumental music. Fair till overwhelmed by TWR s/on on 7215 at 0325. 11/4/11 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening from my car with Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active whip; Editor of World English Survey and Target Listening, available at http://www.odxa.on.ca dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Wolfgang Bueschel has reported V. of Russia Spanish around this off- frequency and I have heard lately with mess on hi side (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Re 7210.8: I'll check it again and see if I can hear more (Harold Sellers, ibid.) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. MOLDOVA, Winter B-11 schedule of Radio Xoriyo Ogadenia in Somali 1530-1600 on 15515 KCH 300 kW / 160 deg to EaAF Mon/Fri (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Nov 8 via DXLD) ** EUROPE. 6200 16.10 06.15 R Orang Utan med Roxette. Repade denna station första gången 1979!! DO 6200, 16.10 0615, R Orang Utan with Roxette. I sent a report to this station for the first time already in 1979!! (Dan Olsson, Furulund, Sweden, SW Bulletin Oct 30, translated by editor Thomas Nilsson for DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUROPE. Baltic Sea Radio (European?) 18950-LSB, 10-30 1455-1509. The signal was weak but once in a while I was able to pull out a little detail. 1501 "Whiter shade of Pale" Procol Harum. 1504 thought I heard you say "hello Japan" maybe twice; it was a female voice Station ID (I could not make it out due to noise) but it sounded like there were seagull sounds along with the ID 1508 "Lady Marmalade" spice girls? (Mike Rohde, OH, Free Radio Weekly via DXLD) ** EUROPE. 6912.1/am, Pirate Radio Malta in marginally at first, but improving steadily 25342 at first, up to peaks of 3+5443+ by end. Oldies music such as 0157 “Georgie Girl”. ID at :58 as “Shortwave Radio Malta” and into more oldies such as “Everlasting Love” and “Wild Thing” and “Bobby’s Girl”. Several IDs including one at 0218 mentioning “incredible music” and finally a really clear ID at 0233 “Pirate Radio Station Radio Malta: Where the best people meet” and into more oldies from the 50s and 60s. ID at :38 “For centuries and centuries seafaring peoples listened to the pirate radios Station Radio Malta” and then into “Could it be I’m falling in Love.” and other pop oldies. Apparently off suddenly at 0252, but someone (else? never did hear an ID) back one minute later on almost the exact same frequency. 0157-0252* 29/Oct (Kenneth Vito Zichi, MI, MARE Tipsheet Nov 4 via DXLD) ** EUROPE. DX special 10-28 MHz towards the Asian area and USA, upcoming weekend Hello hf friends, This weekend there is going to be a load of hf in the air, because several stations are going to be enjoy the dx Japan weekend. Signals will be send out towards several continents on Saturday and Sunday, Cupid radio will broadcast on 21460 AM mode. Saturday I will be on 21460 at 0800 till 0900 just to test how the propagation work out later that day towards the USA on 15065 or 21460. It depends on what is open that moment. Sunday morning Main broadcast on 21460, 0730 till 0900, tx power, somewhere around 350 watts. Simultaneously there will be a second signal running somewhere in the 48 mtr band Saturday I will be on 21460 at 0800 till 0900 just to test how the propagation work out. Make sure you will dig in behind your radio this weekend!! Look at the schedule from other stations !!!! down here JAPAN-TEST - BROADCAST SCHEDULES HERE IS A LIST OF STATIONS: 9 stations (one cancelled) signed up to new Japan Test-Weekend !! - - - SATURDAY 5.11.2011 and SUNDAY 6.11.2011 - - - Station - Country - Frequency - Modulation (power), UT 1) BALTIC SEA RADIO - Scandinavia - 18950 / 21550 - LSB (80/200 W) Saturday and Sunday: To Japan: 0800 > 21550 80W-LSB / 1000 18950 200W-LSB To USA: 1400 > 18950 200W-LSB 2) OLD TIME RADIO - Scandinavia - 15008 - AM (500 W) Saturday and Sunday To Japan: 0800 - 0900 - 15008 (possibly not Sat morning!) To USA: 1400 - 1500 - 15008 3) CUPIDO RADIO - Holland - 15065 (>15070) / 21460 (>21465) - AM Sunday morning 0800 on 21460 + more info later 4) XXXXXXX RADIO - USA - above 9 (30 meters) - AM Exact schedule for Sat and Sun: CANCELLED, tx problems 5) RADIO SCOTLAND - Holland - 15060 or 15080 / 15090 / 15305 - AM Exact schedule for Sat and Sun: COMING 6) SPACESHUTTLE RADIO - SCANDINAVIA - 19 mb - AM (50/150 W) Exact schedule for Sat and Sun: COMING 7) RADIO BLACK ARROW - Holland - 21490 - AM (80 Watts) Sunday morning 0800 >> Antenna dipole on 14 meters height. Looking for Spain, Finland, Japan and New Zealand 8) FRS HOLLAND - Holland - 9300 - AM Sunday morning at 0900 - 1000 on 9300 9) RADIO POWERLINER - Holland - 15070 and 15807 - AM (alternative 11485) Saturday: 0900 - 1000 and 1300 - 1430 Sunday: 0900 - 1000 and 1300 - 1430 10) RADIO BORDERHUNTER - Holland- about 15800 (exact frq later) Saturday: 1500 - 1600 Sunday: 0700 - 0800 + 1000 - 1100 / 1500 - 1600 11) WR INTERNATIONAL from UK on 12257 on Sunday from 0900 (AM, 35 watts) Not participating to the test but they are on the air every Sunday anyway! (via Enrique A. Wembagher, Argentina, Nov 5, condiglist yg via DXLD) Too bad no one posted this in advance to the dxldyg (gh, DXLD) ** EUROPE. PIRATES, 15009.25, Tentative, Old Time Radio, 1521, presumed the one, very weak carrier, occasionally rising above noise floor with pop music, but no ID. Prior checks between 0800-0900 had nil results - not even a carrier. 5 Nov 15870.03, Tentative, R. Powerliner, 1350, threshold carrier and not much more, one brief peak about 1355 with talk by a man but no ID. Would like to think it's the pirate, scheduled at this time, but it could have been anyone. 5 Nov 21550, Tentative, LSB, Baltic Sea Radio, 0802, perhaps more a case of "wishful thinking" than tentative -- mostly just carrier, barely above threshold, from about 0802, but only detectable in LSB. Stayed with it, hoping to catch some audio, only to have this covered by KTWR at 0828. 5 Nov (David Sharp, NSW, Australia, partial list of equipment: FT-950, NRD-535D, R8, R30A, Timewave 599ZX, various Palstar and MFJ accessories, Quantun Phaser, various Sangean and Tecsun portables, EWE aerials, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn: With an increase in sunspot activity, shortwave conditions continue to improve. Today was the best I've heard since around 2002. Netherlands, 21490, Black Arrow Radio, Nov 6, 1418, Caught the last few minutes of a short transmission. Good signal strength with excellent audio quality. Multiple IDs, email address etc. Reportedly running 80 watts to a dipole at 14 meters height. Netherlands, 21460, Cupid Radio, Nov 6, 1615, Exceptionally good reception at peak with sinpo of 45444. Operator mentioned he was transmitting around 350 watts from a home brew amplifier to a 3 element Yagi. You can look at a youtube video of this station at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkSXbcK-GLc He said he had received reception reports from the Japan, Central Asia, India, Russia, North Africa and North America for today's transmission (David Hodgson, TN, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUROPE. PIRATE. NETHERLANDS. 21460.23v, Cupid Radio, 1625-1655, Euro-pop music. IDs. Said they were running around 350-400 watts. Gave email address as _cupidradio@hotmail.com_ SSTV at 1635. Acknowledged listeners’ reports from Larry Yamron, John Herkimer and others. Drifted up to 21460.28 by 1640. And drifted up to 21460.32 by 1654. Very good signal. Nov 6 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6-11, 15060, R Scotland Intl, 0855 OM with IDs Sign off 0900 (Zacharias Liangas, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FINLAND. "NDR Info" replaces "Deutsche Welle" in Helsinki According to a press release published by "NDR Presse und Information" today, the radio programme "NDR Info" (a 24-hour service aired via several FM transmitters and the MW frequencies 702, 792, 828 and 972 kHz) for listeners in Northern Germany will be on the air for one hour a day (from 08:00 to 09:00 LT = 0600-0700 UTC in Helsinki, too. "YLE Mondo", the programme of YLE which is relaying foreign broadcasts on 97.5 MHz in the diverse mother tongues for business people and tourists in the capital area, replaces the slot which up to the end of October has been filled with the German programme of "Deutsche Welle". (Harry Niebuhr, Klein Hehlen, Bonifatiusstrasse 5, 29223 Celle, Germany, Tel: +49 5141 53848, Fax: +49 5141 9939483, Mobil: +49 162 7168189, 2011-11-04, bdxc-uk yg via DXLD ** FINLAND. 25000 kHz UnID time signals --- Hello, Right now receive with SINPO 35422 time signals on 25000 kHz. No IDs heard, only signals, so it could be Mikes from Finland. http://elradioescucha.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/qsl-de-mikes-fin/ (Vitaliy Lisovskiy, Kharkiv, Ukraine, 1224 UT Nov 5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Only timesignals known on 25000 now (gh, DXLD) Wuauuuuu 11 mt band, Hola.... 25000, 1300 UT, Mikes, Espoo, FINLAND, - time signal bip bip bip.....OTTIMO. Ciaoooooo. 73! (Mauro - Giroletti, Nov 5, -Swl 1510-, -IK2GFT-, -JRC525Nrd - Lowe HF150-, Filter PAR Electronics - BCST-LPF + BCST-HPF- DSP 9, -Eavesdropper SWL Sloper 11mt to 120mt Band- Loop ALA 100 M, -Lat. 45 25'0"N Long. 9 7'0"E - Locator grid. Jn 45 Nk-, playdx yg via DXLD) ** FRANCE. Tests from Brittany on 1593 kHz --- David Duckworth reports music tests are on the air this morning (Sunday 1030 UT) from Radio Bretagne 5, St Goueno, Brittany on 1593 kHz. Weak to fair signal in Salisbury on a Superradio with loop. A difficult channel with DRM from Germany, but should be audible fairly well on the south coast in the daytime. Very weak here in Reading but I can just hear music at noise threshold (Dave Kenny, Nov 6, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** FRANCE [and non]. 17610, Nov 4 at 1218, news in Spanish with clips in French, strongly hinting it`s RFI. Yes, new frequency for the 1200- 1230 broadcast, 250 kW, 295 degrees via GUIANA FRENCH. If it`s anything like the old frequency, 15515, it will occasionally stick on the air up to 75 minutes later with RFI Musique, but 17610 was off today by 1230. (Mike Cooper reports there was another strike at RFI but scheduled to end at 0600 Nov 4.) Now also scheduled on 17610 before Spanish is 1130-1200 RFI 500 kW, 270 degrees from Issoudun, probably Météo Marine plus music fill, also still via GUF 13640. 9765, Nov 5 at 0600, RFI news in English, good on this Saturday, so back in business after a strike the night before. Used to hearing NZ, but now their 9765 does not start until 0759. RFI is 500 kW, 170 degrees from Issoudun at 06-07 daily (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Noted RFI English 4-6 UT too, this morning Nov 5: 11995 from Issoudun. (Wolfgang Büschel, WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. RFI to end short waves? In a recent report, the General Inspectorate of Finance (IGF) recommands RFI ending short and medium waves. Here’s the link to the article of lepoint.fr http://www.lepoint.fr/chroniqueurs-du-point/emmanuel-berretta/l-inspection-des-finances-passe-l-aef-au-crible-08-11-2011-1393898_52.php Unfortunately, it’s in French (Jean-Michel Aubier, France, Nov 9, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Mais pas seulement les OC de RFI! Salut, Jean-Michel! I believe the French situation is planned to go even beyond the one here in Portugal where it was the HF alone that was chosen to be the scapegoat: a quick & easy means to reduce spending on something public radio/tv know few at home, i.e. the tax payers, are aware of. So, it's not just RFI on HF that may go, but also MF & some VHF-FM txs overseas, all because, the "IFG" argue, b/casting via the internet is on the rise. Yes, sure... we heard the same story too. "L'IGF recommande de s'employer dès maintenant à faire des économies. Ils écartent la réduction du nombre de langues diffusées sur RFI ou la réduction de la zone de couvertures. L'impact sur les recettes publicitaires du groupe ne ferait qu'accroître le risque de dérapage. En revanche, le rapport préconise de rationaliser les coûts de diffusion, notamment en supprimant la diffusion de RFI en ondes courtes et moyennes, ainsi qu'une révision du nombre d'émetteurs FM existants. La montée des modes numériques de consommation de l'information permettrait de s'en affranchir en partie. La maîtrise de la masse salariale fait également partie de leurs préoccupations. Là, ils jugent souhaitable de "mettre à l'étude" dès à présent le "non- remplacement des départs à la retraite"." and concerning one particular comment I could read... "La gestion comptable et technocratique va encore frapper! Toutes les radios internationales, qui par souci d'économie, cessent la diffusion en ondes courtes et ondes moyennes pour se recentrer sur Internet finissent par disparaître complètement. En Afrique par exemple, loin des grandes villes, sans Internet, la radio s'écoute en ondes courtes." ... well, this is a typical example of what their "Inspection générale des finances" and most probably the administration of the group simply cannot understand, or better still refuses to understand. Why do they persist in fooling people with such arguments?! In the end, this is surely strictly connected to news this week, saying France's spending must be highly reduced too: they've spent too much for too long. Not to wonder. 73 et bon DX (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, Nov 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi, Carlos, Most of the people here on this yg are interested in SW. That’s the reason of the title (RFI to end SW ?) But you’re right. SW isn’t the only platform to be in danger. As you wrote, FM & AM transmitters are concerned. RFI’s main target is Africa. And I’m still considering that SW services won’t be cancelled despite IFG proposals. Maybe I’m too optimistic? Best regards (Jean-Michel Aubier, France, ibid.) Jean-Michel, Perhaps the fate won't be so sad, but what then, if RFI (and stations alike) uses programs in the country's own language alone? That would, I think, save a huge amount of funding, but, of course, the goal of RFI would also shrink considerably. However, between that and nothing, the difference is huge, I suppose. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, ibid.) ** FRANCE [non]. 6185, Nov 8 at 0603, Spanish news from Radio Francia Internacional, i.e. XEPPM R. Educación, MEXICO is still delay-relaying this in the nightmiddle; and strangely, no co-channel audible now from Vatican, supposedly on until 0620. 17690, Nov 8 at 1430* RFI Spanish service via GUIANA FRENCH cuts off the air at the appointed hour sharp, despite news about Nicaraguan `elexion` still going, rudely interrupted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE [non]. update change for USA * Tell your friends this event will happened only one time Don't miss It. The Show Must Go On. On the highway to freedom . F F F R !!! ------------------------- 1983 - 2011 -------------------------------- Radio Waves International 's 28th birthday Big Power Broadcasts will take place as follows: Friday November 11, 2011 to Europe: 2100-2300 UT on 6055 kHz Sunday early morning November 13, 2011 to USA: 0200-0400 UT on 7415* Sunday November 13, 2011 to Asia: 1330-1530 UT on 9895 kHz The other broadcasts via our own txs will take place on 48 mb 6395 khz, 43 mb 6980 or 6985 khz, possible also on 11401 khz, 26 & 41 mb. Many thanks for you continuous support. A special QSL card & Gif will be available. Don't forget to send your report to us via snail mail or email free of charge (no IRC needed) 73's Peter HILLS & Philippe "the terrible twins" -------------------------1983 - 2011 -------------------------------- Now listen to us on the net via http://www.pirateradionetwork.com/ RADIO WAVES INTERNATIONAL http://go.to/rwi Country music show, French service, Rock City & Pirate memories the sounds on short-waves around the world "on the highway to freedom" Peter HILLS & Philippe "The terrible twins" For review and airplay send your promos to : RADIO WAVES INTERNATIONAL BP 130 92504 RUEIL Cedex FRANCE Attention: for UPS or Fedex mail ask us for a special delivery address (via Roberto Scaglione, shortwave yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DXLD) ** GAMBIA. GÂMBIA, 648, GRTS/R.Gambia, Bonto, 2350-..., 04/11, Vernacular, tribal songs; overmodulated, poor readability, audio not fixed yet; 54433, QRM de ESPAÑA. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. QSL: DCF77 Mainflingen, 77.5 kHz, Heard on a recent business trip to Zurich, Switzerland. Date/frequency Antenna mast and clock card in 13 days for German report and 1 IRC via airmail. V/s Dr. Andreas Bauch. When Dr. Bauch initially received my report, there ensued a rather entertaining email correspondence in which he expressed his "amusement" that DX'ers even bother to send reports and collect QSLs, and saying that my eMail address was not very personal. It was interesting trying to explain my version of one of the more interesting facets of this hobby, and about the old Army Security Agency, from where my email originates. He turned out to be an alright guy and sent a very nice brochure as well on the station and other services of the PTS (Al Muick, Whitehall PA USA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also SWITZERLAND: HBG ** GERMANY. 6045 23.10 0935 XVRB/R Iceman via Wertachtal med pop. Stängde 10.00 DO 6045, 23.10 0935, XVRB/R Iceman via Wertachtal with pop. c/d at 1000 DO (Dan Olsson, Furulund, Sweden, SW Bulletin Oct 30, translated by editor Thomas Nilsson for DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. 7265, Hamburger Lokalradio, Göhren, 0601-0632, Oct 22, 30 minutes-test loop with IDs and popmusic from Northern Germany. ID: "Sie hören eine Testaussendung des Hamburger Lokalradios auf der Kurzwelle 7265 kHz im 41 Meter band. Wir senden über die Kurzwellenstation Göhren in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern mit einer Sendeleistung von 1 kW", 35443. Göhren is a village located near Schwerin (Patrick Robic, Leibnitz, Austria, DSWCI DX Window Nov 2 via DXLD) Hamburger Local Radio Test Transmissions on 7265 kHz This Saturday the 5th of November Test Transmissions from Hamburger Local Radio are running via the Shortwave transmitting station Göhren Germany (MV Baltic Radio). These tests will be starting at 0600 UT on 7265 KHz with a power of 1 KW. All Reports to: m.kittner @ freenet.de (Hamburger) or info @ mvbalticradio.de Good Listening 73s (Tom Taylor via Roberto Scaglione, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) A further note, to clarify: MV Baltic Radio are updating their TX this week, and will be back on this Saturday at 0600 utc on 7265 kHz, tests will be on until 13th Nov. 73s Tom Taylor PS. 7265 was testing on Monday and Tuesday this week (via Mike Terry, Nov 3, dxldyg via DXLD) ** GERMANY. 9480, 0802-0832, European Music Radio, Kill (?), 23/10, English, Mike Taylor's radio show with many western oldies such as The Cars or Boney M, IDs, "1 kW in Germany" mention, etc. - very good with slight fading only (Mikhail Timofeyev, St Petersburg, Russia, DSWCI member no. 2987, Drake R8A. Antenna: long wire (30 m), http://dxcorner.narod.ru HCDX via DXLD) ** GERMANY. 5815 / 6235, KBC / RNW programmes intermodulation noted and reported by Herbert Meixner to A-DX ng on Nov 6th too. At 08-11 UT RNW Wertachtal 500 kW outlet relay, HQ antenna at 110 degrees excites the 100 kW quadrant NON-DIR antenna in southern antenna park at Wertachtal Germany site. This only on weekends, when KBC Dutch pop music station is on testomg on 6095 kHz. Intermodulation of 140 kHz difference. Formula 2 x 5955 kHz = 11910 minus 6095 = 5815 kHz. RNW intermodulation program should also be heard on 6235 kHz, like Formula 2 x 6095 kHz = 12190 minus 5955 = 6235 kHz. Antenna type 930 HQ 2/0.3 Antenna type 926 HQ1/0.5 Quadrant antenna Designation: HQ n/h n = number of elements stacked above the other h = height of dipoles above the ground in wavelength The design frequency is entered in a separate field of the requirement. 5955 08-11 27,28 WER 500kW 210 0 930 Nld D RNW 6095 09-16 18SW,27,28W,37N WER 100 non-dir 0 926 Dutch/Eng MBR KBC (Wolfgang Büschel, Nov 6, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 9 via DXLD) ** GERMANY [and non]. Media Broadcast B11 operational schedule B11 operational MBR schedule (latest update on November 3rd, 2011) http://www.media-broadcast.com/fileadmin/user_upload/Downloads/B11_operational_031111_MBR.pdf (247 kB) -- (via Aleksandr Diadischev, Ukraine, Nov 3, dxldyg via DXLD) ** GERMANY [non]. 9810, Nov 4 at 0545, DW has not cut to dead air this time, amid ``environmental news`` segment on `Living Planet`, sufficient signal here, but JBA on // 9855, both of course via RWANDA. We can`t hear about Germany in German, but we can too in French: 17520, Nov 4 at 1230, talk about Allemagne, which is DW at 12-13, 250 kW, due south from Woofferton, UK. 13780, Nov 8 at 0608, African news in English about Nigeria, OSOB; 0612 DW jingle and e-mail. If it`s DW in English now, we know it has to be via RWANDA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [and non]. DW rebroadcasters YLE [FINLAND], which used to relay DW German, now relays NDR Info as substitute. Norddeutscher Rundfunk is so proud of this that they communicated it domestically with a press release and also mention it on the NDR Info webpages. http://www.ndr.de/unternehmen/presse/pressemitteilungen/pressemeldungndr9211.html http://www.ndr.de/info/service/index.html Saarländischer Rundfunk, which for its part used to relay DW English two times a day on workdays on its 1179 kHz service, has apparently until Friday still not noted that the "Newslink" programme no longer exists. It not only still shows up in their program schedule, reportedly they also still put the old satellite channel on air, resulting in two half hours being filled by the DW interval signal only. http://www.sr-online.de/antennesaar/2154/ (Kai Ludwig, Nov 5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also FINLAND ** GREECE. B-11 VOICE OF GREECE TRANSMISSION SCHEDULE I received this information this morning, along with the B-11 Transmission and Program Schedules of ERA-5, THE VOICE OF GREECE Regards, John Babbis ERA-5 VOICE OF GREECE (GREECE TIME UTC +2) DAILY SCHEDULE FROM 10/30/11 to 03/25/12, UT: 1600-1800 (9420-*15630) to Europe, America, and the Atlantic Ocean 1800-2300 (9420) to Europe, America, and the Atlantic Ocean 1800-2300 (*15650) to the Middle East and Indian Ocean, and Australia 2000-0200 (*15630) to Africa 2300-0200 (9420-7475-15630 to Europe, America and the Atlantic Ocean 2300-0200 (9420-7475-15630; and 0200-0400 (9420-7475) to Europe, America, and the Atlantic Ocean 2300-0200 (7475; and 0200-0400 (7450-7475) to South America, Panama Zone, and NW Africa (*) Stop Frequency 10 minutes earlier INFORMATION FROM THE VOICE OF GREECE" Dear friends and compatriots: Please note that Friday, November 4, workers' Voice of Greece "Realizing the need of the Greek land for which a valid and objective information, will be near you from 21.00 GMT until 04.00 am Saturday, November 5, carrying the pulse of events in our country. Tune in to "Voice of Greece". The Director of International Radio Broadcasting, I Triantafyllis Opportunity to be heard through the short waves around the world frequency at 106.7 FM, the frequency of the 665 [sic] medium wave satellite and via Internet: http://www.ert.gr and http://www.ert.gr/voiceofgreece Telephone the studio: 210 - 6066439 (via John Babbis, MD, Nov 4, DXLD) Does triantafyllis mean thirtieth child? Whew, mom (gh, DXLD) ERA 5 Avlis football live coverage Saturdays also 1500-1600 UT 9420 (but not on ERT-3 9935 / ERA-5 15630) 73 wolfy (Wolfgang Büschel, Nov 5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE, VOICE OF GREECE (ERA 5) B-11 TRANSMISSION SCHEDULE (Greece Time UT+2) (Effective October 30, 2011 to March 25, 2012) To Europe, America, and the Atlantic Ocean: 1600-1800 UT (9420, *15630) 1800-2200 UT (9420) 2300-0200 UT (7475, 9420, *15630) 0200-0400 UT (7475, 9420) To the Middle East, Indian Ocean, and Australia: 1800-2250 UT (*15650) To Africa: 2300-0150 UT (*15630) To South America, Panama Zone and. N.W. Africa 2300-0200 UT (7475) 0200-0400 UT (7450-7475) (*) Transmission ends 10 minutes earlier ** GREECE. VOICE OF GREECE (ERA 5) B-11 PROGRAM SCHEDULE (Greek) UT MONDAY PROGRAM 1600-1605 News in Greek 1605-1700 Cultural Program About Greek Poets 1700-1705 News in Greek 1705-1800 Dive Into the Air 1800-1805 News In Greek 1805-1900 I Loved That Too 1900-1905 News In Greek 1905-2000 Network Without Borders 2000-2005 News In Greek 2005-2015 Sports Panorama 2015-2200 Map 2200-2205 News In Greek 2205-2355 Greek Coffee 0000-0005 News In Greek 0005-0100 Dive Into the Air 0100-0200 Network Without Borders 0200-0205 From Where and Why 0205-0300 Hello Compatriots 0300-0400 Shipping News UT TUESDAY PROGRAM 1600-1605 News in Greek 1605-1700 Cultural Program About the Theater 1700-1705 News in Greek 1705-1800 Dive Into the Air 1800-1805 News In Greek 1805-1900 I Loved That Too 1900-1905 News In Greek 1905-2000 Network Without Borders 2000-2005 News In Greek 2005-2015 Sports Panorama 2015-2200 The Melodies of Delivery 2200-2205 News In Greek 2205-2355 Greek Coffee 0000-0005 News In Greek 0005-0100 Dive Into the Air 0100-0200 Network Without Borders 0200-0205 From Where and Why 0205-0300 Hello Compatriots 0300-0400 Shipping News UT WEDNESDAY PROGRAM 1600-1605 News in Greek 1605-1700 Cultural Program About the Cinema 1700-1705 News in Greek 1705-1800 Dive Into the Air 1800-1805 News In Greek 1805-1900 Hello Compatriots 1900-1905 News In Greek 1905-2000 Network Without Borders 2000-2005 News In Greek 2005-2015 Sports Panorama 2015-2200 The Melodies of Delivery 2200-2205 News In Greek 2205-2355 Greek Coffee 0000-0005 News In Greek 0005-0100 Dive Into the Air 0100-0200 Network Without Borders 0200-0205 From Where and Why 0205-0300 Hello Compatriots 0300-0400 Shipping News UT THURSDAY PROGRAM 1600-1605 News in Greek 1605-1700 Cultural Program About Architecture 1700-1705 News in Greek 1705-1800 Dive Into the Air 1800-1805 News In Greek 1805-1900 Hello Compatriots 1900-1905 News In Greek 1905-2000 Network Without Borders 2000-2005 News In Greek 2005-2015 Sports Panorama 2015-2200 Program 2200-2205 News In Greek 2205-2355 Greek Coffee 0000-0005 News In Greek 0005-0100 Dive Into the Air 0100-0200 Network Without Borders 0200-0205 From Where and Why 0205-0300 Hello Compatriots 0300-0400 Shipping News UT FRIDAY PROGRAM 1600-1605 News in Greek 1605-1700 Cultural Program About the Book 1700-1705 News in Greek 1705-1800 Dive Into the Air 1800-1805 News In Greek 1805-1900 The Melodies of Delivery 1900-1905 News In Greek 1905-2000 Network Without Borders 2000-2005 News In Greek 2005-2015 Sports Panorama 2015-2200 Hello Compatriots 2200-2205 News In Greek 2205-2355 Greek Coffee 0000-0005 News In Greek 0005-0100 Dive Into the Air 0100-0200 Network Without Borders 0200-0205 From Where and Why 0205-0300 The Melodies of Delivery 0300-0400 Shipping News UT SATURDAY PROGRAM 1600-2000 Connection With ERA SPORT 2000-2005 News in Greek 2005-2300 Live Line 2300-2355 The Songs of the Voice of Greece 0000-0005 News in Greek 0005-0100 Persons of the Week 0100-0130 Money and Investments 0130-0200 The Songs of Today 0200-0400 The Greek Song UT SUNDAY PROGRAM 1600-2355 Connection With ERA SPORT 0000-0005 News in Greek 0005-0100 Departures-Arrivals 0100-0130 Gains and Losses 0130-0200 3,000 Years of Greece 0200-0400 From the Flower, the Song (John Babbis, Silver Spring, MD, for DXLD) 9420, Nov 8 at 0325, VG signal from VOG with music, Greek announcements, also // weaker 7475 and weakest 7450. We miss hearing VOG later at night or in our mornings, but 9420 still packs a punch when it is on, now scheduled 16-04. How can they afford this? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. QSL: Olympia Radio SVO, 8424, f/d A4-sized certificate in 57 days for English report and 2 IRCs. V/S "Poulos," Manager of Olympia Radio. Very nice picture set on the certificate and also sent a second certificate on a heavier stock blue paper (Al Muick, Whitehall PA USA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. 15660, Nov 10 at 1330 good steady signal, only lite fading, with English ID in progress, ``Agat, Guam, following program in Hmong on 15660``, then opening rustic woodwind music like we used to hear from Hmong Lao Radio on WHRI. This semihour is in Hmong on Thursdays and Fridays only, 285 degrees from KSDA, per HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. 15200, KTWR, 1500, sign-on with ID by a woman, mentioned "11625" and not this frequency, which clashes with Turkey (4 Nov (David Sharp, NSW, Australia, partial list of equipment: FT-950, NRD- 535D, R8, R30A, Timewave 599ZX, various Palstar and MFJ accessories, Quantun Phaser, various Sangean and Tecsun portables, EWE aerials, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. DEDICATION OF NEW TRANSMITTERS FOR INTERNATIONAL MISSIONARY STATION KTWR GUAM TWR President Lauren Libby and radio host Scott Hollinger will present an on-air dedication of two 250 kW short wave transmitters at KTWR Guam which replaced two 33 years old 100 kW transmitters. According to a press release of the missionary organization the live broadcast will be aired on Friday morning, November 18th at 8:30–9:00 AM Eastern Standard Time / 13.30-14.00 GMT on 15400 kHz as well as on www.twr.org and several US radio stations which supported the replacement project. More: http://www.twr.org/news_and_blogs/2011/11-02/twrs-live-guam-transmitter-dedication (Dr Hansjoerg Biener, Nov 3, WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DX LISTENING DIGEST) KTWR DRM Test (During the official dedication ceremony) 18 Nov 2011 (Friday) 0900 - 0915 UTC, 17640 kHz, 75 kW in DRM mode (Alokesh Gupta, VU3BSE, New Delhi, WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUATEMALA. 4055, Radio Verdad, 1024-1106, Spanish. Male announcer, IDs, and religious music. 10/24/11 (Steve Handler, IL, Buffalo Grove , IL . Equipment: Icom IC-7200, Tecsun PL-660 and Sony ICGF-7600GR using wire antennas, NASWA Flashsheet Oct 30 via DXLD) There they go again, on air during the hour earlier than nominal (previous?) *1100 (gh, DXLD) 4055, Radio Verdad, 1130, surprised to hear this, when most other Latins (except Rebelde) have already faded; Spanish hymns, talk by a man, fading fast. 2 Nov (David Sharp, NSW, Australia, partial list of equipment: FT-950, NRD-535D, R8, R30A, Timewave 599ZX, various Palstar and MFJ accessories, Quantun Phaser, various Sangean and Tecsun portables, EWE aerials, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4055, Radio Verdad, 0545-0604*, gospel music. Closing multi-lingual ID announcements at 0553. Sign off with National Anthem at 0559. Poor in noisy conditions. Nov 6 (Brian Alexander, PA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA [and non]. At same half hour after 0100 UT heard the following radio operators in 60 mb: 4795, Kyrghyz R Bishkek, fluttery poor S=6 4800, AIR Hyderabad, CNR1 Geermu little bit stronger. 4810, AIR Mumbai 4820, terrible ute mess, AIR Kolkata, PBS Xizang-CHN. 4830, Mongolian Radio, from Altay. 4840, AIR Mumbai, co-channel on same level WWCR Nashville-USA at 0109 4880, AIR Lucknow. 4885.018, Unid Brazilian station in Portuguese [likely Pará] 4895, AIR Kolkata 4905, UNID, poor signal, most likely XZDT Lhasa Baiding in Tibetan 4910, AIR Jaipur, and strong carrier parked here from MDG site? 4920, AIR Chennai, Tamil machine gun reader speech 4965, AIR Simla heavily hit by ute digital signal on 4965 to 4968.5, fragments of Indian sitar music heard underneath. 5010, even signal from AIR Thiruvananthapuram in Hindi, from Chennai (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 4820.84, AIR Kolkata (presumed), 1320-1400 Nov 2. Man and woman talking and taking phone calls; no break at 1330 (ToH in India); not sure of language. Seemed to go into a different program at 1353 but signal weak now. Apparently back on 4820 next day (two signals there). (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, Drake R-8, 100-foot RW, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** INDIA. 5050, AIR Aizawl on Nov 7. Heard test tone mixing with Beibu Bay Radio (BBR) at 1123; 1130 start of audio. Best reception from 1302 to 1320; at times stronger than BBR; news in vernacular; ID at 1307 and more news; followed by religious singing. http://www.box.net/shared/72xbzaikubji2e6f45ds has MP3 audio of ID and news (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, Received the following quick response from the Asst. Engineer at AIR Aizawl, in response to yesterday's reception: "Very nice. Thank you very much for your feedback. I have heard recorded MP3. It is very good. Regards, B. Adinarayana" (Ron Howard, San Francisco, CA, ibid.) ** INDIA. Hello, Alokesh Gupta via IDXCI Facebook :: https://www.facebook.com/groups/idxci/ AIR Khampur extended DRM schedule AIR Khampur has added 8.25 hours of DRM transmission wef 30th Oct 2011 (B11 season). Following transmissions are now in DRM mode: 0130-0230 UT on 11715 kHz Nepali (Nepal) 0315-0415 UT on 15185 kHz Hindi, (E. Africa, Mauritius) 0415-0430 UT on 15185 kHz Gujarati, (E. Africa, Mauritius) 0430-0530 UT on 15185 kHz Hindi (E. Africa, Mauritius) 1300-1500 UT on 15050 kHz Sinhala (Sri Lanka) 1615-1715 UT on 15140 kHz Russian (E. Europe) 2245-0045 UT on 11645 GOS-I English (NE Asia) Above transmissions are in addition to existing DRM txn's: 0900-2100 on 6100 Vividh Bharati, DRM NVIS 1745-1945 on 9950 English (W. Europe) 1945-2045 on 9950 Hindi (W. Europe) 2045-2230 on 9950 English (W. Europe) My Personal comment: I haven't met any general listener till now who listens to AIR transmission via DRM, really India has too much money to spend but many Indians don't have much. I am also sure that no one is there to listen to Nepali and Sinhala in DRM mode other than Eminent Professional DXers. I support DRM mode to Europe - it`s OK, but they transmit to Africa in DRM ???? Why they spill in the band then - ahahaha -- Thanks & Regards, (Partha Sarathi Goswami, Siliguri, Dist. Darjeeling, West Bengal, INDIA, Nov 2, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 15050, 13-15 AIR Sinhala service via Khampur, not checked today Nov 3, but in dx_india, Jose Jacob and Alokesh Gupta confirm this transmission is in DRM, perhaps temporarily as test for an ABU meeting in Delhi first week of November (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1589, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15050, Nov 4 at 1402 and 1432 checks, AIR Sinhala service from Khampur is again in DRM today, poor signals not likely decodable here. I can just imagine all the Sinhalese wondering why in the world they are getting this noise racket instead of nice music normally played. O, they`ll run right out and buy a DRM receiver? Yeah, sure. AIR should do their DRM testing on some other out-of-band frequency and leave the analog alone. 15050, Nov 7 at 1445, AIR Sinhala service from Khampur is still in weak DRM today. The ABU meeting in Delhi is about to conclude, so will be interesting to hear whether this resumes AM soon. I sure would like to have my Sinhalese music back. 15045-15050-15055, Nov 8 at 1340 check, poor signal from AIR Sinhala service, but it`s still DRM noise. Jose Jacob informs us: ``Dear Glenn, Please see the following link. http://qsl.net/vu2jos/new.htm DRM of AIR Sinhala on 15050 (and many new ones) is there to stay`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 9690, Nov 5 at 1419 some music, some hum marking it immediately as AIR GOS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. AIR special broadcasts to Saudi Arabia started The special broadcast in Urdu to Haj Pilgrims by AIR is scheduled as follows: 9 Nov 11 to 7 Dec 2011 as per the following info. http://allindiaradio.gov.in/schedule/haj2011.htm 0530 to 0600 15210 15770 17845 However it was heard yesterday 6th Nov 2011 (3 days earlier than announced) at 0530 to 0600 on 15770 & 17845. 73 (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Raj Bhavan Road, Hyderabad 500082, India, dx_india yg via DXLD) ** INDIA. STRATEGIC PLAN FOR ALL INDIA RADIO - 2011-17 All India Radio will embark upon a sweeping modernization programme during 2011-16 that will see it broadcasting to the entire country with State-of-the-Art technology. Having already covered 99% of the population and area under the analogue mode, AIR has made detailed plans of increasing the coverage to 100% under the digital mode. 100% coverage would strengthen broadcasting to all strategic border areas as well. Within this 100% coverage on the primary grade signal (MW & SW), coverage by FM signal will increase from 37% to 90% of the population. This would entail digital broadcast in FM band from 50 places in the country including all State capitals and major cities. The digitalization of the entire network including studios, transmission and connectivity would include replacement of old/obsolete equipment. In addition, strengthening of related civil infrastructure would also be taken up, particularly for imparting training to staff in the field of digital technology and intensifying related R & D programmes. Staff productivity will be further enhanced through implementation of ACP scheme for existing staff and induction of fresh talent. Investment in E-Governance will be made for ensuring efficient management of the vast AIR network. Digitalization will enable AIR make its broadcast available on alternate platforms such as webcasting / Podcasting / SMS / Mobile services. In respect of content, a 24 hour AIR news channel will be introduced on a 2nd channel besides a speech quality programme. The entertainment programme will be broadcast on the main channel to compete with the best in the industry. Introduction of Value added Services like Interactive Text Transmission, Multimedia Object Transfer (MOT), disaster warning, etc has also been planned. In respect of content generation, AIR will be organizing Radio workshops, Akashwani Sangeet Sammalen concerts, Akashwani Annual Awards, Kisan Vani, Special poetic symposia and Spring Music Festival Concerts. Further, special activities like music concerts will also be organized and broadcast. Increased coverage of important International and National events will be undertaken along with news activities like production of flagship programmes. (A) CURRENT SCENARIO All India Radio has become one of the largest broadcasting networks in the world. The Five Year Plans have given impetus to the growth of broadcasting resulting in a phenomenal expansion. At the time of independence, there were six radio stations located at Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Lucknow and Tiruchirapalli with a total compliment of 18 transmitters (6 Medium Wave & 12 Short Wave), which covered 11% population and 2.5 % area of the country. The network has now grown to 237 AIR stations with a total of 380 transmitters (149 MW, 54 SW & 177 FM). The primary grade total coverage is 91.85% (by area) and 99.18% (by population) and coverage by FM signal is about 37% by population and about 25% by area. Therefore, in order to provide digital quality radio broadcasts in the country, digitalization of complete network and services is the primary aspiration and the following vision & purpose has been identified as part of the strategy to be pursued for digitalization of AIR network in the next five years (2011-16): (B) OBJECTIVES . Complete digitalization of studios, transmission and connectivity in the next five years (by the year 2017). . Expansion of FM coverage from existing 37% to about 90% of the population mostly in semi-urban and rural areas in analogue mode since while formulating XI Plan, digital technology in FM band was not matured. Digital Technology in the FM band has now matured and standards have been finalized. Therefore, during the next five years, Digital broadcast in FM band is proposed to be started from about 50 places including all State capitals & major cities. . Strengthening of coverage in strategic border areas. . External Services will be strengthened so as to enhance the quality of AIR External Services Broadcasts through digitalization of Shortwave transmitters. . To make available AIR broadcasts on alternate Platforms like Webcasting / Podcasting /SMS/Mobile services including availability of Content on request by SMS & email and also on i-phones etc. and to provide more channels in the DTH service. . Introduction of 24 hour AIR news Channel: In addition to the main channel which has excellent audio quality , an additional speech quality programme can be broadcast simultaneously on the DRM Transmitters operating in digital mode. The reach of the existing national channel is proposed to be extended to the whole of the country and is also proposed to convert it in DRM mode, using SFN (Single Frequency Network). The entertainment programme will be broadcast on the main channel and the 2nd channel is proposed for 24 hour news broadcast. . Consolidation of Network: In order to ensure efficiency and quality of broadcasts, replacement of old/obsolete equipment & improvement of facilities is necessary. Schemes like Refurbishing of studios, replacement of AC plants, provision of UPS systems & Diesel generators, strengthening of infrastructure facilities like office accommodation, staff quarters, community centres, holiday homes etc. will be included. Old equipment, which have served their life, will be replaced. . Introduction of E-Governance to facilitate faster dissemination of information to media units by providing network based on-line management systems. ERP solutions are proposed to be provided for efficient management of the vast network of AIR. . Strengthening of infrastructure for training of staff and Research & Development activities particularly in the field of digital technology. . Introduction of Value added Services like Interactive Text Transmission, Multimedia Object Transfer (MOT), disaster warning, etc. . Staff- Assured Career Progression for existing staff and induction of fresh talent to meet the challenge posed by private broadcasters. (C) IMPLEMENTATION PLAN: (1) Digitalization of Production facilities- (a) Studios (i) Present state of Digitalization of Studios: . NBH (New Broadcasting House) studio at Delhi is fully digital . 137 studio centres have been partially digitalized by providing hard disc based systems (ii) Schemes under implementation & proposed : . There are at present 215 studio centres in the AIR network. . Digitalization of 98 Studios will be achieved in XI Plan. . The remaining Studios are proposed to be digitalized during the next five years & targeted to be achieved by 2017. These studios will have provision for stereo recording, production & transmission, all in the digital domain. (b) RNUs (Regional News Units) (i) Present state of Digitalization of RNUs:Nil (ii) Schemes under implementation & proposed : . Augmentation of 44 existing Regional News Units and creation of 7 new regional units. (c) News -on -Phone Service (NOP Service) (i) Present state of Digitalization of NOP Service. . NOP Service already digitalized at Delhi (ii) Schemes under implementation & proposed : . Augmentation of existing 13 NOP Centres . Introduction of NOP Service at 16 places (d) Digitalization of Archives: (i) Present state of Digitalization. Most of the Central Archives at Delhi has been digitalized. However, refurbishing is to be done. Content in Regional archives is to be digitalized / refurbished. (ii) Schemes under implementation & proposed : . Digitalization of existing Archives and creation of digital Archival facilities at 4 places. (2) Digitalization of Transmitters- There are 380 Transmitters in the A.I.R. Network consisting of 149 Medium Wave, 54 Short Wave & 177 FM Transmitters. (i) Present state of Digitalization of Transmitters: . One 250 KW Short Wave Transmitter at Delhi has been converted to Digital mode and has been operational since January 2009. (ii) Schemes under implementation & proposed : . 78 MW (Medium Wave) Transmitters including 6 Mobile Transmitters are being digitalized as part of the XI Plan Digitalization schemes. Remaining MW Transmitters in the network are proposed to be digitalized during next five years & targeted to be achieved by 2017. . 9 SW (Short Wave) Transmitters (4 in Delhi , 4 in Aligarh & 1 in Bangalore) are being digitalized as a part of the Digitalization Schemes in XI Plan. Remaining Shortwave Transmitters are proposed to be digitalized during next five years & targeted to be achieved by 2017. . As digital technology in the FM band has matured recently, digitalization in the FM band was not proposed in XI plan. However, digital compatible FM Transmitters are being provided in the network during XI Plan. This includes 124 digital compatible FM Transmitters (including 100 numbers of 100 Watt FM Transmitters) at existing AIR/Doordarshan Sites & replacement of existing FM/MW Transmitters at 40 places. During next five years, digital broadcast in FM band is proposed to be started from about 50 places including all State capitals & major cities. (3) Digitalization of Networking & Connectivity - (i) Present state of Digitalization of Networking & Connectivity: . Digital Uplink facility at 32 Centres . All the downlink facilities digitalized except at 44 places. . Digital Studio Transmitter links at 20 places. . 4 Nos. of DSNG Systems (Digital News Gathering Systems) are available. (ii) Schemes under implementation & proposed : . 115 Studio Transmitter links are being digitalized. . 5 new Digital Captive Earth Stations are being set up (32 are already available), . 44 down link facilities are being digitalized. . 98 Studio Centres being digitalized in XI Plan are being networked to a Central Data Server System for exchange of programme. Disaster Management site is also envisaged in the XI Plan. The remaining Studios, which are proposed to be digitalized by 2017 in XII Plan, will be connected to the Central Server. . 3 Nos. of DSNG systems (Digital News Gathering Systems) are being procured. With this Complete digitalization of networking & connectivity will be achieved. (4) AIR broadcasts are also proposed to be made available on alternate Platforms like Webcasting / Podcasting / SMS/Mobile services and to provide more channels in the DTH service. AIR Programmes are presently available through terrestrial mode and DTH. As part of XI Plan, following schemes are under implementation: . 20 AIR channels are proposed to be made available through Webcasting/Podcasting with a view to use the internet platform to serve listeners having internet connectivity. . There are presently 21 Radio Channels available on the Ku band DTH platform of Prasar Bharati (DD+). In XI Plan it is proposed to consolidate the DTH service. During Next five years, It is proposed to expand the reach and impact of AIR broadcasts through alternate platforms including availability of Content on request by SMS & email and also on i-phones etc. Channels on DTH will also be increased. Source: Govt. of India, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Strategic Plan 2011-17 (via Alokesh Gupta, Nov 6, dx_india yg via DXLD) ** INDONESIA. (Papua), 729, Weak RRI outlet here, WRTH says Nabire but it wasn't // to much stronger 810. Could be another location. Anyone with ideas? (2 Nov David Sharp) 774, RRI Fak Fak, 1010, fair in 100-percent null of ABC Melbourne and partial null of 4TO, with light vocals, // to shortwave. First time reception. (31 Oct David Sharp) 810, RRI Merauke, 0950, really good signal, in null of all domestics, with light Indo vocals, talk by a woman, 1000 news. (31 Oct David Sharp) Also noted 1000+ 2 Nov with powerhouse signal. (Sharp) 1053, RRI Jayapura, 1022, discussion by a man and woman, many ments of "Indonesia." At first, all alone on freq after 2CA and other domestics nulled, then gradually faded into mush and the mysterious bubble jammer surfaced. (Would really like to know where this jammer is based.) (2 Nov David Sharp NSW Australia) (Sulawesi), 954, RRI Kendari, 1032, presumed with EZL Indo vocals, poor in 75% null of 2UE. 2 Nov (David Sharp NSW Australia, Partial list of equipment: FT-950, NRD-535D, R8, R30A, Timewave 599ZX, various Palstar and MFJ accessories, Quantun Phaser, various Sangean and Tecsun portables, EWE aerials, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. Re Music links in BC-DX TopNews 1038 under INDONESIA. "Rayuan Pulau Kelapa" is a song composed by Ismail Marzuki, of whom wikipedia says: **Ismail Marzuki (11 May 1914 25 May 1958) was an Indonesian composer, songwriter and musician who wrote between 202 and 240 songs between 1931 and 1958, including numerous popular patriotic songs. Among his best known works are "Gugur Bunga" and "Rayuan Pulau Kelapa". In 2004 he was declared one of the National Heroes of Indonesia. Rayuan Pulau Kelapain English means /Solace On Coconut Island/. "Solace" in German means "Trost", but my Indonesian-German dictionary translates "rayuan" as "Schmeichelei", which again in English means "flattery". So pick your choice. The lyrics praise Indonesia's natural beauty, such as its flora, islands and beaches, and profess undying love for the country. "Love Ambon" or "Pulau Ambon" is an instrumental tune by George de Fretes, who from the 30's had a very popular Hawaiian Guitar Band, first in Indonesia, then from 1958 in the Netherlands. Neither is the National Anthem of Indonesia, which is "Indonesia Raya" or "Great Indonesia". The song was introduced by its composer, Wage Rudolf Supratman, on 28 October 1928 during the Second Indonesian Youth Congress in Batavia. The song marked the birth of the all- archipelago nationalist movement in Indonesia that supported the idea of one single "Indonesia" as successor to the Dutch East Indies, rather than split into several colonies. More info on this, including lyrics and musical notes, in wikipedia (Gerhard Werdin, Germany - family ties to Indonesia, Nov 8, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 9 via DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 3325, Nov 10 at 1305, Indonesian talk, news? S9+18, best heard in a long time from RRI Palangkaraya, and now the SSOB surpassing remnant WWRB 3185, Korea 3480. Needs this much signal to have a chance against my hi local noise level on 90m (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 4789.97, 27.10 1330-, RRI Fak-Fak. Reactivated, very good signal (as good or better than 3325). TKF, Tarmo Kontro, Espoo, Finland, has sent a fantastic recording from his reception this day. Just listen to the signal here: http://www.thomasn.sverige.net/4790_271011_1355.mp3 (Thomas Nilsson, SW Bulletin Oct 30 via DXLD) 4789.97, RRI Fak-Fak 1328-1405* Oct 27. Man taking phone calls; occasional selection of vocal mx; continued past ToH to 1405 when they went off the air in mid-song. Good signal with usual CODAR QRM (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, Drake R-8, 100-foot RW, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 7289.47v, RRI Nabire, having no luck with this during local afternoons (0700+), I was surprised to hear this with RRI news during the local morning (2000). Very tough copy with strong stations on both sides. I have only logged this local morning, once or twice prior. 29 Oct 7289.95v, RRI Nabire, 0749, back on when I usually hear them, and almost 500 Hz higher than previous logging; local Indo vocals with woman announcer. Better signal than when previously logged on 29 Oct. 31 Oct (David Sharp, NSW, Australia, partial list of equipment: FT- 950, NRD-535D, R8, R30A, Timewave 599ZX, various Palstar and MFJ accessories, Quantun Phaser, various Sangean and Tecsun portables, EWE aerials, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9525-, Nov 8 at 1309, for the first time in weeks, I can detect a carrier here, and it`s slightly to the low side, characteristic of VOI; but weak and no modulation audible, in case they were attempting to transmit another Tuesday `Exotic Indonesia` hookup with RRI Banjarmasin. Atsunori Ishida agrees at http://rri.jpn.org/ that it`s the first time 9525 has been heard since Oct 20: ``9525 kHz *1031-1501* Since October 20 at -1035-`` So perhaps there is hope (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9525, Nov 9 at 1349, VOI on again for second day after reactivation, but YL English talk is too weak and undermodulated vs the ACI, especially from 9530, CNR1 jamming vs VOA Chinese via Tinang, Philippines. Swopan Chakroborty in India got this reply explaining VOI`s absence until Nov 8 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dear Friend Mr Swopan Chakroborty, Warmest Greeting from Jakarta. We thank you for the report and your attention to listen to RRI World Service, the Voice of Indonesia. To your information, we have made progress in repairing our SW Transmitter of 9525 KHz as it has been operating since November 8 (Tuesday). Please inform us about the strength by email. Could also we have your readiness to comment on our programmes espacially news buletin in English, - What sort of content do you need most of the English bulletin? - How do you think about the sentences of the news - is it clear or sometimes umbigious? What is your suggestions. best regards, Kabul Budiono, Director of VOI (via Swopan Chakroborty, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DXLD) 9525-, Nov 10 at 1337, VOI has remained on air for a third day in a row during English hour, 1341 ID, music; 1400 English IDs and slogans, IADs, 1401 outro with three frequencies, the others never used, postal street and box addresses, e-mail; 1402 into Indonesian. Before 1400 there was not only the Chinese radio war adjacent QRM from 9530, but a lite audible het on 9525, I don`t know from what (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL INTERNET. SOUTH HERTS RADIO TO CLOSE SOON I have decided to launch a brand new international radio station soon and close SHR early in the new year. I would like to thank everyone for their support of South Herts Radio over almost the past 5 years. World Of Radio, Happy Station, Media Network Plus and other sponsored shows from SHR will be on the new station! This will be mainly an internet only service and aims to be 24 hours a day, 7 days per week but we will see if shortwave can be possible through relay partners? SHR as you know it will be back soon - see the update notice on our listen live page http://www.southhertsradio.com/live.html I felt it was time to move on. Best 73 From (Gary Drew, Nov 6, dxldyg via DX LISITENING DIGEST) Later changed mind; next issue? ** IRAN [and non]. 1740 UT: 7420 Sitkunai-LTU / plus 6205/7425 Iran GERMAN 1730-1827 6205 7425 and Sitkunai Litauen Relay on 7420 kHz. Seldom registration same program 5 kHz apart. Tune to 7422 kHz and you will hear the ECHO between two programme signals (Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 30, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. 15735, Arabic service of IRIB via Zahedan very strong signal into Europe, ME/NE and North Africa, on new winter channel at daytime 0530-1430 UT, at least S=9+20dB or even more. \\ 17820.015 same program from Sirjan at 0530-1030 UT. 17865.017, IRIB Teheran Kamalabad in French signing off at 0727 UT Oct 31. S=9+30dB strong transmission. Scheduled 0630-0727 UT daily (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. Unid: 7265 - At tune in just past 0130 caught the end of an apparent national anthem. This was followed by om in possible Arabic with a brief announcement then quickly into Call to Prayer. Next was what was an apparent news with alternating OM & YL announcers with plenty of mentions of Iran and Iraq, one story I was positive about was the recent UN UNESCO vote on Palestinian membership. News continued until approx 0150 followed by a brief instrumental interlude of western music. The OM was back with a few more announcements than into recitations with possible commentary on the verses. Signal was only fair suffering from moderate static and heavy spillover from Russia on 7260. Clear details were only audible at signal peaks every few minutes (Stephen Wood, Harwich, Mass. Drake R8B, 25 x 50 N/E Superloop antenna, UT Nov 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Steve, HFCC shows it as Iran`s Kazakh service, and sounds like their MO: ``7265 0130 0230 30,31 SIR 500 18 0 146 1234567 301011 250312 D KAZAKI IRN IRB IRB 3619 7A306`` How is their English service V of Justice now scheduled back at 0130- 0230 on 7230, 7365? 73, (Glenn Hauser, NASWA yg via DXLD) Thanks Glenn, I had my suspicions about this being Iran but just couldn't be sure. The programing seemed to fit them along with the several mentions of Iran and the extensive story on the Palestinians & UNESCO, there were also some USA mentions that didn't seem too favorable just by the context and tone. The copy was just too tough to get a positive ID. I wasn't even sure about the language. The more I listened the less sure about it being Arabic I became. I guess my intuition was pretty good about this. I checked on the latest NASWA combined list but Iran wasn't listed on this frequency at any time. My list must be out of date. I will check for V. of Justice tonight and let you know what I can hear. 73's (Stephen C Wood, Harwich, Mass., ibid.) [Later:] Hi Glenn, Checked last night for V. of Justice; nothing heard at 0200. 7230 - nothing but static & weak ham operators 7365 - R. Martí under Cuban jamming Overall conditions last night were atrocious. High noise levels everywhere I tuned. 73's (Stephen C Wood, Harwich, MA, Nov 4, ibid.) The bclnews.it B11 schedule archive at http://www.bclnews.it/b11schedules/voiri.htm shows this for VIRI in English: ENGLISH 0130-0227 7230 7365 "Voice of Justice" 1030-1127 21575 21695 1530-1627 13785 15525 1930-2027 6010 6115SIT 7320 11670 15450 But it`s labeled Tentative. Contradicted by HFCC as of Oct 28: The VOJ broadcast to NAm remains at 0330-0427, the time it changed to early in the A-11 season, and the frequencies with azimuths are now: 7200, 313 From Sirjan [the lower sideband of which is out-of-band] 7365, 333 from Kamalabad [which is blocked by the DentroCuban Jamming Command and R. Marti Greenville until 0400 + probable runover of jam. Half of this broadcast on 11920 in A-11 also had a big collision, with Romania which they never did anything about despite my in-person notification to Iranian and Romanian delegates to HFCC Dallas] The 1030 listings match: 21575, 105 from Kamalabad 21695, 112 from Kamalabad The 1530 listings match: 13785, 105 from Sirjan 15525, 105 from Kamalabad 1930 has 13670 instead of 11670: 6010, 304 from Kamalabad 6115, 259 from Sitkunai, Lithuania [English but ZRC client not given] 7320, 313 from Sirjan 13670, 211 from Sirjan 15450, 205 from Kamalabad Confirmation of all of these, especially 0330-0427 is needed. So I checked UT Nov 5: As expected, no Iran to be heard at 0210 on 7365, just R. Martí and jamming; nothing on 7200 or 7230. At 0330, 7365 is still blocked by the Cuban radio war, but 7200 had Qur`an, with co-channel QRM underneath. The stronger signal stayed in Arabic past 0333, while the weaker one sounded like Qur`an, which means the main signal was SUDAN, its only shortwave frequency, which shouldn`t be bleeding into the hamband either, but certainly not a wise choice for VIRI. From HFCC B-11 schedule, I expected 7365 to open up at 0400 after R. Martí, but I hadn`t noticed a separate one-hour registration for IBB Greenville at 0400-0500, since it drops power from 250 to 125 kW, why? By 0400, I couldn`t hear the other signal under Sudan either, so can`t be positive Voice of Justice is really on 7200 and 7365 for IRIB`s only English to North America, but both of those definitely need to be somewhere else! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Listened to both frequencies, heard Iran on both but on 7365 covered by Radio Martí and on 7200 mixing about equally with presumed Sudan. (Peter W Hansen, Nov 5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, same as in HFCC file, okay on air 1530-1627 13785 15525 featuring phone interviews about Israeli occupation of West Bank Palestine since 1967. 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, Nov 5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15525, I.R.I.B., 1531 English. S/on with ID, schedule, Islamic call to prayer. Fair, // 13785, 35333 fair. Nov 7 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening from my car with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active whip antenna. Editor of World English Survey and Target Listening, available at http://www.odxa.on.ca dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [and non]. UT Nov 6 checking again for VIRI`s so-called Voice of Justice in English to NAm at B-11 scheduling of 0330-0430 on 7200, 7365: at 0416, 7365 still has R. Martí and Cuban jamming, but must be Iran making additional co-channel QRM and SAH. Surely it would be loud and clear if not colliding with all this. We should get our chance on UT Monday only when RM, and hopefully the DCJC go into their weekly silent-period truce at 0400 while on other nights 7365s stay on until 0500. At 0416, 7200 also has a SAH between two signals, presumably Sudan and Iran, but both are much weaker and even undermodulated, also vs SSB and CW QRhaM. Iran has no business broadcasting on any 40m American hamband frequency to NAm; both choices this season are monumental failures, and we can`t expect any changes, since they never got off another collider in A-11, 11920, despite our telling them about the problem in person at HFCC Dallas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) IRIB Teheran (IRN) on 7200 kHz since 30 October 11. Dear fellow Intruder Busters, as you can read in BC plan B-11 of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (= IRIB) since today (30 Oct 11) is tx-ing on 7200 kHz. I have just heard it myself with warmup (carrier) 2055-2100 UT and s/on program at 2100 UT. The program started with the National Anthem of Iran followed by Japanese. S/off will be at 2158 UT. The signal strength was S=9+20db with my TS-940S at a dipole antenna. Pse listen yourself and report to your national telecoms. authorities for a written complaint to Tehran. (Uli Bihlmayer DJ9KR, IARU MonSys Region 1, Oct 30 via BC-DX Nov 4 via DXLD) 7365, UT Monday Nov 7 hoping to confirm whether V. of Justice, IRIB`s English to NAm, is really here at 0330-0430. There have been signs of another signal under the DentroCuban Jamming Command`s wall of noise, and Radio Martí, and the 0400-1000 UT silent period of Martí on Mondays should give us a chance to hear it --- unfortunately the DCJC does not cooperate, keeping on jamming 7365 heavily past 0400-0415+ when I give up. There`s also a TADIL-A bonker circa 7359. See also CUBA: 6030. The other Iran frequency, 7200: at 0358 I am hearing Arabic, 0401:27 end of very late timesignal and Omdurman ID. The TS had double/echoing pips, which might have been from a second station except another could not possibly have been equally off-hour by coincidence. Trying to hear IRIB or anything under Sudan, but not convinced it`s there at all. At 0413 it`s really nothing but Sudan on 7200. Plus some QRhaM. Finally as last resort, can`t find any SW schedule at http://english.irib.ir/ or on the Voice of Justice page, tho if you click on Frequencies you get a 56(?) page PDF on satellite reception! Which the repressive government frowns upon for Iranians themselves. Finally on the About Us page, there is a link ``Tune in our new frequency``, but that was Tuesday August 23 (such as in 2011), 11945 at 1530 to S Asia. Still no complete SW schedule. Once again seeking Justice from Iran, allegedly on air to NAm at 0330- 0430 on 7200, 7365: Nov 8 at 0329, 7200 has a fast SAH so must be another signal besides usual SUDAN which is singing. Understation starts undermodulating at 0330 but it`s way under Omdurman. At 0334 I think I am hearing Qur`an from Iran which fits its usual MO. 7365 is a total loss with nothing audible but R. Martí and the DCJC. There is absolutely no excuse for the latter frequency choice, and Sudan, q.v. is even registered in HFCC as well (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. MOLDOVA, Winter B-11 schedule of Radio Payem e-Doost in Farsi: 0230-0315 on 7460 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg to WeAS 1800-1845 on 7480 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg to WeAS (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Nov 8 via DXLD) ** ISRAEL. 9235, Galei Zahal (presumed); 0534, 29-Oct; M in Hebrew with pop music. SIO=343- w/buzz QRM. 2313, 29-Oct; M&W in Hebrew discussion & pop music. SIO=353 (Harold Frodge visiting Port Hope MI, Drake R8B + 65' TTFD + 500' NEish unterminated bev, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15850, Galei Zahal, 0527, Hebrew, fair with mostly EZL music and scant comments by a man, brief fanfare at 0600 and into news. 5 Nov (David Sharp, NSW, Australia, partial list of equipment: FT-950, NRD-535D, R8, R30A, Timewave 599ZX, various Palstar and MFJ accessories, Quantun Phaser, various Sangean and Tecsun portables, EWE aerials, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Here is the word from Moshe Oren, Chief Engineer, regarding Kol Israel shortwave in Persian: "The same frequencies for now In two month we will replace the 13850 with 9985 and the 11595 will continue" (Doni Rosenzweig, Nov 3, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I.e. the only remaining SWBC, 1500-1630 (gh) ** ITALY. Interferenze su Radio3 - Tutti i giovedi' alle 11.30 [UT?] Ciao, vi scrivo per segnalarvi che oggi inizia una mia collaborazione settimanale con Radio3 dedicata al mondo della radio. Lo spazio si chiama Interferenze ed è trasmesso all'interno del programma Radio3 Mondo in onda in giovedi' alle 11.30 [CET?] sulle frequenze di Radio3. La puntata odierna è dedicata a Freedom Radio l'emittente dell'esercito americano in Iraq che ha chiuso le sue trasmissioni a fine settembre. http://www.radio3.rai.it Saluti e 73 Andrea IW0HK -- (Andrea Borgnino IW0HK - HB9EMK http://www.mediasuk.org/iw0hk http://www.mediasuk.org/archive http://www.biciurbana.org http://iwohk.tumblr.com/ bclnews.it via DXLD) ** ITALY [non]. 15190, Nov 4 at 1302, IRRS via ROMANIA, sounds like co-channel QRM from two audios, but it`s really Brother Scare`s standard opening, loud seemingly unrelated music mixed with pronouncement by some other speaker. 1303 change to only BS talking. Meanwhile at 1302 hit by overload from REE Costa Rica 15170 coming on late. Monitored again at 1400 to see what would happen on 15190: like yesterday, another carrier break interrupting the BS, at 1400:16* to *1400:37, why?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See ROMANIA 15190, IRRS, 1445, excellent with Brother "Scare" talking about the "end days" but practically in the same breath mentioning that "the year is about to end, radio contracts will be re-negotiated..." What's the point, if the world's ending? 4 Nov (David Sharp, NSW, Australia, partial list of equipment: FT-950, NRD-535D, R8, R30A, Timewave 599ZX, various Palstar and MFJ accessories, Quantun Phaser, various Sangean and Tecsun portables, EWE aerials, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Via ROMANIA. 15190, IRRS, *1259-1305, sign on with opening theme music. Transmitter off the air at 1300. Back on the air at 1301 with Overcomer Ministry and Brother Stair. Good. Nov 6 (Brian Alexander, PA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) /ROMANIA, Changes in winter B-11 of NEXUS IRRS Shortwave: Arab Woman Today from in Arabic: 1500-1515 on 15190 TIG 300 kW / 140 deg to N/ME/WeAS Friday, new 1400-1415 on 11910 TIG 300 kW / 140 deg to N/ME/WeAS Friday, delete Brother Stair-The Overcomer Ministry in English: 1300-1500 on 15190 TIG 300 kW / 100 deg to AS/AUS/NZ, ex 1300-1400 1900-2000 on 7290 TIG 150 kW / 290 deg to WeEU/NoEU Fri-Sun, new 1900-2000 on 7290 TIG 150 kW / 290 deg to WeEU/NoEU Daily, delete (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Nov 8 via DXLD) ** JAPAN. Hi Everyone, Thanks to a tip from Ron Howard: 5910, Shiokaze/Sea Breeze, Yamata, 1430 UT 4th Nov 11, YL in English talks about abductions, then IDs "This is Shiokaze Sea Breeze from Tokyo Japan" recorded at 1430 they were much weaker [than] when I started listening at about 1400, they were off before 1440. http://www.box.net/shared/l89hgg26gm07cjpanrk5 (Mark Davies, Anglesey, Wales, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Mark, Always glad to see that someone else is listening to their Friday program in English. Your recording starts with a portion of a segment called "This is a message from the Japanese government", mentioning a radio program "with a frequency band of 9,000 kHz.", which is a veiled reference to both Nippon no Kaze and Furusato no Kaze. Thanks for posting your audio. Always interesting to compare it to how I am hearing them. My audio clip from last year's "This is a message from the Japanese government . . ." at http://www.box.net/shared/2hox2ay04qolu22u9zsd Websites: COMJAN at http://www.chosa-kai.jp/indexeng.htm in English and http://www.chosa-kai.jp/ in Japanese. (Ron Howard, San Francisco, CA, USA, ibid.) 5910, Nov 6 at *1329 carrier on, 1330 opening Shiokaze in Japanese from JSR Tokyo. Fair signal, no jamming audible here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN [non]. Germany, Radio Japan relay, 15445 Wertachtal. Oct 25, 2011, Tuesday. 1835-1845. Japanese, OM singing, but can't pin down the origin of the song / tune. Doesn't sound Japanese; possibly Hawaiian or thereabouts? And the origin of the next one completely defeats me. Generally strong signal, but a bit fadey. Jo'burg sunset 1621 (Bill Bingham, RSA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9770, UT Sunday Nov 6 at 0510, after usual dead air between program playouts, NHK World Radio Japan starts `Friends Around the World`, so the listener contact program has not changed name again for this season: wait until April 1 new fiscal year. One of the topix to be DST [which Japan has toyed with regionally as a remedy for disasters]. Sorry, but the forced joviality of this show is a turnoff for me; it`s partly a Japanese cultural thing, lots of giggling, tho the M cohost is a gaijin. Website pictures Kay Fujimoto and Mick Corliss, also with Chris Sasaki, the latter looking as semi-Japanese as his name. 9770 is via FRANCE; better of course on 6110 via CANADA; and again audible at 1410 Sunday on 21560 via France (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Subject to WHRI 21600 splatter 6145, Nov 7 at 0703 brass band music, what`s this, some station with no news on the hour? ACI de prolonged RHC 6150 English [but not any more: see CUBA]. 0707 revealed with Japanese announcement: It`s NHK to eastern Russia, homeservice relay? until 0800 plus another semihour in Russian scheduled. 35-degree azimuth means it`s also aimed USward, a regular signal last winter too. I did not notice the listed // 6165 at 330 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15720, Nov 7 at 1513, S Asian language mentions NHK, to 1515*. It`s Hindi, 250 kW, 35 degrees via MADAGASCAR at 1430-1515, and quite sufficient here way off-target and off-beam (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KALININGRAD. In the database Aoki for the transmission of Voice of Russia in German in 0900-1300 on 9720 kHz specified transmitter radio television transmitting center of Kaliningrad. Is it really so, or the compiler of the base wrong? The gears in the AM mode on shortwave from this radio center was not long ago, the last time was used only DRM. (Dmitry Mezin, Kazan, Russia /"open_dx") In the official timetable, too, is Kaliningrad (120 kW). http://dxing.ru/golos-rossii.html?section=voral&start=65 (Aleksander Diadischev / "open_dx") - In HFCC too 9720 0900 TO 1300 27,28 KLG 120 245 0 142 1234567 301011 240312 D RUS VOR GFC 5040 but I have not heard of that transmitter worked (Alexander Egorov, Kyiv, Ukraine / "open_dx", all via RusDX via DXLD) ** KASHMIR [non]. 3975.03, 1417-1434, PAKISTAN, Azad Kashmir Radio, Islamabad, 29/10, Urdu-like, local songs, OM/YL talks starting from 1428, one minute pause at 1430 and then local music and OM talk again - poor-fair with local noise and strong bubble jamming starting from 1420'53 during approx. 10 seconds (Mikhail Timofeyev, St Petersburg, Russia, DSWCI member no. 2987, Drake R8A. Antenna: long wire (30 m), http://dxcorner.narod.ru HCDX via DXLD) ** KASHMIR [non]. 4870.02, 28.10 1520, R Sadaye Kashmir, ganska stark, Closedown 1530, Listed in WRTH as transmitting from AIR in Delhi. In 2004 you could read on the web “This is clearly a AIR operation and sounds so very much like the Urdu service of All India Radio. Programming is light with light hearted talk with jokes on depression etc, Hindi and Pakistani music and discussion about the present state of affairs. There is a soft Islamic bias and mentions "Allah ho Akbar "etc. The programming is soft and lacks the virulence of other clandestine stations. Generally recoincillitiary and recognizes the easing of tensions between the neighbours. But urges the Pakistani public to rise against the oppression of the ruling cliche, albeit, in a soft manner. The Kashmiri part is mostly soft discussion without much of music.” From http://www.oocities.org/supratiksanatani/dxnews.htm (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin Oct 30, via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 2850, Nov 3 at 1239 I am finally getting a signal from KCBS, first this season, reading S9+20 during choral music, but the local noise level alone is S9+17. Also detectable Korean signals on 4450 at 1243, jamming; 3480 Korean talk; jamming on 3985 and 3912. JAPAN 3925 was peaking S9+20 but sounded stronger than 2850, less noise. 2850, Nov 10 at 1307, S9+15 KCBS with emphatic Korean talk; 4450 also had Korean talk atop jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. 7570, Nov 9 at 1332, muffled YL in stilted English about communism and the homeland. Must be VOK, and yes, // better 9335. Per Aoki, 7570 is 200 kW, 325 degrees from Kujang (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 6310, Nov 9 at 1337, YL declaiming number groups in Korean, stops at 1338.5, carrier off at 1339; same as heard previously on 6215. This was a ``good Korean morning``, besides 7570: 6285 also with VOK; noise jamming on 6600, 6518, 6348, 6015; at 1343 same noise but also pulsing on 6230, 5855. Aoki and HFCC show 5855 with RFA in Korean via Tinian, but only at 15-19; overkill or expanded broadcast time? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. CLANDESTINE - 5910 "Shiokaze" via Yamata *1330- 1340 Oct 31. Back to this frequency, ex-5985. Not sure when they switched freqs; first noted on Oct 31 in Japanese, then 11/1 in Korean, then 11/2 and 11/3 in Japanese (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, Drake R-8, 100-foot RW, Cumbre DX via DXLD) Mon-Tue-Wed-Thu ** KOREA SOUTH [and non]. KBS World Radio B-11: Arabic 2000-2100 ME/Af 9840 (Dhabaya) Chinese 1130-1230 China 6065 1130-1230 seAs 9770 1300-1400 As 1170 (MW), 7275 2200-2300 China 7275 2300-2400 seAs 9805 English 1 0200-0300 SAm 9580 0800-0900 seAs 9570 1200-1300 Nam 9650 (Sackville) 1300-1400 seAs 9570 1600-1700 seAs 9640 1600-1700 Eu 9515 1800-1900 Eu 7275 English 2 1100-1130 Eu (Sat only) 9760 (DRM) 2200-2230 Eu 3955 (Skelton) French 2000-2100 ME/Af 5980 (Issoudun) 2100-2200 Eu 3995 (Skelton) German 2000-2100 Eu 3955 (Skelton) Indonesian 1200-1300 seAs 9570 1400-1500 seAs 9570 2200-2300 seAs 9805 Japanese 0100-0200 Japan 9580 0200-0300 Japan 11810 0800-0900 Japan 7275 0800-0900 Japan 6155 0900-1100 Japan 9805 1100-1300 Japan 1170 (MW) Korean 1 0900-1100 As 7275 1600-1800 ME/Af 9740 1600-1800 Eu 7275 1700-1900 Eu 9515 Korean 2 0300-0400 SAm 11810 0700-0800 Eu 6045 (Woofferton) 0900-1000 ME/Af 15160 0900-1100 seAs 9570 1000-1100 As 1170 (MW) 1200-1300 As 7275 1400-1500 Nam 9650 (Sackville) Russian 1800-1900 Eu 7235 (Woofferton) Spanish 0100-0200 SAm 11810 0200-0230 Nam 9560 (Sackville) 0600-0700 Eu 6045 (Sackville) 1100-1200 SAm 11795 (Sackville) Vietnamese 0100-0200 seAs 9565 1030-1130 seAs 9770 1500-1600 seAs 9640 (KBS World radio website re-arranged by Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, dxldyg via DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH. ULTIMA EMISION DE ANTENA DE LA AMISTAD - sábado 05 de noviembre 2011 Todo un clásico del diexismo en KBS WORLD RADIO, conducido por Sonia Cho y Atahualpa Amerise Fernández, podrán disfrutar de las noticias más novedosas de las telecomunicaciones, los medios de comunicación y, por supuesto, el informe semanal que nos brindan los monitores especializados Rubén Guillermo Margenet, desde Rosario, Argentina, Pedro Sedano, desde Madrid, España y Yimber Gaviria, desde Cali, Colombia. Se puede escuchar por la onda corta, los sábados, dirigido hacia América, y los domingos hacia Europa, según esquema que se relaciona más abajo y también por Internet. Como muchos de ustedes ya saben, y como lo anticipamos la semana pasada, Antena de la Amistad se acaba y el de hoy es nuestro último programa. Como programa enfocado a la radio, la onda corta y el diexismo, Antena de la Amistad tuvo su época dorada hace ya años atrás, hasta hoy el programa ha experimentado diversas variaciones acordes con los nuevos tiempos y también con los gustos de nuestros oyentes, sin embargo todo tiene un final y lamentablemente en el caso de este programa ese final llega justamente hoy. Para Atahualpa y para Sonia los buenos momentos compartidos en el programa con los oyentes los últimos años, quedarán para siempre en la memoria, y por supuesto no podemos dejar de agradecerles, de todo corazón, el haber estado detrás de la radio, el ordenador o el MP3 escuchándonos, porque ustedes son los que ha hecho posible que este programa haya permanecido en las ondas durante décadas. Con motivo de nuestra última emisión les vamos a ofrecer los testimonios radiofónicos de nuestros amigos e inseparables colaboradores desde Antena de la Amistad. El primero de ellos es Rubén Guillermo Margenet, después escucharemos a Pedro Sedano y para finalizar a Yimber Gaviria. Para Norte América: 0200-0230 UT por 9560 kHz (Sackville) Para América del Sur: 0100-0200 UT por 11810 kHz 1100-1200 UT por 11795 kHz (Sackville) Para Europa: 0600-0700 UT por 6045 kHz (Sackville) También se puede escuchar por su sitio web en: http://world.kbs.co.kr/spanish/index.htm Si no pudo escuchar este programa, así como otros anteriores, en sus horarios habituales lo puede hacer en la página de Programas DX: http://programasdx.com/antenadelaamistad.htm También puede escuchar otros espacios diexistas en español en: http://programasdx.com/ Programas DX en facebook: http://es-es.facebook.com/people/Programasdx-En-Espa%C3%B1ol/100002291808059 Programas DX en twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/programasdx Cordiales 73 (Yimber Gaviria/José Bueno, Nov 5, noticias dx yg via DXLD) VIDEO ANUNCIO DE DESPEDIDA - "Antena de la Amistad" - KBS World Radio Posted by: "Jose A. Kucher" saguillar@hotmail.com jos_nqn Sat Nov 5, 2011 3:34 am (PDT) Grabado en IRENE DX-Camp Sabado Pasado http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lux_blUbCFM (José A. Kucher, Nov 5, condiglist yg via DXLD) REPUBLICA DE COREA, KBS WORLD RADIO, Programa "Antena de la Amistad" DESPEDIDA Amigos: Hoy sábado 5 de noviembre de 2011 Sonia Cho y Atahualpa Amerise Fernández despiden al programa DX "Antena de la Amistad" de KBS World Radio a través de la onda corta. Se cierra otro capítulo de la historia de la difusión de la radioescucha y el diexismo por medio de una emisora internacional. Este tipo de realizaciones se originaron con el nacimiento de las mismas emisoras, fueron un puente entre los oyentes y el servicio técnico de cada sección de idiomas para el mejoramiento de sus transmisiones, incentivaron el trabajo de los monitores y la obtención de las siempre ansiadas tarjetas QSL, fomentaron la práctica de escuchar señales a distancia, alentaron la creación de clubes DX y propiciaron la confraternidad entre los aficionados a la radio. Han sido tan fundamentales que la estación que no contaban con un programa DX perdía la posibilidad de aumentar audiencia. Emisoras, como KBS World Radio, creyeron en la participación de corresponsales convocando a diexistas con trayectoria con la finalidad de contribuir al contenido del programa. Por eso, hoy también nos despedimos Pedro Sedano de España, Yimber Gaviria de Colombia y este servidor. Sin dudas lo hacemos con tristeza, conformes de haber cumplido, honrados de haber formado parte de un mismo objetivo pero sintiendo el sabor amargo de un final casi anunciado. Eliminar un espacio destinado a los radioescuchas de ondas cortas es, ni más ni menos, anticipar el adiós al modo más tradicional de transmisión internacional. "Antena de la Amistad" se despide... ¿Qué haremos con nuestras propias antenas?. ¿La orientaremos a otros modos de recepción?... Permítanme decirles que ya no será lo mismo. Y si algo tiene de bueno este final es que no será reemplazado por otras experiencias. Por eso lo recordaremos siempre. Para mí fueron 15 años de gratificante participación. Todo comenzó cuando la entonces Jefa de la Sección Española, Blanca Pek, me propuso iniciar mis informes lo que acepté sin vacilar. El informe N 1 se emitió el día 24 de marzo de 1996 y refirió a la aparición de Radio Armonía de Argentina en su segundo armónico. En esta despedida podrán escuchar un breve fragmento de aquella primera participación. Mi eterno agradecimiento a las autoridades de KBS World Radio por haber confiado en las ondas cortas, ojalá lo sigan haciendo. Mi gratitud va dirigida además a los queridos conductores de "Antena de la Amistad" con quienes tuve el placer de dedicar un precioso tiempo. Gracias también a los oyentes que me escucharon y apoyaron, a mis amigos que compartieron el interés de difundir nuestra bella actividad. También pueden escuchar esta "Despedida" por Internet simultáneamente y a través de audio por demanda según se indica más adelante. El esquema de transmisión de KBS World Radio en este Periodo A11 desde el 25 de marzo al 28 de octubre de 2011 es el siguiente: [as above] También audible en Buenos Aires 2200-2253 UT por RPLM Radio Palermo FM 94.7 Mhz. WEB: http://www.radiopalermo.com.ar/ En real audio por Internet entrando a http://world.kbs.co.kr en los siguientes horarios UTC y canales: 2000-2100 - CH1 2100-2200 - CH2 0100-0200 - CH1 1300-1400 - CH2 Además haciendo click en "Programación del Día". El programa DX se transmite a los 10' de comenzada la emisión, después del Panorama de Noticias. También en audio por demanda entrando en http://world.kbs.co.kr haciendo click en Select Language, optando por Spanish, luego Antena- Buzón (abajo a la derecha) y elegir la fecha Noviembre 5. Los programas se instalan uno o dos días después de su emisión en vivo por OC e Internet. En el sitio están disponibles los últimos 8 programas emitidos. Asimismo, en la WEB de PROGRAMAS DX entrando a http://programasdx.com/ en la que también se puede volver a escuchar programas anteriores. Se agradece la difusión y los comentarios al respecto. Un cordial saludo y hasta siempre amigos! (Rubén Guillermo Margenet, Casilla de Correo 950, S 2000 WAJ - Rosario, Argentina, via José Kucher, condiglist yg via DXLD) Me había olvidado que habíamos grabado este video. Estoy escuchando KBS ahora. Llega bastante bien. Sinceramente, conociéndome, estoy seguro que ahora que no estará más "Antena de la Amistad", no escucharé más KBS World. Me imagino que esa seguramente será la conducta a seguir por otros colegas que venían siguiendo desde hace años este programa. 73 (Antonio Slaen, Argentina, ibid.) Vows never to listen to KBS again since they canceled the DX program; how many other listeners can say the same of ex-DX providers? (gh) Cuando muriò Pancho de la Voz de Rusia, me propuse seguir escuchando la Voz de Rusia, la cual yo al menos, no faltaba un solo Martes a la escucha, luego me di cuenta que, de escucharla a diario , pase a escucharla muy esporàdicamente, y hasta pasaron meses que nunca la escuché, ahora estaba escuchando la despedida de Antena de la amistad , a pesar del ruido, y se que tambièn dejaré de escucharla,bueno lamentablemente no hay solucion a este tipo de cosas (ERNESTO PAULERO, ibid.) Últimas palabras en Antena de la Amistad - KBS World Radio DESPEDIDA DE ANTENA DE LA AMISTAD Las Últimas palabras de Sonia Cho y Atahualpa Amerise - Transcripción de la parte final del último programa (5 de noviembre de 2011) Por Rubén Guillermo Margenet [evidently each speaker is IDed at the end, not the start of portions] Luego de la despedida de los colaboradores habituales, las palabras finales correspondieron a Sonia Cho y Atahualpa Amerise… «… Despedimos para siempre a Antena de la Amistad, es una lástima realmente, pero ¿Qué vamos hacer? ¿Verdad, Ata…? (Sonia). Bueno, las cosas cambian, hay que evolucionar y si ha llegado su momento pues habrá otros programas ¿No? (Atahualpa). Es que nuestros amigos de la onda corta sabrán que realmente este programa dedicado al diexismo ha cambiado de formato y de contenido en los últimos años y era difícil de continuar con el programa (Sonia). Si la verdad es que ha cambiado muchísimo y también era un poco difícil encontrar profesionales, encontrar temas, personas que pudieran estar aquí como plantea la radio y tener un conocimiento profundo de diexismo como para poder realizar este programa. En mi caso, como parte del programas, quizás también me he enfocado más en temas de comunicación… al igual que de Internet, de los nuevos medios de comunicación que ya quizás han sustituido a la onda corta sobre todo entre las nuevas generaciones. Y bueno por lo menos me quedo pues con una grata experiencia y con un honor de haber estado contigo, Sonia, al frente de este programa que ha sido parte de la historia de la onda corta, en una pequeñita parte… (Atahualpa). Así es, pero este rincón de la comunicación va a permanecer –digamos- vivo dentro del Buzón del Radioescucha a partir del cambio de programación que comienza el 7 de noviembre. De todas formas, Antena de la Amistad, como programa diexista, era difícil de continuar; esperamos que dentro de poco podamos tener otro tipo de contacto con los oyentes a través de los nuevos medios. ¿Qué se va a hacer?... Es el desarrollo de la tecnología, sí… (Sonia). Pues sí, le pedimos también perdón por esto y espero que comprendan, que sigan escuchando KBS World Radio porque tenemos un montón de programas que ofrecerles (Atahualpa). Así es, porque KBS World Radio continúa, recuerden que nosotros estamos todavía vivos en onda corta y en otros medios nuevos, además estamos presentes también en FM en Buenos Aires por Radio Palermo 94.7 Mhz. Y por cierto tenemos otra noticia también, se van a sorprender nuestros oyentes porque nos vamos a despedir no solamente de este programa sino de nuestro amigo y mi colega favorito aquí al lado mío… (Sonia). ¡Así que soy tu favorito! (Atahualpa)… Sí, Atahualpa Amerise, después de dos años y ocho meses, Ata buscará nuevos horizontes o ya tiene nuevos horizontes, mejor dicho. (Sonia). Sí, nuevos horizontes profesionales y la verdad es que ha sido un honor, me ha encantado estar estos dos años y medio aquí, he aprendido muchísimo, tengo muchísimo que agradecer tanto a la propia empresa KBS, a Corea, ha sido una experiencia genial y ahora toca cambiar un poco quizás para bien, para mal, no lo se, pero desde luego voy a cambiar de trabajo y bueno, hoy es el día en que toca despedirme de ustedes a través de este programa (Atahualpa). Pero Ata tu te quedas en Seúl, ¿Nos podrías dar un poquito a conocer tu nuevo trabajo? (Sonia). Me quedo aquí en Seúl, voy a ser el corresponsal de la Agencia EFE en Seúl, así que desde aquí, desde Corea, les seguiré surtiendo de noticias en español pero por otro medio (Atahualpa). Yo creo que nuestros oyentes como buenos amigos tuyos y de mi parte también, te deseamos mucha suerte (Sonia). Pues muchísimas gracias Sonia y muchísimas gracias también a todos los oyentes que son los que han hecho posible que tanto yo como cualquier profesional de los medios de comunicación pueda trabajar y pueda seguir con ilusión cada día ofreciéndoles desde las noticias hasta los contenidos que toquen cada día (Atahualpa). Bien amigos pues ya no queda más que decirles, Antena de las Amistad ha tocado a su fin pero esperamos que sigan disfrutando del resto de programas de KBS World Radio. Nuestra canción de despedida de hoy es Arirang del Grupo Yoon Do-hyun (Sonia). Ahhh Arirang, muy buena canción para despedirnos… pues un saludo a todos y hasta siempre!...» Pueden escuchar el tema en Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVU7_UEQCX8 (Rubén Guillermo Margenet, ibid.) 6045, Nov 7 at 0653, KBS World Radio in Spanish, usual good signal from Sackville relay to Europe. After 0700 continues another hour in Korean, but weaker, because of a site switcheroo to Woofferton (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN. IRAN/IRAQ, V of Kurdistan in A11 and in B-11: observed 1500-1635 on 3929-3931 kHz. In A-11 0240-0435 UT. Sometimes till 0335 UT. Different V of Iranian Kurdistan program observed in A-11 at 0225-0525 UT and ? - 1425 UT, 1330-1425 UT close/down on 3965-3982 and 4870-4881 kHz varying (Rumen Pankov-BULGARIA, Nov 2, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 4 via DXLD) ** KUWAIT. 15540 at 1849 UT sounds like R. Kuwait - checked via an Internet-connected receiver in Switzerland. Didn't have time to wait for an ID. It is in English. However signal strength even there is only fair to good: SINPO 35443. I believe a lower frequency would be better at this time (Rich Cuff, PA, Nov 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) indeed [and non] 21540, Nov 3 at 1300, day five of B-11, R. Kuwait is still here instead of clear 21520, but this time colliding REE is atop with news (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1589, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15540, Nov 5 at 1830 western pop music stops and news in English starts, no doubt R. Kuwait, but only poor signal and fading; just about gone by 1850. And yes, they were *still* on 21540 colliding with Spain earlier today around 1330-1400+. 21540, second week of B-11 and MOI is still colliding with REE around 1400; both off at 1504 check while Spain 21610 continued. 21540, Nov 8 at 1334 astounded to hear R. Kuwait Arabic talk and music in the clear past 1400, no longer colliding with REE SPAIN, which was still audible sufficiently on its own clear 21610. Unless just a breakdown, REE has solved the problem since MOI won`t move to their registered B-11 new frequency 21520. 21540, MOI again colliding atop REE SPAIN, Nov 9 at 1429; yesterday`s absence of Spain was too good to be true, tho it`s R. Kuwait which ought to be absent from 21540 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LAOS. 6130, LNR, 1418, putting in a really good signal with nice local music, brief comments by woman, then into female Lao vocals. 2 Nov (David Sharp, NSW, Australia, partial list of equipment: FT-950, NRD-535D, R8, R30A, Timewave 599ZX, various Palstar and MFJ accessories, Quantun Phaser, various Sangean and Tecsun portables, EWE aerials, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LIBERIA. AMERICAN MISSIONARY OWNED ELWA RADIO STATION SET ABLAZE Posted in CULTURE/ENTERTAINMENT, politics, SPORTS, NEWS, JOURNAL, INFORMATION with tags liberia, ELWA, Radio on November 8, 2011 by thenewdispensation http://thenewdispensation.wordpress.com/tag/elwa/ Unknown arsonist set ablaze American owned Christian radio station tonight, burning while residents of the ELWA area at the out-sketch of Liberia’s capital Monrovia. Radio ELWA is a Christian radio station operating from Monrovia, Liberia, West Africa. It presently broadcasts on FM 94.5 and SW 4760 kHZ (60 meters), with a transmission power of 1000 watts (1 kilo watt) Following the massive destruction of the ELWA Radio Station in 1990 as a result of the crisis in Liberia, the management put the pieces back together and rebuild radio station. Radio ELWA goes back to the vision and challenge of SIM that all may hear the propagation of the tenets of the Christian faith by means of broadcasting. In 1952, the Government of Liberia granted a permit for broadcasting. A frequency was assigned and the call letters “ELWA” (Eternal Love Winning Africa) were designated for what was soon to be Africa’s first Christian radio station. Committed to the challenge, on January 18, 1954, Radio ELWA aired its first program with the hope that millions would be blessed spiritually. In July 1990, ELWA radio station when the station was silenced due to the civil war in Liberia. In 1992, SIM with its compassionate concern and commitment to reaching the un-reached and helping to mend broken and shattered lives by means of broadcasting, took the challenge to resurrect ELWA Radio. Unfortunately, however, ELWA Radio was again silenced and, like other institutions, suffered greatly during the renewed fighting in 1996. Following the 1996 crisis, national staff regrouped and purposed to start this ministry. SIM for the second time made a commitment to help rebuild ELWA Radio on the condition that the vision, initiative and management remain on the hands of the nationals. The radio station broadcast eight hours of English broadcast per day and one and one-half hours of Liberian Language broadcast in Grebo, Kru, Gola, Bassa, Kpelle, Kissi, Dan, Krahn and Loma, is supported almost entirely by local funds. Roughly seventy-five percent of ELWA Radio’s income to date has resulted in charges from public serviceannouncements, requests, donations, and local program producers, and from pastors and churches who sign up for air time to broadcast their programs. According to eyewitness account the station got engulfed in flames this evening with residents caught in shock and disbelief as the missionary station which had been in Liberia for a very long from the 1940s and is the second time it is burnt down. The government of former President Samuel K Doe torched it in early 1990 when that West African nation was attacked by dissent forces who later launched a full scale war and which killed the President (via Artie Bigley, DXLD) LIBERIA'S OLDEST RADIO STATION SET ABLAZE Liberian President Johnson-Sirleaf who is poised to win a second term in office. FILE | AFRICAREVIEW | [caption] By TAMBA JEAN-MATTHEW and AFP Posted Wednesday, November 9 2011 at 19:46 http://www.africareview.com/News/Liberias+oldest+radio+station+set+ablaze/-/979180/1270312/-/gwrean/-/ One of Africa’s oldest radio stations, the Monrovia-based Eternal Love Winning Africa (ELWA) has been burnt by unknown arsonists, sources said Wednesday. ELWA is an American-owned Christian station that was not among the four that were ordered closed by the government on Monday. Information about the burning of the station was still scanty, but its neighbours explained that it was set ablaze early Wednesday by unknown arsonists, who had not claimed responsibility for the act. Neither the government nor the proprietors of the station had issued a statement on the incident in the district of Paynesville suburb of Monrovia. On Tuesday, the Liberian Government ordered the closure of three frequency modulator radio stations and two television broadcasters due to “inflammatory comments” aired by them. Liberia’s police director said the move stemmed from comments made by the opposition politicians and aired by the five media outlets. This is the second time that the ELWA radio has been set on fire since it was established in 1940 and officially obtained a licence from the government in 1952. It aired its maiden broadcast on January 18, 1954. Investigations alleged that the first arson on the radio was carried out by the embattled government of President Samuel Kanyon Doe at the onset of the civil war in 1990 (via Artie Bigley, DXLD) More articles on ELWA http://wadr.org/en/site/news_en/2407/Police-probe-burning-of-private-radio-in-Liberia.htm http://www.elwamausa.org/ http://allafrica.com/stories/201111100768.html http://www.mnnonline.org/article/16448 http://allafrica.com/stories/201111100768.html http://missionarytravelassociation.com/2011/11/christian-radio-station-in-liberia-burns-to-the-ground/ http://daveandmarydecker.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/2581/ (Artie Bigley, Nov 10, WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DXLD) Once widely heard by SWLs, there were zero reports of it this year in DXLD; WRTH 2011 said it was inactive on both 4760 and 6070 (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DXLD) ** LIBYA. RADIO LIBYA --- It was very exciting to hear the new Radio Libya on air recently. I was able to tune-in on 22 October from sign- on just at 1601 on 11600 in French. I followed the programme for some time with some light orchestral music and Austrian Waltz, although perhaps surprisingly, there was very little African music - just a few minutes heard late in the first hour. There was also a repeated refrain from a tune that I knew but couldn't quite place at the time. It came to me a couple of days later: it was the melody from the Eartha Kitt classic “Santa Baby” - check out the YouTube video of Eartha singing this song (search “Eartha Kitt and friends”). Completely “off-topic” now, but this reminded me that I saw Eartha Kitt sometime in the 80's in the London West End in a musical play called “Blues in the Night” - I don't remember too much about it now, but I do recall Eartha stole the show with her performance (Alan Roe, England, Nov WDXC Contact via WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DXLD) Later the `Santa Baby` ID withdrawn (gh) [non!]. 11600 26.10 1700 Här hördes inte Radio Libye, utan CRI! Det är mycket lätt att ta fel i dessa dagar, då man hade ett afrikainriktat program och pratade mest om Libyen och Kadaffi. Jag tror att språket var swahili. S 3-4. BEFF 11600, 26.10 1700, This is not Radio Libye, but CRI! Very easy to make a mistake these days when they had an Africa influenced progoram talking mostly about Libya and Kadaffi. I think the language was Swahili. S 3-4. (Björn Fransson, Visby, Sweden, SW Bulletin Oct 30, translated by editor Thomas Nilsson for WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DX LISTENING DIGEST) HFCC as of Oct 28 showed: 11600 1600 1700 27,28 SOF 50 306 0 616 1234567 301011 240312 N bul BUL RBU BUL 6739 11600 1700 2000 29 PLD 170 30 0 157 1234567 301011 240312 N mul BUL RBU BUL 4126 Tentat 11600 1700 2200 28SE,37 MSK 250 240 0 147 1234567 301011 240312 D RUS VOR GFC 5066 No listing for China in at this time in A-11 or B-11 (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) Dear DX-friends, Here are my loggings from November from Skovlunde on an AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire. First a good logging from the new station in Libya: After a few days being off the air, the new management of Shortwave broadcasting from Libya again is active with French broadcasts at the same hours as the predecessor "Voice of Africa". Their schedule seems to be *1605-1805v* UTC on 11600 kHz. I heard them again tonight (Nov 03) at 1727-1807* in French with these programmes: 1730: Political comments on the recent revolution and liberation of Libya. 1747: Press review with comments on the new Prime Minister of Libya, the future Army, and comments from the UK Prime Minister. 1757: "Méditation à l´Heure" about the Liberty of Libya and all its dead sacrifices, compared it with the French Revolution in 1873 [sic]. ID's like: "Ici Radio Télévision Libye, Libye, de la capitale Tripoli" were heard at 1730, 1739, 1740, 1747, 1754 and 1756. The previous bad modulation of the voice audio had been corrected, but the audio was still fading very much despite a strong, steady carrier. SINPO: 55423. The new management plays a lot of nice music between the comments. So far only voices of two French speaking journalists have been heard and the play each day the same three CD's (Russian music, Vienna Waltzes and French chansons), so their working conditions may be very primitive (Anker Petersen, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DXLD) 11600, 1630-1802* 04+07+08, R Télévision Libye, Tripoli, French talks about the revolution in Libya and comparing it with "La Révolution Française 1789-1799" with usual music in the background, ID: "Ici Radio Télévision Libye de la capitale de Tripoli", strong QRM 1600-1700* from DRM-noise from R Bulgaria 42422, after 1700: 45434 AP-DNK (Anker Petersen, Denmark, ibid.) 11600, Radio Libya, 1752, French, closing comments by man over bits of older French music, ID at 1759, open carrier, then carrier off around 1803. No sign of CRI, all alone on freq. 4 Nov (David Sharp, NSW, Australia, partial list of equipment: FT-950, NRD-535D, R8, R30A, Timewave 599ZX, various Palstar and MFJ accessories, Quantun Phaser, various Sangean and Tecsun portables, EWE aerials, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5 November: Nothing heard from Radio Libye at 1600 or checks during next half-hour on 11600. Checking again at 1715, I find Radio Libye on air in French with a good signal with ID and the same signature tune as heard previously, but still with the muffled audio (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Libye 11600 kHz Nov. 9 till 1830 UT: Hi Glenn, Just wanted to send you an ID with schedule of "Radio Libye" in French on 11600 kHz (mp3 attached). The ID I've recorded came at about 1745 or so, today Nov. 9. At the beginning I'm hearing "l'émission en français [...] Radio Libye de la capitale Tripoli sur ondes courtes" If I understand correctly, at the end they're saying that they're on 11600 kHz from 16 (seize) to 18 (dix-huit) hours GMT. (Maybe your French is better than mine.) Although they said they only broadcast till 18 hours, they were on the air until 18:30 UT, at which point someone turned off the transmitter in mid-song. Signal strength fairly good, fades very shallow and slow and the only real interference came from inside my house (SIO 333 or 433). The broadcast is mainly Viennese sounding waltz music and big band music, alternating with accordion music straight out of a Paris Métro station. (The same songs over and over again.) IDs every few minutes followed about talk about the revolution, the new government and the reestablishment of "liberté" and "démocratie". Hoping this finds you well, (KH Schmitter, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, RX: Sangean ATS-909W + Roadstar TRA-2350P, Sony AN-LP1 active antenna, WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LITHUANIA. Winter B-11 of Sitkunai Relays: 0100-0158 on 9480 SIT 100 kW / 079 deg to CeAS R. Free Asia Uyghur 0430-0458 on 6160 SIT 100 kW / 079 deg to EaEU R. Japan NHK Russian 0630-0728 on 9770 SIT 100 kW / 259 deg to WeEU VOIROI/IRIB Italian 1000-1058 on 9690 SIT 100 kW / 079 deg to CeAS R. Free Asia Tibetan 1430-1528 on 7420 SIT 100 kW / 079 deg to EaEU VOIROI/IRIB Russian 1530-1628 Sun 5990 SIT 100 kW / 079 deg to EaEU HCJB Global Ru/Chechen 1730-1828 on 7420 SIT 100 kW / 259 deg to WeEU VOIROI/IRIB German 1830-1928 on 6115 SIT 100 kW / 259 deg to WeEU VOIROI/IRIB French 1930-2028 on 6115 SIT 100 kW / 259 deg to WeEU VOIROI/IRIB English 2030-2128 on 6055 SIT 100 kW / 259 deg to WeEU VOIROI/IRIB Spanish 2300-2358 on 9875 SIT 100 kW / 079 deg to CeAS R. Free Asia Tibetan (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Nov 8 via DXLD) ** LITHUANIA. [cf FRANCE [non] Wonder which usual broadcast ZRC will l e a v e o u t on these SPECIAL days ? Re: 7420 Lithuania on November 11/12/13. Radio Waves International 28th Birthday. From SW pirates Yahoo group. Friday November 11, 2011 to Europe: 2100-2300 UTC on 6055 kHz. {ZRC Sitkunai has a FREE SLOT only at 2130-2300 UT, IRIB Spanish closes at 2128 UT, so ZRC Sitkunai will leave out IRIB Spanish from 2100 UT? wb.} Sunday 's early morning November 13, 2011 to USA: 0200-0400 UTC on 7420 kHz, also on ZRC Sitkunai relay site in Lithuania. Sunday November 13, 2011 to Asia: 1330-1530 UTC on 9895 kHz. {hfcc 9895 1330-1530 41,44NW,45,59 SIT 100kW 79degr registered 7=Saturday! only, So ZRC will leave out the IRIB Russian bcast at that day? wb.} O rather I suggest that Sigitas use 7415, which was recently evacuated by WBCQ and not currently in use by any broadcaster in the 02-04 period, while 7425 is now used by IBB Germany after 0300. As a former `pirate` frequency, 7415 would also be ideal for this programming! (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LUXEMBOURG [non]. Radio Academy London event: Radio Luxembourg remembered --- Monday 28th November | 6pm for 6.30 | The Gibson Building, 29-35 Rathbone Street, London, W1T 1NJ http://www.radioacademy.org/events/london-events/radio-luxembourg/ RADIO LUXEMBOURG made an enormous impact on broadcasting and its influence can still be heard today. As we get ready to commemorate the 20th anniversary of its closedown on ‘The Great 208? frequency, The Radio Academy is proud to present a special evening hosted by Shaun Tilley (Global Radio’s GOLD Network and BBC Radio’s Vintage Top 40) who was on air in Luxembourg that historic night two decades ago. He’ll be sharing the memories with some of Luxy’s biggest names including Pete Murray, Neil Fox, Mike Read, Paul Burnett, Timmy Mallett and Tony Prince who will all be remembering what made it ‘The Station Of The Stars’. Registration: Registration is required for this event. Click here to register. Cost: non-members £10 (inc VAT) / members free. Click here to check your membership status or join The Radio Academy. Details: Date: Monday 28th November - Time: 6pm for 6.30 [sic] Location: The Gibson Building, 29-35 Rathbone Street, London, W1T 1NJ (via Mike Barraclough, worlddxclub yg via DXLD) ** MADAGASCAR. Radio Madagasikara, 5010 Antananarivo. Oct 29, 2011, Saturday No sign of Madagasikara when checked at 1824-1826. No party music for me on this Saturday night. Jo'burg sunset 1623 (Bill Bingham, RSA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) MADAGÁSCAR, 5010, R. Madasikara, Ambohidrano, 1844-1900*, 04/11, Malagasy, African pops menu; 35332. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALAWI. MBC Radio One, 756 Blantyre. Oct 30, 2011, Sunday. 1724- 1729. Chichewa. OM's talking, brief afro music at 1726 then YL talking. Sounded like id "MBC" at 1727. Definite id "Malawi Broadcasting Corporation" at 1728. Poor. Stormy tonight, lightning QRN. Jo'burg sunset 1624 (Bill Bingham, RSA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALAYSIA. ?? Radio TV Malaysia (RTM) Sarawak FM ?? 9835 Kajang ?? Oct 23, 2011, Sunday. 1905-2014. Presumed Malay. Continuous western- style music and songs (not in English, and some with a definite oriental influence), but no announcements. Went right through TOH with no ID and by now I was getting bored after an hour of it. This is the only time-fit in Aoki and EiBi, but I am not convinced. The signal seemed too good for a 100 kW omnidirectional local transmission from Malaysia. But I have been wrong before! Fair - good for the first hour, but seemed to fall apart at 2000, with sudden co- and adjacent channel QRM. Wiped out by French, probably AWR via Wertachtal on 9830. Jo'burg sunset 1619 (Bill Bingham, RSA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11665, 0945-1001, Wai FM, Kajang, 30/10, Malay, OM talk, local songs, YL ann with mention of Malaysia in some seconds after 1000 - weak under tentative TWN carrier, blocked at 1000'54 by CNR1 and their heterodyne (Mikhail Timofeyev, St Petersburg, Russia, DSWCI member no. 2987, Drake R8A. Antenna: long wire (30 m), http://dxcorner.narod.ru HCDX via DXLD) ** MALAYSIA. 7295.0, RTM Traxx FM, English pop music program from RTM Kajang-MLA site, observed on poor level just above threshold at 0040 UT Oct 31 (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALAYSIA. It seems Voice of Malaysia is currently inactive on all frequencies including 6175, 9750, 11885 and 15295 kHz - one more international broadcaster just left SW? 73! (Mikhail Timofeyev, Nov 4, HCDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DXLD) 15295 is the one most likely to be heard if it`s operational, at various times between 04 and 14 UT (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15295 not heard on air on Nov 4 (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, wwdxc BC- DX TopNews Nov 9 via DXLD) Malaysian broadcaster on shortwave list. [MANY of which are now inactive or closed forever like 5030 --- gh] 5030 RTM Sarawak FM 2200-1600 Malaysian 10 ND Kuching-Stapok 5965 RTMKlasikNasionalFM/R.Satu0000-2400 Malaysian 100 ND Kajang 6050 RTM Asyik FM/R.Tujuh 0000-1400 Malaysian 10 ND Kajang 6050 VOICE OF ISLAM 1400-1600 Malaysian 10 ND Kajang 6100 RTM Wai FM 0000-2400 Malaysian 100 ND Kajang 6175 VOICE OF MALAYSIA 0400-0600 Malaysian 100 ND Kajang 6175 VOICE OF MALAYSIA 0600-0800 English 100 ND Kajang 6175 VOICE OF ISLAM 0800-1000 English 100 ND Kajang 6175 VOICE OF MALAYSIA 1200-1400 Indonesian 100 ND Kajang 6175 VOICE OF ISLAM 1400-1600 Malaysian 100 ND Kajang 7235 RTM Sarawak FM 0000-0100 Bidayuh 10 ND Kuching-Stapok 7235 RTM Sarawak FM 0100-0400 Iban 10 ND Kuching-Stapok 7235 RTM Sarawak FM 0400-0600 Bidayuh 10 ND Kuching-Stapok 7235 RTM Sarawak FM 0900-1600 Bidayuh 10 ND Kuching-Stapok 7235 RTM Sarawak FM 2200-2400 Bidayuh 10 ND Kuching-Stapok 7270 RTM Wai FM 0100-0400 Iban/Bidayuh/Kayan/Kenyah 100 45 Kuching-Stapok 7270 RTM Wai FM 0400-0700 Lun Bawang 100 45 Kuching-Stapok 7270 RTM Wai FM 0700-1000 Iban/Bidayuh/Kayan/Kenyah 100 45 Kuching-Stapok 7270 RTM Wai FM 1000-1600 Iban 100 45 Kuching-Stapok 7270 RTM Wai FM 2200-0100 Iban/Bidayuh/Kayan/Kenyah 100 45 Kuching-Stapok 7295 RTM Traxx FM/Radio 4 0000-2400 English 100 ND Kajang 9750 VOICE OF MALAYSIA 0400-0600 Malaysian 100 150 Kajang 9750 VOICE OF MALAYSIA 0600-0800 English 100 150 Kajang 9750 VOICE OF ISLAM 0800-1000 English 100 150 Kajang 9750 VOICE OF MALAYSIA 1200-1400 Indonesian 100 150 Kajang 9750 VOICE OF ISLAM 1400-1600 Malaysian 100 150 Kajang 9835 RTM Sarawak FM 0000-2400 Malaysian 100 93 Kajang 11665 RTM Wai FM 0000-2400 Malaysian 100 93 Kajang 11884,7VOICE OF MALAYSIA 1000-1200 Chinese 100 25 Kajang 15295 VOICE OF MALAYSIA 0400-0600 Malaysian 250 133 Kajang 15295 VOICE OF MALAYSIA 0600-0800 English 250 133 Kajang 15295 VOICE OF ISLAM 0800-1000 English 250 133 Kajang 15295 VOICE OF MALAYSIA 1000-1200 Chinese 250 133 Kajang (AOKI list, Nov 5, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 0 via DXLD) ** MALI. 9635, R. Mali, Kati, 1305-, 04/11, French, news, vernacular program at 1330; 25443. Variable audio/modulation quality, ranging from readable to poorly readable. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MAURITANIA. 7245, 1842-1900, R. Mauritanie, Nouakchott, 29/10, Arabic, OM talks with mention of Mubarak, 1855 OM talks with musical pauses, local song - fair and even better with splashes from 7240 (ROU) and 7250 (CVA), best in USB, blocked by CRI at *1900"00 (Mikhail Timofeyev, St Petersburg, Russia, DSWCI member no. 2987, Drake R8A. Antenna: long wire (30 m), http://dxcorner.narod.ru HCDX via DXLD) 7245, Nov 3 at 0550, IGIM gone again, or not yet on this date (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) MAURITÂNIA, 783, R. Mauritanie, Nouakchott, 2346-..., 04/11, Arabic, phone-ins, Arabic music; 44433, QRM de SPAIN. Their HF outlet on 7245 has been noted silent on 3, 4, 5 & 6 November. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 7245, IGIM not heard for a few nites by 0600, maybe just signing on later, but Nov 7 I find myself still monitoring a UT hour later tnx to standard time resumption, at 0657 and still no signal from IGIM. Nor Guinea 7125. Also Polisario remains silent on 6297v. And no Equatorial Guinea on 6250. So much for Africa (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1040, Nov 6 at 1251 UT, convenient ID at tune-in, ``Desde Guaymas, Sonora, México, Radio Vida``, i.e. XEGYS, tho Cantú still names this ``La Primera``, 5 kW day and 250 watts night, which it surely is on the Mexican Pacific coast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 6185, R. Educación, 0655, traditional ballads, 0700 comments by Spanish woman, then pre-recorded ID mentioning shortwave freq. 31 Oct (David Sharp, NSW, Australia, partial list of equipment: FT-950, NRD-535D, R8, R30A, Timewave 599ZX, various Palstar and MFJ accessories, Quantun Phaser, various Sangean and Tecsun portables, EWE aerials, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. After visiting the Enid Hamfest, a late turn-on of TV and computer Nov 5 found analog sporadic-E opening in progress at 1940 UT, peaking from the SW, several signals mixing on channel 2, also poking into ch 3 at times with less QRM. Briefly a bit of audio on 2 was in Spanish mentioning today`s date. In and out, but on 2 at 2000 could recognize the XHI-TV bug in the upper right from Ciudad Obregón, Sonora. Not much seen after that (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Nace estado de La Laguna --- en la Internet Creadores rebasan los 75 años de edad, universitarios apoyan el proyecto en la Web. 2011-11-08 • Comarca y Estados Torreón .- El proyecto de unificar a los municipios que conforman a la Comarca Lagunera se concretó este fin de semana, cuando menos en el mundo virtual, con el nacimiento del portal de internet http://www.estadodelalaguna.com Desde hace casi un cuarto de siglo, la idea de integrar a 20 municipios en una entidad federativa apareció en el debate local. Hasta el momento, no ha prosperado más allá de la discusión política pero, ahora, el Comité del Estado de La Laguna ha materializado el proyecto a través de las nuevas herramientas tecnológicas. El sitio virtual incluye un mapa en el que aparece la veintena de municipios que de acuerdo al proyecto conformarían el estado 33 de la República Mexicana, esto si se toma en cuenta al Distrito Federal como entidad. El Estado tiene un himno virtual: en la página de inicio del sitio web se puede escuchar un corrido que enaltece las cualidades con las que cuenta la región: “Qué viva nuestra tierra cual ninguna. Qué viva nuestra querida región”, reza la letra. Según la información del sitio, José Edmundo Gallardo Román, funge como presidente del comité del Estado de La Laguna. Además, Manuel Negrete Rivera y Manuel Pinto Ríos, directores ejecutivos del comité, son creadores del proyecto. Aunque los tres personajes, principales impulsores de la idea, rebasan los 75 años de edad, decidieron que su proyecto encontrara eco en las nuevas formas de comunicación. De ahí que echaran a andar el portal este sábado y ya cuentan con una cuenta en la red social más utilizada en el mundo: Facebook. En entrevista telefónica, Gallardo comentó que su proyecto es apoyado por jóvenes universitarios, quienes se encargan de la operación del portal de internet y de la cuenta de Facebook. Informó que han tenido acercamiento con la comunidad académica para darles a conocer la idea de unificar las ciudades laguneras. La cuenta de Facebook se puede encontrar en el buscador bajo el nombre “Comité del Estado de La Laguna A.C.”. Sergio Gómez FUENTE: http://bit.ly/sIdcaJ (Via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, DXLD) ** MICRONESIA. QSL mail de Cross Radio Micronesia --- Les adjunto la verificación de la emisora donde figuran los datos de la emisora. El reporte también fue enviado por e-mail. Dear Miguel Castellino: Thank you for your reception report for The Cross Radio. We are pleased to verify your reception of our transmission. On October 11, 2011 10:00 - 10:25 (Universal Coordinated Time), SW 4755 KHz, V6MP 1KW Antennae: 1 wavelength, Horizontal Loop @ 35 ft. FM 88.5, 99.5, 102.5 MHz, V6MA 300W Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia 7N / 158E The Cross Radio is a ministry of Pacific Missionary Aviation, an evangelical mission serving the islands of Micronesia and the Philippines. Our target is to broadcast SW radio to the isolated outer islands of Micronesia, in the Pacific, where common conveniences such as electricity, plumbing, airport, hospital and radio do not exist. Due to technical problems with our antennae we have been off the air. At the beginning of 2011, Galcom engineers arrived to take care of that problem. Currently we are on the air with the SW 4755, 8:30 am - 9:30 pm Pohnpei time [UT +11], until we establish the best times for the islands we are targeting. They communicate with us via HF radio and don`t always have the battery power to give us their reception reports. We appreciate your enthusiasm for hearing us in your part of the world. We have received reports from USA, Japan, Canada, Finland, Sweden, China, Ukraine, Venezuela and other countries. Please visit our website for more information about PMA. If you feel so inclined, and want to help keep us on the air, you can donate to the Cross Radio through http://www.pmapacific.org using the Paypal option. Please designate ``radio`` in the message box. We prefer to send QSL verification requests by email. However, if you need a hard copy mailed to you, please let us know and include $1.00 for postage. International postage coupons are not accepted in Micronesia. That Every Island May Hear, Sylvia Kalau Station Manager The Cross Radio Pacific Missionary Aviation PO Box 517 Pohnpei, FM 96941 Tel: 691-320-2496 Fax: 691-320-2592 email: pohnpei @ pmapacific.org Website : http://www.pmapacific.org (via Miguel Castellino, Nov 8, condiglist yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DXLD) I think that is the same form letter everyone has been getting for years. That reminds me, no reports of it lately. The last one we had in DXLD was for Sept. 30. Has anyone been hearing it in the past month? (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes (Ron Howard, CA, dxldyg via DXLD) ** MONACO [non]. FRANCE, 3AC, Monaco Radio 8728 USB, 07 November 2011, 1020 UT. I was waiting for this one, camped out on the frequency. Finally, just barely above the noise I heard the Monaco National Anthem and then an ID in French by a man in French, into weather information. At 1022, the language changed to a woman in English along with IDs and weather information, followed by the National Anthem again and off air at 1025. This was so weak, barely an S2 and I was able to pull it out of the noise. 13148 was wiped out by some sort of local noise and 17260 was dead at my QTH. See comments/discussion below. The ID was always given as Monaco Radio and never as Monte Carlo Radio, as shown in the Klingenfuss listings. Some may be questioning why I list 3AC as France. From the research I have done on the web, in particular referencing one person`s visit to the utility station, the transmitters are actually at Fontbonne in France. Following our protocols, this would then count as France, and not Monaco, even though the receive site is within the Principality of Monaco. It is customary (as well as good RF engineering practice!) for coast and utility stations to keep their receive and transmit sites geographically separated and control the TX'ers remotely. While this is certainly disappointing as far as logging/QSLing a new country, I am happy that at least I have heard them, and hope for a QSL. Years back, TWR Monaco played a nice little musicbox tune as their interval signal. I was always curious as to what it was. Imagine my surprise when I heard it played by a march band at the opening and closing of the 3AC transmission. At the risk of being called a prat, I looked up Monaco's NA, and now I know that all this time, that is what TWR Monaco had used as their interval signal. Trivia, but nonetheless a surprise for myself. Hope everyone has been getting more DX than I! 73 (Al Muick, Whitehall PA USA, WinRadio G303e/100m longwire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MONGOLIA. 4895, MRT-2, 1122, local music, brief comments by woman, more music. // weaker 4830. 2 Nov (David Sharp, NSW, Australia, partial list of equipment: FT-950, NRD-535D, R8, R30A, Timewave 599ZX, various Palstar and MFJ accessories, Quantun Phaser, various Sangean and Tecsun portables, EWE aerials, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MYANMAR. 5770 kHz, Defence Forces BC, Taunggi, Myanmar --- Hi everyone, A first for me, very pleased 5770, Defence Forces BC, Taunggi, Myanmar to sign off at 1528 UT. Popular type music (for Myanmar I imagine) then YL closing announcements and ending "Tune" with gongs. I will put as presumed as no ID heard http://www.box.net/shared/8gdcyu25pd5i543arpld (Mark Davies, Anglesey, Wales, Nov 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Outstanding, Mark! Very fine recording. You heard their typical format of pop songs. They always play that same indigenous musical selection before going off the air. Sign off time is consistent for them and the language is correct to be them. Nice going! Is unfortunate they no long play their military marching music at the BoH (ToH their local time); is now just an indigenous musical selection. Not as interesting to hear as the distinctive marching band (Ron Howard, San Francisco, CA, USA, ibid.) ** MYANMAR. 5985.83, R. Myanma 1329-1335 Nov 1. Usual IS, chimes, and news in Burmese; ditto next day. In the clear now that Shiokaze has moved to 5910. However, QRM'ed by a carrier that came on at 1348 on 5985 - don't know who. Both sigs pretty weak by 1400 (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, Drake R-8, 100-foot RW, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. MOLDOVA, 9895, On first day of B-11 season noted a terrible satellite feeder reception BUZZ audio on Radio Nederland program in Dutch via Grigoriopol site in Moldova. S=9+40dBm powerhouse though, in \\ 9830 S=8-9 from Wertachtal, but my reception post location is situated in the 120 kilometers dead zone around WER site. 0644 UT Oct 30 (Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 30, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5955, Nov 9 at 0614, I can barely make out some Dutch, not synchronized with 6165 or 9865, vs heavy DentroCuban jamming against nothing, since there is no carrier on 5954.3v, and no het, as R. República is no longer there. So RNW is still attempting to use this frequency despite the recalcitrant and incompetent Cubans; B11 5955 scheduled 06-07 via Vatican, 07-08 via Nauen, also 08-11 via Wertachtal, the first hour `shared` with CNR Beijing in Mongolian (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. KBC Radio - DRM http://www.kbcradio.eu/ From The KBC Radio website: Posted on November 1st, 2011 by admin The Mighty KBC will start testing in DRM mode. Coming soon on 7550 kHz. The Emperor Rosko goes DRM for the first time in his life!More news coming soon (via Mike Terry, Nov 6, dxldyg via DXLD) ARMENIA, 7550, KBC Radio - DRM mode transmissions soon via Yerevan Gavar site Armenia. Dear Ivo, Why does a Bulgarian enterprise like SPC, SpaceLine Ltd. Bulgaria (Mr. Ventsislav Georgiev) involved as the broker/provider of these outlets. Mr. Ventsislav Georgiev was present at HFCC Dallas conference. Why he didn't see the conflict with AIR Delhi Khampur site transmissions co-channel on 7550 kHz at our night? HFCC has this entry of Gavar Noratus Armenia at 18-22 UT with 9 kHz bandwidth ! Is 9 kHz bandwidth enough for proper DRM encoding on DREAM software? 7550 kHz 1800-2200UT 27,28 ERV 100 kW 305 deg 298 N=DRM ARM SPC antenna type 298 : 8 x 8 dipol rows, most powerful high-gain antenna AHR(S) 8/8/1.0 Curtain antenna, half-wave dipole array, multi-band, centre-fed, aperiodic screen reflector Designated: AHR(S) m/n/h m = number of half-wave dipoles in each horizontal row n = number of rows spaced half a wavelength apart one above the other h = height above the ground in wavelengths of the bottom row of dipoles Possible slew and the design frequency are entered in separate requirement fields. Location of 8 row tall antennas: 40 25 08.25 N 45 11 09.23 E http://maps.google.de/?ll=40.419215,45.186131&spn=0.00154,0.003484&t=f&z=19&vpsrc=6&ecpose=40.41749427,45.18610458,2237.38,0.68,30.898,0 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Bad news for All India Radio if the noise jammings in the evening! DRM should've been put in the now virtually empty utility bands. It's a digital mode, it should've been put with the other digital modes. drm = dead radio mode (Harry Brooks, North East England, UK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, but it will serve AIR right if KBC really on at same time on 7550 ---- as AIR is phasing in more and more DRM itself. Ahem, 7550 *is* a utility band now widely invaded by broadcasters (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Glenn, It's still not a clever idea though to broadcast to the same area on the same frequency without checking first to see if that frequency is clear. If kbc had actually switched a radio on they would have known that. They are presumably relying on the HFCC who deem AIR not to exist. The utility bands and broadcast bands have always been invaded by both sides. Is it not the case that utility bands can be used by broadcasters on a secondary basis and be asked to move by a primary user of the band? (Harry Brooks, ibid.) Don`t blame HFCC; it`s up to each participating admin to get their data into the file (gh, DXLD) Just to let you know that our first DRM test is on: Saturday November 12th at 18.00 UTC 7550 khz (from http://www.kbcradio.eu via Alan Pennington, Nov 9, BDXC-UK yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DXLD) And it will indeed collide with All India Radio, 1745-2230, 7550 in AM (unless they decide to switch too! Battle of the digits?). At 2045 they reverse from 120 to 312 degrees, when it will really get bad if KBC is still on after that time. 73, (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1590, ibid.) KBC Radio DRM Test : Saturday November 12th at 1800 UTC on 7550 kHz More at : http://www.kbcradio.eu/?p=823 Also in analog mode at 0900-1600 UTC on 6095 kHz (Sat & Sun) Weekend schedule at: http://www.kbcradio.eu/?page_id=478 Reception reports to: themightykbc @ gmail.com For a QSL card you have to send 2 USD or 2 IRC’s. --- (Alokesh Gupta, VU3BSE, New Delhi, Nov 10, dxldyg via DXLD) I am intrigued by these as to transmitter power and location, also whether the frequency is in use by any other stations? (Mike Terry, ibid.) All India Radio in English to Europe at that time in same frequency going to be ruined. AIR using 250 kW Txr from Khampur as per combined schedules 7550 AIR 1745 1945 English India to Europe 7550 AIR 1745 1945 English Delhi (Khampur) India 1234567 7550 AIR 2045 2230 English India Eu or as per VU2JOS Schedules 500 kW from Bangalore 7550 500 Bengaluru 1745-1945 English, 1945-2045 Hindi, 2045-2230 English (UK & W.Europe) http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos/sw/freq.htm (Partha Sarathi Goswami, Siliguri, West Bengal, India, ibid.) And French is on 7550 at 1945-2030 (not mentionned here but heard some days ago) (Jean-Michel Aubier, France, ibid.) And it will indeed collide with All India Radio, 1745-2230, 7550 in AM (unless they decide to switch too! Battle of the digits?). At 2045 they reverse from 120 to 312 degrees, when it will really get bad if KBC is still on after that time. 73, (Glenn Hauser, BDXC-UK via DXLD) TROTS: KBC changed to 7590 to avoid India, but failed to get the DRM to work anyway Sat at 1800. Tried again on short notice the next day (gh) ** NEWFOUNDLAND. 6160, CKZN, St. Johns, 1005-1021 Oct 25 English; News re Winnipeg couples trouble at US border crossing; URL, local TC & "Labrador Morning" program ID, hi-lites, weather and regional news; fair (Scott R. Barbour Jr. Intervale, N.H. USA, NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. 6170, R New Zealand International in English with a really in-depth run-down of regional news items concerning disputes, labor unrest and independence struggles in Bougainville, West Papua and Indonesia, which I haven’t heard about in a dog’s age. Mention of the “Rio Tinto” company copper mine and the disputes going on around them, and a lawsuit in the US court system trying to hold the company responsible for genocide and war crimes as a result of employee action that the company sanctioned using the theory that since a company can’t be put in jail, it must be fined to prevent it from profiting from illegal activity or else it will simply find a scapegoat to throw in jail and upper level execs will profit from the illegal and immoral acts. Interesting. Also an item re the recent rainfall and resulting easing of the drought conditions in the Pacific, and mention of Kiribati situation. ID at :21 as RNZI. Occasional lightning over the lake causing static and one that I even SAW as I heard it while looking out the window! 2+4+443+ with splatter from 6175. 29/Oct (Kenneth Vito Zichi, MI, MARE Tipsheet Nov 4 via DXLD) Time? You never included it even at the end. Maybe after 1300 but now replaced by 5950 (gh) RNZI reception has plummeted, perhaps seasonally: 11725 no longer a mainstay around 0500, inaudible Nov 6; and 5950 very poor at 1325. 11725, Nov 8 at 0606, RNZ National relay good with news, making a comeback, the SSOB and almost the OSOB besides two or three weak 25m signals. Earlier channel 15720 has been iffy, missing to fair (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGER. 9705.03, ORTN/LV du Sahel, French, 0651, presumed the one with discussion by a man, talk by a woman at 0657, into news or similar at 0700. Couldn't pick out ID, if one given. 4 Nov (David Sharp, NSW, Australia, partial list of equipment: FT-950, NRD-535D, R8, R30A, Timewave 599ZX, various Palstar and MFJ accessories, Quantun Phaser, various Sangean and Tecsun portables, EWE aerials, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) NÍGER, 9705, La Voix du Sahel, Goudel, 2250-2306, 03/11, French, African pops, announcements, all in program `Musique Sans Frontières`, then abruptly into a Koranic prayer, at 2252; 45444. 9705 ditto, 1304-1325, 06/11, vernacular, talks, tribal songs; 24442, QRM de ETHIOPIA. Both signals, i.e. from NGR & ETH, were weak enough so as to allow separation via the Beverage antennae. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 6089.9v, 0455-0507, R. Nigeria, Kaduna, 23/10, OM local singing till 0500, then no feed or very weak audio - fair-poor (Mikhail Timofeyev, St Petersburg, Russia, DSWCI member no. 2987, Drake R8A. Antenna: long wire (30 m), http://dxcorner.narod.ru HCDX via DXLD) NIGÉRIA, 6089.9, R. Nigeria, Kaduna, 2233-..., 03/11, vernacular, talks & tribal songs; 55433. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 15120, Nov 3 at 0547, VON English at S9+10, and good level of modulation too but still with whinehum. SSOB, way stronger than Australia 15160, Botswana 15580. Not much was coming in on 11 or 13 MHz either, so it was a bit surprising to encounter this big, isolated signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15120, Voice of Nigeria, *0446-0505, tune-in to test tone at 0438. Sign on at 0446 with IS of local instruments along with ID sequence. National Anthem at 0456. Opening English ID announcements at 0457. Local weather. Preview of upcoming programs. News at 0501. Poor to fair. Weak hum, but hum was much stronger when checked later at 0530. Nov 5 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) 15120, Voice of Nigeria, 0513, English, well on top of CRI (for a change), with letter box program by a woman, promising QSL's to reports she read, about the best I've heard them. 5 Nov (David Sharp, NSW, Australia, partial list of equipment: FT-950, NRD-535D, R8, R30A, Timewave 599ZX, various Palstar and MFJ accessories, Quantun Phaser, various Sangean and Tecsun portables, EWE aerials, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) mailbag is on Saturdays 15120, Nov 5 at 1850, unstable carrier, humming, drumming and drama, some CCI, and ACI from 15125 REE/COSTA RICA. No doubt V. of Nigeria, which we often hear much better around 0500. Gone at 1900 which is just as well as 15120 was then getting a double whammy with REE direct also splattering from 15110. 15120, Nov 9 at 0611, VON is the OSOB, averaging S9+5 vs local noise level, YL in English news mentioning Republic of Congo, Tanzania. Not much hum tonite; only wish for more signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Nigeria. I received a programme schedule a few days ago from from VON. Whilst it is dated April 2010, it is more up to date than the on-line programme schedule on the VoN website. I've spot-checked a couple of programmes, which seems to tie-up, so it seems likely that it is current. I've scanned and attach it asd a pdf file. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxld/attachments/folder/1657670907/item/list <*> V of Nigeria Programme Schedule 2010-2011.pdf (Alan roe, Teddington, UK, Nov 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6925.07, WBNY, 0215-0240, ID jingles. Fake ads. Music parodies. Gave Belfast, New York address for reports. Weak. Poor. Nov 5. 6932.57, WBNY, 0303-0310, fake ads. Commander Bunny. Poor in noisy conditions. Nov 6 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6925.08, Radio Free Euphoria, 0000-0015, IDs. Pop music. Fake ads. Poor. Weak. Nov 6 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. UT Nov 6 at 0354, WORLD OF RADIO HQ was hit by an earthquake. Everything shook for about 10 seconds, but nothing fell or broke as far as we know: the first quake gh can recall experiencing. There was another one about 20 hours earlier in Oklahoma which we did not notice, rated 4.7, but this one was 5.6, at the epicenter 44 miles NE of OKC, while we are 70 miles NNW. 3840-USB, approx., Nov 6 at 0525, some ham in Kansas said he felt it too, and it was ``pretty cool``. At 1304 UT we happened to be tuning across 1330, where KNSS in Wichita also reported on this OKquake as 5.6, felt as far away as Wisconsin. Here`s one local story about it: ``The largest earthquake ever recorded in the state of Oklahoma struck Saturday night, officials said. The quake had a magnitude of 5.6, and its epicenter was four miles east of Sparks in Lincoln County, according to the Oklahoma Geological Survey. The quake hit at 10:53 p.m. The quake was reportedly felt as far away as Illinois, Kansas, Arkansas, Tennessee and Texas. . .`` Read more: http://newsok.com/record-5.6-magnitude-earthquake-shakes-oklahoma/article/3620706#ixzz1cwkl7f4f Inconveniently, this was too late to make the front page of the Sunday Daily Disappointment on paper; or any page? (We had succumbed to a sales pitch in an OKC grocery store promising us Wednesday & Sunday home delivery at a discounted price --- should pay for itself with the extra coupons. Trouble is, we discovered later that the Wednesdays are not available in faraway Enid, and the salesman had lived in Enid and knew we were in Enid!). Avoid in future. The Enid Eagle, however, did make the EQ into print on page 3 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 22 earthquakes in OK since 2011/11/05 07:12:45. The most recent being about 30 minutes ago. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Maps/US10/32.42.-105.-95_eqs.php (Harry Brooks, North East England, UK, 1723 UT Nov 6, dxldyg via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. 91.7, Thursday Nov 8 at 1433-1459 UT, KOSU has a new interview show `The Living Room`, replacing part of `Morning Edition`. Hosted by Gerry Bonds, news anchor who was laid off from OETA in drastic budget cuts earlier this year. Excellent conversation with Bill Moyers, visiting his home state, and who is about to come out of retirement again with a new PBS TV series in January. Outro credits said show is recorded in the `OPUBCO Studios in OKC`, which really floored me as Oklahoma Publishing Co., a.k.a. The Daily Disappointment, stands for everything bad in journalism, the opposite of Moyers. Why doesn`t she do it at KOSU itself? We`d heard some promos, but not noted down the times. KOSU still doesn`t have it on their program schedule, but seems it is inconveniently monthly, starting in September, when a press release http://kosu.org/2011/09/kosu-launches-the-living-room/ about another guest said: ``join Gerry Bonds for the inaugural edition of The Living Room – Wednesday evening at 6:30 right after Marketplace on KOSU. The program will also be rebroadcast Saturday, September 10th at 4:30 pm and Tuesday, September 13th at 8:30 am.`` If that schedule still holds, now the UTs are: Thu 0030, Sat 2230, Tue 1430, apparently on the first or second week of the month. Audio of the first one was linked, and presumably will be of Moyers if you can find it (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1210, I sure am hearing KGYN Guymon a lot at night, when it is supposed to be nulling toward Philadelphia, not far from the Enid azimuth. Nov 6 at 1248 UT, dominant country music on frequency, while official November sunrise in the center of No Man`s Land is 1330 UT. FCC shows in CST with [UT] added: Monthly Local Sunrise Times November 7:30 [1330] December 7:45 [1345] January 8:00 [1400] February 7:30 [1330] Monthly Local Sunset Times November 5:30 [2330] December 5:30 [2330] January 6:00 [0000] February 6:30 [0030] (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. Re KXOK-LD on 32 as well as 31: I *have* seen it before. I can't cite the regulation that permits it, but it *has* been done. We had a LPTV station in Madison on channel 5 years ago. They had an old bread truck which they'd converted to do live remotes; the transmitting antenna was a UHF corner-reflector. I can't remember which UHF channel they were using -- I want to say 65. The KXOK application shows up on http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/ApplicationSearch/applMain.jsp?applID=6427943 -- (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Tnx. If you click on the link at the bottom of the application, you get the explanation of what this is really about, feeding the Lamont translator on ch 35. I still don`t get why they need 32 in addition to the much bigger signal from main 31 (Glenn Hauser, to Doug, ibid.) Maybe they want to run different programming on 31 and 35? That's only a wild guess. – (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, ibid.) ** OMAN. 15140, Radio Oman; 1403-1440+, 30-Oct; English interview & pop music; Big Ben? chimes at 1429 into English news with many mentions of His Majesty & His Excellency; ID spot about every 10 minutes, SIO=22+ with chatter bursts (Harold Frodge visiting Port Hope MI, Drake R8B + 65' TTFD + 500' NEish unterminated bev, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15140, Nov 4 at 1433, R. Sultanate of Oman, news in English with American accent, about a tropical depression, killings in Syria, Israeli blockade; 1435 pause for ID as 90.4, jingle, more news. Fair signal, partly readable; could do with more ooomph in the modulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15140.03, Sultanate of Oman Radio, 1430, chimes, ID as "90.4 FM", then into news by a man...Hajj begins...tropical depression brings rain to the region...unrest in Syria. Very good. 4 Nov (David Sharp, NSW, Australia, partial list of equipment: FT-950, NRD-535D, R8, R30A, Timewave 599ZX, various Palstar and MFJ accessories, Quantun Phaser, various Sangean and Tecsun portables, EWE aerials, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAKISTAN. 3975, On Oct 30 Radio Pakistan with news in English from 1700 UT on 3975 (in almost all A-11 their news in English was at 1700- 1715 UT and not 1600-1615 UT on all 3 frequencies). (Rumen Pankov- BULGARIA, Nov 2, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 4 via DXLD) PAQUISTÃO, 3975, R. Pakistan, Rewat, 1639-1658, 04/11, Urdu (presumed), talks, folk music; 25342. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAKISTAN. 15490, Radio Pakistan 0206 Urdu. News with many references to Pakistan, mid-news Radio Pakistan ID, 0209 repeat of headlines with music bridges, 0210 off the air. Very good. // 11600 barely audible and went off ten seconds after 15490. 11/5/11 (Harold Sellers, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dear friends, with very pleasure I'll want to communicate that today November 9th, 2011 I listen the English service at the following times: 0905-0910 UT 15725 and 17725 with a poor signal 1100-1105 UT 15725 with strong signal but signal intermodulated [sic] Hoping that this news is agradable, I say good bye and I wish my best 73 from north of Italy. My postal and eMail adress are: (GABRIELLI Dario, Viale della Resistenza, 33b, 30031 DOLO (Ve), ITALY, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3275 22.10 1322 Radio Southern Highlands, PNG. Annonserade "It's 22 minutes past 11 o'clock. Good evening" i programmet "The Tribe Show". C/d 1405 med hymnen "God Bless PNG". Q3- 4 HR 3275, 22.10 1322, Radio Southern Highlands, PNG. Announced "It's 22 minutes past 11 o'clock. Good evening" in the px "The Tribe Show". Close/down 1405 with the hymn "God Bless PNG". Q3-4 HR (Hans Östnell, Norway, SW Bulletin Oct 30, translated by editor Thomas Nilsson for DX LISTENING DIGEST) Note that HR has moved from a location just north of Oslo [Biri, Norway] up to Vardö almost as far as you can get into northern Norway. He has got a job as manager of the coastal radio station there. See his blog http://barentsdx.wordpress.com (Thomas Nilsson, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 5959,985 24.10 1055 R Fly PNG gladde med riktigt bra signal runt 11.40. Prat kl 11.00 följt av mx och sedan ett ID i förbifarten kl 11.51. På 3915 fanns ingenting. Hördes även 29.10. AN 5959.985, 24.10 1055, R Fly enjoyed me with a really good signal around 1140. Talk at 1100 followed by music and then an occasional ID at 1151. Nothing heard on 3915. Also heard 29.10 (Arne Nilsson, Sjulsmark, Sweden, SW Bulletin Oct 30, translated by editor Thomas Nilsson for DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5959.985, 29.10 1228, UNID. A trace of R Fly’s carrier could be seen on my Perseus in waterfall. Unfortunately very weak audio, only traces of the music was heard (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin Oct 30, via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4746.97, 0005-0015 29.10, R Huanta 2000, Huanta. Spanish talk. Still on the air after the earthquake 28.10, 15211. But no carrier was heard on 4955 from R Cultural Amauta, Huanta! (Anker Petersen, on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire here in Skovlunde, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** PERU. 4974.79, R. Del Pacífico, 0850, local ballads, ancmts by M at 0855, music, news or similar at 0900. Missed ID if one given. 30 Oct 5039.16, R. Libertad, 1010, Spanish, brief comments by man, huaynos, LSB necessary to escape China on 5040. 2 Nov (David Sharp, NSW, Australia, partial list of equipment: FT-950, NRD-535D, R8, R30A, Timewave 599ZX, various Palstar and MFJ accessories, Quantun Phaser, various Sangean and Tecsun portables, EWE aerials, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5014,298 21.10 2300 R Altura PRU kom fram med acceptabel styrka. Jag fick också med ett klart ID på en inspelning. AN 5014.298, 21.10 2300, R. Altura up with acceptable strength. I also got a clear ID in my recording (Arne Nilsson, Sjulsmark, Sweden, SW Bulletin Oct 30, translated by editor Thomas Nilsson for DX LISTENING DIGEST) Here is Arne’s recording from this occasion, see: http://www.thomasn.sverige.net/5014,3_2011-10-21_R_Altura_2301z.mp3 5014.3, 22.10 0126, R Altura also noted here in Engelholm but much weaker than on the recording AN sent to me. I have checked this frequency each night the following days but no trace of the station. Must have been a special occasion just that day (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin Oct 30, via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5120.3, Ondas del Suroriente, 1045, continuous huaynos, weak but readable and usually here if not covered by OHR. 3 Nov (David Sharp, NSW, Australia, partial list of equipment: FT-950, NRD-535D, R8, R30A, Timewave 599ZX, various Palstar and MFJ accessories, Quantun Phaser, various Sangean and Tecsun portables, EWE aerials, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 6020, R Victoria, Lima, 0006, Oct 27, Spanish talking, ID. Fair (SIO 353). (Michele D'Amico, Milano, Italy, visiting Guayaquil, Ecuador, DSWCI DX Window Nov 2 via DXLD) Still on the air! (Anker Petersen, Skovlunde, Denmark, DSWCI DX Window Nov 2 via DXLD) Maybe, but I am uneasy about this one despite the reported ID. Visiting Perú, Roberto Pavanello reported in DXLD 11-37 that he and Dario Monferini were unable to find R. Victoria at the listed address. 6020 had been missing for many months, or rather 6019.3v and third harmonic 18057.9v, its off-frequencies making identity obvious when on. It constantly put a het on ISWBC 6020.0 stations in our evenings, and that continues to be missing: Nov 7 at 0129, nothing but CRI English via Albania audible. Chuck Bolland has also been hunting for R. Victoria in the mornings without success. However, in A-11, which was still in effect Oct 27, there was another Spanish-talking station registered in HFCC at 00-04 on 6020.0, REE via Costa Rica at 110 degrees, but that may have been wooden as missing from one of REE`s own schedules. So is R. Victoria back, and also back on frequency? Or only upon occasion? Let alone their other frequency, 9720v, which had been missing a lot longer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. 15190, Nov 5 at 1825, poor signal with song, 1828 sounds like Tagalog by YL, so presumed R Pilipinas; the only question was whether this would turn out to be Brazilian. Not heard after 1930 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17700, Radyo Pilipinas 0204 English. Woman with Philippines news items, many describing activities of President Aquino, off the air for about a minute at 0205, 0210 ID, then back to news. Sked 0200-0330. Fair-good. And at 0310 a travelogue program about “one of the most beautiful provinces”. Poor. Nov 8 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening from my car with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. Gospel Radio Programme in Chin Dialects: Interview with Former Dai Broadcaster [on FEBC, to Burma] http://bit.ly/rUJQ3q (Via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, dxld) ** POLAND [non]. Have been intending to confirm whether PRES really resumed broadcasting to North America in B-11, and finally got around to it today Saturday Nov 5: *2159:30 on 15260, VG carrier on and one RCI IS, a bit of piano music, and sign-on IDs in Polish and English {but the rest is entirely in Polish.} 7330 also on now, much weaker and not exactly synchronized. 2201 church organ and then hymn (anthem?) by a M soloist, 2204 into mass. Obviously there is no separation of church and state in Poland. Presumably on weekdays the programming is more secular. This is a new one-hour broadcast on 15260, daily at 22-23, 250 kW, 285 degrees from Sackville, and on 7330, 250 kW, almost the same azimuth, 282 degrees from Woofferton UK, presumably to fill in the skip zone around Sackville. Unfortunately the Poles will not condescend to send us their already- produced broadcasts in English, a slightly more useful language in North America, altho no station can be faulted for also reaching out to its diaspora (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DX LISTENING DIGEST) On the first day of B11 I tried using the e-mail contact form on Polish Radio's website http://www.thenews.pl and got a Polish error message. Now, clicking the send button ends up with nothing happening. I wonder if Polish Radio has written us off and does not want to read anything from disgruntled North American listeners (Mark Coady. Editor, Your Reports, Listening In, Ontario DX Association, Nov 5, Cumbre DX via DXLD) You should have used Google translate to find out what the error message says before jumping to conclusions. I just sent a test message and a button appeared saying 'wiadomosc zostala wyslana' which translates as 'message has been sent' (Andy Sennitt, ODXA yg via DXLD) Andy, I should have added that the Polish error message I got had the usual yellow triangle warning and translated as "Message cannot be sent". This was over their All Saints/All Souls long weekend. Now, absolutely nothing happens. Perhaps the fact you are in Europe and I am in North America has a bearing on this? Who knows? All I know is that I used to be a fairly regular listener and did write to them a few times each year commenting on their programs and their staff as well as advising them on their frequency choices. (Mark Coady, Ont., ibid.) I think it's likely to be a technical problem, and has nothing to do with where you're located. It will be interesting to see if other members report the same problem. I have never heard of an international broadcaster that doesn't want emails :-) (Andy Sennitt, ibid.) ** PORTUGAL. Checking for 11885 listing of CHINA via Sackville [see CANADA, not 11855], I am also reminded that HFCC B-11 is still full of registrations for LIS, PORTUGAL, such as 11885, 12-15 Sat & Sun. It`s clear that shortwave there is now quite dead and has been for months (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PRIDNESTROVYE. MOLDOVA, Winter B-11 schedule of Radio PMR Pridnestrovye: 1700-1800 on 7290$KCH 300 kW / 309 deg to WeEu French/German 1800-1900 on 7290*KCH 300 kW / 309 deg to WeEu Russian/English 1900-2000 on 7290#KCH 300 kW / 309 deg to WeEu French/German 2000-2100 on 7290 KCH 300 kW / 309 deg to WeEu Russian/English 2100-2200 on 7290 KCH 300 kW / 309 deg to WeEu French/German 2200-2300 on 7290 KCH 300 kW / 309 deg to WeEu Russian/English $ strong co-ch 1700-1730 Vatican Radio in French and English * strong co-ch 1830-1900 European Gospel Radio in English Sun # strong co-ch 1900-2000 Brother Stair TOM in English Fri-Sun (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Nov 8 via DXLD) MOLDOVA [Transnistria - Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic] 7290, PRM Radio Pridnestrovie from Grigoriopol Maiac relay site in French 1900-1930 UT. SIO 555. At 1913 UT snail mail address given in French. S=9+50dBm POWERHOUSE ! and EXCELLENT ENUNCIATION of the female French announcer as well as audio line from broadcasting house via Grigoriopol transmitter facility. EXCELLENT SERVICE! Overwhelming reception - Moldova 'très fort'. 7290 kHz 500 kW 1700-2300 Monday- Friday in Russian English French German (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Nov 7, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 9 via DXLD) ** ROMANIA. Today Nov 5th at 13-14 UT on air ALL s i x ROMANIA transmitters of Galbeni/Saftica/Tiganesti sites. German 1300-1356 15460 Tiganesti 300 kW, 17530 Tiganesti 300 kW S=9+40dB Romanian Childrens Hour 1300-1456 7420 Saftica 100kW; 15170 Galbeni; 17820 Galbeni S=9+25dB and "The Overcomer Ministry, South Carolina" prayer in English language brokered by IRRS at 13-14 UT 15190 kHz Tiganeshti 300 kW. S=9+15dB really on backside of the antenna towards SAsia and Pacific. Less strong here in western Europe compared to the other RRI European services. 15190 kHz, roared still at 1406 UT. So 13-15 UT at present. 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DXLD) 9645-9650-9655, Nov 9 at 0607, DRM noise as I am trying to check 9645 for Vatican. I bet it`s Romania, which sprinkles its DRM intrusions thruout the AM SWBC bands. Yes, uplooked later, 0600-0630 is RRI in numerical French. Also I see that VR wisely takes a semi-hour break from 9645 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. RADIO ROMANIA’S 83RD ANNIVERSARY By Radio Romania International November 1, 2011 https://www.facebook.com/notes/radio-romania-international/radio-romanias-83rd-anniversary/10150346786041814 Despite being 83 years old, the national radio station, which aired its first show on November 1st 1928, doesn’t seem old at all. On the contrary, the 1990s, in the wake of the anti-Communist revolution, ushered in a new generation of journalists alongside the freedom of expression on air. They simply breathed new life into the leader of the market, since the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation has an almost 32% market share at national level. A great achievement reported by Radio Romania is the 2009 digitization of the radio archive, which is the oldest media archive in Romania. Therefore famous voices from the golden tape library will thus be heard in the next millennia. Historian Nicolae Iorga, writer Mircea Eliade, poet Tudor Arghezi and literary critic Nicolae Lovinescu will virtually address many future generations of young people, as if they were still alive. At this time of celebration Radio Romania and its 2300 employees want to set new goals. First and foremost they want to consolidate the radio station’s status of public radio station, which is different from that of independent stations, as well as the principles underlying this ageless institution such as professionalism, omnipresence, balance, respect for the national history and culture, for the Romanian and world values. All departments of Radio Romania are involved in this process: Radio Romania- News and Current Affairs, Radio Romania International, the Culture Channel, Radio Romania Regional (with its 10 regional and local stations and studios), Radio Romania Music Channel, the Village Antena, Radio3net and Radio Junior. The first regional studio of Radio Romania was set up on October 8th 1939 in Chisinau, the then capital of the historical province of Bessarabia (the present capital of the Republic of Moldova). On December 1st 2011, on Romania’s national day, Radio Romania-Chisinau will be inaugurated in the Republic of Moldova’s capital, an FM station that will inform Moldovan citizens on the realties in neighboring Romania. It is a station targeting those “who think and feel or who maybe have doubts related to the openness towards Europe and its values” as the president general director of Radio Romania, Andras Istvan Demeter said. The first experimental broadcasts for listeners abroad were aired in 1927 when the station was set up. On February 12th 1939 a Romanian broadcast for the USA was launched ahead of Romania’s participation in the World Exhibition hosted by New York. Today RRI broadcasts in 11 languages, including Romanian, and also in the Macedo-Romanian dialect (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. [continued from UKRAINE] Questions have also to be asked in regard to the transmission facilities in Moscow area. The shortwave equipment at Taldom should still be in use for DRM as well as Radio Rossii (some time ago it had been stated that no AM transmissions from Voice of Russia are left there). Lesnoy is still in use as well, recently confirmed by a mixing product with the 873 kHz mediumwave outlet. But what about Kurovskaya, another transmitter plant near Avsyunino? HFCC data is not help here whatsoever, all these sites are flatly shown as "Moskva", and to my surprise even the old Soviet fake site "Serpukhov", a town far away from all these transmitter plants, made a reappearance. Perhaps an impression exists that Taldom, Lesnoy and Kurovskaya are synonyms for one and the same plant: They are not, these are distinctively different sites. Referring to all them as "Moskva" is like throwing Nauen and Königs Wusterhausen together to "Berlin" (which may or may not have been done; I never saw what has been reported by the postal office until 1990). (Kai Ludwig, Germany, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. 5940, Nov 3 at 1247 Russian announcement and music, from R. Rossii, Magadan, // 6075 Pet/Kam but not synchronized. 7320 also audible but too weak vs CRI Japanese 7325 to be sure it matched 5940 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5940 / 7320, Radio Rossii (D1 Far East offset), Arman, Magadan. 1153- 1225 November 6, 2011. Both fair, with Russian talk by man and woman, piano fills, multiple IDs from 1158, 5 + 1 time sounder 1200 into news headlines. Parallel (though a micro-second behind) slightly better 6075 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, 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, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) R. Rossii and Russian Army CW callsign 2MTL --- 6075, R. Rossii, 1300*, Nov 4. Conforming to their permanent DST, they have maintained the same sign off time now on this new frequency (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6074, at 1300 on Nov 4 heard the Russian Army tactical callsign 2MTL in CW. Thanks to Glenn for confirming the callsign! For some reason these callsigns were not given when R. Rossii signed off on their former 5930. A reminder as to what these callsigns are all about per DXLD 8-116: UNIDENTIFIED. RE DXLD 8–115: CW on 6075 [6074] - Email from David E. Crawford [Florida]: The callsigns are typical of Russian Army (4 random alfa/num characters), almost certainly unrelated to the SWBC transmission. These things are all over 3-10 MHz, always keyboard sent (to hide the "fist"), and they often run repeating callup loops. Some nets are simplex, but crossband is probably more common. The standing nets do keep regular schedules, which would explain why you always hear it at the same time. Cyrillic characters are used in the text but not the callsigns. There are also a few CHICOM CW stations with similar calls, but mostly in broadcast mode if I recall correctly. We hear the Russians more in the evening on this side when conditions are good (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6074, Nov 8 at 1300, just as the finale timesignal from R. Rossii 6075 via Pet/Kam is playing, the erstwhile V/CQ marker starts from what is presumed to be a Russian army station: VVV CQ CQ CQ DE 2MTL 2MTL K, as heard in previous winters when RR signed off at 1400, so obviously it`s deliberately correlated with that. 8GAL is another tactical ID for same, perhaps to be heard later in the season. Ron Howard first confirmed 2MTL`s reappearance on Nov 4. The 6075 carrier, BTW, is still slightly wobbling, obvious with BFO, went off about the same time the CW ended this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. 21805, *0600'00-0629'35, Voice of Russia, Novosibirsk, (tentative location), 30/10, English, YL opening annn with ID, news and then "Outlook" about the EU anti crisis package, Libya after Kaddafi, etc. - strong signal, but fair-almost good only due to slight transmitter hum, muffled audio and fading, // 17805 fair with splashes from both sides (Mikhail Timofeyev, St Petersburg, Russia, DSWCI member no. 2987, Drake R8A. Antenna: long wire (30 m), http://dxcorner.narod.ru HCDX via DXLD) VoR 21805 was tipping the S meter over 9 this Tuesday morning at 0800 - they must be radiating as much off the back as the front - and it's easy listening when there is no dual path echo as occured on Sunday. 17805 is not quite as strong, and it gets interfered with by ARS when they sign on this channel (Noel Green, England, Nov 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. /KYRGHYZ REPUBLIC. V of Russia English service to SE Asia and Pacific. 17805 and 21805 kHz surprisingly strong signals into EUR at 0700-0800 UT slot Oct 31. Both have a little distorted audio feed quality. 17805 from Irkutsk 250 kW unit registered 06-11 UT, S=8 signal here in western Europe. 21805 from Novosibirsk site scheduled at 06-10 UT. At 0735 discussion between female and two males about Sharia culture in muslim world of North Africa and in particular in Libya. S=9+10dBm, but also little distorted audio feed quality noted today. 7210.750, Again noted in this winter season as in previous B-10, Voice of Russia in Spanish uses this odd frequency offset, noted at 0120 UT Oct 31, on S=9+25dBm level here in western Europe. Registered Moscow Lesnoy 500 kW unit at 265 degrees towards Central and Northern South America. 0000-0600 UT registration entry in HFCC list. At same time around 0045-0115 UT Oct 31 noted Radio Rossii via Bishkek Kyrghyz Republic with S=8 level on 4050.079 kHz. 9680, NEW, From Samara 250 kW powerhouse noted new 31 mb outlet in B- 11 season, west European service of Voice of Russia in Russian language on Oct 30 and Oct 31, scheduled daily at 05-07 UT. Heard football results at 0606 UT Oct 31. S=9+30dBm powerhouse, refurbishing action at Samara shortwave site was successful in last decade (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. 9840, Nov 6 at 0512, propagation this night favors Moscow, so we`re only hearing R. Rossii in Russian, while other nights it`s an equal mix, or dominated by V. of Russia in English from Pet/Kam. // 9855 Vladivostok no good either, as weak English there proves to be // 9810, i.e. DW via RWANDA. 13665, Nov 8 at 0152, not much fading, S9+20 open carrier, then intermittent Russian tune-up tones. Most be VOR about to open. Same tones synchronized on 12030, and VOR English NAm after 0200. At 0232, 13665 is best, then 12030, also // 7290 all synchronized, and 7250 about one second behind. At 0235, VOR English also on 13735 and a bit off-synch with 13665. Sites and azimuths: 13735, 50 degrees from Vladivostok (apparently ex-9855 initially B-11) 13665, 61 degrees from Pet/Kam 12030, 70 degrees from Pet/Kam 7290, 310 degrees from Pridnestrovye (so surprisingly synched with the FE sites --- must be taking same satellite feed) 7250, 315 degrees from `Armavir`, Europe Who will be atop 9840 later in the evening?? This time Nov 8 at 0547 it`s VOR English via Pet/Kam instead of R. Rossii via Moskva. No 9855. 9840, Nov 9 at 0606, R. Rossii in the clear, since V. of Russia collision concludes at 0600*. Last winter the NAm service stayed on until 0700 (11 pm PST). Looks like VOR has allowed the permanent time change in Russia to affect its external service hours, still ending at what had been the Sommerabschluss 0600 UT. How incestuous (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. 7210.750, Again noted in this winter season as in previous B-10, Voice of Russia in Spanish uses this odd frequency offset, noted at 0120 UT Oct 31, on S=9+25dBm level here in western Europe. Registered Moscow Lesnoy 500 kW unit at 265 degrees towards Central and Northern South America. 0000-0600 UT registration entry in HFCC list (Wolfgang Büschel, BC-DX Nov 4 via DXLD) [and non]. 7210, Nov 7 at 0410 as I am checking Sudan/Iran on 7200, I notice a very wobbly signal --- it`s in Spanish at 0415 but the transmitter is quite unstable putting out garbage mostly on the high side. With BFO there is no specific carrier. Listed as a VOR Moscow site at 0000-0600, 500 kW, 265 degrees. 7210, Nov 8 at 0241, awful garbage mostly on hi side from defective V. of Russia transmitter during scheduled Spanish, and I do detect a carrier still on 7210.0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA [and non]. 6135, Voice of Russia, St. Petersburg-Krasny Bor, *0000-0028, Oct 30, Spanish ID and opening ann with mention of 31, 41 and 49 m.b., news and "Noche de Sábado con la Voz de Rusia", very good with slight hum (38.06 km between the receiver and transmitter locations) // 7430 (fair), 9810 (poor) and 9865 (fair). We issue a new QSL on this transmission on 6135! (Mikhail Timofeyev, St. Petersburg, Russia, DSWCI DX Window Nov 2 via DXLD) Mikhail Timofeyev of the St. Petersburg site invites reception reports for their new special anniversary QSL card. View card with complete site schedule at http://spb.rtrn.ru/info.asp?view=7007 The only `evening` VOR transmission from St Pete likely to be heard in NAm, altho aimed at SAm, is 00-03 Spanish/Russian/Spanish on 6135 --- despite Bolivia 6134.8v, and Nov 7 at 0040 check we were hearing mainly the het between them, while 6130, 6140, 6145 and 6150 were open (tho maybe not for all three hours.) Unfortunate that St Pete site has to use 6135 of all frequencies. Must really wipe out Radio Santa Cruz down there, but that signs off shortly after 0100. Or not: I expected the het to go away, but it`s still there, slightly wavering, at 0128, 0235. At the later time I can make out some Spanish from Russia, as they are going from talk to music, but really unreadable, SINPO 22442 at best. I`ll keep trying to get some loggable details on VOR. As a domestic station RSC is incapable of avoiding Russia or getting on- frequency, but at least they can stay on the whole time to bother the usurper (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) St. Petersburg Regional Center, 6135 heard on 05 November at 2356 UT, thanks to a personal email from Mikhail Timofeyev. Transmission started out with well-modulated 1 kHz test tones and went into Voice of Russia Spanish at 0000. Unfortunately, the VoR audio was not at a level to modulate the transmitters like the test tones and it left the audio weak and somewhat muffled. QSB was fluttery and signal strength was fair at best, but without any major QRM, until I tuned out at -- 0020. Thank you Mikhail for the heads up. Glenn Hauser has already spread the word where to find the schedule and more details in his recent report, so I won't re-duplicate efforts. 73 (Al Muick, Whitehall PA USA, WinRadio G303e/100m longwire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6135, also rechecking VOR via St. Petersburg site, UT Nov 8: no het tonite from Bolivia at 0159, ID as Golos Rossii; timesignal about one second late and into Spanish. 0221, S9+15 but just barely modulated 6135, Nov 10 at 0007, VOR Spanish via St. Petersburg, weak 800 kW signal about the same as 6134.8v R. Santa Cruz, BOLIVIA, producing wavering het. Also with bonker QRM on low side (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. THE VOICE OF RUSSIA WORLD SERVICE [English] October 30, 2011 – March 24, 2012 AFRICA 1500-1700 9470 1700-1800 7270 1800-1900 11985, 7270 ASIA 0300-0500 12040 0700-0900 21805, 17805, 1251 0900-1000 21805, 17805, 7205 1000-1100 7205 1100-1200 12000*, 9670, 9560, 7350, 7260, 7205 1200-1300 12000*, 11660, 9560, 7350, 7340* 1300-1400 9560, 7340*, 7260, 7205 1400-1500 11660, 7340*, 7310, 7260, 4975, 1251 1500-1600 9880, 9660, 7340*, 4975, 1215 1600-1700 6180*, 4975, 1251 1700-1800 9880, 7240, 4975, 1269, 1251 AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND 0600-1000 21805, 17805 MIDDLE EAST 1400-1500 4975, 1251 1500-1600 9470, 4975, 1215 [sic] 1600-1700 9470, 4975, 1251 1700-1800 7270, 4975, 1251 1800-1900 11985, 7270, 4975 * – DRM broadcast EUROPE 0500-0600 1323 0600-0800 11635*, 1323 0800-0900 11635*, 7325*, 1323 0900-1000 11635*, 7325* 1200-1300 7325* 1300-1400 9675*, 7325* 1400-1500 9675* 1600-1700 7300* 1700-1800 7330, 7300*, 7270 1800-1900 12060, 7330, 7300*, 6145* 1900-2000 7330, 6040*, 1215 2000-2100 7330, 6040*, 1215 2100-2200 7300, 1215 2200-2300 7250, 1215 NORTH AMERICA 2200-2300 11830, 7250 2300-0200 7290, 7250 0200-0400 13735, 13665, 12030, 7290, 7250 0400-0600 12030, 9840 [note that this version no longer has 9855 too at 04-06] LATIN AMERICA 2200-2300 7250 2300-0400 7290, 7250 * - DRM broadcast This schedule is subject to change without prior notice Web site: http://english.ruvr.ru E-mail: world @ ruvr.ru (via Juan Franco Crespo, Spain, DXLD) Winter B-11 schedule of Voice of Russia Moscow [note: not all the listings are in one-hour blox; some are two or even three hours or seven, so if you don`t find something, look above or below --- gh] B-11 Voice of Russia Moscow, Foreign languages Service schedule. language UTC kHz TX location kW target area remarks 2200-0500 English 7250 Armavir Tbilisskaya 500 CeAM 0000-0100 Chechen 657 Grozny 50 Caucasus English 7250 Armavir Tbilisskaya 500 NoAM 7250 Armavir Tbilisskaya 500 CeAM 7290 Grigoriopol-MDA 500 NoAM 7290 Grigoriopol-MDA 500 CeAM Spanish 6135 St.Petersburg 800 SoAM 7210 Moscow 500 SoAM 7430 Yerevan Gavar-ARM 500 CeAM 9865 Samara 500 SoAM 9875 Montsinery-GUF 250 SoAM 0100-0200 English 7250 Armavir Tbilisskaya 500 NoAM 7250 Armavir Tbilisskaya 500 CeAM 7290 Grigoriopol-MDA 500 NoAM 7290 Grigoriopol-MDA 500 CeAM Spanish 7210 Moscow 500 SoAM 7430 Yerevan Gavar-ARM 500 CeAM 9475 Dushanbe-TJK 500 SoAM 9865 Samara 500 SoAM 9875 Montsinery-GUF 250 SoAM 0200-0300 English 7250 Armavir Tbilisskaya 500 NoAM 7250 Armavir Tbilisskaya 500 CeAM 7290 Grigoriopol-MDA 500 NoAM 7290 Grigoriopol-MDA 500 CeAM 12030 Petr.-Kamchatsky 250 NoAM 13665 Petr.-Kamchatsky 250 NoAM 13735 Vladivostok 250 NoAM Spanish 6135 St. Petersburg 800 SoAM 7210 Moscow 500 SoAM 7335 Montsinery-GUF 250 CeAM 9475 Dushanbe-TJK 500 SoAM 9750 Yerevan Gavar-ARM 500 SoAM 0300-0400 English 7250 Armavir Tbilisskaya 500 NoAM 7250 Armavir Tbilisskaya 500 CeAM 7290 Grigoriopol-MDA 500 NoAM 7290 Grigoriopol-MDA 500 CeAM 12030 Petr.-Kamchatsky 250 NoAM 13665 Petr.-Kamchatsky 250 NoAM 13735 Vladivostok 250 NoAM Spanish 7210 Moscow 500 SoAM 7335 Montsinery-GUF 250 CeAM 9475 Dushanbe-TJK 500 SoAM 9750 Yerevan Gavar-ARM 500 SoAM 0300-0500 English 12040 Vladivostok 250 AS 0400-0500 Spanish 7210 Moscow 7210 500 SoAM 7335 Montsinery-GUF 250 CeAM 9475 Dushanbe-TJK 500 SoAM 0400-0600 English 9840 Petr.-Kamchatsky 250 NoAM 12030 Petr.-Kamchatsky 250 NoAM 0500-0600 Chechen 171 Armavir Tbilisskaya 1200 CIS/Caucasus 657 Grozny 50 Caucasus English 1323 Wachenbrunn Germany 500 EUR 0600-0700 English 1323 Wachenbrunn Germany 500 EUR 11635 DRM ch#1 Moscow 40 EUR 17805 Irkutsk 250 AUS/NZL/PAC 21805 Novosibirsk 250 AUS/NZL/PAC 0700-0800 English 1323 Wachenbrunn Germany 500 EUR 11635 DRM ch#1 Moscow 40 EUR 17805 Irkutsk 250 AUS/NZL/PAC 21805 Novosibirsk 250 AUS/NZL/PAC 0700-0900 English 1251 Dushanbe-TJK 500 AS 17805 Irkutsk 250 AS 21805 Novosibirsk 250 AS 0800-0900 English 1323 Wachenbrunn Germany 500 EUR 7325 DRM ch#1 Kaliningrad Bolshakovo 15 EUR 0800-0900 English 11635 DRM ch#1 Moscow 40 EUR 17805 Irkutsk 250 AUS/NZL/PAC 21805 Novosibirsk 250 AUS/NZL/PAC 0900-1000 English 7205 Chita 500 AS/SoEaAS 7325 DRM ch#1 Kaliningrad Bolshakovo 15 EUR 11635 DRM ch#1 Moscow 40 EUR 17805 Irkutsk 250 AUS/NZL/PAC 17805 Irkutsk 250 AS 21805 Novosibirsk 250 AUS/NZL/PAC 21805 Novosibirsk 250 AS German 630 Braunschweig Germany 50 EUR 693 Oranienburg Germany 125 EUR 1323 Wachenbrunn Germany 500 EUR 1431 Dresden Germany 125 EUR 9720 Kaliningrad Bolshakovo 120 EUR 1000-1100 Chinese 648 Ussuriisk 500 AS 5965 Vladivostok 100 AS 7305 Irkutsk 250 AS English 7205 Chita 500 AS/SoEaAS German 558 Mt.Ceneri Cima di Dentro SUI 200 EUR 630 Braunschweig Germany 50 EUR 693 Oranienburg Germany 125 EUR 1323 Wachenbrunn Germany 500 EUR 1431 Dresden Germany 125 EUR 7325 DRM ch# Kaliningrad Bolshakovo 15 EUR 1100-1200 Chinese 648 Ussuriisk 500 AS 1251 Dushanbe-TJK 500 AS 5965 Vladivostok 100 AS 7305 Irkutsk 250 AS 12000 DRM ch#2 Novosibirsk 50 AS English 7205 Chita 500 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Tbilisskaya 1200 NE/ME/CIS 1377 Yerevan Gavar-ARM 1000 NE/ME/CIS 5985 St.Petersburg 200 ME 6005 Armavir Tbilisskaya 100 ME 7270 Moscow 250 ME Urdu 801 Dushanbe-TJK 500 AS 972 Dushanbe-TJK 1000 AS 5900 Samara 250 AS 7340 DRM ch#2 Irkutsk 15 AS 9885 Dushanbe-TJK 100 AS 1500-1600 Arabian [sic] 5920 St. Petersburg 200 AF 5945 Novosibirsk 250 ME 7215 St.Petersburg 200 ME 9480 Moscow 250 AF English 1251 Dushanbe-TJK 500 AS 1251 Dushanbe-TJK 500 ME 4975 Dushanbe-TJK 100 AS 4975 Dushanbe-TJK 100 ME English - Angliskiy 7340 DRM ch#1 Irkutsk 15 AS 9470 Moscow 500 ME 9660 Xian-CHN 150 SoEaAS 9880 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky 250 AS/SoEaAS German 558 Mt.Ceneri Cima di Dentro SUI 200 EUR 630 Braunschweig Germany 50 EUR 693 Oranienburg Germany 125 EUR 1323 Wachenbrunn Germany 500 EUR 1431 Dresden Germany 125 EUR 6040 DRM ch#1 Kaliningrad Bolshakovo 15 EUR 7220 Samara 250 EUR 9675 DRM ch#1 Moscow 40 EUR Hindi 972 Dushanbe-TJK 1000 AS 7310 Novosibirsk 250 AS 7340 DRM ch#2 Irkutsk 15 AS 9885 Dushanbe-TJK 100 AS Persian 648 Dushanbe-TJK 1000 NE/ME/CIS 1377 Yerevan Gavar-ARM 1000 NE/ME/CIS 5935 St.Petersburg 400 ME 7205 St.Petersburg 400 ME 7345 Dushanbe-TJK 100 ME Turkish 1170 Armavir Tbilisskaya 1200 NE/ME/CIS 5985 St.Petersburg 200 ME 6005 Armavir Tbilisskaya 100 ME 7270 Moscow 250 ME 1500-1700 English 9470 Moscow 500 AF Serbian 1548 Grigoriopol-MDA 500 EUR 6000 Kaliningrad Bolshakovo 60 EUR 6040 DRM ch#2 Kaliningrad Bolshakovo 15 EUR 9675 DRM ch#2 Moscow 40 EUR 1600-1700 Arabian 5920 St.Petersburg 200 AF 9480 Moscow 250 AF 9820 Dushanbe-TJK 500 ME 9820 Dushanbe-TJK 500 AF English 1251 Dushanbe-TJK 500 AS 1251 Dushanbe-TJK 500 ME 4975 Dushanbe-TJK 100 AS 4975 Dushanbe-TJK 100 ME 6180 DRM ch#1 Novosibirsk 50 AS 7300 DRM ch#1 Armavir Tbilisskaya 30 EUR 9470 Moscow 500 ME French 6130 Moscow 200 EUR 7295 Chita 500 AF 7330 Moscow 250 EUR 9745 Grigoriopol-MDA 500 AF 11655 Moscow 250 AF 11655 Moscow 250 EUR 11985 Yerevan Gavar-ARM 500 AF German 558 Mt.Ceneri Cima di Dentro SUI 200 EUR 630 Braunschweig Germany 50 EUR 693 Oranienburg Germany 125 EUR 1323 Wachenbrunn Germany 500 EUR 1431 Dresden Germany 125 EUR 6040 DRM ch#1 Kaliningrad Bolshakovo 15 EUR 7220 Samara 250 EUR 9675 DRM ch#1 Moscow 40 EUR Kurdish 1314 Yerevan Gavar-ARM 1000 NE/ME/CIS 5945 Novosibirsk 250 ME 6005 Armavir Tbilisskaya 100 ME 7270 Moscow 250 ME Persian 648 Dushanbe-TJK 1000 NE/ME/CIS 1377 Yerevan Gavar-ARM 1000 NE/ME/CIS 5935 St.Petersburg 400 ME 7345 Dushanbe-TJK 100 ME 1700-1800 Arabian 1314 Yerevan Gavar-ARM 1000 NE/ME/CIS 5920 St.Petersburg 200 AF 5935 St.Petersburg 400 ME 6020 Armavir Tbilisskaya 100 ME 7345 Dushanbe-TJK 100 ME 9820 Dushanbe-TJK 500 ME 9820 Dushanbe-TJK 500 AF English 1251 Dushanbe-TJK 500 AS 1251 Dushanbe-TJK 500 ME 1269 Xuanwei Yunnan-CHN 600 AS 4975 Dushanbe-TJK 100 AS 4975 Dushanbe-TJK 100 ME 7240 Petr.-Kamchatsky 250 AS 7270 Moscow 250 ME 7270 Moscow 250 AF 7270 Moscow 250 EUR 7300 DRM ch#1 Armavir Tbilisskaya 30 EUR 7330 Moscow 250 EUR 9880 Petr.-Kamchatsky 250 AS/SoEaAS French 6130 Moscow 200 AF 6130 Moscow 200 EUR 7295 Chita 500 AF 9745 Grigoriopol-MDA 500 AF 11655 Moscow 250 AF 11655 Moscow 250 EUR 11985 Yerevan Gavar-ARM 500 AF 12060 Moscow 250 AF 12060 Moscow 250 EUR German 630 Braunschweig Germany 50 EUR 1323 Wachenbrunn Germany 500 EUR 1431 Dresden Germany 125 EUR 6040 DRM ch#2 Kaliningrad Bolshakovo 15 EUR 6145 DRM ch#2 Kaliningrad Bolshakovo 15 EUR Italian 558 Mt. Ceneri Cima di Dentro SUI 200 EUR 6040 DRM ch#1 Kaliningrad Bolshakovo 15 EUR 6145 DRM ch#1 Kaliningrad Bolshakovo 15 EUR 7230 Moscow 250 EUR 7310 Moscow 250 EUR Polish 693 Oranienburg Germany 250 EUR 1143 Kaliningrad Bolshakovo 150 EUR 5940 Samara 250 EUR 1800-1900 Arabian 1314 Yerevan Gavar-ARM 1000 NE/ME/CIS 5920 St.Petersburg 200 AF 5975 Novosibirsk 250 ME 5975 Novosibirsk 250 AF 6020 Armavir Tbilisskaya 100 ME 7345 Dushanbe-TJK 100 ME 9820 Dushanbe-TJK 500 ME 9820 Dushanbe-TJK 500 AF English 4975 Dushanbe-TJK 100 ME 6145 DRM ch#2 Kaliningrad Bolshakovo 15 EUR 7270 Samara 250 ME 7270 Moscow 250 AF 7300 DRM ch#1 Armavir Tbilisskaya 30 EUR 7330 Moscow 250 EUR 11985 Yerevan Gavar-ARM 500 ME 11985 Yerevan Gavar-ARM 500 AF 12060 Moscow 250 EUR French 6120 Kaliningrad Bolshakovo 120 EUR 6130 Moscow 200 AF 6130 Moscow 200 EUR 6145 DRM ch#1 Kaliningrad Bolshakovo 15 EUR 9745 Grigoriopol-MDA 500 AF 11655 Moscow 250 AF 11655 Moscow 250 EUR German 558 Mt.Ceneri Cima di Dentro SUI 200 EUR 630 Braunschweig Germany 50 EUR 693 Oranienburg Germany 125 EUR 1323 Wachenbrunn Germany 500 EUR 1431 Dresden Germany 125 EUR 7310 Samara 250 EUR 1900-2000 Arabian 1314 Yerevan Gavar-ARM 1000 NE/ME/CIS 5920 St.Petersburg 200 AF 5975 Novosibirsk 250 ME 5975 Novosibirsk 250 AF 7345 Dushanbe-TJK 100 ME French 558 Mt. Ceneri Cima di Dentro SUI 200 EUR 1323 Wachenbrunn Germany 500 EUR 6040 DRM ch#2 Kaliningrad Bolshakovo 15 AF 6040 DRM ch#2 Kaliningrad Bolshakovo 15 EUR 6120 Kaliningrad Bolshakovo 120 EUR 6130 Moscow 200 EUR 9745 Grigoriopol-MDA 500 AF 11655 Moscow 250 AF 11655 Moscow 250 EUR 12060 Moscow 250 AF 12060 Moscow 250 EUR 1900-2100 English 1215 Kaliningrad Bolshakovo 1200 EUR 6040 DRM ch#1 Kaliningrad Bolshakovo 15 EUR 7330 Moscow 250 EUR 2000-2100 Chechen 657 Grozny 50 Caucasus French 558 Mt.Ceneri Cima di Dentro SUI 200 EUR 1323 Wachenbrunn Germany 1000 EUR 6040 DRM ch#2 Kaliningrad Bolshakovo 15 AF 6040 DRM ch#2 Kaliningrad Bolshakovo 15 EUR 6130 Moscow 200 EUR 9745 Grigoriopol-MDA 500 AF 11655 Moscow 250 AF 11655 Moscow 250 EUR 12060 Moscow 250 AF 12060 Moscow 250 EUR Spanish 5940 Samara 250 EUR 6090 Armavir Tbilisskaya 200 EUR 6120 Kaliningrad Bolshakovo 120 EUR 2000-2130 Serbian 1548 Grigoriopol-MDA 500 EUR 6030 Samara 250 EUR 2100-2200 English 1215 Kaliningrad Bolshakovo 1200 EUR 7300 English Moscow 250 EUR Portuguese 5940 Samara 250 EUR 6090 Armavir Tbilisskaya 200 EUR 6120 Kaliningrad Bolshakovo 120 EUR 2130-2230 1548 Italian Grigoriopol-MDA 500 EUR 2200-2300 Arabic 648 Dushanbe-TJK 1000 NE/ME/CIS 1377 Yerevan Gavar-ARM 1000 NE/ME/CIS English 1215 Kaliningrad Bolshakovo 1200 EUR 7250 Armavir Tbilisskaya 500 NoAM 7250 Armavir Tbilisskaya 500 EUR 7250 Armavir Tbilisskaya 500 CeAM 11830 Petr.-Kamchatsky 250 NoAM Portuguese 11605 Montsinery-GUF 250 SoAM 2300-2400 English 7250 Armavir Tbilisskaya 500 NoAM 7290 Grigoriopol-MDA 500 NoAM 7290 Grigoriopol-MDA 500 CeAM Portuguese 9750 Yerevan Gavar-ARM 500 SoAM 9865 Samara 250 SoAM 11605 Montsinery-GUF 250 SoAM Voice of Russia Moscow, Russian sce Voice of Russia Moscow, all languages excluding Russian: International Russian radio (Voice of Russia, via Vadim Alexeyev, Russia, transformed from xls to txt file format by Michael Bethge-D, adapted by wb to wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, Oct 30, Nov 4 via DXLD) ** RUSSIA [non]. KAZAKHSTAN, Winter B-11 for Voice of Orthodox in Russian: 1530-1600 on 7515 A-A 200 kW / 310 deg to CeAS Tue/Fri (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Nov 8 via DXLD) ** RUSSIA [non]. 9360, Nov 5 at 1329 organ music, 1330 Russian announcement mixed with more organ music. Is R. Liberty via SAIPAN at 12-14 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. [INTRUDER ALERT] W.: Good News from Russia re. Russian taxis on 10 mb ----- Original Message ----- From: "Georg Kehl" Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 2:18 PM Wonderful news, I hope for positive results soon. best 73´s Georg, DJ7KG --------------------------------------------------------- Dear fellow Intruder Busters, already last year (24 October 2010) I had sent a Letter of Complaint to the Headquarters of SRR, Box 88, 119311 Moscow (attention Roman R. Thomas RZ3AA, Yuri B. Malyuk RA4AR) dealing with the big number of illegal taxis in Russian language in FM in the range 28000 - 29700 kHz. The letter was by Air Mail AND by e- Mail. No answer so far. So I decided to contact the Russian telecom. authorities directly by Registered Air Mail. And, oh wonder:- On 31 October 2011 I have received by Fax the answer to my complaint re. RUS / CIS taxis in the range 28000 - 29700 kHz. I had sent my complaint on 29 September 2011 to "Radio Frequency Service, General Radio Frequency Centre, Federal State Unitary Enerprise, 7 Tverskaya Str., Moscow 125375 - Phone (+7 495) 748-1448, Fax (+ 7 495) 748-0680, E-mail: int @ grfc.ru by Fax and by Registered Air Mail. Here is the answer from Moscow: ****************************** snip 28 October 2011 No. MC-1931 Subject: Harmful Interference in the 28000 - 29700 kHz band ****************************************** Dear Sirs, We would like to inform you that your request provided in your letter of 29.09.2011 concerning the harmful interference to the amateur service stations in the 28000 - 29700 kHz band from the base taxi stations and the CB radio stations has been considered. The General Radio Frequency Centre (Federal State Unitary Enterprise) has taken measures on arranging the permanent radio monitoring to detect the CB radio stations causing the interference to the amateur service and termination of their work. Faithfully yours, (signature) Nikolay Varlamov Deputy Director *********************************** snip You see: It worked! So, let us keep our fingers crossed that the Russian authorities really become active to remove the hundreds of taxis in FM in the range 28000 - 29700 kHz. Vy 73 de:- (Uli Bihlmayer DJ9KR / DL0IW, DARC MS Coordinator, Vice Coordinator IARU-MS Region 1, Nov 5, INTRUDERALERT mailing list via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 17660, Nov 7 at 1405 fluttery Qur`an, 1410 to scripted sermon in slow French. This is our best chance to hear BSKSA in a Western language, since they have absolutely no interest in broadcasting English to Europe or North America. 14-18, 500 kW due west from Radio Riyadh (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SCOTLAND. PIRATES OF THE AIR: THE STORY OF RADIO FREE SCOTLAND The Scotsman reported September 25 that from 1956 until 1977, a small group of enthusiasts illegally produced Radio Free Scotland, transmitting from safe houses across the central belt after Scottish television sets had gone dark as they dodged the police and GPO detector vans attempting to hunt them down: “Attention! Attention! this is Radio Free Scotland calling! Do not switch off! Listen when the BBC is off the air!” Those dramatic words will strike a chord with Scots of a certain age, who remember tuning in to an illicit broadcasting phenomenon that pre-dated the famous pirate radio station Radio Caroline by almost a decade and kept the fires of Scottish Nationalism burning when they were perilously low. In the black and white era – long before 24-hour television, BBC television ended a day's programming with a rendition of God Save the Queen. Once the last notes had been sounded, the television airwaves, in certain parts of the country, were hi-jacked by Radio Free Scotland and its strange mixture of Nationalist polemic, satire, discussions, interviews and rock'n'roll music. As a little girl growing up in Edinburgh, Christine Grahame, the SNP MSP, was one of those allowed to stay up late to listen for the weekly broadcasts that Nationalist radio hams somehow managed to send through ordinary TV sets. "My father was a Nationalist and we would be waiting after God Save the Queen then he would say 'listen, listen' then we would hear 'this is Radio Scotland calling'. It was so exciting and so cloak and dagger for the 1950s. My father used to tell me that they kept the transmitter in a wheelbarrow underneath the fruit and veg, and move it around so that they wouldn't get caught." Of course, fairy tales of transmitters in wheelbarrows were a little far-fetched – but only slightly. The lengths to which Radio Free Scotland went to in order to be broadcast are recalled in a new book which provides a short history of this largely forgotten chapter of Scottish broadcasting. Pirates of the Air – The Story of Radio Free Scotland tells of brushes with the law at a time when supporting the SNP was almost a subversive activity. Written by Gordon Wilson, the SNP leader who preceded Alex Salmond's first stint in charge of the Nationalists, the book recalls a political era when the independence movement was struggling. After the war, various splits had rent the party asunder and its standing was so low that it was ignored by the mainstream media. Back in the 1950s, Mr Wilson was working as a solicitor for Brodies, part of the legal establishment in Edinburgh, when his irritation at the lack of coverage afforded to the SNP persuaded him to get involved with the pirate radio station. It was a move borne of political conviction, but one that could have wrecked a promising career in the law. "It was done for a reason and the people who did it could potentially suffer the loss of careers, because the establishment was not kind to outrageous people whodid not keep to convention," said Mr Wilson, who rose to become director of programmes in the early 1960s. "I could have found myself in jail. But I would have quite liked the idea of going to jail because I'm a thrawn bugger." Such was the secrecy that many of those involved went by pseudonyms, some of which are remembered to this day.At the book's launch in SNP headquarters, Edinburgh, Mr Wilson found himself inscribing a copy to "Dennis MacKay", the false name of a volunteer who could not go by his real moniker because his father was a sheriff in Glasgow. When Mr Wilson was in charge, the weekly 20-minute "magazine" programme was recorded over the weekend. Then the tape would be handed over in secret to the mysterious individuals who were in charge of transmission. Using primitive equipment the programme would be sent out from a safe-house, invariably owned by an SNP sympathiser. A different safe-house was used each week to throw the authorities off the rogue broadcasters' scent. One incident recalled in the book happened in the Glasgow Bridgeton by-election of 1961. With typical boldness the RFS operators' formidable publicity machine announced that there was to be an important broadcast. This broke statutory rules for election coverage as well as the Wireless Telegraphy Act. Therefore the authorities acted. The GPO jammed the signal and the police found out that the programme was being broadcast from a top flat, which, irony of ironies, was tenanted by a GPO employee. The broadcast was made from the kitchen with a long aerial trailing from the window. Suddenly, there was an ominous banging on the door. The householder's wife opened it to see a police officer and a GPO representative standing there. As a young lawyer, Mr Wilson had the presence of mind to ask the intruders if they had a search warrant – luckily, they didn't. In the meantime, the newspapers were informed that the signal had been jammed. It was a PR triumph. More people now knew about Radio Free Scotland than would have ever listened to the broadcast. It was run on "cheek and impertinence" recalls Mr Wilson. When he was in charge, the beginning of a broadcast was marked with a recording of the Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band playing Scotland the Brave. "I always believe in using the police whenever possible," said Mr Wilson, acutely aware that it was the officers of Edinburgh police who were often pursuing him. Mr Wilson would then, in a stentorian voice, intone: "This is Radio Free Scotland." Some great names were interviewed by RFS, including SNP party leaders of the time and the poet Hugh MacDiarmid, a prominent supporter of the SNP. In the early days, much of the technical aspect of looking after the transmitters – a Halicaster [sic] then later a Viking Challenger – was down to a great, great nephew of the writer RL Stevenson – a lawyer named Louis Stevenson, who emigrated to the US around 50 years ago. "He was a great character, full of enthusiasm and a very cultured individual," Mr Wilson said, recalling that after he left for the States he sent RFS a couple of transmitters from Chicago. The subterfuge of those early days is a far cry from today's Scotland where the SNP are now the dominant force in Scottish politics. Indeed, now the SNP is the establishment. "They are," agreed Mr Wilson with a sigh. "And very dull they are too. The old buccaneering attitude has gone, but there we are." The 65 page paperback Pirates of the Air - the Story of Radio Free Scotland has been published by Scots Independent (Newspapers) Ltd, ISBN 978-0951282085. Cheapest online price found is £7.99 via Amazon. (via Mike Barraclough, Nov WDXC Contact via DXLD) See also 11-39 ** SINGAPORE. SINGAPORE BROADCASTER TO DROP DAB ON 1 DECEMBER Southgate November 1, 2011 Singapore’s digital radio stations beaming “CD-quality” music over the airwaves will be shut down next month, when MediaCorp pulls the plug on the once highly-touted digital audio broadcasting (DAB) technology. The broadcaster said the effectiveness and reach of DAB, which once promised to replace FM radio with its higher quality digital audio, had diminished over time. This, it added in a statement issued today, was made even more obvious with the popularity of online streaming and mobile phone apps. It elaborated: “Since the launch of the service some 12 years ago, the growth in listenership on MediaCorp’s DAB service has remained stagnant. On the other hand, the rapid growth in the number of listeners through online streaming and phone app MeRadio has shown that these platforms are serving the listeners more effectively than the DAB platform.” Read more from techgoondu.com http://www.techgoondu.com/2011/11/02/mediacorp-to-cut-digital-radio-programmes-on-dec-1/ http://www.southgatearc.org/news/november2011/singapore_broadcaster_to_drop_dab.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AmateurRadioNews+%28Southgate+Amateur+Radio+News%29 (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) originally from Media Network? ** SLOVENIA. QSL: RadioTelevizija Slovenija, 918, f/d coverage map card in 20 days for English airmail report and 2 IRCs. No V/S. The station was heard during a business trip to Zurich Switzerland, with a 10m randomwire thrown out the window on my hotel late at night. They returned the IRCs which were cellophane taped to the outside of the envelope by one end only. I have no idea whether they were intending them to be used for postage (both a stamp and metered postage were affixed) or whether they just sent them back, and I am absolutely amazed that both of those IRCs arrived intact without a tear or wrinkle! 73 (Al Muick, Whitehall PA USA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 1035, SIBC, 1047, noted with poor signal, in null of 2EA and Newstalk ZB, with interview by a man and a woman. Easily //'ed against 5020. 2 Nov (David Sharp NSW Australia, Partial list of equipment: FT-950, NRD-535D, R8, R30A, Timewave 599ZX, various Palstar and MFJ accessories, Quantun Phaser, various Sangean and Tecsun portables, EWE aerials, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5019,868 29.10 1050 SIBC kom precis igenom med mx som hördes tämligen svagt. AN 5019.868, 29.10 1050, SIBC weak and just above noise level with music (Arne Nilsson, Sjulsmark, Sweden, SW Bulletin Oct 30, translated by editor Thomas Nilsson for DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOMALIA [non]. UNIDentified new station in Somali from Nov. 30: 0430-0500 on 13750 MDC 250 kW / 000 deg to EaAF 1700-1730 on 11615 MDC 250 kW / 000 deg to EaAF, from Jan. 1 till 1800 (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Nov 8 via DXLD) ** SOUTH AFRICA. Pan Hellenic Voice, 1422 Bedfordview (Jo'burg). Oct 30, 2011, Sunday. 0737-0742. Greek, for the local (very large) greek community. Sounds like a Greek Orthodox Church service. Fair. Jo'burg sunrise 0321. South Africa. Radio Islam, 1548 Lenasia (Johannesburg). Oct 30, 2011, Sunday. 0758-0801. OM's talking, but unreadable. Very poor. Jo'burg sunrise 0321. South Africa. Radio Pulpit, 657 Meyerton. Oct 30, 2011, Sunday. 0735- 0737. Afrikaans, OM with monologue. Fair - good. Jo'burg sunrise 0321. South Africa. Radio Today, 1485 Marks Park, Johannesburg. Oct 30, 2011, Sunday. 0742-0758. Tuned in to an orchestra playing "Land of Hope and Glory", turned out to be a programme talking about Czar Nicholas, Russia, Germany, the imminent WW1, accompanied by other diverse contemporary news, quotes, music and songs. Apparently a history of 1907. Ended at 0752, with the announcement that the programme was part of a series called "Call Back the Past", a repeat of an original Springbok Radio production from many years ago. Radio Today re-broadcasts many such old Springbok Radio programmes, and radio plays, courtesy of the "Springbok Radio Preservation Society"; at the risk of giving my age away, they are always enjoyable. Good. Jo'burg sunrise 0321 (Bill Bingham, RSA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH AFRICA. B-11 of South African Radio League in English: 0800-0900 on 7205 MEY 100 kW / 000 deg to SoAF Sunday 0800-0900 on 17760 MEY 250 kW / 019 deg to EaAF Sunday 1630-1730 on 4895 MEY 100 kW / 000 deg to SoAF Monday (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Nov 8 via DXLD) ** SOUTH AFRICA. South African Radio League. 4895 Meyerton. Oct 31, 2011, Monday. 1645-1657. HamNet, "Amateur Radio Today" talking about the Thai floods, then on to installing and using small HF transmitting antennas. Fair-good, but some deep fades. Jo'burg sunset 1624 (Bill Bingham, RSA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. ESPANHA, 1624, RNE-Radio 5, site?, 1942-..., 04/11, talks, music; FM-like signal, distorted, so poor readability; 35443. Surely a faulty tx. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN [and non]. 5965 via COSTA RICA, Saturday Nov 5 at 0605, `Amigos de la Onda Corta` is starting, so it too has this season made a 1-UT-hour-later timeshift. Best here, also audible on 11895 direct (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Amigos de la Onda Corta: Se emite por onda corta, satélite e Internet: Emisión del SÁBADO 0605-0630 UT Europa: 12035 kHz - 9780 DRM Oriente Medio: 11895 kHz América del Sur: 5965 (*) kHz Emisión del DOMINGO 0030-0100 UT América del Sur: 11.815 DRM (*) 6125, 9620, 9765 y 11680, kHz América Central: 6125 y 9535 kHz América del Norte: 9630 DRM (*), 6055 y 9535 kHz [sic: there better still be English on 6055 during this hour --- gh] Emisión del DOMINGO 1330-1400 UT Europa: 13720 y 15585 kHz Oriente Medio: 21610 kHz África: 21540 kHz Filipinas: 11910 (Desde Xian) América del Sur: 15125 (*) y 17595 kHz América Central: 9765 (*) y 17595 kHz América del Norte: 15170 (*) kHz (*) Desde el centro emisor de Cariari, Costa Rica (José Bueno, Spain, Nov 4, noticiasdx yg via DXLD) Note the UT Sun 0030 time, an additional rather more convenient one for us than the others, which I have not yet confirmed (gh, DXLD) ** SPAIN [non]. RADIO EXTERIOR DE ESPAÑA DRM PARA BRASIL Gracias a la información del amigo y colega Omar Ortiz, he podido disfrutar durante las últimas noches de la nueva emisión en DRM desde Cariari, realizada por la Radio Exterior de España con destino a Brasil como "una apuesta en relación a los futuros y eventuales planes de digitalizació n de la radiodifusion nacional en dicho país suramericano" según palabras de la Señora Josefina Benitez (Directora de la estación). Cabe decir que es una gran señal y acá la puedo disfutar con una calidad excepcional, pues desde Cariari a Brasil esta debe pasar por Colombia. Falta por establecer con que calidad puede ser escuchada en Brasil al compartir la frecuencia con una emisora local en el horario de las 0000 a las 0100 UTc por los 11815 kHz. Buenos Dx (Rafael Rodríguez R., Bogotá D.C. - COLOMBIA, Nov 6, condiglist yg via DXLD) HFCC instead shows 23-24: ``11815 2300 2400 12 CRI 100 110 0 145 1234567 301011 250312 N SPANISH E REE REE 12091`` But 11815 is included on the 0030 frequencies for the DX program. This is the new broadcast I heard about at HFCC Dallas. And you`d think they`d aim their Spanish broadcasts toward Spanish-speaking countries. CIRAF 12 is the NW third of SAm, from Guyana CCW to the northern half of Bolivia including a western-only Brasilchunk (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) 15385, Monday Nov 7 at 1447, Sephardic music on the weekly service from REE at 1425-1455 now has ACI from stronger CUBA on 15380. Will anyone including myself remember to check at 0115 UT Tuesday whether the repeat is really on 11780 colliding with Brasil instead of staying on 11795? I`ve set an alarum. 11780, UT Tuesday Nov 8 at 0111 I start monitoring whether REE`s weekly Sephardic service to South America, of all places, will show up here as announced in B-11, despite strong signal from BRAZIL, R. Nacional da Amazônia. I think the Noblejas carrier is already on, zero-beat. At 0113:40 starts REE IS mixing badly. 0115 sign-on but no frequencies given. Then while an Amazonian is singing off-key, much nicer tango-like music from REE. What a pity they are colliding instead of Spain staying on clear 11795. The final repeat to N America, however, is loud and clear as usual, on 9690 at 0415-0430 Tuesdays. Checked at 0430 with automatic timesignal played during interview by the YL host speaking Sephardic, if you listen carefully for the divergences from pure Castilian, while her guest Alex Quiroga seemed to stay in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also KUWAIT ** SPAIN [and non]. Novedad > Esquema de REE para B11 2011-11-09 16:50:38 http://aer-dx.org/novedades/index.php?IdRSS=211 Gracias a Antonio Buitrago, del programa Amigos de la Onda Corta, ya tienes disponible el esquema de emisiones de Radio Exterior de España para este periodo B11 RADIO EXTERIOR DE ESPAÑA SECRETARÍA TÉCNICA Y DE PROGRAMAS 30 de Octubre de 2011 a 25 de Marzo de 2012 ---------------------------------------------- EUROPA 12035 0500-0900 ESPAÑOL Lunes a Viernes 9780 0500-0900 ESPAÑOL Diaria DRM 12035 0600-0900 ESPAÑOL Sábado y Domingo 13720 0800-1300 ESPAÑOL Lunes a Viernes 13720 0800-1400 ESPAÑOL Sábado y Domingo 15585 0900-1700 ESPAÑOL Diaria 15585 1330-1355 EUSKERA Lunes a Viernes 13720 1330-1355 EUSKERA Lunes a Viernes 11755 1700-1730 RUSO Lunes a Viernes 9665 1700-2200 ESPAÑOL Sábado y Domingo 7275 1700-2300 ESPAÑOL Diaria 9665 1800-1900 FRANCÉS Lunes a Viernes 7275 1830-1900 PORTUGUÉS Lunes a Viernes 9665 1900-2000 INGLÉS Lunes a Viernes 6125 2200-2300 INGLÉS Sábado y Domingo 5970 2300-2400 FRANCÉS Sábado y Domingo ORIENTE MEDIO 11895 0500-0700 ESPAÑOL Diaria 21610 0900-1700 ESPAÑOL Diaria 21610 1330-1355 EUSKERA Lunes a Viernes 15385 1425-1455 SEFARDÍ Lunes 21610 1700-1900 ÁRABE Diaria 9605 2000-2100 FRANCÉS Lunes a Viernes 12030 1900-2000 FRANCÉS Domingo 12030 1900-2100 ÁRABE Lunes a Viernes ÁFRICA 21540 0900-1500 ESPAÑOL Diaria 21540 1330-1355 EUSKERA Lunes a Viernes 15385 1500-1700 ESPAÑOL Lunes a Sábado 17755 1500-2200 ESPAÑOL Domingo 17755 1700-1900 ESPAÑOL Lunes a Viernes 17755 1700-2200 ESPAÑOL Sábado 17755 1830-1900 PORTUGUÉS Lunes a Viernes 9590 1900-2000 FRANCÉS Sábados 7265 1900-2100 ÁRABE Lunes a Viernes 9605 1900-2000 INGLÉS Lunes a Viernes 7265 2000-2200 ÁRABE Sábado y Domingo 9570 2000-2100 FRANCÉS Lunes a Viernes 11625 2200-2300 ESPAÑOL Sábado y Domingo 7265 2200-2300 ESPAÑOL Diaria FILIPINAS 11910% 1200-1400 ESPAÑOL Diaria 11910 1330-1355 EUSKERA Lunes a Viernes AMÉRICA DEL SUR 11815 0000-0100 ESPAÑOL Diaria DRM* 9765* 0001-0400 ESPAÑOL Diaria 11780 0115-0145 SEFARDÍ Martes 5965* 0400-0800 ESPAÑOL Diaria 11815* 1200-1500 ESPAÑOL Lunes a Viernes 15125* 1200-2300 ESPAÑOL Domingo 11815* 1330-1355 EUSKERA Lunes a Viernes 17595 1300-1700 ESPAÑOL Sábado y Domingo 17595 1500-1700 ESPAÑOL Lunes a Viernes 15125* 1600-2300 ESPAÑOL Sábados 17715 1700-1900 ESPAÑOL Diaria 15125* 1800-2000 ESPAÑOL Lunes a Viernes 15125* 1830-1900 PORTUGUÉS Lunes a Viernes 17715 1830-1900 PORTUGUÉS Lunes a Viernes 11940 1900-2300 ESPAÑOL Sábado y Domingo 11680 2100-2200 PORTUGUÉS Lunes a Viernes 11680 2300-0200 ESPAÑOL Diaria 6125 2300-0500 ESPAÑOL Diaria 9620 2300-0500 ESPAÑOL Diaria 11680 2340-2355 CATGALL Y EUSK Lunes a Viernes 6125 2340-2355 CATGALL Y EUSK Lunes a Viernes 9620 2340-2355 CATGALL Y EUSK Lunes a Viernes AMÉRICA CENTRAL 3350* 0200-0600 ESPAÑOL Diaria 9765* 1200-1500 ESPAÑOL Lunes a Viernes 9765* 1200-2300 ESPAÑOL Domingo 17595 1300-1700 ESPAÑOL Sábado y Domingo 9765* 1330-1355 EUSKERA Lunes a Viernes 17595 1500-1700 ESPAÑOL Lunes a Viernes 9765* 1600-2300 ESPAÑOL Sábados 9765* 1800-2000 ESPAÑOL Lunes a Viernes 9765* 1830-1900 PORTUGUÉS Lunes a Viernes 11940 1900-2300 ESPAÑOL Sábado y Domingo 6125 2300-0500 ESPAÑOL Diaria 9535 2300-0500 ESPAÑOL Diaria 6125 2340-2355 CATGALL Y EUSK Lunes a Viernes 9535 2340-2355 CATGALL Y EUSK Lunes a Viernes AMÉRICA DEL NORTE 9630 0000-0200 ESPAÑOL Diaria DRM* 6055 0000-0100 INGLÉS Diaria 6055 0100-0600 ESPAÑOL Diaria 9675* 0200-0600 ESPAÑOL Lunes a Viernes 9690 0415-0445 SEFARDÍ Martes 15170* 1200-1500 ESPAÑOL Lunes a Viernes 15170* 1200-1500 ESPAÑOL Domingo 17595 1300-1500 ESPAÑOL Lunes a Viernes 15170* 1330-1355 EUSKERA Lunes a Viernes 17595 1330-1355 EUSKERA Lunes a Viernes 17850* 1500-2300 ESPAÑOL Domingo 17850* 1600-2300 ESPAÑOL Sábados 17850* 1800-2000 ESPAÑOL Lunes a Viernes 17850* 1830-1900 PORTUGUÉS Lunes a Viernes 15110 1900-2300 ESPAÑOL Diaria 6055 2300-0000 FRANCÉS Diaria 9535 2300-0500 ESPAÑOL Diaria *= Desde el centro emisor de Cariari, Costa Rica %= Desde Xi’an VÍA SATÉLITE HOT BIRD 8: COBERTURA: Europa, Canarias, Norte de África y Oriente Próximo y Medio Posición orbital 13º Este Frecuencia 11727 Mhz Polarización vertical HISPASAT 1 C: COBERTURA: América Posición orbital 30º Oeste Frecuencia 12015 Mhz Polarización vertical ASIASAT 5: COBERTURA: Asia y Australia Posición orbital 100’5º Este Frecuencia 4055 Mhz Polarización vertical ATLANTIC BIRD 3: COBERTURA: África, Oriente Medio y parte de Europa Posición orbital 5º Oeste Frecuencia 3727 Mhz Polarización circular derecha GALAXY-23: COBERTURA: América del Norte y Hawái Posición orbital 121º Oeste Frecuencia 3780 Mhz Polarización vertical (Antonio Buitrago, del programa Amigos de la Onda Corta, de REE via Pedro Sedano, noticias dx yg via DXLD) ** SRI LANKA. Voice of America relay, 9815 Iranawila. Oct 23, 2011, Sunday. 1852-1905. French. ID at 1856 "This is Washington" (don't know if it was in English, or if my brain ?? automatically / unconsciously translated it). Followed by VOA jingle and US Government editorial in French. Carrier just cut off at 1858, came back at 1859 but no modulation until 1900, then more French talk introducing a song apparently called (or by?) "Breakfast in Bed". Presumably just a transmitter change, since Aoki and EiBi list no location or target change at this time. Fair, to "Africa". Jo'burg sunset 1619 (Bill Bingham, RSA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. 7189.756, Subcontinent like sitar instrument music noted at 0033 UT Oct 31, S=6-7, poor and fluttery here in EUR. Female announcer in probable Hindi language. Program from SLBC Colombo Ekala site starts at 0020 UT according to Aoki list (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. Are we sure 11750 is Trinco? HFCC B11 shows Ekala where they do have 300 kW transmitters: 11750 1500 1900 39 EKA 300 310 0 208 1234567 301011 250312 D SINGHALA CLN SLB SLB 16295 73, (Glenn Hauser, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) Ian: I contacted Victor Goonetilleke about the Trinco site and this is his reply: "Yes DW transmissions ended from Trincomalee. On the 31st of December ownership will go to SLBC. The only transmission at this moment out of Trinco is 1530-1830 UT on 11750 Sinhala to the Middle East with some announcements in Tamil and sometimes in English. You might hear it over there in Canada." Cheers (Colin Miller, ibid.) ** SUDAN. Monitoring of Omdurman at 0330 on 7200: see IRAN [and non]. I see that HFCC B-11 shows this bandedge frequency for the `ALF` site of SBC Sudan: 0300-2100 to CIRAF 47, 100 kW, 210 degrees. And one other, which is imaginary: 9505, 0500-1000, 100 kW, 0 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non]. Germany, Afia Darfur/Hello Darfur, 9815 Nauen. Oct 24, 2011, Monday. 1809-1826. Arabic, talking about "Sudan" and "Darfur". Very brief music at 1823, into more talk by YL. Fair, to Sudan. Jo'burg sunset 1620 (Bill Bingham, RSA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non]. Ukraine: 9940, R Miraya from (and to) the new nation of South Sudan, but via transmitters in Simferopol. OM in English with heavy African accent, and T/C as “half past 8” at 0530. Into bit about South Sudan and then taking phone calls and announcing both the phone number, and the number to send SMS text messages. Afro-beat music bumpers, etc, and ID at at 0544 as R Miraya. HFCC lists this as being in English and Arabic, so perhaps some of the stuff that was just impossible to understand was actually not in English? Carrier off at :02 In OK, 2+5443 0518-0602* 30/Oct (Kenneth Vito Zichi, MI, MARE Tipsheet Nov 4 via DXLD) B-11 03-06 daily, 250 kW, 180 degrees (gh) Via UKRAINE, 9940 NF, Radio Miraya, 0401-0420, ex-11560. English news. IDs. Into Arabic talk at 0413. Afro-pop music. Weak. Poor in noisy conditions. Nov 5 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** SUDAN [non]. UK. BBC WS, 17745 Woofferton. Nov 05, 2011, Saturday. 1650-1657*. Afro music, with no speech at all to help id. Cut off at 1657 without id, the time matched HFCC B11 which gives no explanation other than "BAB" to east and central africa. Babcock themselves are equally unhelpful, just saying it's targetted to north and east Africa. To my ear this particular music was central, not north or east african, possibly from Zambia or therabaouts. Fairly good, to central and east Africa. Jo'burg sunset 1628 (Bill Bingham, RSA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This is not BBCWS at all, but Sudan Radio Service, via Woofferton at 15-17. There is supposedly some English during the first semi-hour (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) 17745, Nov 7 at 1502, Sudan Radio Service in Arabish, with echo, seems more like longpath than backscatter, from new site Woofferton UK replacing defunct Sines, Portugal. Takeoff azimuth is 126 degrees, which is close to directly off the back from here, maximizing the long/short path echo problem. 17745, Nov 8 at 1501, Sudan Radio Service via Woofferton UK, good signal but still with echo, in Arabish. They once were scheduled in English during first half-hour. Has anyone found if and when they are consistently in English, however accented it may be? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I've just monitored the complete two-hour transmission. There was no English section at all; the only English was pre-recorded snippets of some politician talking. I attach a clip of the id at 1600. UK. Sudan Radio Service. 17745 Woofferton. Nov 09, 2011, Wednesday. *1459-1657* Sign on with brief Sudanese?? music, then YL talking. JBA, but sounded Arabic (or some Sudanese derivative thereof), certainly not English. Thought I heard mention of "Sudan" twice at 1502, and at least two OM's in discussion after that, but really unreadable. More brief music (jingle ??) at 1510 then YL and OM talk, before two or more OM's back into a conversation. By 1515 it was a bit more audible and sounding more like a (presumed) Sudanese dialect than pure Arabic. At 1518 sudanese music on a stringed instrument and accompanied by an OM singing, expanded to a chorus-line with drums at 1523. Sounded like an (unreadable) id at 1530 and back to OM talking. Definite mention of "Sudan" at 1532, "Allah" at 1534, "inshallah" at 1535, "Sudan" at 1537, "diplomat" at 1538, "Barak Obama" at 1539 (with snippet of him speaking). Jazzy music snippet at 1540, then OM mentions "Sudan" again. At 1542 more apparently pop-influenced Sudanese music and song, apparently taken over by kids singing by 1551. Stringed instrument back at 1555 with OM singing. Long ID at 1600 including "Sudan Radio Service" and various addresses. "Sudan Radio Service" again at 1602 and OM talking again with several mentions of "Sudan", clearly it is the news. Back to music and song at 1613, ID "Sudan Radio Service" at 1614, reception is improving slightly as it starts to get dark here in Jo'burg. Someone who understood the language would be able to read what they are saying. Recorded snippets of an English-speaking politician suggest it is a current-affairs programme. More addresses at 1626, followed by music with YL's (or kids) singing. Web address at 1630 and "Sudan Radio Service", followed by Sudanese instrumental music. YL talking from 1632, interspersed with brief music (jingle ??) and more recorded snippets of the English-speaking politician. YL just cut off in full flow at 1656, carrier cut at 1657. Awfully bad-mannered way to treat a speciality broadcast. Jo'burg sunset 1630 (Bill Bingham, RSA, WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non]. Winter B-11 of Radio Dabanga in Arabic: 0430-0600 on 7315 ISS 500 kW / 135 deg to EaAF 0430-0600 on 11940 ISS 500 kW / 135 deg to EaAF 0430-0600 on 13800 DHA 250 kW / 255 deg to EaAF 1530-1630 on 13800 MDC 250 kW / 325 deg to EaAF 1530-1630 on 15535 WER 500 kW / 150 deg to EaAF (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Nov 8 via DXLD) ** SWAZILAND. 4760, 1732-1816'18*, TWR, Manzini, 29/10, vernacular, YL/OM radio show, then YL talks with mention of Radio Habari Maalun from Tanzania and native songs, etc., one TWR interval signal at 1815'01 - very good with slight local noise and transmitter hum, transmitter was off at 1809'01-1809'33, 1810'05-1810'17 and 1810'49- 1811'01 (Mikhail Timofeyev, St Petersburg, Russia, DSWCI member no. 2987, Drake R8A. Antenna: long wire (30 m), http://dxcorner.narod.ru HCDX via DXLD) ** SWITZERLAND [and non]. QSL: HBG Prangins, 75 kHz, Heard on a recent business trip to Zurich, Switzerland. Date/frequency antenna masts card in 12 days for German report and 1 IRC via airmail. V/s Christian Schlunegger. For those who are not yet aware, HBG will be shut down at the end of December 31 2011, and it is expected that DCF77 will pick up the slack for time and frequency purposes [see GERMANY]. I received a full data sheet from HBG in German concerning the shutdown. Reading between the lines, it would appear that the operating costs are just too expensive and the range is not as great as DCF77. If you have the opportunity to hear this station before it's time is up, you should get their QSL. It is a very nice design, and soon another Grande Dame behemoth of VLF will leave us forever. There is no indication what will become of the transmission site. 73 (Al Muick, Whitehall PA USA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Prangins Switzerland site contains a lot of Swiss utility facilities too {probably transmitter site for Berne Maritime Radio too?}, since 1945 when United Nations founded, and did broadcast refugee transmissions from UNO Geneve after WW II, as well as UN Radio news in Russian in the 50ties {latter see old WRTH's under UN Radio/Switzerland}. Next to the two longwave masts, some antenna installation is visible around the TX house. To count: 3x 4-mast horizontal rhombic antennas, most probably in direction of 005/185degr to We&CeAF, 105/285degr to NE/ME/Atlantic, 140/320degr to EaAF/GB-IRL/ISL. 11x revolving horizontal log-periodics. 3x easy dipol masts. 7x vertical cage aerials, non-dir. 1x Communication mast. G.C. 46 24 24.60 N 06 15 04.20 E LW masts log-periodic antennas http://v5.cache1.c.bigcache.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/photos/original/1427326.jpg?redirect_counter=1 (Wolfgang Büschel, Nov 5, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, ibid.) Servus, Wolfie! Thanks for all of this. Beautiful pictures from Google. :-) I guess I should rephrase to say that I do not know what is to become of the VLF towers/equipment. I think Switzerland will always have some involvement in broadcasts, etc., from a sheer neutrality standpoint, although, IMHO, that can now be debated since the US government has forced their hand on the banking secrecy laws. :-( 73 (Albert Muick, ibid.) Swisscom Broadcast HEB (Bern Radio) maritime station QSL of 2009 says location is 47 01 00N 07 27 00E. Don't know how accurate this QTH is and if it's the tx site or rx site. 73, (Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland, ibid.) Some information about the Berne Radio maritime RECEIVING station: http://www.bernradio.ch/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=42&Itemid=73&lang=de > Die Sendeanlage von Bernradio steht in Prangins, in der Nähe des > Genfersees. TX site is located at Prangins, next to Geneve lake... the G.C. given as 47 01 00 N 07 27 00 E is wrong, is a fake to veil the location? - should be 46 24 24.60 N 06 15 04.20 E instead. > Die Empfangsanlage steht in Riedern bei Bern. RX Receiving (and Operational Center?) at Riedern near Berne. location at SUI Berne Radio, rx site and operational center? 46 57'12.76"N 07 21'52.16"E contains recieving antennas like 4x revolving horizontal log-periodics. 3x 4-mast horizontal rhombic antennas 2x 3-mast horizontal like corner antennas direction finding antenna, 8masts, like small Wullenweber antenna. 46 57'14.62"N 07 21'51.15"E http://v2.cache6.c.bigcache.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/photos/original/45377114.jpg?redirect_counter=1 http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/13876199.jpg left side http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/33808675.jpg http://www.bernradio.ch/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=43&Itemid=7&lang=de 10 maritime radio stations, network worldwide http://www.swisscom.ch/de/broadcast/unsere-angebote/maritime-communication/hf-netzwerk.html a.. Argentina Radio, SES Sistemas Electrónicos S.A., Argentienien b.. Townsville Radio, Australien, Seabourne Electronics Pty Ltd c.. Kielradio (DAO), Kielradio GmbH, Kiel, Deutschland d.. Chinaham, China, Weihai Intercontinental Data Comm. LTD e.. KKL Radio (KKL), Washington, USA, S. Malone, W. Kaelin f.. Manila Radio, Philippinen g.. Rogaland Radio (LGB), Telenor Maritime Radio, Norway h.. Melville Radio (ZRK696), Südafrika i.. Saint Augustine Radio FL, USA http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernradio (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DXLD) I'm not sure if all the stations of Global Link Network you mentioned are active at the moment. I believe Argentina is not operating and South Africa was still a "future plan" some months ago when I had a chat with DAO Kiel mail staff. DAO itself (main station of the group) was at that moment in a process of reconstruction and HEB was working on some DAO channels. There is a listing http://ncc.kielmail.net/cgi-bin/gln-channel.cgi which may be rather up-to-date. Note that the given frequencies are not "carrier frequencies" but given for USB tuning. Actual freqs are a bit higher. All of the mentioned "on air" freqs are not used 24/7. Many of the stations give morse ID every 180 seconds. Otherwise they usually put out pactor bursts. I have no software for pactor, so can't tell what kind of ID is given on that mode. During last few years XSF and the Argentine station didn't use morse IDs. Guys operating these stations are friendly responding to reception reports, some of them having ham-background. I've got nice QSL cards from HEB, DAO, WHL, DZO, KKL and VZG. 73, (Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland, ibid.) Hi Jari, Argentina, LSD836, is indeed operational. I regularly receive it and decode it with the Hoka 300 demodulator http://www.hoka.it It no longer IDs in morse, like many of the Globe Wireless http://www.globewireless.com/ stations and affiliates. It is not owned by Globe Wirless, just like HEB/c/etc. are not owned by Globe, but is an affiliate. The GW-FSK modulation is a variant of PACTOR and is proprietary to Globe. While the Hoka 300 does not decode the message traffic, it does decode the station ID. The Globe Wireless site shows the current HF network: http://www.globewireless.com/network/hf I am waiting on QSLs from HEB, LSD836, and CPK in Bolivia. I do not have an address for 8PO in Bridgetown, Barbados. The report keeps being returned to me. :-( 73 (Al Muick, PA, ibid.) ** SYRIA. Radio Damascus B11 1600-1700 UTC/GMT Turkish daily 9330 Khz and satellite 1700-1800 UTC/GMT Russian daily 9330 Khz and satellite 1800-1900 UTC/GMT German daily 9330 Khz and satellite 1900-2000 UTC/GMT French daily 9330 Khz and satellite 2000-2100 UTC/GMT English daily on satellite 2100-2200 UTC/GMT English daily 9330 Khz and satellite 2200-2300 UTC/GMT Spanish daily 9330 Khz and satellite 783 Khz Mediumwave: 1600–1830 UTC/GMT Hebrew 1830–1900 UTC/GMT Russian Radio Damascus P.O. Box 4702 Damascus Syrian Arab Republic For B11 schedules, visit http://www.adxc.wordpress.com (Jaisakthivel, ADXC, Tirunelveli, India, Via. Kris Janssen & Prithwiraj Purkayastha, HCDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DXLD) Axually since ultimately this came from Jaisakthivel, he`s the one ``via``. It`s the same old schedule as always, and totally blocked in NAm by WBCQ now on 9330v-CUSB 24 hours. Well, if you can get enough signal and modulation from Syria, maybe you could pull it thru using LSB. Also close to Maine, Syria may also slip thru in the skipzone of WBCQ. Let`s have some reports of attempts on this from NE America, and evaluate the modulation which in past has been extremely deficient. Oh, they are no longer mentioning 12085 as an alternate or at all (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DXLD) ** TAIWAN [non]. 6875, RTI relay via WYFR is totally SNAFU, at least compared to RTI`s B-11 schedule: Nov 4 at 0552 it`s again in Chinese, not scheduled English; and after a half-sesquiminute-late 3+1 timesignal ending at 0600:45, switch to German again! Misprogrammed automation playout? Or can it be an intentional new schedule? Found RTI`s German website schedule, but it`s still for summer! http://german.rti.org.tw/Others/Frequencies.aspx showing only 19 and 21 UT via Skelton and Issoudun on 6 and 3 MHz. The English page has an up-to-date SW schedule for that language, but I don`t see one for their entire output. 0600 UT would be an ideal time for a morning broadcast to Germany and vicinity, but 6875 is not on WYFR`s 45 degree antenna toward Europe, instead 285 degrees accounting for the super-signal here in deep North America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RTI German keeps on 6875 at 0600 UT --- RTI German, 6875 KHz., 0600 UT, opening after Chinese, with news headlines by pl. 05.11.2011 (Leonardo Santiago, Venezuela, DX LISTENING DIGEST) pl? 6875 via WYFR, Nov 5 at 0608, RTI is once again in German instead of scheduled Spanish. Maybe the Mennonites in Mexico where it`s midnight in Chihuahua talked them into making this strange change on the 285 degree antenna? But it`s High altho Chinesish, not Low. 6875, Nov 6 at 0524, yet another night that RTI via WYFR is in the wrong language according to its own schedule: Chinese, not English. Did German instead of Spanish appear yet again at 0600? 6875, Nov 7 at 0653 check, RTI via WYFR is *still* in wrong language, German. When will they aufwachen? More anomalies from WYFR; see also U S A: 9355, Nov 8 at 0255 unusual jazz catches my ear, but it`s just within or introducing RTI`s mailbag in English, // 9985, and synchronized with much stronger 9680, which is the only 31m frequency this is supposed to be on: 9355 and 9985 are scheduled as YFR in Spanish. 6875, Nov 8 at 0553 check, RTI via WYFR yet again in Chinese instead of scheduled English; 0559 WYFR ID, timesignal, RTI sign-on in German instead of Spanish. No frequencies or time heard, but did mention a few times that it was their `Montag` show, while now it`s Tuesday in Europe, even more so in Taiwan, let alone Florida. 6875, Nov 9 at 0604, RTI via WYFR is still in German; at first I thought there was crosstalk again from another program, but soon it quit, so apparently it was voice-under being translated. This mistake instead of Spanish is obviously programmed into their playouts, as well as Chinese instead of English in the previous hour; when will they ever notice and fix it? German is supposed to be at 19-20 and 21- 22 UT via Eurosites, never WYFR, especially when it is aiming at Mexico (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6875, Nov 10 at 0619 check, yep, RTI via WYFR is still in wrong language, German. We are counting the days until they fix this or their schedule (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAJIKISTAN. 4765.056, Tajik lang program from Tajik radio-1, Dushanbe Yangi Yul site. Modern western guitar music, and female local singer. At 0052 UT Oct 31 (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAJIKISTAN. 11660, Nov 3 at 1255, VOR relay is again nothing but open carrier with some hum (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1589, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** THAILAND. 8743-USB, Bangkok Meteo, 1823, music box IS, 1824 English ID by a man and into forecast, which called for more rain. ID repeated by man, IS, then into Thai lang forecast by a woman at 1827. 4 Nov (David Sharp, NSW, Australia, partial list of equipment: FT-950, NRD- 535D, R8, R30A, Timewave 599ZX, various Palstar and MFJ accessories, Quantun Phaser, various Sangean and Tecsun portables, EWE aerials, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** THAILAND [and non]. 13745, Nov 8 at 0000, ``Live from the Public Relations Department of the Thai government, this is the news hour . .. Radio Thailand`` W&M anchors; heavy flutter but good signal strength. New B-11 frequency. Not monitored, but at 0030 is supposed to switch from 6 to 30 degree beams, i.e. east to west coast NAm. The next English at 0200-0230 reverts to 6 degrees on 15275. I noticed that 13760, VOK Spanish, 28 degrees from Kujang had less flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also U K [non] ** TIBET. 6200, Xizang PBS via Lhasa, 1530-1600. The “Holy Tibet” programs in English continue to use the same schedule format as heard earlier this year. Nov 5 with their announced “Sunday” (but always broadcast on Saturday) music and cultural program; the reading of a folk tale. Sunday and Monday, Nov 6 and 7. As usual, both days had the same program; “This is Holy Tibet, presented to you by China Tibet Broadcasting . . . Find out the history and reality on the roof of the world. And keep in touch with the developments and changes in Tibet. This is Holy Tibet”; news items about housing in Tibet, etc.; promo for “Tibet Tourism”; segment “Tibet Stories”; edited Nov 7 reception at http://www.box.net/shared/yz861qe8zzgp3u2s6j28 (Ron Howard, Calif., Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET [non]. 15375, Nov 5 at 1337, noise jamming vs something, no doubt R. Free Asia in Tibetan via TAJIKISTAN. 15420, Nov 5 at 1338 heavy noise jamming (or is it DRM? None listed), atop something. Maybe V. of Tibet jumped to around here instead of 15433 as in Aoki. Tough luck for BBCWS in English via Seychelles also on 15420 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CHINA ** TURKEY. Voice of Turkey, 9785 Emirler. Oct 23, 2011, Sunday. 1827- 1846. (Organ ??) interval signal to *1830, but subsequent talk was so poor and QRN noisy I couldn't even sus [sic] the language; clearly a YL talking, followed by an OM at 1838. I heard him mention "200", apart from that no news of the earthquake for me. But thanks, Glenn, for your tip-off via your PTSW log. Very poor, targetted the other way, to Europe. Lots of atmospheric QRN, some lightning. Jo'burg sunset 1619. Next evening, Oct 24, 2011, Monday, from 1827 to 1835. I/S and YL with recorded ID "This is the Voice of Turkey", repeated till 1829, then short break till time pips and ID again at 1830*. Followed by frequency announcements. Apart from that, still almost unreadable. Heard YL mention "earthquake" but that's about all, so quickly admitted defeat and moved on. Very poor, still targetted the other way, to Europe. Lots of atmospheric QRN. Jo'burg sunset 1620 Voice of Turkey, 9515 Emirler. Oct 24, 2011, Monday. 0325-0352* Clearly english, but almost unreadable. Some brief Turkish music, but mainly talk. I must have missed the earhquake news. ID "Turkey" at 0343 and at 0346 "This is the Voice of Turkey". At 0352* sign off followed by i/s (on organ ??) Very poor, to North America. Jo'burg sunrise 0326 (Bill Bingham, RSA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Above logs still in A-11, times and frequencies now changed: (gh) ** TURKEY. Winter B-11 schedule for Voice of Turkey: Arabic 1000-1055 on 15245 1500-1555 on 9665 15200 1930-2025 on 11955 Azeri 0800-0855 on 11835 1630-1725 on 5965 Bulgarian 1200-1225 on 7245 Chinese 1200-1255 on 11805 Dari 1600-1625 on 11680 English 0400-0455 on 7240 9655 1330-1425 on 12035 1730-1825 on 11735 1930-2025 on 6050 2130-2225 on 9610 2300-2355 on 5960 French 2030-2125 on 5970 6050 Georgian 1100-1155 on 9840 German 1230-1325 on 17755 1830-1925 on 7205 Italian 1500-1525 on 6185 Kazakh 1430-1455 on 9785 Pashto 1630-1655 on 11680 Persian 0930-1055 on 11795 1600-1655 on 9530 Russian 1400-1455 on 9410 Spanish 0200-0255 on 9410 9650 1730-1825 on 9495 Tatar 1100-1125 on 15360 Turkish 0100-0255 on 6000 0500-0655 on 9700 9820 0700-0955 on 11925 15350 15480 1000-1255 on 15350 15480 1300-1355 on 15350 1400-1655 on 11815 1700-2155 on 5980 6120 Turkmen 1300-1325 on 11965 Urdu 1300-1355 on 11985 Uyghur 0300-0355 on 9465 1330-1425 on 13685 Uzbek 1130-1155 on 13625 1700-1725 on 11680 (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Nov 8 via DXLD) ** TURKEY. Abnormal reception Nov 5: TRT German 7205 carried Spanish language program instead at 1830 UT. 7205 1830-1930 EMR 250 310 GERMAN EUR/NoAM <<<<<<<< TRT 6050 kHz English, and 11955 kHz Arabic on usual schedule today. Schedule: http://www.trtenglish.com/Frekanslar/ENG.xls (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9655, UT Sunday Nov 6 at 0413, VOT`s `DX Corner` has already started, good but fluttery signal on new time and frequency to NAm, ex-9515. She was giving the VOT B-11 schedule in English, out of order by time, then acknowledging reception report from Christopher Lewis in England, who has a ``slight problem`` with 6050 at 1930 and 5960 at 2300; so what is it? DXC is fortnightly; we try to keep up with the weeks-on and weeks-off on DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS, now updated for B-11: http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html 9820, Nov 6 at 0513, wailing and drumming Turkish music, poor compared to good // 9700 from TRT, east- and west-ward respectively. 9820 also has a het, which points to the always off-frequency Brazilian. 12035, Nov 10 at 1334, it`s hard to believe V. of Turkey English to Europe is here, but I guess that`s the source of the JBA carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UGANDA [non]. Radio Y'Abaganda QSL --- FRANCE: RADIO Y’ABAGANDA via ISSOUDUN, 15410. Full-data e-mail QSL, including transmitter site, from Alex Kalazani Kigongo, who apologized for delay, in 38 hours. Reports sent to info @ ababaka.com & ababaka.com @ gmail.com reply is from Mr Kigongo at ababaka.com @ gmail.com Pleasant surprise to get this as I’ve sent a number of reports to this broadcaster --- the first in July 2010. And this particular broadcast was very brief, with the last part of the 15 minutes consisting of the tape loop in English which is often heard and sometimes replaces the entire program. I almost deleted this QSL. It went to Trash where it appeared among the daily assortment of e-mails from people with Middle Eastern and African-sounding names --- all, I assume, offering to send me millions of dollars (Wendel Craighead, Prairie Village KS, Nov 2, Cumbre DX via WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DXLD) via FRANCE. 17725 or 15410, Radio Y’Abaganda, 1700-1715, no sign of this station today on either frequency. Nov 5 (Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA, Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE. Re: SWSites 'Grim Reaper Report' B11 ``We have some members from the Ukraine & I would be pleased to hear from you guys regarding the current status & recent history of the SW transmitter sites from this nation.`` The only one active at present is Lutch. Transmissions from there show up in HFCC under the old Soviet fake site "Simferopol" (a town on the Krim peninsula, about 200 km away). Krasne has probably been shut down on 30 June 2011, since on this day the Voice of Russia transmissions from there ceased and have in the case of German, which was particularly affected, replaced by Bolshakovo again. The question is whether the equipment is still being kept, as it has been done throughout earlier extended silence periods. Brovary: The old 100 kW equipment is off since UR 1 on 5970 kHz has been switched off again. The separate complex with 200 kW transmitters (probably Sneg-MU such as Krasny Bor has) has been definitely shut down in autumn 2002 and demolished within a few years; by 2005 it was already gone and appears to be completely forgotten since. Taranovka/Taranivka: The station as such may still be active on 837 kHz, or has the mediumwave transmitter been turned off? The shortwave transmitters are off since Radio Ukraine International had been taken off shortwave in January/February (Kai Ludwig, Germany, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) continued under RUSSIA Yes, this one is active & regular for few months, AFAIR. Carries UR1 (Vlad Titarev, Ukraine, ibid.) ** U A E. 6175.058, Voice of Vietnam Hanoi in German language, provided by Babcock mostly via UK transmission facilities in past winter seasons, now registered via Al Dhabbaya-UAE relay site daily at 2030-2130 UT. S=9+5dBm noted at 2050 UT, heavily hit by co-channel sideband signal QRM from CNR Lingshi in Chinese on next door 6180 kHz (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. Somewhat off topic but couldn't resist. BBC America cable TV channel and PBS TV stations are carrying a segment celebrating the 75th anniversary of BBC's first "high definition," regularly-scheduled telecast originated by BBC World News. They showed a plaque on the wall of Alexandra Palace saying it was the first "high definition" telecast. In 1936 "high definition" was 405 lines and much better than the Baird electromechanical system previously used experimentally. Interviews with folks who worked there highlighted the folly of putting the transmitter and antenna on the same building where the TV RF got into the studio equipment. People in the lunch room were reported to be drawing sparks between the knives and forks. The reporter explained the decision to co-locate studio and transmitter that the palace was already 200 feet above surrounding terrain, shortening the tower by that amount. Hitler interrupted British TV in 1939 (Joe Buch, 2 Nov, internetradio via DXLD) The BBC has a website for the 75 year celebrations: http://www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/tv75/ I found the 100-page pdf of the October 23rd 1936 edition of Radio Times 'Television Number' particularly fascinating with all the old adverts and regional radio listings: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/RT0682-LON-72dpi.pdf (Alan Pennington, UK, Nov 3, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** U K. HISTORIC BBC RADIO SHOWS ARE JUST A CLICK AWAY AS HUNDREDS OF HOURS OF CONTENT IS POSTED ONLINE Daily Mail By Paul Revoir 3 November 2011 Hundreds of hours of historic moments from the BBC’s radio archives are to be made available to the public online. Read much more at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2056924/Historic-BBC-radio-shows-just-click-away-hundreds-hours-content-posted-online.html#ixzz1cfgwHuAX (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) BBC TO OPEN ONLINE RADIO ARCHIVES http://ibnlive.in.com/news/bbc-to-open-online-radio-archives/199047-11.html London: The BBC will soon introduce a new radio website, preliminarily named 'Audiopedia', that would contain the broadcaster's almost entire archives of radio programmes since the 1940s. The service will be launched "within the next 12 months", Tim Davie, director of BBC Audio and Music, was quoted as saying by the Telegraph. As well as searching and listening to the archival material, 'Audiopedia' users will be able to share programmes with their friends. The BBC is currently in the process of digitising its audio and TV archives. Around 20 hours a week of radio archives is being added to 'Audiopedia'. Davie said the website will be "porous" to other broadcasters' content. 'Audiopedia' will not be a closed library. We will link to other broadcasters' content," he said. An official said the content would be searchable by subject, participant or programme, bringing together thousands of hours of unique information and entertainment to stream and download. Regards & 73’s (via Mukesh Kumar, MUZAFFARPUR. BIHAR, INDIA, DXLD) ** U K. Two of my favourite music shows on BBC Radio 2 have in the last few months both changed for the worse --- they are only half an hour, formerly full of music with the necessary announcements, but now they both mix in interviews with performers. Some higher-up must have ordered this. I don`t mind performers being interviewed, but put them on a primarily talk show, not a music show! Nigel Ogden with `The Organist Entertains`, and `Listen to the Band` with Frank Renton, filed in the R2 show list respectively under N and L. The latter for Nov 2 was especially talkative (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. BBC Bush House equipment auction until Nov 22: http://www.go-dove.com/event-16010/BBC-World-Service/lots (via Dan Say, BC, DXLD) ** U K. A week listening to … the BBC World Service "It may seem to embody stiff-upper-lip broadcasting but the station is full of treasures you won't find elsewhere on the BBC..." An interesting article here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2011/nov/02/bbc-world-service?newsfeed=true (via Mike Terry, Nov 3, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U K [non]. 13865, Nov 3 at 1257, B-B-C- chimes, very poor with flutter. HFCC shows 1300-1330 Uzbek via OMAN, 250 kW, 10 degrees. And thus bound to be jammed by the ChiCom interfering in the internal affairs of Uzbekibekibekistan. 15755, Nov 7 at 2358 fluttery Bow Bells, meaning BBCWS is about to open; 0003 in English news // 13725, both poor but readable, about the best we can hope for now. 15755 is 00-02, 25 degrees USward from THAILAND; 13725 ditto except only one hour. 15755 still audible at 0149 with flutter. 6145 // 9460 are our access to BBCWS in English after 0300, both fair at 0327, and both scheduled this hour only: 6145 USward from SOUTH AFRICA, 9460 westward from SEYCHELLES. Also at 03-06: 7255 via ASCENSION. 7400, Nov 8 at 1342, B-B-C- Chimes. I`ll bet it`s about to be Burmese, starting at odd time 1345; yes, 1344.5, opening in Burmese. Poor here with ACI from 7405 Martí/jamming. Is 340 degrees from SINGAPORE at 1345-1430 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. 5450-USB / 11253-USB, UNITED KINGDOM, RAF VOLMET, St. Eval. 2221 November 4, 2011. A real, non-replicant female with live read current weather stats, RAF VOLMET ID. 5450 fair, 11253 very good (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, 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, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. U.S. INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING AIMS FOR SWEEPING CHANGES Radio World By Paul McLane November 2, 2011 U.S. international broadcasting may soon look very different, at least to anyone familiar with its structure and distribution methods. Either planned, requested or being considered by the Broadcasting Board of Governors are some big changes indeed that are spelled out in a new report from BBG. Those changes include a further “sharp drawdown” of U.S. shortwave capacity outside of a half-dozen key target countries; proposed repeal of the 1948 ban on “domestic dissemination” of content to listeners and viewers in the United States; a merger of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia and Middle East Broadcasting Networks into one corporate structure; de-federalizing some of the agency’s work; ending language services in countries that have more developed, independent media; and moving substantial news and production assets from Washington, nearer target nations. Smaller changes include steps like putting up FM antennas at U.S. embassies to further BBG’s reach. A merger of the staff of the BBG and the International Broadcasting Bureau is already in progress. The BBG says it “will not accept that our audiences and our impact will shrink.” It stated new goals: to become “the world’s leading international news agency by 2016, focused on the agency’s mission and impact,” and to grow weekly audience by 50 million people, to 216 million. To accomplish that, BBG laid out the plan to restructure itself and U.S. international broadcasting. It released a “framework” of a strategy to enhance the impact of its services (Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Alhurra TV and Radio Sawa, Radio Free Asia, and Radio and TV Martí). Chairman Walter Isaacson said this report “frames the future direction of U.S. international broadcasting.” It outlines steps to overcome its structural limitations, ongoing censorship and the “profound, ongoing changes in audience media consumption habits.” The board wants to integrate elements of U.S. international broadcasting into a single organization while preserving those familiar brands. The BBG, it said, is a “complex amalgam of broadcast entities created by Congress at different points in time over the last 70 years in response to specific foreign policy challenges,” with a structure that is inefficient and complicates the job of managing resources and involving users. “We must break down a stove-piped bureaucracy of separate, semi-autonomous entities, and shape a robust, integrated, international media network with multiple brands targeted to markets where they still strongly resonate.” On the topic of how content is distributed, BBG promises “wholesale changes.” “We are currently configured largely as we were in the 1980s, with substantial resources devoted to shortwave broadcasting. Global media use now strongly favors TV, the Internet and FM radio as well as social media. Shortwave is vital in a half-dozen countries. But elsewhere we will sharply draw down our shortwave capacity to reallocate the resources to the new platforms our audiences are using.” The role of shortwave has been a contentious one, with some politicians and veterans of the organization arguing that shortwave should not be scaled back further than it has been. The board also will seek to repeal the ban on domestic dissemination in the 1948 Smith-Mundt Act. “Adopted in the age of cross-border communication via radio, this act did not envision either the Internet or satellite broadcasting, which do not honor national boundaries,” the report states. “With all of the BBG’s 59 languages available via the Web, the agency cannot comply with this outdated statute.” Also, the law obstructs BBG from reaching significant expatriate communities in the United States. The Obama administration supports legislation to repeal the Smith-Mundt ban as it applies to the BBG. Also among its plans: to create a global news network out of its 59 different language services; develop automated translation to help users; expand delivery technologies such as satellite video for China, Central Asia and Southeast Asia; explore new ways to counter Internet blocking and other forms of censorship; launch a prototype TV channel in Latin America that features “crowd-sourced” content for young people; and place FM antennas at U.S. embassies in Africa as a low- cost additional radio outlet. Some changes will require congressional approval; a BBG spokeswoman said the organization would be working with Congress and the administration to implement the plan. Some steps are underway including integrating the IBB and BBG staffs and building a shared website content management system. And the name Broadcasting Board of Governors itself will be eliminated. “The new identity will be corporate in nature. Our current brands will remain the public faces for our audiences, who have come to know and trust them.” However, it emphasized, none of the proposed restructuring or new identity changes its mission, which is now stated as “To inform, engage and connect people around the world in support of freedom and democracy.” (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. 9825, Nov 4 at 1310, good signal in English, YL interviewing the Prime Minister of the Tibetan Government in Exile (who has assumed political duties from His Holiness the Dalai Lama, now self-restricted to spiritual stuff only), but with equal or stronger level CCCCI, i.e. CNR1 jamming. So they even jam VOA in English when the subject is Tibet! Wait, this isn`t VOA English, but scheduled as VOA Chinese, 332 degrees via Tinang, PHILIPPINES at 12-15 --- I soon found a clear // on 7525, from 1319, synchronized with 9825. Just a trace of QRM on 7525, which is no doubt jammed too, but it`s 21 degrees from Tinang, bigsig USward. Discusses separation of powers; PM mentions several times how well he gets along with Chinese, such as during his many years at Harvard. It may be the Chinese *service* but this program goes on and on in English! With the ChiCom QRM out of the way, I could also hear an undercurrent in Chinese, so maybe the interviewer is translating someone else`s questions. At 1329 end of this interview, but she says ``We`ll be right back``; pause and then break announcements in Chinese including the English phrase ``VOA News Chinese Edition``, plug iphone apps, 1330 past 1332 still in Chinese only. 9885, Nov 6 at 1315, as expected, VOA Spanish has shifted one UT hour later, after DST, obviously for the convenience of Washingtonians, not listeners abroad: usual Sunday music fill show instead of any information, also on // 15590 mentioning the Billboard top tunes survey. Presumably also on // 13750 not checked. So the 12-13 morning broadcast has become 13-14 UT daily. According to HFCC, VOA Spanish in the evenings is now weeknights only, shifted from 2330-0100 to 0030-0200 UT Tue-Sat on 5890, 9885, 12000, parts or all of which should be jammed by the Cubans, confident that the US will never jam RHC in retaliation. 15620, Nov 5 at 1827, open S9+20 carrier with some hum vs. the squishy spur on 15619 from WEWN 15610. At 1847 in French about Burundi. 1855 ID as La Voix de l`Amerique, mentioning a co-station in Bamako. Off after 1900. VOA uses this frequency quite a lot, ignoring the WEWN problem, but this semihour is the only one via Greenville per HFCC, which I am inclined to believe rather than Aoki which says Botswana. 7575, Sunday Nov 6 at 1332, good signal from VOA`s `Jazz America` music, but drops off the air for a couple minutes. Also on weaker 11700 via Thailand. 7575 is Tinang, PHILIPPINES. Both are on the air during this hour on weekends only. 15580, Nov 7 at 1447, S9+20 open carrier, while per HFCC, VOA is supposed to be active via SOUTH AFRICA at 14-15, 250 kW, 340 degrees. 15-16 hour is Sri Lanka, 16-17 São Tomé, 17-1730 Greenville, 1730-1930 Botswana, 1930-21 Bonaire, 21-22 Botswana; plus mornings: 03-04 Botswana, 04-05 Sri Lanka, 05-07 Botswana. So at 1447 I was either getting Meyerton failing to modulate, or maybe Greenville warmup blocking it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. B11 VOA English schedule VOA Broadcast Frequency Schedules Effective 0800 UTC, 30 October 2011 through 0800 UTC, 25 March 2012 Notes: All times and dates are Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), same as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Frequencies are in kiloHertz (kHz). 1 MegaHertz (MHz) is equal to 1000 kHz. Conversion to meter bands: Meters=300000/frequency in kHz. e.g.: 17705 kHz --> 16.9 meters Abbreviations: All programs/frequencies are on daily unless noted otherwise. & - Monday only, * - Monday through Friday, = - Monday through Saturday< - Tuesday through Friday, / - Tuesday and Friday only, # - Tuesday through Saturday, % - Tuesday through Sunday, ~ - Thursday only, > - Friday and Saturday @ - Saturday only, $ - Saturday and Sunday, " - Sunday only+ - Sunday and Monday, ^ - Sunday through Thursday, ! - Sunday through Friday English to Europe, Middle East and North Africa 0100-0130 1593 1500-1600 11840 13570 2000-2100* 7470 9490 English to Africa 0300-0400 909 1530 4930 6080 9885 15580 0400-0430 909 1530 4930 4960 6080 9885 15580 0430-0500 909 4930 4960 6080 9885 15580 0500-0600 909 4930 6080 9885 15580 0600-0700 909 1530 6080 9885 15580 1400-1500 4930 6080 15580 17650 17715 1500-1600 4930 6080 15580 17715 17895 1600-1700 909 1530 4930 6080 15580 17895 1700-1800 6080 13635 15580 17895 1800-1830 6080 13635 15580 1800-1830$ 909 4930 1830-1900 4930 6080 13635 15580 1830-1900$ 909 1900-1930 909 4930 4940 6080 15580 1930-2000 909 4930 4940 6080 15580 2000-2030 909 1530 4930 4940 6080 15580 2030-2100 909 1530 4930 6080 15580 2030-2100$ 4940 2100-2200 1530 6080 15580 English to Far East Asia, South Asia and Oceania 0100-0200 7325 11705 15620 1100-1200$ 1575 1200-1300 1170 7575 9460 11700 11750 1300-1400$ 7575 9640 9760 11700 1400-1500* 7575 9760 12150 1500-1600 7575 9930 12150 2200-2300^ 5840 7365 7425 7570 11860 2230-2400> 1575 2300-2400 5840 7365 7480 7570 11860 English to Afghanistan 0000-0030 1296 7560 2030-2400 1296 7560 English-Special 0000-0030 1593 0030-0100 1575 1593 6170 9325 9490 9715 11695 12005 15185 15205 15290 0130-0200# 1593 5960 7465 1500-1600 6140 7520 9760 9945 1600-1700 9395 13600 15470 1600-1700* 1170 1900-2000 7480 9590 2230-2300 5810 7545 9570 2300-2400 1593 5895 7460 9490 11840 (via Harry Brooks, North East England, UK, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A [non]. 7290, Nov 4 at 0550, solo music way under 7295 Algeria via France, something new. 0552 announcement is sorta Slavic. HFCC shows 05-07, 100 kW, 55 degrees from IBB Lampertheim, GERMANY. Aoki says it`s R. Liberty in Tatar-Bashkir (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5000, Nov 9 at 0618, WWV propagation minute cites K index of zero at 0300 --- but by now should have the 3-hourly 0600 UT reading. Are they still not adjusted for unDST? One would have thought DST unaffects this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 25910, NFM, WBAP Fort Worth, 1311-1333, Oct 22, English, financial talk, advs, ID "...on 820 AM and 96.7 FM WBAP", 24322. 25990, NFM, KSCS Fort Worth, 1335-1340, Oct 22, English, Countrymusic, ID "new country 96.3 KSCS", 24322 (Patrick Robic, Leibnitz, Austria, DSWCI DX Window Nov 2 via DXLD) Less than an hour after sunrise in The Metroplex, MUF already soars to 25+ MHz (gh, DXLD) 25910 FM, WBAP, Dallas, Texas, 1920-2010, studio feeder. Sean Hannity talk show. Local ads. IDs. Local news at 1930 and 2000. Weather. Ad for local rodeo. Traffic report. Announcements as “News talk, 820 AM.” Fair to good. Nov 4. 25950 FM, KOA, Denver, Colorado, 1950-2010, studio feeder. Rush Limbaugh talk show. Fox News at 2000. Local news at 2002. Local ads. Traffic report. IDs as “News Radio 850, KOA.” Back to Rush Limbaugh at 2006. Fair to good. Nov 4. 25990 FM, KSCS, Fort Worth, Texas, 1925-2020, studio feeder. Mostly continuous country music. ID at 1931. IDs as “New country, KSCS.” Ads for Firehouse Subs, TXU Energy, and T-Mobile. Also heard ID with callsign: WQGY434. Fair to good. Nov 4 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) 25990, 1315 UT, FM, KSCS New Country Arlington -TX USA px mx country + id ....OTTIMO con qsb! Wee, adesso anche 25910, WBAP Fort Worth-TX USA px talk -SUFF. Ciaoooooo 73! (Mauro - Giroletti, Nov 5, -Swl 1510-, - IK2GFT-, -JRC525Nrd - Lowe HF150-, Filter PAR Electronics - BCST-LPF + BCST-HPF- DSP 9, -Eavesdropper SWL Sloper 11mt to 120mt Band- Loop ALA 100 M, -Lat. 45 25'0"N Long. 9 7'0"E -Locator grid. Jn 45 Nk-, playdx yg via DXLD) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1589 was delayed somewhat in produxion but uploaded by 2002 UT November 3, in time for first SW broadcasts: 2100 on WRMI 9955 2100 on WTWW 9479 -- confirmed, excellent signal 2130 on WBCQ 7490 –- confirmed at 2142, now with sufficient signal, no QRM from KAZAKHSTAN audible --- is Almaty really on at 20-22? But before I finished at 2157, lo het and QRM from BBC Bow Bells, preceding their 22-24 English broadcast from Thailand, 25 degrees and also USward. From next week, with WOR one UT hour later at 2230, the whole show will suffer this collision. This Thursday at 2244, when something else was on WBCQ, the BBQRM had abated somewhat due to strengthening of The Planet, but all this is too close to the grayline! Allan Weiner has said that ``there is no such thing as a clear frequency`` on SW, but there could be if a station didn`t have to stay on the same one for hours and hours at a time, or frequency management were more astute. For example, consulting HFCC B-11, 7505 has nothing on it at 19-05 UT, the hours WBCQ is now registered for 7490 --- except WRNO after 2200, which has been off the air for almost a year! And ought to relinquish the frequency until and unless it ever needs one. 7515 also has nothing on it at 19-05. Of course this would have to be confirmed by monitoring if WBCQ were serious about moving. And cleared with the FCC in case NTIA claims some US government usage of any of these. New WOR broadcasts UT Friday November 4: 0331 on WWRB 3195 and 5051 0500 on WRMI 9955 1430 on WRMI 9955 Saturday 0800, 1500, 1730 on WRMI 9955 UT Sunday 0400 on WTWW 5755 After unDST hourshifts: Sunday 0900, 1630, 1830 on WRMI 9955 UT Monday 0400v on Area 51 WBCQ 5110v-CUSB WORLD OF RADIO 1589 monitoring: confirmed on ACB Radio Mainstream webcast at 0325 UT Friday Nov 4 --- this airs a dozen times 2-hourly from 0100 Fridays, but now makes DST shifts, so from next week will be on even UT hours, from 0000, or 0200? http://www.acbradio.org/mainstream On WWRB, 3195 and still // weaker 5051: SC preacher ran over to 0333:40, protracted respectful pause until 0335:25 when WOR finally started, upcut during introduxion. Also on the 3195 webcast, but rechecking that at 0359 it had already reverted to Bible readings. Rechecking SW, both frequencies stayed with WOR until its conclusion at 0403:40. By 0404, 5051 cut off the air, and shortly following, 3195 off too, neither with any ID or sign-off. Checking the webcast which had carried WOR once again at 0405, it had switched from Bible to the SC preacher again who was on at 0300! And the alternate WWRB webcast was running Bible. From next week all this should happen one UT hour later, WORLD OF RADIO nominally from 0430. On WRMI, 9955: JBA Nov 4 at 1442 with ACI, and overload from 9980 WWCR. Further WRMI airings: Sat 0800, 1500, 1730; Sun 0900, 1630, 1830; Mon 1230, 1630, 2230; Tue & Wed 1630. On WTWW: UT Sunday 0400 on 5755. On WBCQ Area 51: UT Monday 0400v on 5110v-CUSB On WRN via SiriusXM channel 120: Sat 1730, Sunday 0930 and 1830 On Hamburger Lokalradio 5980: Tuesday 1030 WORLD OF RADIO monitoring: UT Sunday Nov 6 after 0400, confirmed on 5755 WTWW; the signal is losing its solidity and weakening during the semihour, but we hope holding up over longer skip paths. From next week should be at 0500 on same. Now the Area 51 broadcast of WOR on 5110v-CUSB WBCQ is to be at 0400v UT Mondays. And more WRMI times all shifted one UT hour later: Sunday 0900, 1630, 1830, Monday 1230, 1630, 2230, Tuesday & Wednesday 1630. The Sunday 1830 broadcast is also on WRN via SiriusXM Channel 120. On Hamburger Lokalradio, Germany, 5980, Tuesday at 1030. The complete WORLD OF RADIO schedule, including all webcasting affiliates is now updated for B-11: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html WORLD OF RADIO 1589 monitoring: while trying to pull Iran out of the QRM on 7200 and 7365 I am also switching back and forth to 5110v-CUSB where WBCQ Area 51 has a good signal and as usual `Radio Jennifer` whose host is not a YL, is running a bit late. WOR 1589 starts at 0402:45, new nominal winter time of 0400 UT Mondays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1590: First airings should be Nov 10: Thu 2200 on WTWW 9479 Thu 2200 on WRMI 9955 Thu 2230 on WBCQ 7490 [how is interference in your area?] Fri 0430 on WWRB 3195, 5051 Fri 0600 on WRMI 9955 Fri 1530 on WRMI 9955 Sat 0900 on WRMI 9955 Sat 1600 on WRMI 9955 Sat 1830 on WRMI 9955 Sun 0500 on WTWW 5755 Sun 0900 on WRMI 9955 Sun 1630 on WRMI 9955 Sun 1830 on WRMI 9955 Mon 0400 on WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 Also on SiriusXM Channel 120: Sat & Sun 1830, Sun 0930 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. 9955, Nov 7 at 1500 checking for WRMI, instead hear good signal from Radio Free Asia, English ID introducing Tibetan. Also noise QRM from the DentroCuban Jamming Command, inadvertently helping out their ChiCom allies. IBB TINIAN is now scheduled 15-16, 250 kW, 297 degrees. So we can further forget about hearing anything on WRMI during that hour, such as WORLD OF RADIO on Fridays at 1530. Would it be too much to ask for other US operations to grant WRMI a desperately needed clear frequency? Apparently, yes! Besides RFA, HFCC also shows at various times on 9955: KTWR, KHBN, and the imaginary WMLK (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5109.7+/USB, WBCQ Monticello ME; 0123, 30-Oct; Lumpy Gravy Radio Show; M&W in English responding to letter; Vietnam era songs for Dirty Phil. SIO=4+34- with transmitter? buzz (Harold Frodge visiting Port Hope MI, Drake R8B + 65' TTFD + 500' NEish unterminated bev, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9330/USB, WBCQ Monticello ME (presumed); 1310, 29-Oct; English huxter. S30 sig. putting out spurs on 9296 & 9364 (Harold Frodge visiting Port Hope MI, Drake R8B + 65' TTFD + 500' NEish unterminated bev, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I`m envious, not having heard spurs from this one, tho 9330 is plenty strong here most of the time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7490, Nov 8 at 2245, heavy collision between station in Spanish and something slightly weaker in English. Spanish is the sole program on WBCQ in that language, `Frecuencia al Día`, Dino Bloise`s DX show also on WWCR, WRMI which succeeded our `Mundo Radial`; FAD now one UT hour later than in summer, Tuesdays 2230. BTW, FAD has been missing from WBCQ`s online schedule for months, 7415 and now 7490: http://schedule.wbcq.com/main.php?fn=sked&freq=7490 But on 7490, WBCQ confronts collision with BBC via Thailand. Thursdays at 2230 is now the only time for WORLD OF RADIO on WBCQ (aside from Area 51), so this interference is of great concern to us. I sent this advice to Allan Weiner: ``Hi Allan, Since the time change I have been monitoring your 7490, especially at the time of concern to me, 5:30 pm EST (2230 UT). As soon as I heard about 7490, I checked HFCC for B-11 and found a likely problem, which is BBC via Thailand: 7490 2200 2400 43E,44N,44SW,49NE NAK 250 25 0 156 1234567 301011 250312 D 7922 English THA BBC BAB 15025 From my experience, this 25 degree antenna from Thailand, altho not intended for North America, often carries on well much further in the same direction toward us. This time of day, we are near the grayline, which helps the signal right along to North America. And so it does. Today at 5:45 pm during Frecuencia Al Dia there was very heavy interference altho WBCQ was slightly on top, exacerbated by your being off-frequency far enough to produce an audible heterodyne. This is at least as bad as the QRM from China ever was on 7415. Possibly 7490 is better for WBCQ a little closer than Oklahoma (but then there is the skip zone where Thailand would likely also invade.) We should still have loud and clear reception of WBCQ here if only on a clear frequency. That`s surely not too much to ask. Someone has been giving you bad frequency advice. I gather from what you said that 7490 was a quick fix by the FCC to the need to get off 7415 ASAP (but has anyone ever really heard CAP on 7416?). Meanwhile, there are several nearby frequencies which are VACANT! At this time, they were 7485, 7495, 7500, 7505, 7510 and 7515, which means you could safely be on, 7500, 7505 or 7510 without co- or adjacent- interference. 7505 stands out as the one registered for WRNO, which has been off the air for almost a year! You should insist on using that, and if and when WRNO ever comes back, they can have 7490 or whatever other frequency can be arranged. (Of course if your new frequency is not also nixed by FCC/NTIA --- but since 7505 was previously used by WRNO and continues to be reserved for them, there would seem to be no USG/military objection, so far.) Part of the problem is your insistence on using one single frequency on a band at whatever time of day you need it, for many hours in a row. In the current SW situation, this is seldom realistic, and makes the job of broadcasting on a clear frequency that much more difficult. Since there is a clear divide between your Overcomer hours and everything else on 7490, for example, you could leave Brother Stair on 7490 from later in the evening, whenever he starts. (I think there are no QRM problems then altho have not checked it thoroughly), and move your other earlier programming to 7505. However, according to HFCC listings there is nothing (but wooden WRNO) on 7505 between 1900 and 1400 UT (2 pm and 9 am EST), so if you were to move there you could reliably use it for your entire 7 MHz output. If for some reason 7505 can`t be used, there are several other ways around the current problem. Please consider this very seriously. It`s not just for my benefit but for yours and everything else you broadcast. 73, Glenn`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7490, Nov 10 at 0015, WBCQ with `Allan Weiner Worldwide`, must be filling time in addition to its live 0100 UT Saturday airing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9955, UT Wed Nov 9 at 0605, WRMI is in `Viva Miami`, Jeff & Thaïs discussing Nicaragua; sufficient signal and no jamming, so maybe the Cubans happen to be resting during this hour, when WORLD OF RADIO also airs now on UT Fridays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WWCR / WTWW, 5755, Nashville. Nov 04, 2011, Friday. 0355- 0402. USA-accented OM offering a series of scriptures, just send x dollars to "Scriptures for America" at a LaPorte, Colorado address. Mentioned Reverend J. (or P ?). Peters, again at the LaPorte address. At 0359 id "WWCR" and at 0401 another ID "From the upper banks of the Cumberland river, this is WTWW, Lebanon, Tennessee", followed by theme music from "The Big Country" (or was it the "Magnificent Seven" or some other cowboy movie?). NOTE added later: I'm not sure about the "LaPorte" address, can't find LaPorte Colorado in my atlas, although the Cumberland river is shown. Also, noted that Glenn refers to a Pastor Pete Peters at WTWW in DXLD 11-14, presumably the same guy. Fair - poor. To Canada, Europe, Middle-East, west and central Africa. Jo'burg sunrise 0317 (Bill Bingham, RSA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5755 is certainly WTWW, not WWCR. Except for a semihour of WORLD OF RADIO, which you could have heard 48 hours later on UT Sunday (but now 0500 UT), 5755 is nothing but Scriptures for America Worldwide. Much of the programming is old tapes of the late Pastor Pete Peters. WWCR must have been mentioned years ago when he was on that station. Laporte CO is a few miles NW of Fort Collins on US 287 on the way to Laramie WY which you will also hear mentioned (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) My atlas definitely doesn't show a Laporte on the road from Fort Collins to Laramie. I guess it must be what we would call a "dorp" or small sleepy town. I always appreciate and value your input. Regards, (Bill Bingham, RSA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9990, WTWW-2 testing on the air again, Nov 4 at 2150, tnx to tip from owner/engineer George McClintock. Huge signal here with SFAW audio same as 9479, and 9990 is also enough to overpower WWV 10000. We`ll see if the FCC get any complaints from WWV users. I hadn`t heard 9990 at all this week, and George says it had not been on air for a few days. The night frequency has been changed to 5085, and it has also tested but I haven`t heard it. 9990 is available 22 hours a day, except for the two hours a day WYFR is on 9985 = 0100-0300. 5085 is available 24 hours a day, so except for the 01-03 segment, WTWW-2 can switch whenever it needs to. An inauguration broadcast is planned for this Saturday afternoon/evening, November 5, with DJ Ted Randall live on the air playing oldies and taking reception reports by phone calls, as he did when WTWW-1 was starting up. (But do not expect WTWW-2 either to stay with an oldies music format.) Time not decided, but says he will notify me; anyhow, keep an ear on 9990 after local noon. Another session like that is expected the following Saturday. WTWW-3 antenna needs some work, so not running full power on 12105; waiting on a crew to come in a week or two. George says he has been spending ``26 hours a day`` at the site fixing up the #2 transmitter, which it turns out had accumulated a lot of problems in the Seychelles. #3 transmitter acquired from Guam is in better shape. Now he`s thinking of adding a #4 and #5, but only after a rest. [and non]. 9990, Nov 5 at 1415, no WTWW-2 on the air yet, but when it is, it will be encountering something in Vietnamese: here it is, in Aoki, R. Free Asia via SAIPAN at 14-15. Vs overload from 9980 WWCR. Other 9990 stations are: 1030-1330 R. Azadi (Free Afghanistan) in Pashto and Dari via Thailand 1500-1757 V. of Korea, (North) in Arabic, English, Arabic 1800-2100 R. Cairo in Hausa Reminder that WTWW-2 is supposed to be testing with a live Ted Randall call-in show Saturday afternoon/evening on 9990 or 5085. Still not started at 2215 UT Nov 5, long after Ted`s QSO show finished at 2000 on WTWW-1 9479, altho it was probably recorded. Maybe in the evening on 5085? Or postponed. WTWW operations have so far made a 1-UT-hour-later timechange as of Nov 6: WTWW-3 Arabible on 12105 not on the air yet at 1316 or 1337, but on at 1404. WTWW-1 also still on 5755 with SFAW at 1326, and on 9479 after 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9990, Nov 8 at 1408, Vietnamese from RFA via SAIPAN, as WTWW-2 is still not in operation, to collide with this at 14-15 when it starts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5085, Nov 10 at 0335, WTWW-2 is on with open carrier, as George McClintock phoned to check reception: at least S9+20, he says with 30 kW, and up to 60 kW when modulation of PPP/SFAW // 5755 resumes as test. Last Saturday`s inaugural live broadcast had to be scrubbed because the ARRL server was down and publicity could not be sent to its mailing list; and other problems. If all goes well, that will happen this Saturday, Ted Randall playing oldies and taking phone calls, Nov 12 at 22-24 UT on 9990, 00-04 UT Sunday Nov 13 on 5085. Depending on QRM, that frequency might be adjusted upward towards 5090 or 5095, which has been cleared for use. WTWW 5085 was much stronger than neighbor WWRB 5051 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9265, WINB with Terry Blalock the ‘screaming Cajun preacher’ (does anyone actually take this guy seriously? He’s definitely a tad ‘off’!) and ID at 2303, then into “His Name is Jesus” which is staid in comparison! 3+544+4 2300-2320 29/Oct (Kenneth Vito Zichi, MI, MARE Tipsheet Nov 4 via DXLD) ** U S A. 11870, Nov 8 at 0148, WEWN in Spanish is on the squealy transmitter. 15610, Nov 8 at 1337 and 1413 chex, no WEWN, so the English transmitter scheduled from 1200 is off the air again, and along with it the plus/minus 9, 18 and even 27 kHz spurs. What a relief (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15385.2, Nov 5 at 1831, KJES, robokids with responses in English on at least S9+25 signal, probably sporadic-E enhanced as I would discover later; see MEXICO. So strong at 1852 during break for hymn in Spanish that an unusual spur was barely audible circa 15240. Could match the audio peaks, but not find one 145 kHz higher on 15530. Off-frequency estimated by comparing to 9385 WWRB presumed not so off itself (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. 15240, Nov 5 at 1900, African flutes, choral in unknown language, tho thought I heard some French elements, easily overcoming the KJES spur heard a few minutes earlier [see U S A]. HFCC shows AWR in Fulfulde, 500 kW, 320 degrees from SOUTH AFRICA at 1900- 1930 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15810 & 15825, Nov 5 at 1856, WWCR-1 15825 is still flanked by spurs: 15810 at S9+12, 15825 S9+25+, 15840 S9+8. I had not noticed the disparity in their strength before. Plenty to register on the meter but not much audio until I switched to SSB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. 9980, Nov 6 at 1404, WWCR Brother Scare service missing after A-11 sign-on time; now from 1500? WWCR-4 still on curtailed schedule, one UT hour later. We noticed that BS via IRRS via ROMANIA 15190 was still airing before and after 1400 Nov 6. 5890, tnx to standard time, we have an extra hour respite from Brother Scare, WWCR-4 not yet on at 0558, just lite residual pulse jamming from Cuba against never-on-at-this-hour VOA Spanish. *0559 carrier on, brief sign-on, and join in progress Brother Scare (he`s always joined in progress, since he never builds in pauses for IDs or anything) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. 9840, Nov 5 at 1325, wacky farrightwingnut conspiracy gospel huxter about the Pope, Trilateral Commission and Council on Foreign Relations; 1327 lo het hits as off-frequency V. of Vietnam is about to start English after switch from 177 degrees toward Indonesia to 57 degrees USward. This hour on WHRI is registered Mon- Sat only; at 1417, its daily broadcast is mixed with Vietnamese music, het during VOV`s Japanese service. 21515-21810 approx., Nov 5 at 1821, the 21630 transmitter of WHRI is slightly overmodulated on the fundamental, but modulation spur spikes spread to most of the 13 meter band. Only active frequency to be victimized is 21690 France (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7465, UT Sunday Nov 6 at 0412, WHRI with Chris Lobdell on DXing With Cumbre, i.e. the A-11 time, the B-11 frequency ex-9825. Perhaps it will be at 0500 UT from next week? DWC seems to last only 25 minutes or so, plus music fill (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. 15205, Sunday Nov 6 at 1434, American gospel huxter in slow/special English with anti-evolution, anti-science sermon. How can anyone take such nonsense seriously? Thought it might be BVB, but not on their B-11 schedule. HFCC shows it`s something via MBR, Issoudun, FRANCE, Sundays only at 1430-1445 to CIRAF 41, S Asia. Aoki B-11 doesn`t show it at all, but Aoki A-11 had same as Pan American Broadcasting. (And now in HFCC, before 1430, PAB on 15205 is instead via Wertachtal, Germany). (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. United Arab Emirates. Family Radio relay, 9790 Dhabbaya. Oct 24, 2011, Monday. 1746-1759* Amharic, OM talking. At 1752, WYFR 'jingle'. At 1755 mentioned "Dar es Salaam". At 1757 WYFR theme tune and California postal address. Sign off at 1759* and carrier immediately cut. Fair - good, to East Africa. Jo'burg sunset 1620 (Bill Bingham, RSA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12160, Nov 3 at 2150 open carrier S9+20 with fading, gone at 2153. Must have been WYFR warming up for 2200-2245 Spanish broadcast as WWCR is no longer the sole occupant of 12160, at 15-20, soon to be 16-21. 9985, 11825 and 11885, Nov 8 at 0106-0109+ I find open carriers of similar strength on all three; at 0114 they all start modulating in Chinese, synchronized. Must be WYFR. Yes, all registered during this hour but supposed to be in Spanish or Portuguese! 0147 recheck, still Chinese (WYFR or RTI relay?) on 9985 and 11825 but 11885 is off, just as scheduled for 0145*. Are they messed up. See also TAIWAN [non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. [ASCENSION ISL/FRANCE/FRENCH GUIANA/GERMANY/KAZAKHSTAN/MADAGASCAR/PALAU/SOUTH AFRICA/UAE/U.K.] Missed the huge 8 page PDF format booklet with all YFR transmissions worldwide on mediumwave and shortwave from YFR Oakland, CA-USA this season B-11. Here is the HFCC registration schedule of YFR organization instead. But be imaginary too, after Mr. Camping's retirement ? (wb) 3230 1900-2000 MEY 100 5 English AFS BAB 3955 1600-1800 WER 100 0 Deu D MBR 3955 1900-2000 MEY 100 76 Portuguese AFS BAB 3995 2200-2400 WER 100 0 Deu D MBR 5825 1400-1500 A-A 100 132 KAZ RAM 5825 1500-1600 A-A 100 148 KAZ RAM 5835 1300-1500 A-A 500 121 KAZ RAM 5925 1700-1800 MEY 100 76 French AFS BAB 5930 0200-0300 GUF 500 215 Eng F MBR 5935 1900-2000 MEY 100 335 Portuguese AFS BAB 5950 0145-0400 YFR 100 355 EN,MNA USA FCC 5960 2100-2200 NAU 250 210 Ara D MBR 5960 2200-2300 NAU 250 210 Ara D MBR 5965 1800-1900 WER 250 60 Rus D MBR 5985 2145-0400 YFR 100 181 SPB,SPA,SP USA FCC 6010 2100-2200 NAU 250 210 Ara D MBR 6020 1900-2000 MDC 50 255 Eng MDG RNW 6020 2000-2100 MDC 250 255 Eng MDG RNW 6045 1700-1800 DHA 250 225 Amharic UAE BAB 6045 1800-1900 MEY 100 15 English AFS BAB 6050 1800-1900 WER 100 90 Ron D MBR 6105 1700-1800 NAU 500 95 Pes D MBR 6120 1800-1900 WER 250 230 Spa D MBR 6140 1700-1900 WER 250 60 Rus D MBR 6155 0000-0100 GUF 500 215 Eng F MBR 6155 0200-0300 GUF 500 215 Eng F MBR 6155 2300-2400 GUF 500 215 Spa F MBR 6175 1600-1700 MEY 250 76 Malagasy AFS BAB 6175 1800-1900 WER 100 105 Ron D MBR 6875 0300-0700 YFR 100 285 EN,MNA,EN USA FCC [i.e. TAIWAN] 6890 0100-0400 YFR 100 222 SPB,SPA,SP USA FCC 6890 0400-0500 YFR 100 222 SP USA FCC 7305 2100-2200 NAU 500 180 Fra D MBR 7360 2200-0100 GUF 500 170 PorEng F MBR 7385 1700-1800 MDC 50 310 Eng MDG RNW 7395 0000-0100 GUF 500 215 Eng F MBR 7395 1800-1900 MDC 250 320 Eng MDG RNW 7395 1900-2000 MDC 250 320 Eng MDG RNW 7490 1800-2000 A-A 300 301 KAZ RAM 7510 2000-2100 A-A 500 301 KAZ RAM 7550 1400-1500 A-A 500 177 KAZ RAM 7550 1500-1600 A-A 500 177 KAZ RAM 7560 1200-1300 A-A 200 132 KAZ RAM 7560 1300-1400 A-A 200 132 KAZ RAM 7565 1400-1600 A-A 100 187 KAZ RAM 7570 0045-0300 YFR 100 160 SPB,SPA USA FCC 7590 1600-1700 A-A 300 177 KAZ RAM 7590 1800-1900 A-A 100 316 KAZ RAM 7590 2000-2100 A-A 300 301 KAZ RAM 7590 2100-2200 A-A 300 301 KAZ RAM 7600 1800-1900 A-A 300 301 KAZ RAM 9310 1100-1400 A-A 300 121 KAZ RAM 9320 1200-1300 A-A 100 0 KAZ RAM 9355 2300-0300 YFR 100 160 SPB,SPA,SP USA FCC 9380 1100-1200 A-A 300 94 KAZ RAM 9380 1200-1300 A-A 300 94 KAZ RAM 9380 1500-1600 A-A 200 177 KAZ RAM 9390 1200-1300 A-A 200 132 KAZ RAM 9390 1300-1400 A-A 200 132 KAZ RAM 9430 1600-1700 WER 250 120 Ara D MBR 9430 1700-1800 WOF 250 102 Turkish G BAB 9430 2245-0045 YFR 100 160 ENB,POB USA FCC 9445 1600-1700 NAU 500 140 Orm D MBR 9465 2200-2300 GUF 500 215 Spa F MBR 9465 2300-2400 GUF 500 215 Spa F MBR 9500 1900-2000 WER 250 150 Ara D MBR 9515 2000-2100 NAU 250 210 Ara D MBR 9530 1700-1800 SKN 300 110 Arabic G BAB 9535 1800-1900 NAU 500 183 Hau D MBR 9565 1800-2000 WER 500 165 EngKirundi D MBR 9590 1600-1700 MDC 250 320 Swa MDG RNW 9595 2000-2100 NAU 500 180 Fra D MBR 9630 1700-1800 WER 500 105 Kur D MBR 9660 1800-1900 WOF 300 140 Arabic G BAB 9680 0145-0300 YFR 100 315 EN USA FCC 9685 1900-2000 DHA 250 260 Hausa UAE BAB 9690 2145-0045 YFR 100 142 POB,POA,PO USA FCC 9695 1900-2000 NAU 500 207 Fra D MBR 9705 1900-2000 MEY 250 340 English AFS BAB 9740 1600-1700 NAU 500 94 Hin D MBR 9800 1500-1600 NAU 500 100 Guj D MBR 9800 1700-1800 NAU 500 95 Pes D MBR 9805 1900-2000 MEY 250 19 Swahili AFS BAB 9810 1700-1800 NAU 250 125 Ara D MBR 9840 1800-1900 WER 250 150 Ara D MBR 9845 1900-2000 WER 500 180 Fra D MBR 9855 1400-1500 DHA 250 105 Marathi UAE BAB 9885 1700-1800 WER 250 60 Rus D MBR 9885 1800-1900 WOF 250 102 Turkish G BAB 9885 1900-2000 DHA 250 210 English UAE BAB 9895 1800-1900 DHA 250 230 English UAE BAB 9925 1900-2200 WER 500 180 Eng D MBR 9930 0045-0145 YFR 100 142 POA USA FCC 9930 0145-0500 YFR 100 222 SPA,ENA,SP USA FCC 9955 1000-1200 HBN 100 345 kor,eng USA FCC 9955 1000-1200 HBN 100 345 English USA BAB 301011-021111 9985 0100-0300 YFR 100 151 SPB,SPA USA FCC 11520 1400-1500 A-A 300 177 KAZ RAM 11580 2200-2245 YFR 100 142 SPA USA FCC 11610 1500-1600 DHA 250 100 English UAE BAB 11665 1700-1800 WOF 250 128 Somali G BAB 11665 1800-1900 WER 500 180 Eng D MBR 11665 1900-2000 ASC 250 65 Yoruba G BAB 11690 1700-1800 WER 100 180 Ara D MBR 11720 2245-0045 YFR 100 142 POA,ENB USA FCC 11730 0100-0159 GUF 250 306 Hap F MBR 11740 1600-1700 DHA 250 90 English UAE BAB 11825 0045-0200 YFR 100 160 POA USA FCC 11875 1800-1900 ASC 250 65 Igbo G BAB 11885 1600-1700 NAU 500 95 Pes D MBR 11885 2300-0145 YFR 100 140 SP,POA,SPA USA FCC 11935 1500-1600 WER 500 90 Tam D MBR 11955 1900-2000 NAU 500 177 Kikongo D MBR 11975 1600-1700 ISS 500 131 Amh D MBR 11975 1700-1800 ISS 500 131 Swa D MBR 11995 1500-1600 DHA 250 90 English UAE BAB 301011-011111 11995 1600-1700 NAU 250 125 Ara D MBR 12015 1800-1900 ISS 500 155 Sesotho F MBR 12130 1300-1400 A-A 200 132 KAZ RAM 12140 1800-1900 WER 500 165 Eng D MBR 12140 1900-2000 WER 500 150 Kirundi D MBR 12160 2200-2245 YFR 100 151 SPA USA FCC 13570 1400-1500 A-A 200 132 KAZ RAM 13605 1400-1500 WER 250 75 Uzb D MBR 13615 2300-0045 YFR 100 160 SPB,SPA USA FCC 13630 1500-1600 NAU 500 100 Guj D MBR 13655 1400-1500 WER 500 90 Sin D MBR 13655 1500-1600 NAU 500 105 Kan D MBR 13660 1600-1700 ISS 500 125 Orm F MBR 13660 1800-1900 WER 500 165 Setswana D MBR 13700 1400-1600 NAU 500 95 Hin D MBR 13750 1800-1900 WER 500 180 Eng D MBR 13795 1000-1100 A-A 300 94 KAZ RAM 13820 1300-1500 NAU 500 85 Ben D MBR 13860 1400-1500 A-A 300 177 KAZ RAM 15160 1600-1700 ISS 500 131 Amh F MBR 15195 2000-2100 ASC 250 65 English G BAB 15195 2100-2200 ASC 250 65 English G BAB 15315 1400-1500 NAU 500 105 Mal D MBR 15325 1400-1500 WER 500 90 Ori D MBR 15400 2300-0045 YFR 100 151 ENB,FRB USA FCC 15440 2145-0300 YFR 100 285 SPA,SPB,SP USA FCC 15470 1300-1500 NAU 500 85 Ben D MBR 15470 1500-1600 WER 500 90 Marathi D MBR 15520 1400-1500 DHA 250 90 Hindi UAE BAB 15520 2000-2100 ASC 250 65 English G BAB 15565 1400-1500 WER 500 90 Ori D MBR 15680 1400-1600 WER 500 90 SinKan D MBR 17510 1300-1500 WER 500 90 Ben D MBR 17545 1600-1700 ASC 250 85 English G BAB 17545 1700-1800 ASC 250 85 English G BAB 17575 2145-2245 YFR 100 140 POB USA FCC 17660 1830-1930 ASC 250 85 French G BAB 17735 1300-1400 DHA 250 100 Kannada UAE BAB 301011-011111 17810 1300-1400 DHA 250 100 Telegu UAE BAB 17810 1400-1500 DHA 250 100 Tamil UAE BAB 17880 1200-1300 DHA 250 95 Thai UAE BAB 21840 1500-1600 ASC 250 115 English G BAB (HFCC, adapted and transformed by wb, Nov 5, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 9 via DXLD) ** U S A. 660, Nov 5 at 1300 after some C&W music, missed ID but now CNN News about death at 92y of Andy Rooney, CBS, RIP. 1305 fade during another ID but after some more country music, English announcement and then into another language, sure sounded like Navajo as CCI grew. Altho this was looping east-west, I had been dismissing KTNN Window Rock AZ/NM as a possibility since it`s half a sesquihour before sunrise there and they should still be nulling toward WFAN and me. Official November sunrise is 1345 UT, December 1415, January 1430. (i.e. 7:45 am MDT Nov 5, 6:45 am MST from Nov 6. Watch out for many MW stations to power up at wrong time tomorrow.) 660, Nov 6 at 1310 UT, Indian chanting and drumming from the east / west, vs Dallas/Omaha from the N/S, no doubt KTNN AZ again radiating eastward long before local sunrise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. KBRT(AM) IS SET TO MOVE OFF THE ISLAND It seems like KBRT, 740 kHz, Avalon, has been broadcasting from Catalina Island forever. Catalina of course has a commanding view of the southern California coastline and KBRT blankets the region with it's 10 kW daytime signal thanks to the fabulous conductivity of salt water. (KCBS, 740 kHz, San Francisco, delivers such a strong skywave signal into southern California at night that there is simply no purpose in operating KBRT much after dark.) Because KBRT's lease on the island expires shortly and will not be renewed, serious efforts have been made to relocate the station's directional array to the mainland -- and those efforts have just paid off in a big way. Cris Alexander, Director of Engineering for Crawford Broadcasting, owner of KBRT, tells us more: "We just received unanimous approval of our site development permit and use permit for the new KBRT Oak Flat site in the Santa Ana Mountains [the old KPLS/KLAA 830 kHz site]. We went from "You can't do that" to unanimous approval in just nine months. "We are now moving into the building permit phase, devising our plans, shop drawings, WQMP, SWPPP and a host of other alphabet soup programs that apply. Our hope is to break ground in early 2012." Because KBRT will no longer have a salt water launching pad for its signal, 50 kW will be required at the new site where 10 kW did the job before. That, however, is a very small price to pay for the ability to continue broadcasting. Cris' own long-form story is posted here (pages 1 and 2): http://tinyurl.com/TheKBRTTransmitterRelocation (CGC Communicator Nov 7 via Kevin Redding, ABDX via DXLD) ** U S A. 1080, FLORIDA, (CARRIER CURRENT) "WUTT" University of Tampa. 1535 November 4, 2011. Very strong, briefly, on the Lee Roy Selmon- Crosstown Expressway near the apex with downtown just to the north. Techno music (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, Florida Low Power Radio Stations: http://sites.google.com/site/floridadxn/ dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1350-, Nov 4 at 1249 UT, dominant signal is ``Pueblo`s sports station, Homer 13-50``, with rumbling het. Comparing to adjacent frequencies, stepping with BFO, this one is definitely off, to the low side. It`s now KDZA, after a frequency/call swap with 1230, which went on to become KKPC, on the Colorado Public Radio network. But the original KGHF 1350 Pueblo was one of my earliest DX catches in 1953-1954 when I started in Santa Rosa NM on the 1941 AM/SW Philco console with built- in rotatable box loop, still residing in my Enid attic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. KRSN 1490 Finally back on with full power http://www.lamonitor.com/content/krsn-meets-fcc-compliance-standard KRSN meets FCC compliance standard By Carol A. Clark Tuesday, November 1, 2011 at 1:26 pm Following an 11-year stretch of non-compliance with FCC rules, KRSN AM 1490’s new antenna is installed on the hill and operating at required strength. “We came into compliance, operating at a full 1,000 watts at 1:30 p.m. last Wednesday … miracles do happen if you wait long enough and work hard enough,” said KRSN AM 1490 General Manager Gillian Sutton who co-owns the station with her husband David. The Suttons purchased the radio station out of bankruptcy in 2005 (via Mike Westfall, Los Alamos, NM http://mesamike.org http://www.facebook.com/mesamike http://twitter.com/mesa_mike Nov 1, ABDX via DXLD) Now that the station has a new antenna with a proper grounding field and operating at full power, I'll see about getting them to run another DX test this winter (Westfall, ibid.) ** URUGUAY. Re 11-44: "a pulmón" significado de la expresión ``El Sked teóricamente debería ser 24H. El trasmisor de estado sólido PDM, que los sustituirá aún está en etapa inicial, y llevará tiempo. "Se hace a pulmón", me indica la fuente (Nigro, Oct 26, ibid.) Meaning, made to breathe? (gh)`` Hacer algo "a pulmón" es una expresión que significa hacer algo por "por propio esfuerzo y testarudez, contra la corriente, a porfía a pesar de la falta de recursos" (Horacio A. Nigro, Montevideo, Uruguay, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** URUGUAY. Mini DX Camp Atalaya Mayo 2011: El mejor DX de ese día, sin lugar a dudas, fue Radio Universo, Castillos, Depto. Rocha, Uruguay, en los 6055 kHz (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, Nov 4, condiglist yg via DXLD) Aquí unas imágenes del MiniDx Camp Atalaya que hicimos el 07/05/11 en Atalaya, Pcia de Bs. As., con Arnaldo, chupamos mucho frío ese día!! Llevamos una Degen 1103 y una Sangean ATS 909, antena de hilo largo de 30 metros colgada entre los arboles. Las escuchas mas notables las comentará Arnaldo, Más abajo se ve una vista general que da hacia al rio de la Plata. En otro correo paso los links de video de dos captaciones interesantes (Enrique A. Wembagher, ibid.) A que hora escucharon Universo? (Horacio Nigro, Montevideo, ibid.) Tipo 11 de la manana de un sabado (Arnaldo Slaen, ibid.) Ese horario no es el original, el que tenía por noches a las 0100. Interesante. Si pueden, monitoreen la frecuencia para verificar su sked. Desde mi QTH no tengo mucha chance. TNX, 73 (Nigro, ibid.) Aqui compartimos el video de la escucha de Radio Universo, Castillos, Rocha, URG, hora UT en el display de la radio http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oasqw19Hk5E (Enrique, ibid.) That was last May, apparently (gh) ** URUGUAY. SODRE SW status: As you may know, SODRE's 9620 transmitter has been out of service for a couple of years. Today I learned that the reason is the lack of tubes. A 500 W PDM solid state transmitter is being planned, according to station technician. The 6125 outlet is, in fact, active. In fact, last news I just gathered from the station a few minutes ago is that SODRE 6125 is currently OFF air. There are no more spare 813. If one appears, used, technicians will use it. This means that Uruguay is currently *off the SW* in terms of broadcasting. ----------------- Nice to see the interest on SODRE SWs. That's rather understandable, since Uruguay never was a powerful country in terms of shortwave broadcasting. The idea of launching special day for Uruguayan SODRE to perform a special SW program is in fact very nice. It appears easy at first look, but in fact this is a delicate issue. But I want to comment that the technician personnel I have contact with, has no administrative power to make this as a reality in a direct and automatic way. They are subalterns, employees of an organization, state organization, that has a bureaucratic system. I do not want to compromise anybody at the subaltern level at SODRE. I will talk with my friends personally and will learn more details on the matter. My idea is to present a proposal to SODRE's authorities, of making a special transmission next year, when we commemorate 90 years of radio broadcasting in the country. Maybe it's considered maybe discarded (Horacio Nigro, Uruguay via DXPlorer, via SW Bulletin Oct 30 via DXLD) ** URUGUAY. 6045-USB, R Sport, is apparently off air. Unable to copy them locally (Horacio Nigro Geolkiewsky, Uruguay via DXPlorer, via SW Bulletin Oct 30 via DXLD) ** UZBEKISTAN. Every day I've been receiving second harmonic of The Voice Asia 9530 frequency 19000. Reception is good, much better than on original frequency which has been used by CNR1 as well (Vladimir Kovalenko, Tomsk, West Siberia, Russia (85'00East, 56'30North), Receiver: Icom IC-8500, Antenna: wire 120 meters long, HCDX via DXLD) No language, country or time was mentioned, but surely must refer not to 9530 but to HFCC registered 9500 at 11-14 Hindi via Tashkent, 100 kW, 153 degrees for CVC. CNR is also on 9500 long hours of 1955-1735 from SZG site, 100 kW, 165 degrees in Chinese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Fundamental = 9500 (not 9530) (Alokesh Gupta, via Vladimir, HCDX via DXLD) Sorry. And I also have been receiving 19060 between 11 and 13. (Vladimir Kovalenko, Tomsk, Russia, ibid.) HFCC shows; is this it? 9530 0600 1300 37N,38NW DHA 500 300 0 146 1234567 301011 250312 D UAE ADM ADM 3911 Not in Aoki, but both do have VOA Tinang in Chinese during 11-13 on 9530 (gh, DXLD) ** VANUATU. 7260 30.10 0659 Radio Vanuatu (tentative) med flöjtsignalen. Väldigt svag, men har jämfört min inspelning med vad som ligger utlagt på Youtube och det stämmer bra. Ska följa med på frekvensen en timme eller två, då det är möjligt att signalen blir lite bättre. HR 7260, 30.10 0659, Radio Vanuatu (tentative) with the flute signal. Very weak, but compared my recording with a recording found on Youtube and everything match. Intend to check the frequency for an hour or two to see if the signal improves (Hans Östnell, Vardö, Norway, SW Bulletin Oct 30, translated by editor Thomas Nilsson for DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN. 6185, Nov 9 at 0602, VR in `Scandinavian` is mixing with XEPPM which has just started its nightly relay of news in Spanish from RFI. The two are far enough apart to produce a fast subaudible heterodyne. The night before, Vatican was not on or not propagating. VR is // 7335, which is way under Tunisia. See also FRANCE [non] [and non]. 6075, Nov 10 at 0515, English discussion of medical ethix, stem cells, with someone from Catholic University of America --- I`ll bet it`s Vatican Radio on new frequency; atop some weak co-channel, most likely R. Rossii, Pet/Kam already starting to propagate into the Arctic winter night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM. 9840, Nov 4 at 1351, English discussion of Vietnam`s musical heritage, then some of that music. Sufficient signal, 1330- 1400, 100 kW 57 degrees from Hanoi-Sontay site per Aoki. If it`s off- frequency, nothing to het it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM [and non]. [AUSTRIA/CANADA/UAE/U.K.] DAI TIENG NOI VIET NAM Voice of Vietnam - Domestic and External services - B-11 schedule. 5035 0430-0600 49 CK2 15 n-d Hmong VTN VOV VOV 5035 1130-1330 49 CK2 15 n-d Hmong VTN VOV VOV 5035 2145-2300 49 CK2 15 n-d Hmong VTN VOV VOV 5925 2145-1700 49 CK2 50 n-d Vietnamese VTN VOV VOV 5955 1800-1830 27S,28W,37N MOS 100 300 English AUT VOV BAB / ORS 5955 1830-1930 27S,28W,37N MOS 100 300 Vietnamese AUT VOV BAB / ORS 5955 1930-2000 27S,28W,37N MOS 100 300 French AUT VOV BAB / ORS 5975 2145-1700 49 MET 50 n-d Vietnamese VTN VOV VOV 6020 2200-1530 49 DAL 20 n-d Vietnamese VTN VOV VOV 6135 2000-2030 28NE,29SW WOF 250 75 Russian G VOV BAB 6165 0000-0030 49 CK2 50 n-d Dao VTN VOV VOV 6165 1130-1330 49 CK2 50 n-d Hmong VTN VOV VOV 6165 1330-1400 49 CK2 50 n-d Dao VTN VOV VOV 6165 1400-1600 49 CK2 50 n-d Vietnamese VTN VOV VOV 6165 2145-2230 49 CK2 50 n-d Hmong VTN VOV VOV 6165 2230-2300 49 CK2 50 n-d Dao VTN VOV VOV 6165 2330-2400 49 CK2 50 n-d Hmong VTN VOV VOV 6175 0100-0128 11 SAC 250 212 English CAN VOV BAB / RCI 6175 0130-0228 11 SAC 250 212 Vietnamese CAN VOV BAB / RCI 6175 0230-0258 11 SAC 250 212 English CAN VOV BAB / RCI 6175 0300-0328 11 SAC 250 212 Spanish CAN VOV BAB / RCI 6175 0330-0358 11 SAC 250 212 English CAN VOV BAB / RCI 6175 0400-0428 11 SAC 250 212 Spanish CAN VOV BAB / RCI 6175 0430-0528 6,7W SAC 250 240 Vietnamese CAN VOV BAB / RCI 6175 2030-2130 27S,28W,37N DHA 250 315 German UAE VOV BAB 7210 2145-1700 49 DAL 20 n-d Vietnamese VTN VOV VOV 7220 1100-1130 31-33 VN1 100 27 Chinese VTN VOV VOV 7220 1130-1200 31-33 VN1 100 27 Russian VTN VOV VOV 7220 1200-1230 31-33 VN1 100 27 Chinese VTN VOV VOV 7220 1230-1300 31-33 VN1 100 27 Russian VTN VOV VOV 7220 1300-1330 31-33 VN1 100 27 Chinese VTN VOV VOV 7220 1500-1600 37-39 VN1 100 290 Vietnamese VTN VOV VOV 7220 1600-1630 37-39 VN1 100 290 English VTN VOV VOV 7220 1630-1700 37-39 VN1 100 290 French VTN VOV VOV 7220 2030-2100 37-39 VN1 100 290 English VTN VOV VOV 7220 2100-2130 37-39 VN1 100 290 French VTN VOV VOV 7220 2130-2200 37-39 VN1 100 290 Spanish VTN VOV VOV 7220 2200-2230 31-33 VN1 100 27 Chinese VTN VOV VOV 7280 1530-1600 27-30,37-39 VN1 100 320 German VTN VOV VOV 7280 1600-1630 27-30,37-39 VN1 100 320 English VTN VOV VOV 7280 1630-1700 27-30,37-39 VN1 100 320 Russian VTN VOV VOV 7280 1700-1800 27-30,37-39 VN1 100 320 Vietnamese VTN VOV VOV 7280 1800-1830 27-30,37-39 VN1 100 320 German VTN VOV VOV xSp 7280 1830-1900 27-30,37-39 VN1 100 320 French VTN VOV VOV 7280 1900-1930 27-30,37-39 VN1 100 320 English VTN VOV VOV 7280 1930-2000 27-30,37-39 VN1 100 320 French VTN VOV VOV 7280 2000-2030 27-30,37-39 VN1 100 320 Russian VTN VOV VOV 7280 2030-2100 27-30,37-39 VN1 100 320 English VTN VOV VOV xGe 7280 2100-2130 27-30,37-39 VN1 100 320 French VTN VOV VOV 7280 2130-2200 27-30,37-39 VN1 100 320 German VTN VOV VOV 7285 0000-0100 49 MET 50 216 Vietnamese VTN VOV VOV 7285 1030-1100 49 MET 50 216 Cambodian VTN VOV VOV 7285 1100-1130 49 MET 50 216 English VTN VOV VOV 7285 1130-1200 49 MET 50 216 Thai VTN VOV VOV 7285 1200-1230 49 MET 50 216 French VTN VOV VOV 7285 1230-1300 49 MET 50 216 Cambodian VTN VOV VOV 7285 1300-1330 49 MET 50 216 French VTN VOV VOV 7285 1330-1430 49 MET 50 216 Laotian VTN VOV VOV 7285 1430-1500 49 MET 50 216 Thai VTN VOV VOV 7285 1500-1530 49 MET 50 216 English VTN VOV VOV 7285 1530-1600 49 MET 50 216 Thai VTN VOV VOV 7285 2200-2230 49 MET 50 216 Thai VTN VOV VOV 7285 2230-2300 49 MET 50 216 Cambodian VTN VOV VOV 7285 2300-2400 49 MET 50 216 Laotian VTN VOV VOV 7370 2130-2230 28SE,39NW WOF 250 105 Vietnamese G VOV BAB 7435 0000-2400 49 VN1 100 97 Vietnamese VTN VOV VOV 9530 2145-1700 49 CK2 50 n-d Vietnamese VTN VOV VOV 9550 1500-1600 37-39 VN1 100 290 Vietnamese VTN VOV VOV 9550 1600-1630 37-39 VN1 100 290 English VTN VOV VOV 9550 1630-1700 37-39 VN1 100 290 French VTN VOV VOV 9550 2030-2100 37-39 VN1 100 290 English VTN VOV VOV xGe 9550 2100-2130 37-39 VN1 100 290 French VTN VOV VOV 9635 0000-2400 49 VN1 100 145 Vietnamese VTN VOV VOV 9730 1530-1600 27-30,37-39 VN1 100 320 German VTN VOV VOV 9730 1600-1630 27-30,37-39 VN1 100 320 English VTN VOV VOV 9730 1630-1700 27-30,37-39 VN1 100 320 Russian VTN VOV VOV 9730 1700-1800 27-30,37-39 VN1 100 320 Vietnamese VTN VOV VOV 9730 1800-1830 27-30,37-39 VN1 100 320 German VTN VOV VOV 9730 1830-1900 27-30,37-39 VN1 100 320 French VTN VOV VOV 9730 1900-1930 27-30,37-39 VN1 100 320 English VTN VOV VOV 9730 1930-2000 27-30,37-39 VN1 100 320 French VTN VOV VOV 9730 2000-2030 27-30,37-39 VN1 100 320 Russian VTN VOV VOV 9730 2030-2100 27-30,37-39 VN1 100 320 English VTN VOV VOV 9730 2100-2130 27-30,37-39 VN1 100 320 French VTN VOV VOV 9730 2130-2200 27-30,37-39 VN1 100 320 German VTN VOV VOV 9840 1000-1030 54 VN1 100 177 English VTN VOV VOV 9840 1030-1100 54 VN1 100 177 Indonesian VTN VOV VOV 9840 1100-1130 44,45 VN1 100 57 Japanese VTN VOV VOV 9840 1130-1200 44,45 VN1 100 57 English VTN VOV VOV 9840 1200-1230 44,45 VN1 100 57 Japanese VTN VOV VOV 9840 1230-1300 54 VN1 100 177 English VTN VOV VOV 9840 1300-1330 54 VN1 100 177 Indonesian VTN VOV VOV 9840 1330-1400 44,45 VN1 100 57 English VTN VOV VOV 9840 1400-1430 44,45 VN1 100 57 Japanese VTN VOV VOV 9840 1430-1500 54 VN1 100 177 Indonesian VTN VOV VOV 9840 1500-1530 54 VN1 100 177 English VTN VOV VOV 9840 2200-2230 44,45 VN1 100 57 Japanese VTN VOV VOV 9840 2230-2300 44,45 VN1 100 57 Chinese VTN VOV VOV 9840 2300-2330 54 VN1 100 177 Indonesian VTN VOV VOV 9840 2330-2400 54 VN1 100 177 English VTN VOV VOV 9850 0400-0500 49 CK2 50 n-d Dao VTN VOV VOV 9850 0500-0530 49 CK2 50 n-d Hmong VTN VOV VOV 9875 0145-1000 49 MET 50 n-d Vietnamese VTN VOV VOV 11720 0000-2400 49 VN1 100 187 Vietnamese VTN VOV VOV 12000 1100-1130 31-33 x9550VN1 100 27 Chinese VTN VOV VOV 12000 1130-1200 31-33 x9550VN1 100 27 Russian VTN VOV VOV 12000 1200-1230 31-33 x9550VN1 100 27 Chinese VTN VOV VOV 12000 1230-1300 31-33 x9550VN1 100 27 Russian VTN VOV VOV 12000 1300-1330 31-33 x9550VN1 100 27 Chinese VTN VOV VOV 12000 2200-2230 31-33 VN1 100 27 Chinese VTN VOV VOV 12020 1000-1030 54 VN1 100 177 English VTN VOV VOV 12020 1030-1100 54 VN1 100 177 Indonesian VTN VOV VOV 12020 1100-1130 44,45 VN1 100 57 Japanese VTN VOV VOV 12020 1130-1200 44,45 VN1 100 57 English VTN VOV VOV 12020 1200-1230 44,45 VN1 100 57 Japanese VTN VOV VOV 12020 1230-1300 54 VN1 100 177 English VTN VOV VOV 12020 1300-1330 54 VN1 100 177 Indonesian VTN VOV VOV 12020 1330-1400 44,45 VN1 100 57 English VTN VOV VOV 12020 1400-1430 44,45 VN1 100 57 Japanese VTN VOV VOV 12020 1430-1500 54 VN1 100 177 Indonesian VTN VOV VOV 12020 1500-1530 54 VN1 100 177 English VTN VOV VOV 12020 2200-2230 44,45 VN1 100 57 Japanese VTN VOV VOV 12020 2230-2300 44,45 VN1 100 57 Chinese VTN VOV VOV 12020 2300-2330 54 VN1 100 177 Indonesian VTN VOV VOV 12020 2330-2400 54 VN1 100 177 English VTN VOV VOV 12140 1400-1450 49 CK2 50 n-d Vietnamese VTN VOV VOV TX sites: CK2 = Hanoi-Xuan Mai-VTN DAL = Daclac-VTN DHA = Al Dhabbaya-UAE MET = Hanoi-Me Tri-VTN MOS = Moosbrunn-AUT SAC = Sackville-CAN VN1 = Son Tay-VTN WOF = Woofferton-UK (VOV, hfcc/aoki, transformed via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 9 via DXLD) ** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. ESTAÇÕES CLANDESTINAS, 1550, Polisario Front, Rabouni, ALGERIA, 1156-1302*, 04/11, Arabic, Koranich songs, news bulletin at noon,..., music, some announcements at 1300, including frequency list (two fqs were mentioned), anthem; 35443. They used "kHz" for both fqs, so most likely the one that's regular, 1550, and the HF one that's silent for months, viz. 6297.15. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZAMBIA [and non]. 17695, Nov 5 at 0613, 1Africa is propagating altho poorly, hyping phone number, gospel rap. It`s on this new higher band in B-11 at 06-20. Also heard at 1823 with very good S9+18 signal, interview with musician; much better than their Miami/Chile 17680 outlet in Spanish, peaking only S9+10 but just barely modulated at 1904 while 17695 played loud gospel disco; Chile modulation level OK by 1935 with praise music but interrupted by IADs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZIMBABWE, Radio Zimbabwe, 6045 Gweru. Nov 05, 2011, Saturday. 1938- 2006. Shona, with afro music. Some talk by YL, she mentioned "Harare". More afro music, gave Harare address at 1959. At 2000, ID "Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation … Radio Zimbabwe …. ten o'clock", then news in Shona. Fair, mostly readable tonight, to central Africa. Jo'burg sunset 1628 (Bill Bingham, RSA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZIMBABWE [non]. South Africa. Zimbabwe Community Radio, 4895 Meyerton. Nov 05, 2011, Saturday. 1843-1855* Shona. Just in time for ID "Zimbabwe Community Radio" and jingles, followed by afro music with YL singing, then more with OM singing. I noticed no mentions of UAE with the id tonight (maybe they read DXLD or listen to World of Radio?). No ID at 1855* sign off, music just faded out and straight into WYFR music loop until carrier cut at 1856. Poor and fadey. To east, central and southern Africa. Jo'burg sunset 1628 (Bill Bingham, RSA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZIMBABWE [non]. MADAGASGAR, B-11 of Voice of People in English/Shona/Ndebele: 0400-0500 on 11610 MDC 050 kW / 265 deg to ZWE 1600-1630 on 9345 MDC 050 kW / 265 deg to ZWE 1800-1900 on 9345 MDC 050 kW / 265 deg to ZWE (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Nov 8 via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific carrier search before 1300 UT sunrise in Enid, Nov 4, on the DX-398 with internal antenna only, 9 kHz steps with offset BFO for easily perceptible beats: From the northwest at 1240: 774, 792, 1134 (this one oscillating slightly, caused by a 1 Hz SAH between two carriers?); and at 1247 on 828. From the southwest: 738 is strongest of all at 1238, but no audio, KRMG-740 Tulsa still a big problem. Presumably Tahiti. 702 at 1246, carrier is more westerly than 738, presumably 2BL, ABC Sydney, Australia. True bearings from Enid are 232 degrees for Papeete, 256 degrees for Sydney. These correlate nicely! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Re: 600 Hz [sic] tone on 1210? I am sure that the FCC will take their time on this. I have heard it for several weeks now here 125 miles east of Memphis. The tone lies due east/west from Memphis. It makes WDGR a possible (Kevin Redding, Crump, TN, Nov 2, ABDX via DXLD) Re: 410 Hz tone on 1210? Here in NE IL when doing HSFB and SSS DX last week using my south antenna and Perseus recording, I noticed this not fading in at good strength when GA area was starting to come in in that part of the band. It didn't seem to gain strength until somewhat later, and slightly after the time when WOAI was showing up. Perhaps there's something wrong with KUBR 1210? That network basically runs automated I think and has had it share of "problem stations" in the past. However, WUBR isn't consistant with Kevin's bearing E-W. Surely someone in the southern portion of our country can hear this daytime and has good enough equipment to tell that their local/semilocal or whatever it is to them is on 1210.41 rather than 1210 !! Anyhow, that fact that it isn't reported daytime, make me think that it could be KUBR down on the Mexican border where I think we have fewer DXers than in the GA area. 73 KAZ (Neil Kazaross, ibid.) But KUBR is Spanish religious and I have heard Korean from this. And the power switch times fit better to a more easterly station. According to FCC database WDGR is owned by Hye Cha Kim and topazdesigns.com/ambc says the format is ETH[nic, not iopian]. Maybe FCC Atlanta is wrong and this is WDGR after all? 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, ibid.) OK, you heard Korean from a station on 1210.41? I never had any audio from this one when I was able to Atlanta area stations still on day power late last month prior to their switches to night power and the signal was quite weak then, but strengthened later. I am of the opinion that this station has on open carrier when not broadcasting audio based on Perseus passband and notch to get away from WPHT 1210. Perhaps someone on list here who can get WDGR is able to BFO it or do something else to tell whether it is off freq to the high side? Anyhow, it could just be cx differences, but this faded in later than other GA area stations in the part of the band during several sunset sessions. 73 KAZ (Neil Kazaross, ibid.) Yes, 99 % Korean. The audio is distorted, but I heard better later than on the clips I uploaded on the group's web site. I agree that when I have listened to it at the power change (at 2200 and 1200, both variable), there doesn't appear to be any change in the carrier strength, the audio just jumps in or out. 73, (Mauno Ritola, ibid.) Mauno, the FCC has NOT and will NOT make a statement on this. *I* called the local FCC office in Atlanta and made them aware of this. I am under 200 air miles from the transmitter site. I can hear them in the daytime, though poorly on the multi hundred feet long wire and the Hammarlund HQ-140-XA. Even in the early afternoon when WPHT was coming in faintly underneath WDGR the tone was VERY faint. It doesn't get loud until much later. I will try one morning to see what I hear. (Powell E. Way III, SC, ibid.) Mauno, I also talked to the FCC about this tone. Powell and I live about 30 Miles from each other and can hear Groundwave from WDGR. We both have much better Radios than the average Ham Radio Operators. The tone nulls towards them in Upstate South Carolina. Since I don't have a station near 1210, I don't have a dog in this fight, but I am mildly curious of what the tone is. 73, (Kevin Raper, KJ4HYD/AE, CE WCKI WQIZ WLTQ, ibid.) Is it a tone (i.e. a transmitted AM signal with modulation), or is it a het caused by one station off-frequency beating against 1210.0? They are NOT the same thing (gh, DXLD) OK, I thought FCC Atlanta had told you that the one on offset can't be WDGR, but I probably misunderstood. So you both hear WDGR on 1210 kHz sharp or not? And what format do they have? Best regards, (Mauno Ritola, ABDX via DXLD) Loud and clear here on the "tippy-toe" of Louisiana at 0200Z last night (Darwin Long, Empire, LA, ibid.) Yes, the question is, are you guys hearing WDGR on 1210.41 KHz? This is not a tone being broadcast on 1210, but a strong carrier on 1210.41. When it is in well at night, I can tighten up the filters and use passband tuning and it surely seems to be an open carrier, i.e. what ever station this is presumably an off-frequency daytimer, is leaving their OC on after dark, creating this 410 Hz het against stations on 1210. 73 KAZ, not thinking this should be too hard to track down (Neil Kazaross, ibid.) I'm still getting this het tone here in PEI Canada. Weak, but there. (Phil Rafuse [at home, recovering], Stratford PE Canada, ibid.) Re: 410 Hz tone on 1210? Last night 1210 was fine; no heterodyne (Powell E Way III, SC, Nov 6, ABDX via DXLD) Case closed on this one as far as I am concerned. Although, based on Mauno's, and observations from SC DXers it was already basically close. Bill Whitacre is in W.VA testing an array of two Double KAZ antennas aimed due south and getting very good results. He sent me a clip of 1210.4 last night from 2200z and the gal is giving a garbled WDGR Dahlonega ID. I noted QRN from them when reviewing my sunset recordings from Oct 30 as they were at good strength earlier then previously. I have the same garbled gal giving that ID after garbled music ends at about 2256:15z on 10/30 and then audio soon drops. As to why they are about 408 Hz high and running OC all night, that's one for the FCC to sort out. 73 KAZ (Neil Kazaross, Barrington IL, ibid.) UNIDENTIFIED [non]. Do you hear a talk station on 1509.83 kHz? O-J SÃ¥gdahl from Norway reported it on mwoffsets list with talk format and power drop or off at 2300 sharp. I checked the database and the best candidate would be KMRF Independence MO. 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, ABDX via DXLD) 1509.83 is KCTE Independence and often stays on all night when it shouldn't. 73 KAZ (Neil Kazaross, IL, ibid.) Thanks. Got the call wrong. 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, ibid.) And I reported it numerous times both when it was on all night and around SR/SS (gh, OK DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 1710 "Big Q" alert 0511 UT --- Picking it up right now on 1710 with a decent signal "The Big Q" with oldies, fancy promos. Been a while since I've heard this one! (Tim Tromp, West Michigan, Nov 6, ABDX via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED [non]. Tips mix "Girolla" Buccinasco: Hola .... Data Ora UTC kHz Call Stazione Modo ITU Note 05/11/2011 2006 5001 Unid AM XXX px in russo (Mauro Giroletti, Italy, Nov 6, bclnews.it yg via Büschel, DXLD) Typical "1" kHz frequency of / 1089 kHz MW 1200 kW mixture formula. Intermodulation product of VoRussia Krasnodar Armavir Tbilisskaya site. Mixture of shortwave 6090 kHz and {minus} Mediumwave of 1089 kHz. Should also be heard on 7179 kHz {6090 plus 1089} in amateur radio band. We at IARU Bandwatch, DARC Germany and German FCC Bundesnetzagentur (ex RegTP / Bundespost) sent a lot of complaints on UNWANTED INTERMODULATION signals in 41 mb ham band, to Russian Radiocom Krasnodar Krai in past years, nothing happened in the past years, no response YET. V of Russia 1900-2000 Russian 1089 Armavir Tbilisskaya 1200 UKR/MDA/NE/ME/CIS <<<<<<<<<< YEVANGELSKIYE CHTENIYA (Rlg) kHz: 1089 Schedule B-11 - new Russian standard time ! Russian Days Area kHz 1500-1600 mt.t..s RUS 612msk 2000-2100 daily RUS 612msk 2000-2100 daily ME 1089 Armavir Tbilisskaya <<<<<<<<<<<<<< Spanish 2000-2100 Portuguese 2100-2200 5940 Samara 250 EUR 6090 Armavir Tbilisskaya 200 EUR <<<<<<<<<<<< 6120 Kaliningrad Bolshakovo 120 EUR Use two/three receivers for monitoring in parallel, set to either 1089, 5001, 6090, 7179. Once one of the signals 6090 / 1089 kHz will disappear - to be switched OFF at Armavir Tbilisskaya, also the 5001 kHz signal will disappear from air. When usage of 1089 kHz will overlap behind 2100 UT, you will also hear the opening of V of Russia's Portuguese language service. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, ibid.) Hi Everyone, Any help much appreciated. Been receiving the below the last couple of evenings on 5001 kHz, best in USB to avoid 5000 kHz time signal. It goes off at 21 UT with bells ringing. Not sure when it comes on, but it has been there from about 1930 or after. Its sounds Russian religious type programming. Ignore the time and date on the boxnet recording. This is from 20 UT 6/11 http://www.box.net/shared/j2z1d3jxlgc68m3pkdgr (Mark Davies, Anglesey, Wales, dxldyg via DXLD) Hello Mark, Thanks for the phone call - it didn't improve to anything like this quality here due to the noise floor. But I did hear what sounded to be station ID's around 2000, and not as you thought Italian. But audio was muffled too much to tell what. As said, working out mixing products like this one is not at all easy - unless the other frequencies are known. But a good catch considering where the signal originates from. And no, I haven't been able to hear anything definite on 4825 - is that one still audible with you? 73 from (Noel Green, England, ibid.) We featured that in Italian newsgroup yesterday before [as above]. The intermodulation signal 5001 kHz starts only, when BOTH tx on air 1089 and 6090 kHz, i.e. 6090 starts with the engineering opening procedure around 1947 ... 1952 UT, with 800/1000 Hertz tone procedure. 73 wb (Büschel, ibid.) Hi Mark, It's a long-known intermodulation product: 5001 = 6090 - 1089 kHz. Both transmitters are located in Tbilisskaya, Krasnodar region, Russia. Audio comes from 1089 kHz where the Christian program "Yevangel'skiye Chteniya" in Russian is transmitted at 20-21 UT. As far as I know, 6090 kHz carries Vo Russia in Spanish during this time period. 73s, (Dmitry Mezin, dxldyg via DX LISENING DIGEST) 1089/5001/6090/7179 at 2010 UT Nov 7. Yes surprisingly strong signals, but different acc to location, poor in England and Netherlands S=8-9, but much stronger in Austria and Italy S=9+35dBm, closer to Armavir Tbilisskaya tx site. Heard religious program on 5001 and 7179 kHz, 6090 carried Spanish program on Papandreou Bank crisis. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, ibid.) UNIDENTIFIED. 6075.749, 30.10 0106 UNID here again, but too weak for audio due to a strong China on 6075 (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin Oct 30, via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Bolivia? (gh) UNIDENTIFIED. 6190, 2140 November 2, 2011. Music fills, Seemingly German man and woman discussion, six sounders 2200 (with someone else threshold under, also with six time tones slightly time offset. BBC?), news headlines again seemingly in German. Threshold. Is GERMANY Deutschlandfunk, Berlin-Britz still active? I've lost track, but thought DLF was deactivated back in July, which would mean this is not (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, 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, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) There was a report in September from BC-DX about 6190 having modulation problems (gh, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED [non]. EGYPT. 6270, Radio Cairo (presumed); 0514-0528+*, 29-Oct; English feature on a Japanese music group. Pulled plug abruptly without ID. SIO=2+22+ with weak CW & hiss from 6275 (Harold Frodge visiting Port Hope MI, Drake R8B + 65' TTFD + 500' NEish unterminated bev, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ?? Did you mean 0314-0328??? Never any English before at 0500+. 6270 now registered 2300-0430 in English, Arabic (Glenn to Harold, via DXLD) Times are correct. Consider it Unknownistan. An early B11 switch for someone? -- HF (Harold Frodge, MI, ibid.) I`ve got it: Sackville mixing product of R. Japan English 6110 until 0529* leapfrogging over CRI English on 6190 another 80 kHz higher. Also a bit more likely programming from Tokyo than Cairo (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED [non]. My DX friend received it at 1415 to 1431* UT on 7505 kHz on Nov. 4, sounds like Urdu. ID is "Ye Radio Sedayee xxx he". http://ani.atz.jp/FBDX/NowBBS/img/3151.mp3 by Hiro in Akita (S. Hasegawa, NDXC, Japan, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi, In the audio clip it is announced 'Yeh sadaiya Roos hai" which means it is Voice of Russia. The broadcast is Voice of Russia Urdu service (Aslam Javaid, Lahore, Pakistan, ibid.) Strange, VOR not in Aoki or HFCC but instead FEBC Manila in Chinese on 7505 at 14-16 (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) Voice of Russia - Urdu, 14-15 UT 801 Dushanbe-TJK 500 AS 972 Dushanbe-TJK 1000 AS 5900 Samara 250 AS 7340 DRM ch#2 Irkutsk 15 AS 9885 Dushanbe-TJK 100 AS <<<<< My strange guess, that one of the engineers in Yangi-Yul Dushanbe switched on the 7505 kHz unit and accessed the present available program - i.e. VOR Urdu, -- the same behaviour as often in use on Babcock transmitter sites in U.K. > 7505 2000-2100 44 DB 100 70 TJK NEW WRN > Radio Free Chosun in Korean to KRE. 7505 - So, the engineer switched on the transmitter on 7505 [from Radio Free Chosun previous day] instead of 9885 kHz? 73 wolfy 7340 Totally blocked at 14-15 UT by 7340 PBS Xinjiang, Urumqi in Kazakh! S=9+5dB in Europe. Both 5900 and 9885 well heard in southern Germany. 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 9570, Nov 5 at 1420, open carrier over something else. Mostly likely Habana neglected to turn off the CRI relay at 1357; scheduled this hour is KBS direct in Indonesian, and coming up at 15 is VOA Uzbek via Philippines (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 14439 approx., Nov 6 at 1342, fluttery carrier much like Firedrake, but only hearing two alternating tones, depending on BFO offset; then a faster variety of tones until 1343*. 14440 is a jammed Sound of Hope 100-watt nuisance frequency listed in the current Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED [non]. EUROPE. PIRATE? 15009.23, 1540-1555, pop music. Talk. Poor. Weak in noisy conditions. Too weak to pull out any further program details. Nov 5 (Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA, Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hello Alexander, On 15009 in daytime there was the Scandinavian pirate Old Time Radio (Vitaliy Lisovskiy, Kharkiv, Ukraine, 73s! dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 15180, Nov 4 at 1432, huge S9+25 open carrier, and off a few sex later, meanwhile enough to muscle aside another huge signal from Costa Rica on 15170. What could it be? Only thing capable of that listed on 15180 later is WHRI, but scheduled only at 22-23. Could also be Greenville on a tune-up-only frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. NEW ZEALAND [and non]. 15720, RNZI, 0153. “Dateline Pacific” ending, ID. Fair. And at 0405, ending news, weather, some weak QRM, Asian-sounding, chant-like vocals, off frequency producing a het. Good. Nov 8 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening from my car with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Um, chanting, or a numbers' station? The het has been plaguing RNZI here in Burnaby for several months in our mid-evening. Haven't paid too much attention the past few weeks after buying a Toshiba tablet, downloading the app and listening to RNZ National streaming in the comfort of an armchair... 73, (Theo Donnelly, BC, ODXA yg via DXLD) I don't think it was a numbers station, Theo. Hmmm, would I trade the comfort of a cold car, parked in the dark night, for listening over the internet? No!! (Actually, I do both, but it's nice to escape the computer and sit in the car by the lake, cold or otherwise.) (Harold, ibid.) I and another have indeed heard a number station no 15721; see 11-44 (gh) UNIDENTIFIED. Intermittent `Bronx-cheer` blaaaaaps are infesting several spots in the SWBC bands, Nov 7, such as approx.: 17555-17575 at 1449, equally huge centered around 17730. Includes different tones every few sex. Weaker at 1451 circa 18435, then stays on as OTH radar 18420-18445. Also at 1504 around 21480 (BBC is finished with 21470 from Seychelles at 1400) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 17810, Nov 4 at 1256, open carrier with flutter, hi- pitched continuous tone; 1259 AIR IS, 1300 too poor to tell language. Trouble is, B-11 schedule of AIR at http://qsl.net/vu2jos/es/Language.htm shows 17810 via GOA, only at 1115-1215 Tamil, 1215-1245 Telugu, so apparently an overrun if not something additional unknown? In HFCC lacking AIR, one finds instead YFR in Telegu [sic] via UAE from 1300, plus 1400-1500 Tamil. That makes more sense for what I was hearing, except for the AIR IS --- maybe YFR was playing something similar? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 17861, approx., Nov 8 at 1331, intermittent SSB intruder; at first seemed unSpanish, but 1332 recognized as Spanish; het from 17860 broadcaster, i.e. DW in Dari via Armavir, Russia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Saw a photo of Glen [sic] Hauser today in the BDXC newsletter I swap mine with my mates club mag. My wife and I was thinking, ex MIL type guy with a #2 crew cut aged about 35-45 years, instead quite a tall guy and white - grey beard, quite a shock after all these years of just hearing him-YOU, still nice to see a photo of the guy behind the voice (Mike Evand, WDXC member 1772, ABDX via DXLD) Acknowledged on WORLD OF RADIO 1590: Tnx to Terry Krueger, Clearwater FL, for a contribution in the mail to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 (gh) TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED NEXT: Thanks to Chris and Sarah Leslie for a contribution via PayPal (gh) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ UTILITY REFERENCES Agrego más links que son de mi cabecera: El benemerito WUN que ahora es UDXF: http://www.udxf.nl/ Más: http://www.ominous-valve.com/uteworld.html http://users.tellurian.com/slapshot/speedx.html Sitio de espionaje utilitario: http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/page30.html Estaciones de números: http://home.luna.nl/~ary/ Un buen soft para experimentar es el MultiPSK 73 (Enrique Wemberger, condiglist yg via DXLD) WORLD OF HOROLOGY +++++++++++++++++ Why can’t the U.S.A. follow the rest of the world to change on Oct 30? (Anker Petersen, Skovlunde, Denmark, DSWCI DX Window Nov 2 via DXLD) If a lot of DST is good, a week more of that nonsense must be even better and makes sure it lasts past Hallowe`en! (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) LANGUAGE LESSONS ++++++++++++++++ 4974.95 R. (A) Nossa Voz, Osasco SP, 2135-2146, 04/11, A Voz do Brasil part 2; 35322. This station is usually listed as "Nossa Voz", Our Voice, which is correct in most languages, but not in Portuguese, where the preceding article is needed. Another (more serious) mistake Brazilians often make deal with the term "rádio", radio. If one's referring to the set, the apparatus, then it's the masculine noun, "o rádio", but if it's the medium that's in question, then it's "a rádio", feminine. It's simply too frequent to hear them referring to "o rádio" for both concepts. I have heard this in regular programs, from regular announcers, which I find odd because they should know, so maybe R.Cultura should endeavour to reactivate their HF outlets! They had, and probably still do, a program similar to that of our RDPi called "Consultório Linguístico." 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) TINY TRAP +++++++++ Fareed Zakaria`s CNN special on ``Fixing Education``, UT Nov 7 circa 0315 calls Finland a ``tiny country of 5 million``. Five million of anything is not tiny. And I had thought he was pretty smart (gh, DXLD) DX-PEDITIONS ++++++++++++ New DXpedition reports from Lapland on DXing.info Want to know how hungry bears can destroy Beverage antennas? More at http://www.dxing.info/dxpeditions/aih10rep.dx Or how hungry DXers can focus on eating, drinking and being merry, instead of DXing? More at http://www.dxing.info/dxpeditions/aih7rep.dx Two DXpedition reports from the Arctic, another one spanning two countries! 73s (Mika Makelainen, Discover http://www.DXing.info/ Join http://www.DXing.info/community/ via DXLD) ShortWaveMusic in Timbuktu Hi Glenn - I've been holding off on sending this to you, but since I'm now in the final round, I figured I'd let the broader radio community know. You and your audience are by now well acquainted with ShortWaveMusic, my global sound project dedicated to preserving the world's musical traditions and folklore as heard on local, regional, and international radio. I'm happy to announce a new ten-year project chronicling the vast radio landscape of the African continent. To that end, I'm raising funds to kick off the series with two weeks of recording at the edge of the Sahara in Timbuktu (Tombouctou), Mali. Funds will go towards a plane ticket, local transportation, and the services of a guide through Dogon Country and Timbuktu. As of Monday 7 November, I have exactly one week to raise an additional $975. If I do not hit the minimum of $2,500, then all pledges are cancelled and the project must be forfeited. I am absorbing any and all additional expenditures related to the ongoing production, recording, preservation, and dissemination of the recordings made on location; this fundraiser is strictly for travel and logistical expenses. Anyone looking for more information can go to ShortWaveMusic's Web site at http://www.myke.me or directly to the Kickstarter link, which wraps up on 14 November 2011. There are three short informational videos about this year's project at the Kickstarter site: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/myke/shortwavemusic-2012-timbuktu Thanks as always, Glenn. 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We have developed a new site that provides a deeper look into who we are for those who want to know more. Owner/Robbie Hulett Call or Email for Your FREE Estimate: (912) 309-9422 robbiehulett @ gmail.com Check out our new site for a more in depth look into TMC: http://www.towermaintenance.com (via Jerry Lenamon, TX, dxldyg via DXLD) GROUND YOUR RECEIVER, MAYBE A portable receiver with a jack for an external antenna can have a connection to ground, an inverted-L antenna, a dipole antenna and a loop antenna. At a shop for electronic technicians, buy a mini mono plug, ? inch 2 conductor. Obtain two pieces of insulated stranded wire, each about half a meter long with a different colour of insulation. I assume you cannot solder. Have an electronics technician solder the wires to the plug. An iron rod knocked into the earth is a ground. If you feel electricity anywhere on your receiver, you need a ground. If you want to hear weak broadcasters on frequencies below five megahertz, you need a ground. Otherwise you do not need a ground connection. At a shop for house electricians buy wire connectors, they come in a stick of 12. Today they are made of steel. They used to be made of copper. You need two wire connectors, maybe you can find old ones. Experiment with an inverted-L antenna and discover which of your two wires belongs to it. The other wire belongs to the ground. You can now discover how long an inverted-L antenna your receiver can handle, without overloading. With a dipole antenna or a loop antenna, one wire goes to your antenna connection, the other to your ground connection. All this is not described in the manual of your modern portable receiver. My Sony ICF-SW77 receiver works well with an inverted-L antenna, 24 meters long. Follow my directions, discover the real quality of your portable receiver and report to CONTACT Magazine. An antenna connector has two screw terminals, properly connected to a mini mono plug. With an antenna connector, you do not need soldering and you do not need wire connectors and it is more sturdy. You can't buy one. The Sony ICF-7600D came with an antenna connector. The Sony ICF-SW77 came with an antenna connector. Portable receivers of today do not come with an antenna connector. DC (2527) (David Crystal, Israel, Making Contact, Nov World DX Club Contact via DXLD) INTRUDER WATCH et al. DES WALSH writes: With the lessening of occupancy by broadcasters on short wave I have noticed an increasing amount of intrusion by non-broadcast stations which seem to be getting worse as time goes by. The 6 and 7 MHz bands are particularly affected. Of course the odd SSB ‘fish-fone’ operator pair have been popping up in the bands for years, mostly Spanish / Portuguese/ Slav and some from UK / Ireland, they usually only occupy a frequency for a relatively short time and dial up another frequency later. What I am referring to are transmissions from RTTY and digital model such as STANAG. Just scanning through recent logs turns up the following: September 26: 1635- 7304 tone pulses, 7233 digital STANAG: 1715- 7220 digital STANAG, 7302 2x LSB Portuguese trawlers September 27: 1005 7219 digital STANAG, on-air to at least 1430, 7248 RTTY, on-air to at least 1430, 7301 RTTY October 1 1425 7219 RTTY, 5983 RTTY October 3 1545 7416 digital STANAG, 5938 RTTY, 5983 RTTY this causing severe interference to Hamburg Lokal Radio, off at 1600 October 4 1515 5983 RTTY, 7432 RTTY, 6142 RTTY: 1605 6104 RTTY, 6142 RTTY, 6177 RTTY October 6 0740 7429 RTTY, 7312 RTTY, 7416, noise not DRM, digital: 1545 21784 RTTY, 7429 RTTY, 7416 STANAG October 7 1530 7416 STANAG, 5983 RTTY, 21784 RTTY So you can seen deliberate ongoing incursion into broadcast bands. Up on the 25-27 MHz region I have been hearing the taxicab operators regularly in what sounds like Russian, mostly NBFM two-way conversations, short and usually a female at the base end. I hear them on many frequencies ending in 5 or 0 kHz from about 25300, below the 11 metre broadcast band and continually up into the CB bands to 2799, and a few around 28400 in the 10 metre amateur band. Reception is limited to daylight hours up to about 1600 at present. As I do not have a NBFM detector on my receiver I have to use the inferior method of ‘slope detection’ by tuning a kHz or two either side of centre frequency. [see also RUSSIA, re intruding taxis on 10m] The dropping of shortwave transmissions by many countries in recent years has meant that clear frequencies are appearing in the 6 and 7 MHz bands here, even at night. For instance at 1805 I note the following clear (I turn to SSB and note absence of carrier beat on a channel) 41 metres: 7220, 7230, 7250, 7285, 7300, 7305, 7325, 7335, 7345, 7365, 7370, 7380, 7405, 7440, 7445 49 metres: 5945, 5945, 5965, 5975, 5980, 5985, 6050, 6060, 6125, 6135, 6145, 6170, 6185 Quite a lot of clear channels at that time of the day. Once again I think it is a shame that some of the hitherto shortwave broadcasters could not have kept a 5 or 10 kW transmission on the air some of the time to cater for those of us not content to be stuck in a corner to a PC or with a Notepad/iPhone to listen to them. Hats off to Hamburger Lokal Radio for keeping going, though they could do with more power, 3 or 5 kW say, and no RTTY a couple of kHz higher that has been chopping up their signal. 90.2 MHz mystery, as previously mentioned when RTE were servicing mast here lately, main TX Mullaghanish FM was off the air as well as transposers and I happened to hear RTE Radio 1 on strange frequency 90.2 MHz. Local relay Crosshaven RTE2 is on 90.4 MHz and RTE1 Mullaghanish is on 90.0 MHz so most radios would not hear a 90.2 MHz transmission, but my car radio has better selectivity than normal it seems so I continue to hear the so far unidentified signal on in- between 90.2, and have not been able to ascertain its source. It does not operate the RDS ident for the station. I only hear it when on open high ground, usually clear to north and west. Chinese transmitters, CRI and some others (don’t understand any of its variations) are all over the SW BC bands these days, even on the 21 MHz band in the morning to drown out Radio Free Asia and others they do not like. Frequencies tend to change to follow the stations they are blotting out, for instance in the mornings I hear transmitters at 0600 on most of the following: 21520, 21530, 21550, 21565, 21645, 21690 and 21820, at 0630 also on 21785 and 21535. Later at 0930 I hear Chinese on 21530 and 21690, two programmes vying for attention usually. A lot of these transmissions are paralleled by transmissions in the 17 and 15 MHz bands at these times. End of wideband slow noise pulses? I have commented several times, not just in Contact, about the presence for a number of years of very wideband (3 to about 7 MHZ b/w) very slow pulse signals across much of the HF spectrum, from about 6.8 MHz to over 26 MHz, usually in three wide swathes, and unusually present on the higher frequencies all the time, day or night. I never got much response to my requests for information as to what the signal achieved or its source. Unfortunately it was at a fairly low level, though initially some years ago when it started was quite a few dB stronger and intermittent, with slightly different slow rates at times as if the network was being ‘tuned’ often ceasing abruptly for some hours or days. To hear it required a low noise location and good antenna system, definitely impossible in most urban locations today with their terribly high noise floor. Transmissions ceased lately on about May 18th for 10 days and then returned as normal until sometime early in September when they ceased, and I have not heard them since. So now I am left with some recordings and as of yet no explanations what the technology was (not over the horizon radar like NOSTRADAMUS, the old Russian ‘Woodpecker’, or the marine sweepers we hear, or the 50/100 kHz wide pulses that often appear on shortwave). I am puzzled as to what purpose the 3 wideband and very slow pulse transmissions served and how information could be derived from them and why the sudden ending lately. I have heard these pulses at other locations here in Ireland and in Spain too. It’s an unsolved mystery to me. The short waves still continue to fascinate me after about 50 years of listening, since I could reach to the knobs of a domestic PYE radio with shortwave bandspread tuning. I was hooked when I heard the voices from overseas, most of the station now silent unfortunately. Listening on a PC is not the same thrill (Des Walsh, Ireland, Making Contact, Nov World DX Club Contact via DXLD) EAS Test shortened NAB has just been informed by FEMA that the Nationwide EAS Test scheduled for November 9th at 1:00 p.m. (Central Time) has been shortened. The audio of the test will now last 30 seconds, instead of the originally planned two and a half minutes. This will result in a total test time of approximately 45 to 60 seconds (including the data burst tones). This change was made at the direction of Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano. NAB will be providing more information as they learn more and will be adjusting the messaging about the Nationwide EAS Test accordingly. The are also working on revising a new public service announcement to reflect this change that we expect will be available tomorrow. -- (David R. Alpert, 818-588-NEWS, Twitter: twitter.com/DaveAlpert Nov 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) DXing the nationwide EAS test, imminent --- At 1900 UT this Wednesday, as extensively publicized (noon MST). Only 30 seconds? Be quick about it, but tune across the AM or FM bands and find any stations which are NOT running the test. Or employ your Perseus to catch everything for later analysis. 73, (Glenn Hauser, 1804 UT Nov 9, dxldyg et al. via WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This prompt led to a lot of discussion on several lists, which I have not had time to edit (gh, DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ Audios de caribenhas [FM Trans-equatorial DX catches] Amigos, Depois de divulgar os audios das emissoras nordestinas em meu blog, agora vou começar a partir de amanhã a divulgar os audios das emissoras caribenhas que foram ouvidas por aqui nesse ano. Vou começar pela frequencia mais baixa, e amanhã, a primeira emissora a ter seu audio colocado no blog é a DBS radio de Dominica. Entrem lá e não deixem de escutar -- acessem o meu novo blog http://dxgaropaba.wordpress.com (Anderson José Torquato, Garopaba-SC Nov 2, radioescutas yg via DXLD) 1ST COURSE ON RADIOWAVE PROPAGATION FOR SPACE SYSTEMS 28-29 NOVEMBER 2011 - ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk - The Netherlands A European Space Agency workshop on radiowave propagation will take place from 30 November to 2 December 2011 in Noordwijk, Netherlands. Radio propagation is the study of the behaviour of radio waves when they are transmitted from one point to another on the Earth or into various parts of the atmosphere. Propagation is affected by the changes of water vapour in the troposphere and ionisation in the upper atmosphere. Understanding the effects of varying conditions has many practical applications, from choosing frequencies for international shortwave broadcasters, to designing reliable mobile telephone systems, managing radio navigation and operating of radar systems. The workshop will offer a forum for recent research and development on atmospheric radio channel modelling for mobile and fixed terminal satellite communication systems, satellite navigation systems, data downlink for Earth observation and space exploration systems, and radio science experiments. For further information, please visit: http://www.congrex.nl/11c23b/ Link: http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=EN_NEWS&ACTION=D&SESSION=&RCN=33985 (via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, Nov 3, DXLD) The geomagnetic field ranged from quiet to severe storm levels. On 31 October, an active period was observed near the time solar wind speed at ACE peaked at 450 km/s due to the effects of a favorably positioned coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS). On 01 November at approximately 0817 UTC, a shock arrival was observed at the ACE spacecraft and a sudden impulse (SI) of 18 nT was observed on the Boulder magnetometer at 01/0907 UTC. This transient passage brought geomagnetic activity up to severe storm levels at high latitudes and active to minor storm levels at mid latitudes. Persistent effects from the coronal transient carried over into 02 November with quiet to active levels and minor to major storm periods at high latitudes. Quiet activity prevailed on 03 - 06 November. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 09 NOV - 05 DEC 2011 Solar activity is expected to be at predominately low levels through the period. M-class activity is likely from 07 - 14 November with a slight chance for X-class activity all due to the complex nature of Region 1339. M-class probabilities decrease to a slight chance from 15 - 23 November, with a less than 10 percent chance for X-class activity after Region 1339 departs the visible disk on 14 November. Region 1339 is projected to return on 24 November, raising M-class probabilities for the remainder of the period. A slight chance for a proton event exists from 07 - 14 November due to the complex nature of Region 1339. Proton event probabilities decrease after Region 1339 departs the visible disk on 14 November. Probabilities will increase slightly on 24 November when Region 1339 is projected to return if it remains as magnetically complex as it is this rotation. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at normal to moderate levels throughout the entire forecast period. The geomagnetic field is expected to be generally quiet levels for the majority of the period. Quiet to unsettled levels are expected from 11 - 12 November due to a small, recurrent CH HSS and a weak CME observed on 08 November in association with a disappearing filament. Mostly quiet conditions are expected from 13 - 25 November. Quiet to unsettled conditions are expected on 26 - 27 November due to a recurrent CH HSS followed by a return to quiet levels for the remainder of the period. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2011 Nov 08 2040 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 2011-11-08 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2011 Nov 09 180 5 2 2011 Nov 10 180 5 2 2011 Nov 11 175 7 3 2011 Nov 12 175 10 3 2011 Nov 13 170 5 2 2011 Nov 14 170 5 2 2011 Nov 15 160 5 2 2011 Nov 16 160 5 2 2011 Nov 17 160 5 2 2011 Nov 18 155 5 2 2011 Nov 19 155 5 2 2011 Nov 20 145 5 2 2011 Nov 21 140 5 2 2011 Nov 22 135 5 2 2011 Nov 23 135 5 2 2011 Nov 24 140 5 2 2011 Nov 25 145 5 2 2011 Nov 26 145 7 3 2011 Nov 27 145 7 3 2011 Nov 28 145 5 2 2011 Nov 29 150 5 2 2011 Nov 30 155 5 2 2011 Dec 01 155 5 2 2011 Dec 02 160 5 2 2011 Dec 03 160 5 2 2011 Dec 04 165 5 2 2011 Dec 05 165 5 2 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1590, DXLD) ###