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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1639 HEADLINES: *DX and station news about: Algeria non, Angola, Argentina, Bhutan, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Congo DR non, Djibouti, Ethiopia non, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Israel, Kashmir, Kurdistan non, Kuwait, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands non, Niger, Serbia non, Sudan and non, Ukraine, USA, Vietnam non, Zimbabwe non SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1639, October 18-24, 2012 Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [confirmed on webcast] Thu 2100 WTWW 9479 [confirmed] Fri 0329v WWRB 5050 [confirmed at 0337] Sat 0130v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 [confirmed] Sat 0630 HLR 7265 Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 0800 WRMI 9955 Sat 1500 WRMI 9955 Sat 1630 HLR 7265 Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1730 WRMI 9955 Sun 0200 WTWW 5085 [NEW; as of last week; experimental?] Sun 0400 WTWW 5745 Sun 0800 WRMI 9955 Sun 1530 WRMI 9955 Sun 1730 WRMI 9955 Mon 0500 WRMI 9955 Tue 0930 HLR 5980 Hamburger Lokalradio Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or maybe 1639 if ready in time] 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://www.wrn.org/listeners/#world-of-radio WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS VIA WRN: http://www.wrn.org/listeners/customize-panel/addToPlaylist/98/09:00:00UTC/English OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org DAY-BY-DAY ARCHIVE OF GLENN HAUSER`S LOG REPORTS: Unedited, uncondensed, unchanged from original version, many of them too complex, minutely researched, multi-frequency, opinionated, inconsequential, off-topic, or lengthy for some log editors to manage; and also ahead of their availability in these weekly issues: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser DXLD YAHOOGROUP: Why wait for DXLD? A lot more info, not all of it appearing in DXLD later, is posted at our yg without delay. When applying, please identify yourself with your real name and location, and say something about why you want to join. Those who do not, unless I recognize them, will be prompted once to do so and no action will be taken otherwise. Here`s where to sign up: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxld/ ** AFGHANISTAN [non]. Voice of Unity transmitter sites??? Radio Muslim Mujahideen of Afghanistan Transmitter Sites??? Was it ever determined what transmitter sites were used by Voice of Unity: Radio Muslim Mujahideen of Afghanistan back in the 1980s? Cairo is suggested, and at the time VOA and/or RFE/RL transmitters were mentioned. I have two QSLs from Voice of Unity: 11490 & 17540 for January 1986 & January 1988 respectively. Frequencies listed on the cards also include 12230, 15685, & 17490 (Wendel Craighead, Prairie Village KS, Oct 14, cumbredx yg via DXLD) ** ALGERIA [non]. Two different programs of R. Algerienne this morning, Oct. 11: 0500-0558 7295 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg NWAf, confirmed: Holy Qur`an sce 0500-0558 9535 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg CEAf, UNIDENTIFIED sce in Arabic 0600-0658 9535 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg NWAf, UNIDENTIFIED sce in Arabic Please check the evening transmissions and tomorrow morning. Mystery to me! [Original schedule]: R. Algerienne in Arabic on shortwave from Oct. 1: 0400-0458 on 7295 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf 0500-0558 on 7295 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf 0500-0558 on 9535 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf 0600-0658 on 9535 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf 1800-1858 on 13820 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf 1900-1858 on 11775 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf 1900-1958 on 13820 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf 2000-2058 on 9375 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf 2000-2058 on 11775 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf 2100-2158 on 7495 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf 2100-2158 on 9375 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7295, Oct 11 at 0514 UT, poor signal in Qur`an from RTA via FRANCE; also intermittent het, presumably from an AM ham disturbed by RTA appearing on his favorite frequency. At least RTA is audible again, but propagation still hasn`t fully recovered, and inaudible on // 9535 (nothing much but REE/CR 9630 on 31m!), but Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, observed that RTA had a separate, unID Arabic service on 9535 during this same hour, not // 7295; which is it? Meanwhile, 7275 Tunisia had better signal but weaker modulation than 7295; and 7245 Mauritania still missing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Ivo, yes, seems, that they have started using also other services. Now 13820 kHz carries Chaîne 1, web feed having considerable delay to SW. 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, 1848 UT Oct 11, ibid.) Heard both 9375 and 11775 in 20-21 UT slot, latter suffered by co- channel Anguilla ministry. Now at 2100 UT I hear French from Algiers on 7495 kHz, and Maghreb-Arabic HQ as always on 9375 kHz, Oct 11. vy73 de (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) 7295, RTA via FRANCE, Oct 12 at 0526, poor signal with Arabic talk, but still no signal propagating on 9535 to ascertain whether it`s still // or a different program, a change as noted by Ivo Ivanov (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) French transmission is only 5 min 2000-2005 on 11775 Oct. 11 and this morning Oct. 12 0500-0505 on 7295 73! (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) ARGELIA (no): 9375, Radio Algerienne, relay Issoudun, Francia, 12 de octubre a las 2004 UT. Señal mediocre con QSB, baja modulación. Francés al parecer, aunque luego de 2005 lo que parecen ser recitaciones de suras del Corán. http://youtu.be/Iw6yTkeXh4A 73 (desde Montevideo, Uruguay, Rodolfo Tizzi, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7295, Oct 13 at 0517, Qur`an with heavy flutter from Issoudun, FRANCE site, while other transmitter on 9535 attained only a JBA carrier. Other reports say they are no longer // (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) FRANCE Noted TDA programs at 0535 UT Oct 13: 7295 HQ prayer, S=9+25dB proper signal. 9535 undermodulated in peaks S=8-9, 162 degrees antenna doesn't cover area around France Europe well! At 0557 UT station and frequency announcement in Arabic by female on 7295 kHz, {but 9535 kHz continued to be HQ prayer program ... } 7295 kHz TX switched OFF around 0757:10 UT. At 0558:05 UT 9535 kHz TX CUT OFF tambien. At 0559:09 UT 9535 kHz TDA program TX ON AIR again, but new antenna at 194 degrees, and much stronger signal at S=9+20dB level. Time pips at 0600 UT, station ID in Arabic by female. News in Arabic read by male and female (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi all, TDA/Radio Algerienne on Oct. 12 evening: 1800-1858 13820 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg CEAf 1900-1958 11775 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg NWAf 1900-1958 13820 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg CEAf, no signal, maybe cancelled? 2000-2058 9375 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg CEAf 2000-2058 11775 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg NWAf, no signal, maybe cancelled? 2100-2158 7495 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg NWAf 2100-2158 9375 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg CEAf, no signal, maybe cancelled? Only one frequency on the air tonight! 73! (Ivo Ivanov, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Today Oct 13, 19 UT both programmes on air: 11775 kHz is Radio Algérienne "Radio Koran" Algiers, 13820 kHz is Radio Algérienne "Chaîne 1" Algiers. Both similar S=9+20dB strength. 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) New updated schedule of Radio Algerienne as of Oct. 14: 0400-0458 on 7295 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf Arabic, new "Chaine 1" 0500-0505 on 7295 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf French nx 0505-0558 on 7295 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf Arabic HQ 0500-0558 on 9535#ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf Arabic, new "Chaine 1" 0600-0658 on 9535 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf Arabic HQ 1800-1858 on 13820 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf Arabic, new "Chaine 1" 1900-1958 on 11775 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf Arabic HQ 1900-1958 on 13820*ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf Arabic, new "Chaine 1" 2000-2058 on 9375 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf Arabic, new "Chaine 1" 2000-2005 on 11775*ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf French nx 2005-2058 on 11775*ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf Arabic HQ 2100-2105 on 7495 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf French nx 2105-2158 on 7495 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf Arabic HQ 2100-2158 on 9375*ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf Arabic, new "Chaine 1" # no signal on Oct. 14 * no signal on Oct. 12. Please for more additional monitoring. (Ivo Ivanov, DX Re Mix News, Bulgaria, via WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DXLD) 7295, Oct 16 at 0542 Qur`an from RTA via TDF Issoudun, FRANCE, but very poor signal, as it enters third week of reactivity, not as good as 7250 Vatican (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS. 4760 5.10 1635 Akashvani Port Blair, med annonseringar och bra ID 1659 innan s/off. En del splasch från 4765. HR 4760, 5.10 1635, Akashvani Port Blair, with announcements and a good ID at 1659 just before s/off. Some splatter from 4765. HR (Hans Östnell, Norway, SW Bulletin Oct 14, translated by editor Thomas Nilsson for DX LISTENING DIGEST) [continued from KASHMIR 4660] And Port Blair remained now with sweetish Indian music on 4760.010 kHz exactly. Previously had TWR Swaziland 4760.002 kHz co-channel, regularly around 1625 UT adopted, with a few bars of so typical TWR signature. Now at present 1701 UT still to be heard some South Asian flute music. 4760.010 kHz Pt. Blair. Now at present 1701-1730 UT still to be heard some South Asian flute and string music. 1729 UT final annmt by female. 1730:40 UT program audio end. 1730:55 TX OFF Oct 14 (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 15 via DXLD) ** ANGOLA. unID/Tentative Afrika --- 1289.805, 3.9 0130 UT, Tent R Soyo, Province of Zaire. First thought was, that this must be Brazilian, but step by step and with big help of HK it revealed to be African station. The best choice according to the language and other details was Angola. There is a new station in Zaire Province which was starting 06.07.2012. According to the RNA official site it should be on 1298 kHz, but HK found news in internet telling them to be on 1290. Anyway, it seems that Angola is building now up new transmitters us to hunt. Brazilian ESPN station seems to be now close to 1289.790, few days ago both stations carrier waves were visible at the same time. MKA (Mika Karimies located in Finland, ARC mv-eko Oct 15 via WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DXLD) ** ARGENTINA. 10590, dos barcos argentinos no identificados, al parecer en el Río de la Plata, 14 de octubre a las 1953. Acostumbrada charla sobre asuntos náuticos, lenguaje procaz por momentos (habitual). Comentarios sobre velero perdido en las inmediaciones de Montevideo y dificultades de su hallazgo. Menciones de las estaciones navales L2T (Argentina) y CWC (Punta Carretas Radio, Montevideo). http://youtu.be/G1baLN51yGA 73 (desde Montevideo, Uruguay, Rodolfo Tizzi, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. 13363.5-LSB, believe it`s radio feed to other transmitters, October 6 - talk show - time pip at 1030, anns said "Buenos Aires. Good signal (Bill Riches, WA2DVU, Cape May, NJ USA, Equipment: 7600, 20 meter beam, K9AY loop, NASWA yg via DXLD 12-41 VIA WORLD OF RADIO 1639) 13363.6, LTA, Argentina Armed Forces, Buenos Aires, 2050 12 Oct, LSB program relay "R Continental" OFF TX at 2056 UT -> ON TX at 2120, 33333. 73! (Mauro -Swl 1510- -IK2GFT- Giroletti, bclnews.it yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DXLD) Hi everyone, can anyone help me ID spanish program on 13363.55 Khz LSB going on now at 2330 UT. Quite good here in Montreal, but my Spanish is rather bad so any help will be welcome. Lots of talk about Buenos Aires so probably an Argentina feeder 73's (Gilles Letourneau, Montreal, Canada, Oct 16, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Seems like there was / is an Argentinian feeder of some sort around this frequency. Signal is pretty good into Georgia at 2342 UT October 16 in LSB mode (Robert LaFore, ibid.) FYI - - - posted Feb 25, 2012 to dxldyg: ``ARGENTINA. 13363.5 LSB, Radio Continental, 2330-2355, Spanish play-by-play futbol coverage. ID. Weak but readable. Feb 25 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest)`` (Ron Howard, CA, ibid.) Before I saw these posts, I was checking frequencies like this 2343- 2353: 13363.5-LSB, game coverage, Ecuador vs? few minutes left. Note: it`s not necessarily R. Continental being relayed this time. Several Bs As stations are available for these. I did not hear an ID, and hope someone did. Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Thanks Glenn for the info, After listening for more than an hour, I am pretty sure that Radio Continental is what was mentioned in the broadcast. 73's from (Montreal 0014 UT, Gilles Letourneau, ibid.) As I have comment in your video, this is the transmission of LS5 Radio Rivadavia of Buenos Aires, 630 kHz. 73 from Montevideo (Rodolfo Tizzi, WORLD OF RADIO 1639, ibid.) 13363.5-LSB, Oct 16 at 2346 fútbol game live coverage in Spanish, Ecuador vs somecountry, apparently only a few minutes left on the clock. Gilles Letourneau in Quebec had discovered it independently, I later found, refined to 13363.55-LSB, also heard in Georgia by Robert LaFore; and Rodolfo Tizzi, Uruguay, identified the station being relayed from Gilles` clip as LS5, Radio Rivadavia, 630. These LTA army feeds to Antarctica(?) pick up various Buenos Aires stations, so hearing an ID each time is necessary. Brian Alexander in Pennsylvania never heard an ID but it was still on past 0415 with non-sports programming (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13363.5 LSB, Unidentified Argentine Feeder, 2340-0115+, Oct 16-17, Spanish talk. Many mentions of Argentina. Time pips noticed at 0000 and 0100. Fútbol coverage after 0000 with the usual excited announcer yelling "G - O - A - L !!!!" Fair signal. Still here at 0415-0430 check with Spanish news program (Brian Alexander, PA, WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DX Listening Digest) 13363.5-LSB, unidentified. 0045 October 17, 2012. Soccer game. I though I had a live Radio Continental ID, but others say it was Radio Rivadavia, at least during the soccer coverage. Or could it have been joint coverage? (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, JRC NRD-535; ICOM IC-R75; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phaser; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non- active portable loop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. 15344.8, Oct 16 at 2347, RAE with much better signal than usual in normal non-game Spanish programming; checked after hearing 13363.5-LSB, q.v. Considerable flutter on the AM signal unlike the SSB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARMENIA. 1350, TWR in English to Israel. On three Saturdays in August and September, the last being on 8 Sept, a Protestant religious programme in English beamed to Israel has been heard between 1846-1916 UT on 1350 kHz at a time when TWR is scheduled. The name of the programme sounds like "Kol Henua" or "Heshua Ministries" and at the end of the programme a www address was given. TWR have said that there is no such broadcast in English! (Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, BDXC-UK Oct "Communication" magazine, MW report p20 via BCDX Oct 15 via DXLD) The TWR online schedule now shows that a 30 minute programme in English called "Kol HaYeshua" is aired each Saturday to Israel at 2146 local time (1846 UT) on 1350 kHz. Seems to be operated by Jerusalem- based Netivyah and is described as the "first Messianic Jewish radio station broadcasting in Hebrew to the Land of Israel" (Tony Rogers, UK, BDXC-UK Oct "Communication" magazine, MW report p20 via BCDX Oct 15 via DXLD)) 1350 kHz channel uses Kamo Gavar Noratus antenna of old USSR design: Kamo Gavar Noratus 1350 kHz 8mast directional sidefire MW SV4+4 antenna at 232 degrees azimuth towards Israel, built up in 1985 - 1990 era, location at: 40 24 07.50 N 45 11 53.34 E Image see (Wolfgang Büschel, BCDX Oct 15 via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. 2325, VL8T Tennant Creek NT, 1130 Radio Australia theme music on 7 October; 0910 to 1110 with strong audio, om chat and music on 12 October. 2485, VL8K Katherine NT 0900 to 1050, some excellent music 10 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4835, Alice Springs, NT 0950 to 0957 Pop music with good signal 12 Oct (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8, + XM - Cedar Key - South Florida, NRD 525D - R8A -E5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4835.0 kHz – VL8A - Australian Broadcasting Corporation Northern Territory Service, Alice Springs; tentatively the one here 1115-1130+ 10/12 with light music and male announcer; reported testing on this frequency 24/7 through 10/14; very poor. 73, (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Icom IC-R75 with active whip antenna, http://www.andyrobinsradio.com DX LISTENING DIGEST) So it might be back to 90m at night since 10/14? (gh, DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA [non]. 9965, Oct 14 at 1308, R. Australia`s Sunday-night religion show in English, about 4 seconds behind much stronger // 9580 Shepparton. Trouble is, this PALAU T8WH4 relay is supposed to be in Chinese for a sesquihour from 1300 per the latest revision 19 August, and also in Aoki. How come? 9965, Oct 15 at 1411, RA via PALAU is in English, but only intermittently as it`s really a language lesson in the Chinese service, rather than the full English service // 9580 as heard yesterday at 1308, by mistake? Quite readable signal despite proximity of 9980 blast from Brother Scare`s WWCR. My previous log omitted the [non], sorry (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BAHAMAS. 810, ZNZ // 1540, 0910 with gospel music. 12 October. 7 October at 0800 with weather conditions for the Greater Bahamas (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ZNZ?? Has been known as ZNS3 (gh, DXLD) ** BAHRAIN. 9745, 14/10 2210, Radio Bahrain, Arabic & Western pop & disco songs, weak modulated only on upper side of carrier (Giampiero Bernardini, Winradio Excalibur Pro, Ant: Maxi Whip by Capra (wire 8 meters with 1:32 balun)) & Wellbrook LFL 1010 loop; QTH: Bocca di Magra (La Spezia, Liguria) Italy, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH. 15105, Oct 11 at 1255, BB English very poor with flutter. Ivo Ivanov agrees that the Nepali at 1315 has been absent. 15505, Oct 11 at 1359, JBA carrier has just come on, presumably BB; can`t even make out IS or TS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Frequency change of Bangladesh Betar in Nepali to SoAs: 1315-1345 NF 7250 DKA 250 kW / 320 deg, ex 15105. First observed on Oct. 13. 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15505, Bangladesh Betar, 1425-1430*, Oct 13, tune-in to subcont music. Announcements in listed Urdu. Weak but readable. 15105, Bangladesh Betar, *1228-1300*, Oct 14, sign on with short test tone and into IS. Time pips at 1230 and opening English announcements. English news. Subcontinental music. Weak (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) 15505, Oct 14 at 1359, JBA carrier which was not there a minute earlier, presumably BB about to start Urdu. We are about ready for propagation conditions to recover and reach an October peak! BTW, Ivo Ivanov confirms, that just as we suspected, the missing Nepali broadcast at 1315-1345 on 15105 has in fact been moved to 7250 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15105, Bangladesh Betar, *1247:40-1303*, Oct 16, caught with a late sign on again. Tune-in to open carrier at 1227, but no programming until 1247 with English talk. Subcontinental music. Weak but readable (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) 15505, Oct 16 at 1359-1401, 1426 chex, no signal detectable from BB Urdu service. Was it on today? 15105, Oct 17 at 1251, very poor signal with hum, but typical of BB`s English broadcast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BELARUS. Radio Belarus to broadcast in Chinese, beginning in 2013 http://www.tvr.by/rus/press_bel.asp?date=12.10.2012&id=5965 (via Dr Hansjoerg Biener, Germany, Oct 16, DXLD) It`s in (Red?) Russian, so Google translate: CHINESE WILL BE THE EIGHTH LANGUAGE RADIO BROADCAST OF "BELARUS" IN 2013 According to the Internet site BelTA: http://www.belta.by - October 12, 2012 --- Eighth language radio broadcast of "Belarus" in 2013 will be Chinese, BelTA learned from the press service of the BTRC. Now station with half a century of broadcasting in seven languages. Radio "Belarus" in short and medium frequencies are taking in more than 20 countries in Eastern and Central Europe. Initially the transmission went out in Belarusian. Since 1985, began broadcasting in German, and in 1998 he heard the radio in English and Russian languages. Since 2006, began broadcasting in Polish, and from 2010 began to go on the air program in French and Spanish. Net radio broadcasting today - it's 16 hours of broadcasting in seven languages, as well as 10 hours of Internet broadcast in real time on the English daily. The programs - news and information-analytical, radio meetings with governmental, political, social and religious leaders, scientists, writers and musicians, masters of arts and crafts, athletes, and programs about the history, culture and spiritual values of the people of Belarus (via DXLD) So on SW and/or internet? (gh, DXLD) ** BELGIUM [non]. Updated schedule of BRB (former TDP) stations: [SEE ALSO separate entries under nons: ETHIOPIA, KURDISTAN, SUDAN] TDP Radio in DRM: [but see below: canceled] 0700-0800 6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu Mon 0800-0900 6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu Tue 0900-1000 6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu Wed 1000-1100 6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu Thu 1100-1200 6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu Fri 1200-1300 6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu Sat 1300-1400 6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu Sun Suab Xaa Moo Zoo in Hmong: 1130-1200 11570 TAI 100 kW / 250 deg to SEAs 2230-2300 7530 TAI 100 kW / 250 deg to SEAs Que Me in Vietnamese, new station 1200-1230 9930 HBN 100 kW / 318 deg to EaAs Fri Khmer Post Radio in Khmer: 1200-1300 9960 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg to SEAs Tue-Fri, ex Wed-Fri Khmer People Power Movement in Khmer: 1200-1300 9960 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg to SEAs Sat-Mon, ex Sat/Sun The Disco Palace in DRM: 1530-1630 15775 ISS 100 kW / 079 deg to SoAs 2000-2100 17875 GUF 100 kW / 311 deg to NoAm Radio Xoriyo in Somali from Sep. 21, ex KCH 100 kW / 180 deg: 1600-1630 17870 SOF 100 kW / 195 deg to EaAF Mon & Fri, POWERFUL SIGNAL (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, DX Re Mix News 16 October via DXLD) All transmissions of TDP Radio in DRM are cancelled: 0700-0800 on 6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu Mon 0800-0900 on 6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu Tue 0900-1000 on 6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu Wed 1000-1100 on 6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu Thu 1100-1200 on 6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu Fri 1200-1300 on 6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu Sat 1300-1400 on 6015 ISS 035 kW / 060 deg to WeEu Sun 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, Oct 17, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17870-17875-17880, Oct 17 at 2056 check, just in time to reconfirm DRM noise still here from The Disco Palace, TDP Radio via GUIANA FRENCH, at 20-21, despite TDP having cancelled its other DRM via FRANCE 6015, as the gradual decline of a flawed idea, DRM on shortwave, continues. 17875 so strong that it could be heard beyond the supposed 10-kHz bandwidth, a very rude noise infesting what used to be a strictly AM- mode SWBC band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BERMUDA. 1160, VSB3 Hamilton, OCT 9, 0000 - Fair, in the jumble, with female announcer to the top of the hour, "BBC World Service," followed by 5+1 pips, then a tee-up for an interview with an American Nobel-winning novelist, after the news. Checked an hour later and the station was in stronger (Brent Taylor VY2HF, Stratford PEI; RFSpace SDR-IQ with 16 x 60 corner-fed loop, NRC International DX Digest Oct 12 via DXLD) ** BHUTAN. 6035, BBS (presumed), 1235-1300, Oct 16. Fairly sure it was them mixing with PBS Yunnan (at times stronger than PBS!) with indigenous singing/chanting typical of BBS; in vernacular (with PBS in Vietnamese); mostly poor with moderate to heavy adjacent QRM; after 1300 blocked by adjacent QRM. BBS sounded as if they were running full power today. Very nice! https://www.box.com/s/c649m9c2yy580sfm806o contains edited MP3 poor quality audio of today's music (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Alinco DX-R8T and Par Electronics EF-SWL antenna, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BIAFRA [non]. via GERMANY. 11870, Radio Biafra, London. *2000- 2100*, Oct 11, sign on with local African music, opening English ID announcements and into vernacular talk. Some English talk. Good. Thur, Sat only (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** BOLIVIA. 3310, Radio Mosoj Chaski, Cochabamba, 1025 music, good signal with CHU down in the mud 9 October; 0940 om and yl brief music, mention "emisora", yl or child voice heard, 0944 possibly two women, 0947 music bridge, 0948 flauta and excellent vocal, different yl at 0958 mention of "linda", 10 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3310.00, Radio Mosoj Chaski, Cochabamba, well heard 10/17 at 0950 tune-in, nice plucked guitar and charango music, YLs singing huaynos. At 0958.30, segued to short instrumental Andes theme followed by canned ID by OM in Spanish. Very first words were “Mosoj Chaski” (did not hear ‘Radio’) and “onda media”. At 0959.30, live studio announcer in Spanish, “Ahora, son las 6 de la mañana” and then further Spanish talk. At 1002 came high-voiced YL in Quechua, long talk, possibly a sermon. Left at 1010 (Ralph Perry, Wheaton, Illinois, Drake R8B; Japan Radio NRD-545; Eton E1; Hallicrafters SX100, Dentron Super Tuner + Ameco PLF-2 + Palomar P-408 + Quantum Phaser antenna unit (customized for tropical bands), 355-foot bidirectional BOG positioned 150 deg / 330 deg for LA / SE Asia, Phased Longwire + Small Loop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4451.2, Radio Santa Ana, Santa Ana de Yacuma, 2340 on 4 October; 2245 fading in on 7 October; 2355 with om chat and then gone at 0000 5 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4699.95, Radio San Miguel, Riberalta, El Beni, noted 0922 on 10/10 with locutor Spanish announcements in progress. Great signal this morning, strong but some static. Noisy, even on the BOG, which tends to be a very quiet antenna. At 0925, into CP-flavored guitar ballad by OM with accordion backing. At 0928, the bassy-voiced live announcer again, in light echo, with this station’s signature “bottom- of-the-barrel sound” to announcements. With very upbeat tune in background, IDed as “... en Radio San Miguel-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l . . . !!“ Then a fútbol promo with famous soccer anthem, “Olé, Olé” along with marching drum accompaniment. Bridged back to morning folklórica program, with rhythmic strummed guitars, quenas and a male duo in harmony. 0932 tune/out. 60-METER BANDSCAN 10/15: A moderately okay morning for 60 meter propagation to LA, but a bit noisy; many frequencies below are approximations, only did precision measurements on those few where info might be significant: 4700a – 0945 noting Radio San Miguel, Riberalta, with good signal but fadey. Familiar OM with deep base voice and bottom-of-barrel sound quality, giving time/check. 4717a – 0955 R Yura, Aillu Yura, with fair signal also fading in/out. Huainos, weak. (Ralph Perry, Wheaton, Illinois, Drake R8B; Japan Radio NRD-545; Eton E1; Hallicrafters SX100, Dentron Super Tuner + Ameco PLF-2 + Palomar P-408 + Quantum Phaser antenna unit (customized for tropical bands) 355-foot bidirectional BOG positioned 150/330 degrees for LA/SE Asia, Phased Longwire + Small Loop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4716.63, Radio Yatun Ayllu Yura, Yura, 0920 to 0950 fading out, emisora with excellent music 12 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4788, 13/10 0910, BOLIVIA, RADIO EMISORA BALLAVIAN [sic], mx boliviana saludos ss aymara 32323 (Ivanildo Gonçalves Dantas, Brazil, radioescutas yg via DXLD) But any ID? This one hasn`t been reported for almost two years; LA SW Logs: ``4787.78v BOL R Emisoras Ballivián, San Borja [1555/2330- 0030](7.5-7.78) Nov10 C SS rel`` and it`s not even in Aoki or WRTH 2012. Not in WRTH 2011 or 2010 either --- compiled mid-2009, so the Nov 10 log may be questionable too. DXLD 10-29 did have a report of it in a bandscan, without any identifying details, on July 16-17, 2010 on the exact frequency as above. Currently on 4785v is R. Caiari, Brasil; on 4789v, R. Visión, Perú (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 5952.5, R Pío XII, Siglo XX, Llallagua, Potosí No logs last six or seven days, seems silent (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, Oct 12, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 5970, Sept 20 at 0333, R. Panamericana, La Paz, presumed, two OM talk in Spanish, poor (Richard W Parker, Pennsburg PA, Oct World DX Club Contact via DXLD) There`s a man who believes the Aoki list! Where no doubt he saw this so many years after the station was on 5970 that it`s not even in the LA SW Logs archive. IIRC, it was mainly on 6105. Two possibilities from current info, far more likely than this being reactivated and logged by no one else: R. Itatiaia, Brasil, which is active and would be in Portuguese; OR: REE Costa Rica relay, which is supposed to be on 5995 at this hour, but might well have mistakenly punched the morning frequency 5970, in which case it would have been easy to check a // (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Panamericana, 5970 AM 2217 Oct 13 - Good signal, Spanish talk (David Pete, Old Town, Maine, which is near the center of the state, Icom R-75 with a dual band (60 meter and 40 meter) dipole antenna, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5970, are you sure that is R. Panamericana from Bolivia? Was there any ID? There was one other report of this last month, but as far as I know they have been off the air for many years, despite continuing to be listed in Aoki. If there is something else in Spanish on 5970, it`s not in the listings at that hour. 73, (Glenn to David, via DXLD) I quickly checked after work last night at 2320 or so and I also heard weak Portuguese. When I get a chance to go over the recording I will keep you posted. [Later:] Hi Glenn, I just went over my notes again and I do have a question mark beside that entry, so it was tentative. I am sorry I missed that in transcribing them. I did make a recording of it that I plan on listening to again when I get a chance. I did also find a website for them, on it they list 6105 kHz for whatever that is worth (David Pete, ibid.) David, Yes, 6105 was their main frequency for much longer than 5970. The time you heard it was too early out here, but a couple checks later this evening found Brazilian Portuguese, weak signal on 5970, surely R. Itatiaia (Glenn, ibid.) Hi Glenn, OK, I went over my recordings this morning. On that particular frequency I listened for several minutes then I got pulled away but I left the recorder running for 20 minutes or so. When the recording starts, and this is the part I heard, the signal is strong, but the audio is terrible. It sound like the speaker is at a remote location or something. At any rate the audio is very hard to decipher, but I still think I can pick out Spanish words. After several minutes they go "back to the studio" and there are two guys speaking, definitely in Brazilian. I never caught an ID, although I don't understand Portuguese much at all, but it is almost certainly the Brazilian station. I apologize for the confusion on that (David Pete, ibid.) See BRAZIL 5970 ** BOLIVIA. 6154.94, Radio Fides, La Paz, weak but clear in Spanish, amid noise at 1015 on 10/10, OM news show with comentario. Into somber orchestral music at 1027 mixing with sermonizing YL. Very boring stuff, certainly not the usual engaging fare heard mornings out of the Andes, hi (Ralph Perry, Wheaton, Illinois, Drake R8B; Japan Radio NRD- 545; Eton E1; Hallicrafters SX100, Dentron Super Tuner + Ameco PLF-2 + Palomar P-408 + Quantum Phaser antenna unit (customized for tropical bands) 355-foot bidirectional BOG positioned 150/330 degrees for LA/SE Asia, Phased Longwire + Small Loop, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4754.85, Brasil, Radio Imaculada Conceição, Campo Grande, MS, 2350 on 4 October; noted 2320 on 8 October; 2309 om in Portuguese with one TC, yl and om alternating with brief comments; at 0450 with om Portuguese on 13 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4784.99, Radio Caiari, Porto Velho, nice signal at 0933 on 10/10, very slow sentimental love song by OM with guitar bass and orchestral, bolero sound. Male announcer at 0936 and then ad string in echo chamber, followed by more romantic music. OM announcer breaks in after a minute with more announcements. Clear ID as “5-40 na Rádio Caiari . . .” and into pop music. Totally gone at 1005 recheck. 60-METER BANDSCAN 10/15: A moderately okay morning for 60 meter propagation to LA, but a bit noisy; many frequencies below are approximations, only did precision measurements on those few where info might be significant: 4785 - R Caiari, Porto Velho, the Brazilian, doing well at 0955. 4865.02 – R Verdes Florestas, Cruzeiro do Sul, with piledriving signal 0959, OM talking in Indian language with religious music in background. Then at 1000, into pop hits with OM in what I think was Portuguese. [more below] 4877.92 – Rdif. Roraima, nice and strong with OM Portuguese live ads being read. Fine signal, no technical issues today. 4885 – R Clube do Pará, Belém, strong as usual, 1002. 4925.24 – ditto, R Educação Rural, Tefé, Brazilian booming at 1002. 4865.02-.03, Rádio Verdes Florestas, Cruzeiro do Sul, very nice big signal 10/17 at 0943 with light pop songs, OM in Portuguese vocals with small combo. At 0945, clear recorded ID by OM in light echo, caught in part: “Radio Verdes Florestas . . . onda tropical . . . . kilohertz . . . onda media . . . kilohertz . . . . a Cruz!” Then into live religious program. Still fine at 1014 recheck, big signal with mushy modulation, and holding up past 1032 (Ralph Perry, Wheaton, Illinois, Drake R8B; Japan Radio NRD-545; Eton E1; Hallicrafters SX100, Dentron Super Tuner + Ameco PLF-2 + Palomar P-408 + Quantum Phaser antenna unit (customized for tropical bands), 355-foot bidirectional BOG positioned 150 deg / 330 deg for LA / SE Asia, Phased Longwire + Small Loop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4878.2, Brasil Rdif Roraima, Boa Vista RR, 0300 with distorted signal in SSB, best in AM 12 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4894.88, Brasil, Radio Novo Tempo, Campo Grande PR, 0000 to 0010 enjoyable music under CODAR on 11 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 5970, Oct 15 at 2355, very poor signal in enthusiastic Brazilian Portuguese tho maybe not a play-by-play. About the same at 0140 Oct 16, no QRM. Surely it`s R. Itatiaia. I was checking here, since there had been two unrelated reports lately of ``Radio Panamericana`` in Spanish from Bolivia on 5970, which I can only assume were misled by Aoki continuing to list this long-gone station which was mainly on 6105 instead. If one really hears Spanish on 5970, another possibility is that the REE Costa Rica relay has punched up the wrong frequency, which is registered only for 11-15 UT; something they have been caught doing in several other cases, e.g. 5995 instead of 5965 after 04 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 6059.73, Super Rádio Deus é Amor, 0805-0825, Oct 11, Portuguese religious talk. Fair. Weak // 6120.01, 9565.06, 11764.91. (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** BRAZIL. 6180, Oct 11 at 0515, RNA with VG signal, but music is distorted since they messed with their audio processing; // 11780 is JBA. Maybe should call this RNB, as others have reported Brasília programming much of the time rather than Amazônia, and I haven`t really heard a specific ID. 6180, Oct 12 at 0526, RNB/RNA, only fair signal with heavy trans- equatorial flutter, while 11780 was inaudible, MUF down around 10 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Transmissões clandestinas em 7170 kHz H[o]j[e] gravei as transmissões para que os colegas tenham uma idéia de como xegam [sic] os sinais aki [sic] em Minas Gerais (vale do Aço). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ_1poXcmPo&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85v2pfE-NZ4&feature= youtu.be O primeiro video mostra o sinal com música que tocou o dia todo até as 18:00 hs quando entrou a modulação com ruido que ocupa +/- 30 kHz da banda (Wesley Eletron, 13 Oct, radioescutas yg via dXLD) Published on Oct 13, 2012 by Wesley Eletron RADIO DESCONHECIDA INVADINDO A FAIXA DE RADIOAMADORISMO EM 7170 KHZ AM, QUALIDADE DE SINAL SUPER ESTAVEL SEM FADING E OTIMO AUDIO COMO UMA BOA BROADCAST, PENA QUE ESTA TRANSMITINDO ONDE NAO DEVIA, NA FAIXA DE RADIOAMADORISMO EM VEZ DE ESTAR NUMA FAIXA DE BROADCAST. SINTONIA FEITA EM MG NO VALE DO AÇO NA HORA TAVA COM SINALAÇO NO IC718, APOS AS 17:00 QUANDO A PROPAGAÇÃO MELHORA CONSEGUI TAMBEM SINTONIZAR COM SINAL BOM NO RADIO ZENITH (QUE HAVIA TENTADO SINTONIZAR DURATE O VIDEO) SO COM A ANTENA INTERNA TELESCOPICA. OBS: DEPOIS QUE EU GRAVEI ESTE VIDEO QUEM ESTAVA REALIZANDO A TRANSMISSÃO TIROU A MUSICA POR VOLTA DAS 18:00 E MODULOU O TRANSMISSOR COM UM RUIDO QUE OCUPAVA 30 KHZ DA BANDA OU SEJA A INTENÇÃO DO AUTOR É MESMO PITIMBAR A FAIXA. UMA PENA. POSTEI OUTRO VIDEO COM A TRANSMISSÃO (Eletron, ibid.) Qualidade de áudio excelente. Não há nenhuma identificação? Eu tentei sintonizar aqui em Porto Alegre, mas pelo menos no meu rádio não consegui (Rogerio Guedes, ibid.) ** BRAZIL. Re ZANZIBAR 11735: Subject: [dxld] 11735 TWR Brazil Correct Glenn. The SW transmitters are located in Santa Maria, State of Rio Grande do Sul, South Brazil. They have a DX program called "Amigos do Rádio" produced in partnership with DX Clube do Brasil (DXCB), on Wednesdays 1430 Z and Sundays 1930 Z at 800 kHz (Bonaire), 9530 kHz and 11735 kHz. Here the map on TWR Brazil website: http://transmundial.communiplex.com.br/noticias/images/mapa_cobertura_rtm_site02.gif DX Clube do Brasil: http://www.ondascurtas.com (Flávio PY2ZX Archangelo, DX LISTENING DIGEST) BRAZIL, St. Maria tx parque http://www.transmundial.com.br/eventos.php3?id_evento=33&pg=1 B__R Transmundial SMR Santa Maria, 29 44 21.09 S 53 33 18.29 W http://binged.it/V5tbfU Trans World Radio, RS, Brasilien --- Trans World Radio (TWR) ist ein weltweit arbeitendes Radio-Missionswerk. Es wurde von US- amerikanischen Missionaren gegründet und strahlte seine erste Radiosendung am 24. Februar 1954 unter den Namen Stimme von Tanger in Richtung Europa aus. Rio Grande do Sul Santa Maria Rádio Trans Mundial ZYE 857 OC 11.735 Khz Em Rede Santa Maria Rádio Trans Mundial ZYE 857 OC 5.965 Khz Em Rede Santa Maria Rádio Trans Mundial ZYE 857 OC 9.530 Khz Em Rede (Wikipedia tag in G.E.) http://www.transmundial.com.br/ http://www.transmundial.com.br/programacao.php3 http://transmundial.communiplex.com.br/noticias/images/mapa_cobertura_rtm_site02.gif 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) ** BRAZIL. 11764.9, ZYE726 Rádio Super Deus é Amor [sic], Curitiba, 2230-2259 10/12, a rather frantic religious service in Portuguese with weeping female congregants answering questions posed by the male preacher; nice full ID at 2300 mentioning medium- and shortwave frequencies; S9+20db. 73, (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Icom IC- R75 with active whip antenna, http://www.andyrobinsradio.com DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11815.0, ZYE440, Rádio Brasil Central, Goiânia; 2306 10/14, ID by male announcer into Brazilian pop followed by the Beach Boys’ "Surfin’ USA”; very good level. 73, (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Icom IC-R75 with active whip antenna, http://www.andyrobinsradio.com DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Hello everyone, while tuning the 19 meter band noticed a signal on 15191.4 after listening with fair level. ID as Rádio Inconfidência from Brazil. Fair signal at 2315 UT on October 16th 2012 (Gilles Letourneau, Montreal, Canada, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BULGARIA. 963, BNR Radio Shumen is the only station that was closed on Sept 30th. On the frequency there are still two low-powered stations broadcasting the Horizont program. Varna 774 kHz and Stara Zagora 873 kHz are still on the air. Closure for these stations may be postponed til January 1st 2013. (11.10.2012 Patrick Robic in Austria via Bengt Ericson, ARC Information Desk 15 Oct edited by Olle Alm via DXLD) ** BULGARIA. QSL from KBC Radio, 9400: apparently there was a problem with my original upload of this. Try it now: http://www.w4uvh.net/KBC9400.doc You may need to use Open Office writer to see the grafix. This reminds us that another test to North America is coming not this weekend, but UT Sunday Oct 21 at 0000-0200 via Bulgaria on 9500 instead (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BULGARIA. The Mighty KBC will run another test Sunday Oct. 21, 2012: 0000-0200 NF 9500 SOF 100 kW / 306 deg to NoAm, ex 9400. But 9500 CNR-1! (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, DX Re Mix News 16 October via WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DXLD) See also nons: ETHIOPIA, KURDISTAN, SUDAN relayed via SOFIA (gh) ** CAMBODIA [non]. VOA News - English: US DEFENDS BROADCASTS TO CAMBODIA http://m.voanews.com/english/rss.jsp?rssid=25245191&page=1&item=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.voanews.com%2Frss%2Fmobiletech.aspx%3Farticleid%3D1525532&show=full&cid=25228001 VOA News (12 Oct) --- The U.S. is rejecting allegations by Cambodian officials who say U.S.-funded broadcasters are supporting the opposition. US Embassy spokesman Sean McIntosh disputed the accusations Friday, telling VOA Khmer that Radio Free Asia and the Voice of America are not in place to be ”anti-Cambodian.” ”U.S. funding of Radio Free Asia and the Voice of America is not anti- Cambodian and this is not to support the opposition," said McIntosh. "It is to support the provision of objective and newsworthy material to the Cambodian public." The Cambodian government called reporters from both U.S.-funded agencies into a closed-door meeting earlier this week to discuss matters of ”cooperation.” Both Reuters and the French news agency quoted sources at the meeting who said officials reproached RFA and VOA for their reports. Reuters' sources said the Cambodian government also threatened unspecified legal action. Government spokesman Phay Siphan told VOA Khmer Friday no threats were made. "We are just talking. We are not doing anything," he said. "The government is not planning any immediate action." Prime Minister Hun Sen and his ruling Cambodian People’s Party have faced increasing international criticism over its treatment of rights workers and journalists, and the U.S.-based Freedom House has declared the country’s media environment ”not free.” The Broadcasting Board of Governors, the oversight body for both RFA and VOA, condemned this week's meeting as ”a blatant attempt to discourage objective reporting on the Cambodian government.” VOA Khmer service chief Chris Decherd said in a statement that VOA "will continue broadcasting and reporting in the same objective and professional manner we have done for more than five decades," adding Cambodians "deserve quality news that they can trust." Earlier this month, the Cambodian courts sentenced Beehive Radio owner Mam Sonando to 20 years in prison for allegedly helping foment a secessionist movement. Beehive Radio carries programming for both VOA and RFA (via Tony Ashar, Indonesia, DXLD) ** CANADA. NO MORE FRENCH ON 540 FROM CANADA --- As well as this [CBEF going to 1550, q.v.], on Oct. 15th, CBC launched its 5 FM repeaters in the Gaspe that will replace 540 CBGA-1 New Carlisle. http://www.radio-canada.ca/regions/Bas-st-laurent/dossiers/detail.asp?Pk_Dossiers_regionaux=593 Google translation: "Radio-Canada will operate the new transmitters in Chandler, New Carlisle, New Richmond, Percé and Port Daniel "From October 15 , Radio-Canada will improve service to listeners Première Chaîne the Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine, especially those who live in the Baie-des-Chaleurs. These new transmitters will signal to the Première Chaîne migrate to FM listeners ensuring better reception. According to Denis Langlois, primarily French Services in Eastern Quebec, "This announcement confirms the commitment of CBC / Radio-Canada to occupy a prominent place in the regions. Consistent with the five-year strategy of the Company (2015: Everyone, for all), this is a new milestone in the eventual enrichment provides Internet- Radio and Television. "Percé : 104,5 FM Chandler : 93,3 FM New Carlisle : 98,7 FM New Richmond : 104,3 FM Port-Daniel : 92,5 FM" CBGA-1 actually transmits north from New Brunswick. No word when 540 will go off air (Andy Reid Peterborough, Oct 16, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DXLD) ** CANADA. Gents, CBC is selling the CHFA AM site. I have read on one of the Canadian boards that there is a for-sale sign right on the property. I believe it is already sold. CHFA will go dark. Cheers a (Andy Reid, Ont., Oct 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 680 Edmonton AB; cf 12-41, moved to FM (gh, DXLD) ** CANADA [and non]. ANOTHER NIAGARA AM STATION TO CLOSE - CJRN It has been a year or so since CHSC 1220 was forced off the air by the CRTC. It is happening again now to 710 CJRN: http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2012/2012-550.htm CJRN has been a tourist station for a number of years now, but repeated infractions have led to the decision. CJRN must be off the air by Nov. 30/2012 (Andy Reid, Ont., dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) CJRN 710 Niagara Falls ON has had its renewal denied for reasons of ongoing non-compliance with terms of licence. Must be off by Nov 30. 1220 CHSC in nearby St. Catharines ON went the same route, as did 88.1 CKLN Toronto WOR and Cuba Rebelde will dominate. I have been close to IDing Mexico there, so that`s perhaps my greatest hope, but there are a few high- powered US stations I also need. We`ll see if / how this plays out (Saul Chernos / ONTARIO, Oct 10, amfmtvdx at qth.net via DXLD) And I thought it was only the FCC which let chronic violations go on forever (Russ Edmunds, 15 mi NNW of Philadelphia, WTFDA-AM via DXLD) When I was in Batavia, NY for the 2004 NRC Labor Day Weekend convention, CJRN was running tourist promos for stuff that had happened in July (Steve Francis, Alcoa, Tennessee, ibid.) At least they were legal ;-} (Russ Edmunds, 15 mi NNW of Philadelphia, ibid.) Hi All: Guess that means after 11/30 there will be but one AM left on the Niagara Peninsula, CKTB, 610, St. Catharines. At one time there were five, the short-lived 530 in Ft. Erie, CKTB, CJRN, CHSC-1220 and CHOW, 1470, Welland. I wonder how long it will be before all their smaller market AMs are gone. 73 (David Faulkner, IRCA via DXLD) ** CANADA. CKGM 990 OFF THE AIR --- Since August 31, CKGM (TSN 690) in Montreal has been simulcasting on 990 kHz (their old frequency) and 690 kHz (their new frequency). 990 has been operating at the night- time power & pattern both day and night during this period, as they break in the new transmitter and antenna on 690. This morning, and still at this point (4:30 pm EDT), 990 is off the air. I don't know if this is permanent or not.? They were scheduled to run simulcast for about 3 months, but for now 990 is off. Worth checking out (Sheldon Harvey, Radio H.F. - Canada`s specialist in radio communications, http://www.radiohf.ca Oct 16, NRC-AM via DXLD ** CANADA. MOTHBALLS COMING OFF 1550 AM --- Since Windsor, Ontario's CBC Radio One service migrated to the FM band, 1550 AM has been in the clear here. But those days are ending, with today's decision by the CRTC. This time, the service will be in French. 1. The Commission approves the applications by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) to amend the broadcasting licence for the radio programming undertaking CBEF Windsor. The first application (2012-0631-8) is to revise the technical parameters of the station in order to change the frequency from 540 to 1550 kHz, to increase the daytime transmitter power from 2,500 to 10,000 watts (nighttime transmitter power from 5,000 to 10,000 watts) and to relocate the antenna site to Maidstone. 2. The second application (2012-0655-8) is to amend the broadcasting licence for CBEF by adding an FM transmitter in Sarnia to rebroadcast the programming of the CBC's national French-language network service La Première Chaîne. The new transmitter will operate at 98.3 MHz (channel 252A) with an average effective radiated power of 2,320 watts (non-directional antenna with an effective height of antenna above average terrain of 113.7 metres). (via Harry van Vugt, Windsor, Ontario, Oct 16, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DXLD) CBC FREQUENCY SHIFTS IN WINDSOR The CRTC has *approved* the CBC's application to move their Premiere Chaine French-language station in Windsor, Ontario from 540 to 1550. They'll be using the former CBE English-language transmission facility. (as you may remember, they found the 540KHz towers needed replacement, but the 1550 site was in good repair when CBE moved to FM last year & remains in good condition) I included the WTFDA list as they also received approval for a relay on 98.3 in Sarnia. It seems the 1550 directional pattern doesn't adequately cover that community. The Sarnia transmitter will operate at about 2.3 kW (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, 16 Oct, NRC-AM via DXLD) See also above 540 entry Even with that Sarnia FM, they won't have anything like the coverage (to the north and east) that they have had on 540. About 40 years ago, we went on a weekender to Kincardine, ON (well up north, a little south of the base of the Bruce Peninsula). The motel room had a radio, and only one station came in well - CBEF (needless to say, the family did not listen to the radio much!). In retrospect, I don't know why CKLW, CFCO and WJR were not there - they should have made it, despite their directional pattern (CKLW and CFCO) and distance (WJR). I wonder it CKWW, now on 580, could use their same array in a move to 540, which would certainly allow for a power increase (as they would not have to protect WTCM anymore). Of course, the move I would like to see would have CFCO move to 540 (where WRDT's IBOC would not destroy their signal), so that CKLW's talk format could go out on 630 diplexing CKLW's existing array near Harrow (with plenty of power). CKWW could then take its oldies to 800, then swap the callsigns "The Big 8 - Solid Gold CKLW" (I can hear the "20/20 News" teletypewriter in my head already). (Robert Grant, WTFDA via DXLD) ** CANADA. 1610, Oct 13 at 0535 UT, Spanish music from NE/SW, ``la mejor música``. Must be CHHA Toronto, and coming in much better than usual (which is often: not at all). For a change I do not hear any IBOC noise from 1600 KATZ St Louis MO in the same direxion, which is a big help. Turned it off or long fade? [At same time I am monitoring another Canadian[?] on 6925: see NORTH AMERICA.] 0537 fade-up with ``La Bamba``; 0545 quick CHHA ID in English! Then Spanish with e-mail partially: ``arroba 1610.am`` and ``Voces Latinas, La voz de la comunidad``. 0547 plug advertising on station, phone 702- 2953 for sales; another phone with 416-AC. Still going at last check 0610, but now IBOC QRM is back (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1610, ONTARIO, CHHA, Toronto. 1044 October 16, 2012. Tune-in to Spanish chatter, then male, “16-10 AM, Voces Latinas” and female talk. Fair on peaks with the local Tampa International Airport TIS nulled, and a weak Anguilla having faded out a few minutes earlier. I rarely hear this one from this side of Florida (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, JRC NRD-535; ICOM IC-R75; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phaser; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. Format change *to* classical?! Well. That doesn't happen very often these days. CFEQ-FM 107.1 Winnipeg has applied for permission to flip formats *to* classical. They're currently a Christian rock outlet (and apparently are not being very financially successful with it) – (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, Oct 12, WTFDA via DXLD) Imagine if US stations had to get approval for format changes?? (Russ Edmunds, ibid.) (there are those who believe they do...) **I believe** (Bill will have to chime in on this) that approval is no longer generally necessary in Canada. However, CFEQ was licensed as a "specialty" station; I don't think you can transfer between specialty categories without approval. (that's what would be happening here, they'd remain a specialty station but in a different specialty). If I'm not mistaken, you can't transfer out of specialty altogether without triggering a call for competing applications (so CFEQ couldn't flip to country without risking losing its frequency to someone else) – (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, ibid.) ** CANADA. 740, Oct 11 at 0528 UT under KRMG is ``Don`t Sit Under the Apple Tree``, WWII (or WWI?) song, also making a SAH of about 7 Hz. Hard to imagine this being anything but CFZM Toronto, with NOStalgia format. NRC AM Log shows only a few other very weak and very far stations on 740 with that. As if trying to compensate for absence of CFRX from Toronto; never mind CFRB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 6070, Oct 11 at 0517, no signal, not even a carrier from CFRX Toronto. While higher bands were blacked out, still getting other Canadians well on 6110, 6160, 6160.9, so suspect CFRX off the air; altho it is considerably closer than any of them vs possibly disrupted, expanded skip zone. Europe was still in too, e.g. Austria 6155, and Africa, Chad 6165. Anyhow, CFRX could be heard again at 1252 with Canadian-accented discussion aboot Lance Armstrong, cost of elexion campaigns (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 6175 & 9555, Oct 11 at 0515, cannot hear VOV relay on either frequency --- which means it is probably on correct 9555 tonight, just not propagating, as Sackville NHK was inbooming on 6110 and 31m had REE CR as the OSOB. 6175, Oct 13 at 0514, Sackville stuck here again tonight for VOV relay, Vietnamese music, instead of correct 9555. 6175, Oct 14 at 0513, VOV relay in Vietnamese is surprisingly weak, not enough to elbow aside the ACI from 6180 Brasil, and *much* weaker than the other Sackville relay, NHK English inbooming on 6110. 6175 is of course the wrong frequency, supposed to be on 9555 after 0430. Three different azimuths are listed in Aoki: 6110 253 degrees, 6175 212 degrees, 9555 240 degrees, all 250 kW. Since they fail to change frequency to 9555, do they also fail to change antenna azimuth? Probably, but surely that is not enough to account for the wide disparity in strength tonight. The 6175 transmitter must not be up to full power, but who cares? It only needs to last for two more weeks before oblivion, then in B- 12, Guiana French takes over this frequency-hour (6175, not 9555 unless they SNAFU too), while the preceding Spanish at 0400-0428 moves from Sackville to WHRI. 01-03 in English and Vietnamese will also be GUF, 0300-0330 Spanish HRI, and current 0330-0400 English unaccounted for. 6175, Oct 17 at 0458, VOV relay VG signal on wrong frequency instead of 9555. The RCI Action Committee reports that dismantling Sackville has already begun. Tnx to Horacio Nigro for pointing out this entry of Oct 16: ``STOP CBC FROM DISMANTLING OUR TRANSMITTERS TO THE WORLD In the next few days the transmission lines that allow Canada to broadcast to the world will be taken down one by one. For more than 67 years Radio Canada International’s shortwave transmitters have guaranteed that Canada’s voice would be heard despite the Cold War, despite natural disasters, and Internet blocking. Now this efficient, cost effective communications tool will be dismantled by Canada’s public broadcaster CBC/Radio-Canada. Those of us who understand how important this lifeline to the world is to world communication are sick to our stomachs at the rapidity with which the broadcaster wants to make the transmitters disappear. Shortwave broadcasts of Radio Canada International ended on June 24, 2012. Other countries’ use of our transmitters will end on October 31. But CBC/Radio-Canada has already started the process of dismantling unused transmitters, and will start taking down still functioning transmission lines very shortly. Why are they in such a hurry? [read the rest of the illustrated article:] http://rciaction.org/blog/2012/10/16/stop-cbc-from-dismantling-our-transmitters-to-the-world/ Please contact Canada’s Heritage Minister James Moore james.moore@parl.gc.ca and tell him to stop CBC/Radio-Canada from dismantling our transmitters.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHAD. 6164.96, RNT, *0452-0600+, Oct 11, abrupt sign on with French talk. Afro-pop music at 0455. African hi-life music. Weak under Japan at 0452 but signal abruptly came up at 0455 covering Japan (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) 6165, Oct 11 at 0516, fair signal in French news from RNT. Brian Alexander and Ron Howard have observed this one cutting on and off the air at unpredictable times (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6164.96, RNT, *0436-0540, Oct 14, sign on with African hi-life music. French talk. Afro-pop music. Fair to good. Very weak co-channel QRM from Japan. 6164.96, RNT, *0505-0535, Oct 15, abrupt sign on with French talk. Local drums at 0529. Fair. 6164.96, RNT, *0505-0530, Oct 17, carrier on at 0501 but sign on at 0505 with Euro-pop music. French talk. Afro-pop music. Local drums at 0529 and ID at 0530. Fair to good (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** CHILE [non?]. Horacio Nigro, Uruguay, passed on this news to the DXLD yg at 2234 UT October 12: ``Chile 12365U Radio Cooperativa, Santiago with FIFA soccer Ecuador vs. Chile right now. UNID relaying Radio Cooperativa, Santiago with soccer FIFA match Ecuador vs Chile. (DXers Marcos Cox, Luis Valderas and others in FB via Horacio Nigro, Uruguay, Oct 12)`` I checked it ASAP and replied: ``Coming in well here at 2245 Oct 12 with quick CODAR pulse interference. Coastal stations around Australia may not be too pleased. Glenn, OK`` This was based on the 2002 Klingenfuss Shortwave Frequency Guide book, showing on 12365: VIB Brisbane Radio, VID Darwin, VIM Melbourne, VIP Perth, VIT Townsville. And also a general entry which Wolfgang Büschel pointed out: ``Frequency: 12365,0 [kHz] Call: worldwide Station: ship stations simplex freq. Country: Modulation: SSB`` ``Glenn, Could you hear any soccer, after all? Others DX-friends elsewhere report no sportive broadcast. But some traffic instead. Maybe the match ended before they began tuning the frequency. I am not currently listening to the SW. I was simply relaying the info. 73 Horacio Nigro, Uruguay`` ``I only had time to check it very briefly, hearing a broadcast conversation in Spanish, but not what it was about. At least I heard no gooooooal. Glenn`` Next check after 0100 Oct 13, it was no longer heard. Certainly a frequency worth further checking. Ahh, for the good ole days, when R. Cooperativa was a constant and intentional AM SWBC station, 9630? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DX LISTENING DIGEST) En 12 365 KHz USB hay una emisión pero no puedo identificar qué es; apenas se escucha y por acá a las 2325 UT. No parece un partido, mas bien parece dos radioaficionados conversando (Ernesto Paulero, Argentina, Oct 12, condiglist yg via DXLD) 12365-USB, Oct 13 at 2219, no signal from R. Cooperativa relay unlike 23.5 hours earlier, nor at 2359, 25.25 hours later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHILE. ¿CÓMO SE ORGANIZA EL MAPA DE DE LA RADIODIFUSIÓN EN CHILE? - -- Catalina Gaete radio-comunitaria Cuatro son los grupos económicos que hoy dominan la radiodifusión en Chile, luego de la reciente adquisición del Grupo Luksic de las radios Horizonte y Oasis, a pesar de los reparos que manifestó en abril de este año la Fiscalía Nacional Económica. Según académicos y radioemisores, las radios comunitarias serían las mayores perjudicadas, junto a la ciudadanía, que ve trasgredido su derecho a la información, y los daños que transacciones como estas traen a la misma democracia. . . FUENTE: Diario Electrónico y escudo Universidad de Chile http://radio.uchile.cl/noticias/175344/ (Via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, DXLD) ** CHINA. EAST JAMMERSTAN: 9525, Crash & Bang Music Jammer; 2056-2057*, 5-Oct 9905, Crash & Bang Music Jammer; 2052-2100*, 5-Oct; Chinese program slightly above jammer. Jammer went off at 2100, but CC program continued, as listed, if Radio Free Asia in via Palau! Still no jamming at 2105. Jammer oops? Both weak (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) Firedrake Oct 11, before 1300: 15550, very poor at 1254; none in the 17s, 16s, 14s, 13s, 12s Propagation over hi-latitude paths is still quite degraded After 1300: 9680, poor at 1307, while not much else co-channel instead of usual collision of RTI, CNR1 jamming, RRI; same at 1349 Firedrake Oct 12 before 1400: 12980, good at 1357, none higher 12320, good at 1357 Firedrake October 13: 7445, fair at 1317 in mix with CNR1 echo jamming, RTI, etc. 9680, also tried to detect FD, but not at 1317, in mix of RRI and China radio war. No complete search but likely fruitless above 12 MHz where very few signals were propagating. Firedrake Oct 14 at 1253-1257: NONE found 12-18 MHz, in continuing degraded propagation conditions. However, we noted CRI English after 1300 fair and fluttery on 13790 which is 308 degrees from Wulumuchi, EAST TURKISTAN. Firedrake October 15, before 1300: 1251-1254, quick search found none from 12 to 18 MHz. At 1258, however, 7445 was mostly FD rather than CNR1 jamming or RTI. And however, CRI English via Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN was well audible at 1255 going into language lesson on 17490 and almost synchronized 13645. At 1359-1400, still no FD 14-17 MHz Firedrake Oct 16 before 1400: 12670, poor with flutter; none in the 13s, 14s, 15s, 16s, 17s --- Unless the het between very weak 15500 and 15502 at 1351 was FD vs V. of Tibet, likely. Firedrake October 17, before 1300, all with flutter: 16920, good at 1251; none in the 17s, 18s, 11s, 10s 16100, good at 1251 15550, good at 1250; none in the 14s 13920, very good at 1247 12980, good at 1248 12320, good at 1248 Before 1500: none found 18-11 MHz at 1452-1455 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Unheard for a few days with depressed propagation, but MUF is at least up to 12 MHz Oct 12 at 1405 for the 8-kHz-multiple spurs from CNR1 jammer on 11760; detected at least carriers on 11728, 11736, 11744, 11752, 11768, 11776, 11784, 11792, and causing hets to any stations within 2 kHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA. 14950+, Oct 16 at 2348, still no sign of Salem Stereo, despite enhanced signals from even deeper South America on 13363.5- LSB, 15191.4v, and 15345 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CONGO DR [non]. [Re 12-41:] Hi Glenn, recently I found a log La Voix du Sahel 9705 at 1800 in a German list; now I read about Radio Okapi 9705 at 1730 in DXLD. I have some doubts: In fact 9705 usually carries R. Ethiopia External Service French news at 1730 and a final announcement in French at 1800: "Radio E-thio-pie" - quite similar to "O-ka-pi"... After 1800 there might be a short period of dead air until clandestine relay on 9705 starts. This might be well misinterpreted as sign-off of Okapi. 73 (Thorsten Hallmann, Germany, October 13, WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CONGO DR. On Now; 5066.27 at 0358 to 0407 [Oct 14], while looking for Radio Tele CANDIP, Bunia. 73 (Bob Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, DX LISTENING DIGEST) So any details, seems to be it? (gh) ** CROATIA [non]. 7375, Oct 13 at 0211, V. of Croatia via Wertachtal, GERMANY, English segment, after news, the weather for Croatia. YL has American accent but Croatian surname; 0212 recap top stories; 0212.6 transmission info starting with satellite, MW, finally generic SW mentioning all frequencies regardless of times, none given; 0213.75 back to music. During the talk there was a ``hollow`` sound, i.e. the two transmitters very very slightly unsynchronized, (and/or the offbeam signal getting an extra bouncearound) but not enough to be a nuisance or impediment to comprehension (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 1080, Oct 14 at 0528, Spanish is overriding KRLD, and loops SE instead of Mexicoward; soon ID in passing as ``Radio Ciudad de la Habana``, en tercera hora of current programa. Makes 80/minute SAH with KRLD, = one and a third Hz. A seemingly straightforward log raises questions: WRTH 2012 shows Cuba on 1080 only as CMCH, Radio Cadena Habana, in Villa María CH which means Ciudad de la Habana province, yet keyed as entry HA01, which leads to the separate La Habana province. The Radio Cadena Habana website (no abbreviating here), mentions 1080 as its only AM frequency: http://www.cadenahabana.cu/quienes-somos/ WRTH 2012 listed website for Radio Ciudad de la Habana (CMBE 820) http://www.habanaenlinea.cu/ goes nowhere. Terry Krueger`s info via https://sites.google.com/site/floridadxn/cubalist also indicates the 1080 station is Radio Cadena Habana. I had a pretty clear ID of Radio Ciudad de la Habana, but no proof other than my handwritten log note. Assuming what I heard was correct, the most likely explanation is that after midnight, one of them relays the other. While Radio Cadena Habana website lists a number of its programs, it does not give any times and I can`t find a plain old program schedule grid. It`s not unusual for KRLD at 400 km to fade out but not usual for a Cuban to fade in at the same time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Good log from Okie, regardless of which station it was. Here's my take: all I ever hear here (here, here!) on 1080 kc/s is Radio Cadena Habana (we like to affectionately call it RadCadHab). As I type, I'm listening, huge signal. Some youth-oriented program in progress from 2157 GMT tune-in (like, they're really listening), light pap by female on current Latin American politics (or is it politix?) in Nicaragua. Female RadCadHab ID, then awful Cuban rap vocals. 1080 is strong here all day, as well as nights. I've never heard any audio except RadCadHab via this 1080 transmitter, but... I would not dispute anyone who logs a different ID on most channels, especially any above 1000 kc/s. It is not horribly uncommon for some other audio to be flipped on some stations post-local midnight, for reasons that still baffle me. Possibly the best example of this would be 1140 kc/s. While there are many Cuba stations on 1140, I often hear Radio Musical Nacional here. I do not think it's a dedicated transmitter, but rather another (one of the Rebelde transmitters?) that randomly flips to Musical. But that said, I've heard Musical on 1140 daytime as well. There's also sometimes some cross-talk about stations. This morning, 1033 GMT was a good example. I stumbled upon Radio Progreso, 900 kc/s. No big deal, about to tune out except I hear the announcer reference Radio Enciclopedia (Enci, as we like to call it). Why? Turns out, he was interviewing the female who does most of the voice imaging on Enci. Interesting listening, though though no mention about the old days, when Enci ran, at least a couple of times per hour, brief Cuba history snippets. Thus, Radio Enciclopedia. Good as Enci is to listen to these days for the music, the station name is rather pointless. (Terry Krueger, FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) My archive of 2009 show: CUB Güines Matabeque 1080 kHz 10 kW. 22 48'27.80"N 82 01'05.36"W http://goo.gl/maps/goKL8 of Medium Wave Rearrangement Plan in 2009y 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) ** CUBA. 6010, Oct 11 at 0532, RHC English `news` audio is breaking up, unlike on // 6050, 6060, 6125. 17580, Oct 11 at 1256, very good RHC signal, but modulation very suppressed; surprised this is not causing spurs to be squeezed out all over the band. 1313 recheck, modulation almost fixed, OK level but somewhat distorted. And now, 17580 is louder than // 17730 with low but not distorted modulation. 15330, Oct 12 at 1401, pulsing from the DentroCuban Jamming Command, all set for R. Martí to reactivate this frequency in B-12, as myriads of Cubans go hungry while all this paranoid energy is wasted not only on jamming something, but jamming nothing. [and non]. 9955, Sunday October 14 at 2002, wall-of-noise jamming against inaudible WRMI, which at this hour is carrying gospel huxter in English Jack Van Impe. Way to go, Arnie! However, at 2030-2130 it will be `Foro Revolucionario` and at 2200-2215 `Voz de Coordinadora` as of Sept 19 schedule grid. 6125, Oct 15 at 0541, RHC English is just barely modulated upon very strong carrier, unlike // 6010, 6050, and weaker 6060. 9955, Oct 17 at 1157 check, wall-of-noise jamming, even tho there is now nothing on WRMI before or after 1200 necessitating it. 9850, Oct 17 at 1257* RHC cuts off the air in mid-word just as I intune, uncovering CRI Chinese on 9855 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CYPRUS. 5925, 14/10 2222, Radio Cyprus (presumed) strong signal but without modulation! Mute! the same on // 7220 & 9760! (Giampiero Bernardini, Winradio Excalibur Pro, Ant: Maxi Whip by Capra (wire 8 meters with 1:32 balun)) & Wellbrook LFL 1010 loop; QTH: Bocca di Magra (La Spezia, Liguria) Italy, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DJIBOUTI. Radio Djibouti 4780 AM in French with E. African at 2050 Oct 13 with good signal and East African music until 2100 sign off (David Pete, Old Town, Maine, which is near the center of the state, Icom r-75 with a dual band (60 meter and 40 metere) dipole antenna, WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. 4781.70, Radio Oriental, Tena, now a daily visitor. Heard 10/8 with broadcast already in progress at 1058 tune-in. Usually a nice signal but goes downhill fast. YL announcer most mornings, this day mentioning “la música ecuatoriana” at 1059. At 1104 seemed an ad for a long-haul bus company. At 1105, news program including brief clip of a politician addressing a crowd. Usually deteriorates quickly and almost unusable by 1110, due local daybreak in Ecuador. Also heard 10/10 following the usual pattern – abruptly ‘on’ at 1057, only a fair signal atop rushing noise, with musica ecuatoriana and then low-toned YL in Spanish. Into the usual morning news show with her mentioning “…en la provincia de ….” and then playing fragments of a taped speech. Poorer quality this day, than usual. Interesting to observe how this HC station can still be heard at 1100+ (often initially pretty strong) while other Andes 60 meter benchmark stations, further to the east, are already faded away – Tarma 4775 for instance, booming only 20 minutes earlier, is almost completely faded out by 1100, most mornings lately. Propagation patterns let you almost ‘see’ the darkness / daylight terminator moving west across the SA continent, with Peru already in broad daylight and Ecuador’s day still dawning (Ralph Perry, Wheaton, Illinois, Drake R8B; Japan Radio NRD-545; Eton E1; Hallicrafters SX100, Dentron Super Tuner + Ameco PLF-2 + Palomar P-408 + Quantum Phaser antenna unit (customized for tropical bands) 355-foot bidirectional BOG positioned 150/330 degrees for LA/SE Asia, Phased Longwire + Small Loop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4781.62, Radio Oriental, Napo 2350 to 0000 Very strong signal on 11 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D - 746Pro - R8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. 4814.98, tentatively Radio “El Buen Pastor”, Saraguro, noted 1038 on 10/15 with poor-fair signal, deep fades, had probably just signed-on as not noted on previous check of the frequency, a few minutes earlier. Schlock pop ballad with organ, guitar backing. 1041 OM announcer, very low mod and station getting creamed by CODAR, believe Spanish but not totally sure. Have also heard indigenous vernacular language on this station. At 1054 noise level now coming up too high, so opted to leave this and go listen to the daily s/on by R Oriental on 4781.70 at 1058-1100a. Still need a 100% ID on this one, this season, just to reconfirm that one of the few HCs continues to survive on 60 meters. 60-METER BANDSCAN 10/15: A moderately okay morning for 60 meter propagation to LA, but a bit noisy; many frequencies below are approximations, only did precision measurements on those few where info might be significant: 4814.98 – at 1038 noting station now here, tentative Radio “El Buen Pastor”, which had apparently just signed on. Probably nominal *1030. (See separate report) (Ralph Perry, Wheaton, Illinois, Drake R8B; Japan Radio NRD-545; Eton E1; Hallicrafters SX100, Dentron Super Tuner + Ameco PLF-2 + Palomar P-408 + Quantum Phaser antenna unit (customized for tropical bands) 355-foot bidirectional BOG positioned 150/330 degrees for LA/SE Asia, Phased Longwire + Small Loop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. Updated schedule of BRB (former TDP) stations: E-SAT Radio in Amharic from Sep. 21, ex KCH 100 kW / 180 deg: 1700-1800 15355/15385*SOF 100 kW / 195 deg EaAf Mon, POWERFUL SIGNAL 1700-1800 15360/15365*SOF 100 kW / 195 deg EaAf Tue, POWERFUL SIGNAL 1700-1800 15365/15395*SOF 100 kW / 195 deg EaAf Wed, POWERFUL SIGNAL 1700-1800 15360/15390*SOF 100 kW / 195 deg EaAf Thu, POWERFUL SIGNAL 1700-1800 15380/15380*SOF 100 kW / 195 deg EaAf Fri, POWERFUL SIGNAL 1700-1800 15375/15375*SOF 100 kW / 195 deg EaAf Sat, POWERFUL SIGNAL 1700-1800 15370/15370*SOF 100 kW / 195 deg EaAf Sun, POWERFUL SIGNAL * 1st frequency 2nd/4th week; 2nd frequency 1st/3rd week, all jammed (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, DX Re Mix News 16 October via WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DXLD) Voice of Asena in Tigrinya from Sep. 21, ex SAM 250 kW / 188 deg: 1700-1800 15245*SOF 100 kW / 195 deg EaAf Mon/Wed/Fri POWERFUL SIGNAL * over KCBS Voice of Korea in Korean - Powers and azimuth are approximate. SOF has: 1x100, 1x70, 2x50, 2x20 kW (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, DX Re Mix News 16 October via WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DXLD) ** EUROPE. Often there's a Dutch pirate (presumed, as it is very weak) on 1710.4 kHz and they also radiate a very weak harmonic on 3420.8 kHz. (Last heard 10/10 at 2015, but went off abruptly at 2017 UT). 73's (Nick Rank, Buxton, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** EUROPE. FRS TEST ON 7600 KHZ NEXT SUNDAY Dear FRS Friends, Summer has gone and autumn is ruling. Propagation conditions have reached to a satisfactory level. Time to expand some activity. In preparation to full programming, we have planned a test on 7600 kHz/ 39 metres next Sunday October 14th 0752-1000 UT/ 09:52- 12:00 CEST. We are understandably curious about reception on 7600 kHz. We'd love to hear from you, either by mail [frs@frsholland.nl] or via P O Box 2702, 6049 ZG Herten, the Netherlands. FRS-Holland will take to the air with full programming on Sun October 28th 0852-1430 UT / 09:52- 15:30 CET. That day winter time will come into force. In the afternoon there will be an audio stream via Internet starting at 15:52 CET. More news in the upcoming weeks. 73s, Peter Verbruggen on behalf of the FRS Team (via Manuel Méndez, Oct 12, dxldyg via DXLD) FRS Holland, 7600 kHz, 0754-1005, now on air, listened here in the North West of Spain with fair to good signal. Tuning music, male, identification in English: "Independent free radio, FRS Holland, broadcast on English, Dutch and German", pop music. SINPO 35433 and at moments 45444 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Oct 14, ibid.) FRS Holland, 7600 kHz, heard reasonably well this morning (14/10), SIO 344, before domestic QRN caused problems. There seemed to be a sudden increase in signal strength here at 0903 UT. 73's (Nick Rank, Buxton, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** FRANCE. Has Radio France silently started to switch off their MW- transmitters? This question was asked by Atlantic 2000 in their latest transmission last Sunday. As mentioned here a month ago, the transmitters in Pau 1404, Grenoble 1404 and Besançon on 1494 kHz were closed without any kind of official notice from France Info, the former user of these transmitters. In addition, France Bleu Alsace has decided to discontinue their transmissions in the Alsatian language (a German dialect), which have been aired over Strasbourg 1268 kHz. The listeners are now instead referred to obtaining satellite receivers for the reception of the programmes and the informant has his doubts that they will do so. Then the question is whether the highpowered Strasbourg transmitter is going to be closed down or is just switching to another service? (Atlantic 2000 via Ullmar Qvick, ARC Information Desk 15 Oct edited by Olle Alm via DXLD) ** GABON [and non]. 9580, Africa #1; 2058-2112+, 9-Oct; ToH pips into French news; many IDs including; Radio Africa, Africa Un, Africa Numéro Un Radio & Africa Numéro Un. M&W in French at 2110 with chit- chat and English soul tune. SIO=443 in USB, needed to cut out strong whine -- no obvious source (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) The source is obviously Morocco [q.v.] 9575 off frequency to 9579.12, as reported several times here (gh, DXLD) ** GERMANY. 6070, our official launch is planned for Sunday, Oct 21, 0700 UT. Our tests with the new output amp passed very promisingly, even though we only tested at 25 % of the final power up to now. At the moment we are working on the output amp, we hope to finish by Oct 07, so we can perform further tests with high power. At the moment only the driver is running with circa 75 Watts. News can, as always, be found at www.radio6150.de! After the re-naming it will be forwarded to the new homepage. Regarding the launch: Especially on Oct 21 you can request songs for the launch programs. Please... a) send them to info@radiotrax.de b) mention "Request" in the subject of your mail. We will keep you up to date! P.S. Please understand, that at the moment we are so busy working on the start of our new station, that we can't answer reception reports; thanks! (Radio 6150, Oct 04, DSWCI DX Window Oct 16 via WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DXLD) Too late to include in WOR 1639::: Radio 6150 start date, which was showing as October 21, has been postponed. They say they had problems with the power amplifier which didn't fit or cope with the new exciter. Also the mains-adaptor caused problems. They also say that "postponed doesn't mean giving up". They will give a new date as soon as they know that all works well after having done the necessary tests. Full post in German on their website http://www.radio-6150.de/deutsch/ (Alexander Landsberg-Velen, Garry Stevens Pirate/Free Radio Board, October 18 via Mike Barraclough, Oct 18, dxldyg via DXLD) ** GERMANY. QSL: 3955, Atlantic 2000 International, Kall-Krekel. I received an full data e-mail QSL-card in 12 days. Transmission date: 30th September, listening time: 1925-1948, 1 kW power (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. QSL: DEUTSCHLAND, Hamburger Lokal Radio, 7265 kHz. A second QSL accidentally mailed, quite unexpected. Fortunately, a different card design to make it worthy, a professional studio microphone photo on red background card, along with a small HLR decal. This, for my July log, and again confirming 1 kW from Göhren-Schwerin (Terry Krueger, FL, Oct 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) On Oct. 16/17 no transmissions of Hamburger Lokalradio in German: 0900-1000 on 5980 KLL 020 kW / non-dir to WeEu 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, Oct 17, DX LISTENING DIGEST) So no WORLD OF RADIO at 0930 Tuesday Oct 16; temporary? (gh, DXLD) ** GERMANY. All transmissions of BNL Rock in Radio in English are cancelled: 0600-1800 on 6085 KLL 020 kW / non-dir to WeEu. From October 15: Radio 700 // 3955 KLL 020 kW / non-dir to WeEu // 6005 KLL 100 kW / non-dir to WeEu excl. 0600-0800 R. Belarus Ge. 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, Oct 17, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. Monday, October 15, 2012: German Armed Forces Radio testing in DRM. Radio Andernach, Germany’s armed forces radio station, is now testing in Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) on 6,015 kHz from TDF Issoudun in central France. They claim that the potential move to DRM would mean that they would equip all of their Naval vessels with DRM receivers. Frequency: 6015 kHz --- Time: 1830 UT (Source: DXAktuell) ??????????? ?? BalkanDX ? 4:44 AM (via Alokesh Gupta, Cumbre DX via DXLD) This DRM test was apparently a one-off back in September. I searched the Andernach website and they have said nothing about DRM in the past Monat. Has anyone heard it on 6015 since then? Nor is 6015 on the official DRM schedule. TDP Radio is also gone. http://www.drm.org/broadcast_schedule (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** GERMANY [non]. DW_B 12 Frequency Guide [1 Attachment] Please open and see Attachment(s) from Abid Hussain Sajid (Oct 16, dxldyg via DXLD) Here`s the English portion, chaff removed, all KIGALI, to parts of Africa, effective 28.10.12 to 30.03.13; beware of 9420! Where they did not expect Greece to come back: 0400 - 0457 7285 (west) 0400 - 0457 9420 (east) 0400 - 0457 9470 (west) 0400 - 0500 5905 (east) 0500 - 0527 5905 (east) 0500 - 0530 9420 (central, east, south) 0500 - 0530 9800 (central, east, south) 0500 - 0530 11800 (west) 0530 - 0557 9420 (central, east, south) 0530 - 0557 11800 (west) 0600 - 0630 12045 (west) 0600 - 0630 13780 (west) 0600 - 0630 17800 (west) 0630 - 0700 13780 (west) 0630 - 0700 17800 (west) 1900 - 1930 11800 (south) 1900 - 1930 12070 1900 - 1930 15275 1930 - 1957 12070 1930 - 1957 15275 2000 - 2057 9655 (central) 2000 - 2100 11800 2000 - 2100 12070 (south) 2100 - 2200 9655 2100 - 2200 11800 (central, east) 2100 - 2200 12070 (via Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DXLD) GERMANY: Deutsche Welle* 28.10.12 - 30.03.13 *Amharic* 1600-1657 Af 9800ki 12070ki 15275ki *Chinese* 1300-1330 As 9610kr 11600kr 13700uae 1330-1400 As 11600kr 13700uae *Dari* 0830-0900 ME 15640uae 17710ki 1330-1400 ME 15640kr 17860uae *English* 0400-0457 Af 7285ki 9420ki 9470ki 0400-0500 Af 5905ki 0500-0527 Af 5905ki 0500-0530 Af 9420ki 9800ki 11800ki 0530-0557 Af 9420ki 11800ki 0600-0630 Af 12045ki 13780ki 17800ki 0630-0700 Af 13780ki 17800ki 1900-1930 Af 11800ki 12070ki 15275ki 1930-1957 Af 12070ki 15275ki 2000-2057 Af 9655ki 2000-2100 Af 11800ki 12070ki 2100-2200 Af 9655ki 11800ki 12070ki *French* 1200-1257 Af 9800ki 15275ki 15440ki 1200-1300 Af 15700wo 17800wo 21780ki 1700 -1757 Af 9795ki 1700-1800 Af 12070ki 15275ki 15700wo *Hausa* 0630-0700 Af 12045ki 15275ki 21780uae 1300-1400 Af 15275ki 17800ki 21780ki 1800-1857 Af 12070ki 15275ki 17800ki *Pashto* 0800-0830 ME 15640uae 17710ki 1400-1430 ME 15640kr 17860uae *Portuguese* 0530-0557 Af 9800ki 12045ki 17800uae 1930-1957 Af 11800ki 1930-2000 Af 11865ki 12045me *Swahili* 0300-0357 Af 5925ki 7265ki 0300-0400 Af 5905ki 12070as 1000-1100 Af 9800ki 12070ki 15275ki 15700ki 1500-1557 Af 7300ki 9800ki 12055ki 12070ki *Urdu* 1430-1457 As 15275ki 1430-1500 As/ME 15640kr 17860uae /*Transmitters*/: as = Ascension, ki = Kigali, kr = Kranji me = Meyerton, uae = Dhabayya, wo = Woofferton (/DW via Wolfgang Bueschel & Abid Hussain Sajid, extracted from PDF and reformatted by Alan Roe, dxldyg via DXLD) ** GERMANY [and non]. FRANCE/FRENCH GUIANA/GERMANY/SRI LANKA B-12 planned operational MBR schedule of Oct 15, 2012. MEDIA BROADCAST GmbH (formerly T-SYSTEMS - DTK) B-12 period (28/10/2012 - 30/03/2013) Times are in UTC. sorted by broadcaster frq startstop ciraf loc pow azi day from to broad 5975 0400-0430 28E NAU 100 130 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 6100 1600-1630 28E WER 100 120 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 7315 0300-0330 48 WER 250 135 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 9535 1900-2000 37,38W NAU 100 215 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 9610 0300-0330 48 NAU 250 140 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 9610 0330-0400 48 NAU 250 140 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 9610 1000-1100 28W NAU 100 180 1...... 281012-300313 AWR 9805 2000-2030 37,38W NAU 100 205 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 11670 1200-1230 41NE TRM 250 45 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 11670 1230-1258 41NE TRM 250 25 1..4.6. 281012-300313 AWR 11670 1230-1258 41NE TRM 250 25 .23.5.7 281012-300313 AWR 11760 1900-1930 37,38W WER 100 210 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 11760 1930-2000 37,38W WER 100 210 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 11795 1730-1800 48 NAU 250 140 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 11860 1730-1800 37,38W WER 100 210 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 11860 1900-1930 46W WER 250 210 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 11975 0700-0800 37,38W NAU 100 210 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 15125 0800-0830 37,38W WER 100 210 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 15145 0800-0830 37,38W NAU 100 205 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 15145 0830-0900 37,38W NAU 100 205 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 15255 1500-1528 41N TRM 250 5 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 15255 1530-1600 41N TRM 250 25 ....56. 281012-300313 AWR 15255 1530-1600 41N TRM 250 25 1234..7 281012-300313 AWR 15270 1500-1530 41N TRM 250 355 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 15270 1530-1600 41N TRM 250 355 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 15480 1300-1330 42,43W TRM 250 5 .23456. 281012-300313 AWR 15480 1300-1330 42,43W TRM 250 5 1.....7 281012-300313 AWR 15480 1330-1458 42,43W TRM 250 5 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 17575 1630-1700 48 WER 250 135 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 5940 2000-2015 39N NAU 250 120 1234567 281012-300313 BVB 5945 0800-0830 27,28N WER 100 ND 1...... 281012-300313 BVB 5945 0800-0845 27,28N WER 100 ND ......7 281012-300313 BVB 5950 0400-0430 39NE,40 NAU 100 110 12....7 281012-300313 BVB 5980 0430-0445 39N NAU 125 120 1234567 281012-300313 BVB 6030 1900-1915 28,29 NAU 100 60 .2..56. 281012-300313 BVB 6030 1930-1945 28,29 NAU 100 60 ......7 281012-300313 BVB 6030 1900-1930 28,29 NAU 100 60 ..3.... 281012-300313 BVB 6030 1900-2000 28,29 NAU 100 60 1...... 281012-300313 BVB 6095 0330-0345 40 NAU 125 105 1234567 281012-300313 BVB 7325 0300-0315 39S NAU 250 124 1234567 281012-300313 BVB 7365 1830-1900 39,40 NAU 100 105 1...... 281012-300313 BVB 7365 1800-1830 39,40 NAU 100 105 .....6. 281012-300313 BVB 7365 1830-1900 39,40 NAU 100 105 ..3.... 281012-300313 BVB 7365 1800-1900 39,40 NAU 100 105 ....5.. 281012-300313 BVB 7365 1800-1815 39,40 NAU 100 105 ......7 281012-300313 BVB 7395 0100-0115 41 WER 250 90 1.....7 281012-300313 BVB 9440 1700-1715 39S WER 125 120 1234567 281012-300313 BVB 9440 0600-0615 46473837 NAU 125 180 1234567 281012-300313 BVB 9450 0500-0515 39,40 WER 250 120 .....6. 281012-300313 BVB 9450 0500-0530 39,40 WER 250 120 ....5.. 281012-300313 BVB 9470 1915-1945 39,40 NAU 250 125 1...... 281012-300313 BVB 9470 1900-2000 39,40 NAU 250 125 ......7 281012-300313 BVB 9515 2030-2045 46473837 NAU 250 180 1234567 281012-300313 BVB 9665 1600-1615 40 WER 250 105 1234567 281012-300313 BVB 9715 1745-2000 39 WER 100 120 1.....7 281012-300313 BVB 9715 1745-1815 39 WER 100 120 ..3.... 281012-300313 BVB 9715 1745-1900 39 WER 100 120 .2..... 281012-300313 BVB 9715 1745-1800 39 WER 100 120 ...4... 281012-300313 BVB 9715 1745-1830 39 WER 100 120 ....5.. 281012-300313 BVB 9715 1745-1845 39 WER 100 120 .....6. 281012-300313 BVB 9925 1630-1830 39,40 WER 100 105 1234567 281012-300313 BVB 9925 1930-2015 39 WER 100 120 1...... 281012-300313 BVB 11700 1700-1800 3839 40W WER 100 120 ..3.... 281012-300313 BVB 11700 1730-1800 3839 40W WER 100 120 1...... 281012-300313 BVB 11700 1715-1800 3839 40W WER 100 120 .2.456. 281012-300313 BVB 11875 1630-1730 47,48 WER 100 165 1234567 281012-300313 BVB 11915 1700-1720 39,40 ISS 250 115 .23.56. 281012-300313 BVB 11915 1700-1735 39,40 ISS 250 115 ...4... 281012-300313 BVB 13740 1515-1530 40,41 NAU 100 95 ......7 281012-300313 BVB 13740 1515-1559 40,41 NAU 100 95 .....6. 281012-300313 BVB 13740 1530-1559 40,41 NAU 100 95 ....5.. 281012-300313 BVB 15180 1300-1330 44E,45W TRM 250 45 .234567 281012-300313 BVB 15180 1300-1400 44E,45W TRM 250 45 1...... 281012-300313 BVB 15215 1630-1645 41S WER 125 105 1...... 281012-300313 BVB 15335 1600-1830 38394748 NAU 100 150 1...... 281012-300313 BVB 15335 1600-1930 38394748 NAU 100 150 .....6. 281012-300313 BVB 15335 1700-1830 38394748 NAU 100 150 ......7 281012-300313 BVB 15335 1630-1800 38394748 NAU 100 150 ..34... 281012-300313 BVB 15335 1600-1800 38394748 NAU 100 150 .2..5.. 281012-300313 BVB 15390 1100-1200 43S,44S TRM 125 45 1.....7 281012-300313 BVB 15390 1100-1130 43S,44S TRM 125 45 .2...6. 281012-300313 BVB 15390 1100-1115 43S,44S TRM 125 45 ..345.. 281012-300313 BVB 15470 1400-1430 41 WER 250 90 1stSun 281012-300313 BVB 15470 1430-1500 41 WER 250 90 1...... 281012-300313 BVB 15470 1430-1500 41 WER 250 90 ......7 281012-300313 BVB 17545 0900-1000 38,39 WER 125 135 .....6. 281012-300313 BVB 5960 1900-2000 28E,29 WER 100 75 ......7 281012-300313 CHW 6055 1130-1200 27,28 WER 125 ND 1.....7 281012-300313 EMG 9605 1600-1630 29,30 WER 250 60 ......7 281012-300313 EMG 13730 1200-1230 19 - 26 WER 250 45 ......7 281012-300313 EMG 7215 0030-0130 40E,41NW NAU 250 100 1234567 281012-300313 GFA 7240 2330-0030 41,43,49 NAU 250 85 1234567 281012-300313 GFA 15150 1530-1630 40E,41NW WER 250 90 1234567 281012-300313 GFA 15235 1330-1530 41,43,49 WER 250 75 1234567 281012-300313 GFA 15285 1230-1500 41 WER 250 90 1234567 281012-300313 GFA 13740 1530-1630 29S NAU 100 95 ......7 281012-300313 HCJ 7375 2300-0400 11 - 16 NAU 100 255 1234567 281012-300313 HRT 7375 0000-0200 6 - 10 NAU 100 300 1234567 281012-300313 HRT 7375 0200-0400 2-4,6-10 NAU 100 315 1234567 281012-300313 HRT 7375 0400-0600 2-3,6-10 NAU 100 325 1234567 281012-300313 HRT 6075 0400-0500 28E,29W WER 250 60 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 6105 0300-0500 28E,29W WER 250 60 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 6120 1500-1700 28E,29W WER 250 60 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 7400 0130-0230 40 WER 250 105 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 9435 1830-1900 29SE NAU 250 90 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 9445 1600-1700 30SE NAU 250 80 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 9485 1730-1800 48 NAU 100 140 .23456. 281012-300313 IBB 9485 1800-1900 48 NAU 100 140 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 9485 1900-1930 48 NAU 100 140 .23456. 281012-300313 IBB 9565 1400-1500 40E,41NW WER 250 90 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 9585 1700-1800 29S NAU 250 95 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 9595 1400-1500 30S WER 250 75 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 9645 1800-1830 47,48 WER 250 150 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 9690 2030-2100 46,47 NAU 250 185 .23456. 281012-300313 IBB 9760 0500-0600 39N,40W NAU 100 105 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 9770 1530-1700 40E,41NW NAU 250 110 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 9770 1700-1730 40E,41NW NAU 250 110 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 9815 1900-1930 47,48 NAU 250 155 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 9860 1730-1800 48 WER 250 150 .23456. 281012-300313 IBB 11775 1600-1700 29SE NAU 250 90 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 11775 1700-1800 29SE NAU 250 90 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 11790 1500-1530 30SE,31SW NAU 250 75 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 11905 1630-1700 47,48 WER 250 150 .23456. 281012-300313 IBB 13580 0500-0900 40E,41NW NAU 250 94 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 13580 1400-1500 39N,40W NAU 250 120 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 13615 0500-0730 40 NAU 250 110 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 13625 1800-1900 48 WER 250 135 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 13625 1630-1700 47,48 WER 250 150 .23456. 281012-300313 IBB 13645 1400-1500 30S WER 250 75 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 13680 1500-1630 40 WER 250 105 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 13775 1500-1600 29S NAU 250 85 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 13830 1230-1330 40 NAU 250 110 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 13830 1330-1400 40 NAU 250 110 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 13830 1400-1430 40 NAU 250 110 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 15265 1200-1230 30SE,31SW NAU 250 75 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 15620 1630-1700 48 WER 250 135 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 15670 1630-1700 46,47,52 WER 250 180 .....6. 281012-300313 IBB 17895 1600-1700 46475257 WER 250 150 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 6095 0900-1600 182728 37 WER 100 ND 1.....7 281012-300313 KBC 9800 1830-1900 46S,47SE WER 500 180 1234567 281012-300313 LWF 6045 0900-1000 27E,28 WER 100 ND 1 # 281012-300313 MSM% 6140 1400-1500 28 ISS 100 80 1 # 281012-300313 MVB 6140 1000-1100 27,28 WER 100 ND 1 # 281012-300313 MVB 6140 1000-1100 27,28 ISS 100 80 1 * 281012-300313 MVB 6140 1000-1100 27,28 ISS 100 50 1 * 281012-300313 MVB 6055 1200-1215 27,28 WER 250 ND 1...... 281012-300313 MWA 9620 0200-0500 38-40 WER 250 135 1234567 281012-300313 NHK 9620 2200-2300 38-40 WER 500 135 1234567 281012-300313 NHK 15445 1700-1900 38-40 WER 250 135 1234567 281012-300313 NHK 17630 1600-1630 47E,48 ISS 500 130 ..3...7 281012-300313 OGM+ 9685 1930-2000 37,38 NAU 250 155 1...... 281012-300313 PAB 15205 1400-1430 41 WER 100 90 1...... 281012-300313 PAB 15205 1415-1430 41 WER 100 90 .234567 281012-300313 PAB 15205 1430-1445 41 WER 250 90 1...... 281012-300313 PAB 7350 0530-0600 46SE NAU 100 180 .23456. 281012-300313 RMI& 15315 1700-1730 47E,48 WER 125 135 1...... 281012-300313 RMI= 15215 1600-1700 4,8,9 WER 500 300 ..3.... 210213-210213 ROO 13810 1700-1800 38,39,48 WER 100 135 1..4... 281012-300313 SBO 9460 1400-1600 18,27,28 WER 100 ND 1234567 281012-300313 TOM 9835 1900-2000 373846-57 WER 500 165 1234567 281012-300313 TOM 13810 1400-1600 282938-39 WER 100 120 1234567 281012-300313 TOM 6095 0900-1100 1827-2837 WER 100 ND .23456. 281012-300313 TRS 5910 0645-0700 28 WER 100 55 .23456. 281012-300313 TWR 6105 0800-0850 27 WER 100 300 1234567 281012-300313 TWR 6105 1629-1659 28 WER 100 105 ......7 281012-300313 TWR 6105 1100-1130 28 WER 100 105 ......7 281012-300313 TWR 7210 0930-1000 28 WER 100 105 1234567 281012-300313 TWR 7295 1500-1530 28-30 WER 100 60 .2..... 281012-300313 TWR 7295 1500-1530 28-30 WER 100 60 1.34567 281012-300313 TWR 9835 2300-2330 12-16 WER 100 240 1234567 281012-300313 VZM 11920 2245-2300 12-16 NAU 100 240 1234567 281012-300313 VZM 11920 2300-0045 12-16 NAU 100 240 1234567 281012-300313 VZM 11830 1900-2000 46E WER 125 180 ....5.7 281012-300313 WRN 6010 2100-2200 37,38W WER 250 210 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 7305 2100-2200 46,47,52N WER 500 180 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 9490 2000-2100 37,38W WER 250 210 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 9500 1900-2000 37E,38 WER 250 150 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 9500 2000-2100 37,46 WER 500 210 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 9695 1900-2000 37,46 WER 500 210 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 9800 1700-1800 40 WER 500 90 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 9810 1700-1800 39 WER 250 120 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 9840 1800-1900 37E,38 WER 250 150 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 11615 2200-2400 12,13,15 GUF 500 170 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 11665 1800-1900 46SE WER 500 180 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 11690 1700-1800 37,38 WER 100 180 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 11955 1600-1700 40 WER 500 105 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 11995 1600-1700 39 NAU 250 125 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 13605 1400-1458 30S,40N TRM 250 335 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 13630 1500-1600 41W WER 500 105 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 13660 1600-1700 48 ISS 500 125 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 13690 1200-1300 50 TRM 250 75 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 15160 1600-1700 47,48 ISS 500 131 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 15280 2300-2400 12, 14 GUF 500 215 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 15280 2200-2300 12, 14 GUF 500 215 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 15315 1400-1500 41S ISS 500 90 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 15325 1400-1500 41E WER 500 90 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 15370 1500-1600 41SE WER 500 90 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 15470 1500-1600 41W WER 500 90 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 15650 1400-1600 41 NAU 500 95 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 15680 1400-1500 41NW NAU 500 95 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 15680 1500-1600 41S WER 500 90 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 17510 1300-1500 41E WER 500 90 1234567 281012-300313 YFR sorted by frequency 5910 0645-0700 28 WER 100 55 .23456. 281012-300313 TWR 5940 2000-2015 39N NAU 250 120 1234567 281012-300313 BVB 5945 0800-0830 27,28N WER 100 ND 1...... 281012-300313 BVB 5945 0800-0845 27,28N WER 100 ND ......7 281012-300313 BVB 5950 0400-0430 39NE,40 NAU 100 110 12....7 281012-300313 BVB 5960 1900-2000 28E,29 WER 100 75 ......7 281012-300313 CHW 5975 0400-0430 28E NAU 100 130 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 5980 0430-0445 39N NAU 125 120 1234567 281012-300313 BVB 6010 2100-2200 37,38W WER 250 210 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 6030 1900-1915 28,29 NAU 100 60 .2..56. 281012-300313 BVB 6030 1900-1930 28,29 NAU 100 60 ..3.... 281012-300313 BVB 6030 1900-2000 28,29 NAU 100 60 1...... 281012-300313 BVB 6030 1930-1945 28,29 NAU 100 60 ......7 281012-300313 BVB 6045 0900-1000 27E,28 WER 100 ND 1 # 281012-300313 MSM% 6055 1130-1200 27,28 WER 125 ND 1.....7 281012-300313 EMG 6055 1200-1215 27,28 WER 250 ND 1...... 281012-300313 MWA 6075 0400-0500 28E,29W WER 250 60 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 6095 0330-0345 40 NAU 125 105 1234567 281012-300313 BVB 6095 0900-1100 1827-2837 WER 100 ND .23456. 281012-300313 TRS 6095 0900-1600 182728 37 WER 100 ND 1.....7 281012-300313 KBC 6100 1600-1630 28E WER 100 120 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 6105 0300-0500 28E,29W WER 250 60 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 6105 0800-0850 27 WER 100 300 1234567 281012-300313 TWR 6105 1100-1130 28 WER 100 105 ......7 281012-300313 TWR 6105 1629-1659 28 WER 100 105 ......7 281012-300313 TWR 6120 1500-1700 28E,29W WER 250 60 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 6140 1000-1100 27,28 ISS 100 80 1 * 281012-300313 MVB 6140 1000-1100 27,28 ISS 100 50 1 * 281012-300313 MVB 6140 1000-1100 27,28 WER 100 ND 1 # 281012-300313 MVB 6140 1400-1500 28 ISS 100 80 1 # 281012-300313 MVB 7210 0930-1000 28 WER 100 105 1234567 281012-300313 TWR 7215 0030-0130 40E,41NW NAU 250 100 1234567 281012-300313 GFA 7240 2330-0030 41,43,49 NAU 250 85 1234567 281012-300313 GFA 7295 1500-1530 28-30 WER 100 60 .2..... 281012-300313 TWR 7295 1500-1530 28-30 WER 100 60 1.34567 281012-300313 TWR 7305 2100-2200 46,47,52N WER 500 180 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 7315 0300-0330 48 WER 250 135 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 7325 0300-0315 39S NAU 250 124 1234567 281012-300313 BVB 7350 0530-0600 46SE NAU 100 180 .23456. 281012-300313 RMI& 7365 1800-1815 39,40 NAU 100 105 ......7 281012-300313 BVB 7365 1800-1830 39,40 NAU 100 105 .....6. 281012-300313 BVB 7365 1800-1900 39,40 NAU 100 105 ....5.. 281012-300313 BVB 7365 1830-1900 39,40 NAU 100 105 ..3.... 281012-300313 BVB 7365 1830-1900 39,40 NAU 100 105 1...... 281012-300313 BVB 7375 0000-0200 6 - 10 NAU 100 300 1234567 281012-300313 HRT 7375 0200-0400 2-4,6-10 NAU 100 315 1234567 281012-300313 HRT 7375 0400-0600 2-3,6-10 NAU 100 325 1234567 281012-300313 HRT 7375 2300-0400 11 - 16 NAU 100 255 1234567 281012-300313 HRT 7395 0100-0115 41 WER 250 90 1.....7 281012-300313 BVB 7400 0130-0230 40 WER 250 105 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 9435 1830-1900 29SE NAU 250 90 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 9440 0600-0615 46473837 NAU 125 180 1234567 281012-300313 BVB 9440 1700-1715 39S WER 125 120 1234567 281012-300313 BVB 9445 1600-1700 30SE NAU 250 80 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 9450 0500-0515 39,40 WER 250 120 .....6. 281012-300313 BVB 9450 0500-0530 39,40 WER 250 120 ....5.. 281012-300313 BVB 9460 1400-1600 18,27,28 WER 100 ND 1234567 281012-300313 TOM 9470 1900-2000 39,40 NAU 250 125 ......7 281012-300313 BVB 9470 1915-1945 39,40 NAU 250 125 1...... 281012-300313 BVB 9485 1730-1800 48 NAU 100 140 .23456. 281012-300313 IBB 9485 1800-1900 48 NAU 100 140 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 9485 1900-1930 48 NAU 100 140 .23456. 281012-300313 IBB 9490 2000-2100 37,38W WER 250 210 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 9500 1900-2000 37E,38 WER 250 150 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 9500 2000-2100 37,46 WER 500 210 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 9515 2030-2045 46473837 NAU 250 180 1234567 281012-300313 BVB 9535 1900-2000 37,38W NAU 100 215 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 9565 1400-1500 40E,41NW WER 250 90 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 9585 1700-1800 29S NAU 250 95 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 9595 1400-1500 30S WER 250 75 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 9605 1600-1630 29,30 WER 250 60 ......7 281012-300313 EMG 9610 0300-0330 48 NAU 250 140 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 9610 0330-0400 48 NAU 250 140 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 9610 1000-1100 28W NAU 100 180 1...... 281012-300313 AWR 9620 0200-0500 38-40 WER 250 135 1234567 281012-300313 NHK 9620 2200-2300 38-40 WER 500 135 1234567 281012-300313 NHK 9645 1800-1830 47,48 WER 250 150 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 9665 1600-1615 40 WER 250 105 1234567 281012-300313 BVB 9685 1930-2000 37,38 NAU 250 155 1...... 281012-300313 PAB 9690 2030-2100 46,47 NAU 250 185 .23456. 281012-300313 IBB 9695 1900-2000 37,46 WER 500 210 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 9715 1745-1800 39 WER 100 120 ...4... 281012-300313 BVB 9715 1745-1815 39 WER 100 120 ..3.... 281012-300313 BVB 9715 1745-1830 39 WER 100 120 ....5.. 281012-300313 BVB 9715 1745-1845 39 WER 100 120 .....6. 281012-300313 BVB 9715 1745-1900 39 WER 100 120 .2..... 281012-300313 BVB 9715 1745-2000 39 WER 100 120 1.....7 281012-300313 BVB 9760 0500-0600 39N,40W NAU 100 105 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 9770 1530-1700 40E,41NW NAU 250 110 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 9770 1700-1730 40E,41NW NAU 250 110 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 9800 1700-1800 40 WER 500 90 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 9800 1830-1900 46S,47SE WER 500 180 1234567 281012-300313 LWF 9805 2000-2030 37,38W NAU 100 205 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 9810 1700-1800 39 WER 250 120 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 9815 1900-1930 47,48 NAU 250 155 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 9835 1900-2000 373846-57 WER 500 165 1234567 281012-300313 TOM 9835 2300-2330 12-16 WER 100 240 1234567 281012-300313 VZM 9840 1800-1900 37E,38 WER 250 150 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 9860 1730-1800 48 WER 250 150 .23456. 281012-300313 IBB 9925 1630-1830 39,40 WER 100 105 1234567 281012-300313 BVB 9925 1930-2015 39 WER 100 120 1...... 281012-300313 BVB 11615 2200-2400 12,13,15 GUF 500 170 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 11665 1800-1900 46SE WER 500 180 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 11670 1200-1230 41NE TRM 250 45 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 11670 1230-1258 41NE TRM 250 25 .23.5.7 281012-300313 AWR 11670 1230-1258 41NE TRM 250 25 1..4.6. 281012-300313 AWR 11690 1700-1800 37,38 WER 100 180 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 11700 1700-1800 3839 40W WER 100 120 ..3.... 281012-300313 BVB 11700 1715-1800 3839 40W WER 100 120 .2.456. 281012-300313 BVB 11700 1730-1800 3839 40W WER 100 120 1...... 281012-300313 BVB 11760 1900-1930 37,38W WER 100 210 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 11760 1930-2000 37,38W WER 100 210 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 11775 1600-1700 29SE NAU 250 90 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 11775 1700-1800 29SE NAU 250 90 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 11790 1500-1530 30SE,31SW NAU 250 75 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 11795 1730-1800 48 NAU 250 140 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 11830 1900-2000 46E WER 125 180 ....5.7 281012-300313 WRN 11860 1730-1800 37,38W WER 100 210 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 11860 1900-1930 46W WER 250 210 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 11875 1630-1730 47,48 WER 100 165 1234567 281012-300313 BVB 11905 1630-1700 47,48 WER 250 150 .23456. 281012-300313 IBB 11915 1700-1720 39,40 ISS 250 115 .23.56. 281012-300313 BVB 11915 1700-1735 39,40 ISS 250 115 ...4... 281012-300313 BVB 11920 2245-2300 12-16 NAU 100 240 1234567 281012-300313 VZM 11920 2300-0045 12-16 NAU 100 240 1234567 281012-300313 VZM 11955 1600-1700 40 WER 500 105 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 11975 0700-0800 37,38W NAU 100 210 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 11995 1600-1700 39 NAU 250 125 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 13580 0500-0900 40E,41NW NAU 250 94 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 13580 1400-1500 39N,40W NAU 250 120 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 13605 1400-1458 30S,40N TRM 250 335 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 13615 0500-0730 40 NAU 250 110 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 13625 1630-1700 47,48 WER 250 150 .23456. 281012-300313 IBB 13625 1800-1900 48 WER 250 135 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 13630 1500-1600 41W WER 500 105 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 13645 1400-1500 30S WER 250 75 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 13660 1600-1700 48 ISS 500 125 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 13680 1500-1630 40 WER 250 105 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 13690 1200-1300 50 TRM 250 75 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 13730 1200-1230 19 - 26 WER 250 45 ......7 281012-300313 EMG 13740 1515-1530 40,41 NAU 100 95 ......7 281012-300313 BVB 13740 1515-1559 40,41 NAU 100 95 .....6. 281012-300313 BVB 13740 1530-1559 40,41 NAU 100 95 ....5.. 281012-300313 BVB 13740 1530-1630 29S NAU 100 95 ......7 281012-300313 HCJ 13775 1500-1600 29S NAU 250 85 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 13810 1400-1600 282938-39 WER 100 120 1234567 281012-300313 TOM 13810 1700-1800 38,39,48 WER 100 135 1..4... 281012-300313 SBO 13830 1230-1330 40 NAU 250 110 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 13830 1330-1400 40 NAU 250 110 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 13830 1400-1430 40 NAU 250 110 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 15125 0800-0830 37,38W WER 100 210 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 15145 0800-0830 37,38W NAU 100 205 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 15145 0830-0900 37,38W NAU 100 205 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 15150 1530-1630 40E,41NW WER 250 90 1234567 281012-300313 GFA 15160 1600-1700 47,48 ISS 500 131 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 15180 1300-1330 44E,45W TRM 250 45 .234567 281012-300313 BVB 15180 1300-1400 44E,45W TRM 250 45 1...... 281012-300313 BVB 15205 1400-1430 41 WER 100 90 1...... 281012-300313 PAB 15205 1415-1430 41 WER 100 90 .234567 281012-300313 PAB 15205 1430-1445 41 WER 250 90 1...... 281012-300313 PAB 15215 1600-1700 4,8,9 WER 500 300 ..3.... 210213-210213 ROO 15215 1630-1645 41S WER 125 105 1...... 281012-300313 BVB 15235 1330-1530 41,43,49 WER 250 75 1234567 281012-300313 GFA 15255 1500-1528 41N TRM 250 5 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 15255 1530-1600 41N TRM 250 25 1234..7 281012-300313 AWR 15255 1530-1600 41N TRM 250 25 ....56. 281012-300313 AWR 15265 1200-1230 30SE,31SW NAU 250 75 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 15270 1500-1530 41N TRM 250 355 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 15270 1530-1600 41N TRM 250 355 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 15280 2200-2300 12, 14 GUF 500 215 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 15280 2300-2400 12, 14 GUF 500 215 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 15285 1230-1500 41 WER 250 90 1234567 281012-300313 GFA 15315 1400-1500 41S ISS 500 90 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 15315 1700-1730 47E,48 WER 125 135 1...... 281012-300313 RMI= 15325 1400-1500 41E WER 500 90 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 15335 1600-1800 38394748 NAU 100 150 .2..5.. 281012-300313 BVB 15335 1600-1830 38394748 NAU 100 150 1...... 281012-300313 BVB 15335 1600-1930 38394748 NAU 100 150 .....6. 281012-300313 BVB 15335 1630-1800 38394748 NAU 100 150 ..34... 281012-300313 BVB 15335 1700-1830 38394748 NAU 100 150 ......7 281012-300313 BVB 15370 1500-1600 41SE WER 500 90 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 15390 1100-1115 43S,44S TRM 125 45 ..345.. 281012-300313 BVB 15390 1100-1130 43S,44S TRM 125 45 .2...6. 281012-300313 BVB 15390 1100-1200 43S,44S TRM 125 45 1.....7 281012-300313 BVB 15445 1700-1900 38-40 WER 250 135 1234567 281012-300313 NHK 15470 1400-1430 41 WER 250 90 1stSun 281012-300313 BVB 15470 1430-1500 41 WER 250 90 ......7 281012-300313 BVB 15470 1430-1500 41 WER 250 90 1...... 281012-300313 BVB 15470 1500-1600 41W WER 500 90 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 15480 1300-1330 42,43W TRM 250 5 .23456. 281012-300313 AWR 15480 1300-1330 42,43W TRM 250 5 1.....7 281012-300313 AWR 15480 1330-1458 42,43W TRM 250 5 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 15620 1630-1700 48 WER 250 135 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 15650 1400-1600 41 NAU 500 95 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 15670 1630-1700 46,47,52 WER 250 180 .....6. 281012-300313 IBB 15680 1400-1500 41NW NAU 500 95 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 15680 1500-1600 41S WER 500 90 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 17510 1300-1500 41E WER 500 90 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 17545 0900-1000 38,39 WER 125 135 .....6. 281012-300313 BVB 17575 1630-1700 48 WER 250 135 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 17630 1600-1630 47E,48 ISS 500 130 ..3...7 281012-300313 OGM+ 17895 1600-1700 46475257 WER 250 150 1234567 281012-300313 IBB sorted by transmitter site 11615 2200-2400 12,13,15 GUF 500 170 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 15280 2200-2300 12, 14 GUF 500 215 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 15280 2300-2400 12, 14 GUF 500 215 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 6140 1000-1100 27,28 ISS 100 80 1 * 281012-300313 MVB 6140 1000-1100 27,28 ISS 100 50 1 * 281012-300313 MVB 6140 1400-1500 28 ISS 100 80 1 # 281012-300313 MVB 11915 1700-1720 39,40 ISS 250 115 .23.56. 281012-300313 BVB 11915 1700-1735 39,40 ISS 250 115 ...4... 281012-300313 BVB 13660 1600-1700 48 ISS 500 125 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 15160 1600-1700 47,48 ISS 500 131 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 15315 1400-1500 41S ISS 500 90 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 17630 1600-1630 47E,48 ISS 500 130 ..3...7 281012-300313 OGM+ 5940 2000-2015 39N NAU 250 120 1234567 281012-300313 BVB 5950 0400-0430 39NE,40 NAU 100 110 12....7 281012-300313 BVB 5975 0400-0430 28E NAU 100 130 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 5980 0430-0445 39N NAU 125 120 1234567 281012-300313 BVB 6030 1900-1915 28,29 NAU 100 60 .2..56. 281012-300313 BVB 6030 1900-1930 28,29 NAU 100 60 ..3.... 281012-300313 BVB 6030 1900-2000 28,29 NAU 100 60 1...... 281012-300313 BVB 6030 1930-1945 28,29 NAU 100 60 ......7 281012-300313 BVB 6095 0330-0345 40 NAU 125 105 1234567 281012-300313 BVB 7215 0030-0130 40E,41NW NAU 250 100 1234567 281012-300313 GFA 7240 2330-0030 41,43,49 NAU 250 85 1234567 281012-300313 GFA 7325 0300-0315 39S NAU 250 124 1234567 281012-300313 BVB 7350 0530-0600 46SE NAU 100 180 .23456. 281012-300313 RMI& 7365 1800-1815 39,40 NAU 100 105 ......7 281012-300313 BVB 7365 1800-1830 39,40 NAU 100 105 .....6. 281012-300313 BVB 7365 1800-1900 39,40 NAU 100 105 ....5.. 281012-300313 BVB 7365 1830-1900 39,40 NAU 100 105 ..3.... 281012-300313 BVB 7365 1830-1900 39,40 NAU 100 105 1...... 281012-300313 BVB 7375 0000-0200 6 - 10 NAU 100 300 1234567 281012-300313 HRT 7375 0200-0400 2-4,6-10 NAU 100 315 1234567 281012-300313 HRT 7375 0400-0600 2-3,6-10 NAU 100 325 1234567 281012-300313 HRT 7375 2300-0400 11 - 16 NAU 100 255 1234567 281012-300313 HRT 9435 1830-1900 29SE NAU 250 90 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 9440 0600-0615 46473837 NAU 125 180 1234567 281012-300313 BVB 9445 1600-1700 30SE NAU 250 80 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 9470 1900-2000 39,40 NAU 250 125 ......7 281012-300313 BVB 9470 1915-1945 39,40 NAU 250 125 1...... 281012-300313 BVB 9485 1730-1800 48 NAU 100 140 .23456. 281012-300313 IBB 9485 1800-1900 48 NAU 100 140 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 9485 1900-1930 48 NAU 100 140 .23456. 281012-300313 IBB 9515 2030-2045 46473837 NAU 250 180 1234567 281012-300313 BVB 9535 1900-2000 37,38W NAU 100 215 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 9585 1700-1800 29S NAU 250 95 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 9610 0300-0330 48 NAU 250 140 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 9610 0330-0400 48 NAU 250 140 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 9610 1000-1100 28W NAU 100 180 1...... 281012-300313 AWR 9685 1930-2000 37,38 NAU 250 155 1...... 281012-300313 PAB 9690 2030-2100 46,47 NAU 250 185 .23456. 281012-300313 IBB 9760 0500-0600 39N,40W NAU 100 105 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 9770 1530-1700 40E,41NW NAU 250 110 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 9770 1700-1730 40E,41NW NAU 250 110 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 9805 2000-2030 37,38W NAU 100 205 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 9815 1900-1930 47,48 NAU 250 155 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 11775 1600-1700 29SE NAU 250 90 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 11775 1700-1800 29SE NAU 250 90 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 11790 1500-1530 30SE,31SW NAU 250 75 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 11795 1730-1800 48 NAU 250 140 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 11920 2245-2300 12-16 NAU 100 240 1234567 281012-300313 VZM 11920 2300-0045 12-16 NAU 100 240 1234567 281012-300313 VZM 11975 0700-0800 37,38W NAU 100 210 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 11995 1600-1700 39 NAU 250 125 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 13580 0500-0900 40E,41NW NAU 250 94 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 13580 1400-1500 39N,40W NAU 250 120 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 13615 0500-0730 40 NAU 250 110 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 13740 1515-1530 40,41 NAU 100 95 ......7 281012-300313 BVB 13740 1515-1559 40,41 NAU 100 95 .....6. 281012-300313 BVB 13740 1530-1559 40,41 NAU 100 95 ....5.. 281012-300313 BVB 13740 1530-1630 29S NAU 100 95 ......7 281012-300313 HCJ 13775 1500-1600 29S NAU 250 85 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 13830 1230-1330 40 NAU 250 110 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 13830 1330-1400 40 NAU 250 110 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 13830 1400-1430 40 NAU 250 110 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 15145 0800-0830 37,38W NAU 100 205 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 15145 0830-0900 37,38W NAU 100 205 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 15265 1200-1230 30SE,31SW NAU 250 75 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 15335 1600-1800 38394748 NAU 100 150 .2..5.. 281012-300313 BVB 15335 1600-1830 38394748 NAU 100 150 1...... 281012-300313 BVB 15335 1600-1930 38394748 NAU 100 150 .....6. 281012-300313 BVB 15335 1630-1800 38394748 NAU 100 150 ..34... 281012-300313 BVB 15335 1700-1830 38394748 NAU 100 150 ......7 281012-300313 BVB 15650 1400-1600 41 NAU 500 95 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 15680 1400-1500 41NW NAU 500 95 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 11670 1200-1230 41NE TRM 250 45 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 11670 1230-1258 41NE TRM 250 25 .23.5.7 281012-300313 AWR 11670 1230-1258 41NE TRM 250 25 1..4.6. 281012-300313 AWR 13605 1400-1458 30S,40N TRM 250 335 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 13690 1200-1300 50 TRM 250 75 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 15180 1300-1330 44E,45W TRM 250 45 .234567 281012-300313 BVB 15180 1300-1400 44E,45W TRM 250 45 1...... 281012-300313 BVB 15255 1500-1528 41N TRM 250 5 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 15255 1530-1600 41N TRM 250 25 1234..7 281012-300313 AWR 15255 1530-1600 41N TRM 250 25 ....56. 281012-300313 AWR 15270 1500-1530 41N TRM 250 355 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 15270 1530-1600 41N TRM 250 355 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 15390 1100-1115 43S,44S TRM 125 45 ..345.. 281012-300313 BVB 15390 1100-1130 43S,44S TRM 125 45 .2...6. 281012-300313 BVB 15390 1100-1200 43S,44S TRM 125 45 1.....7 281012-300313 BVB 15480 1300-1330 42,43W TRM 250 5 1.....7 281012-300313 AWR 15480 1300-1330 42,43W TRM 250 5 .23456. 281012-300313 AWR 15480 1330-1458 42,43W TRM 250 5 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 5910 0645-0700 28 WER 100 55 .23456. 281012-300313 TWR 5945 0800-0830 27,28N WER 100 ND 1...... 281012-300313 BVB 5945 0800-0845 27,28N WER 100 ND ......7 281012-300313 BVB 5960 1900-2000 28E,29 WER 100 75 ......7 281012-300313 CHW 6010 2100-2200 37,38W WER 250 210 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 6045 0900-1000 27E,28 WER 100 ND 1 # 281012-300313 MSM% 6055 1130-1200 27,28 WER 125 ND 1.....7 281012-300313 EMG 6055 1200-1215 27,28 WER 250 ND 1...... 281012-300313 MWA 6075 0400-0500 28E,29W WER 250 60 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 6095 0900-1100 1827-2837 WER 100 ND .23456. 281012-300313 TRS 6095 0900-1600 182728 37 WER 100 ND 1.....7 281012-300313 KBC 6100 1600-1630 28E WER 100 120 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 6105 0300-0500 28E,29W WER 250 60 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 6105 0800-0850 27 WER 100 300 1234567 281012-300313 TWR 6105 1100-1130 28 WER 100 105 ......7 281012-300313 TWR 6105 1629-1659 28 WER 100 105 ......7 281012-300313 TWR 6120 1500-1700 28E,29W WER 250 60 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 6140 1000-1100 27,28 WER 100 ND 1 # 281012-300313 MVB 7210 0930-1000 28 WER 100 105 1234567 281012-300313 TWR 7295 1500-1530 28-30 WER 100 60 .2..... 281012-300313 TWR 7295 1500-1530 28-30 WER 100 60 1.34567 281012-300313 TWR 7305 2100-2200 46,47,52N WER 500 180 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 7315 0300-0330 48 WER 250 135 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 7395 0100-0115 41 WER 250 90 1.....7 281012-300313 BVB 7400 0130-0230 40 WER 250 105 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 9440 1700-1715 39S WER 125 120 1234567 281012-300313 BVB 9450 0500-0515 39,40 WER 250 120 .....6. 281012-300313 BVB 9450 0500-0530 39,40 WER 250 120 ....5.. 281012-300313 BVB 9460 1400-1600 18,27,28 WER 100 ND 1234567 281012-300313 TOM 9490 2000-2100 37,38W WER 250 210 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 9500 1900-2000 37E,38 WER 250 150 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 9500 2000-2100 37,46 WER 500 210 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 9565 1400-1500 40E,41NW WER 250 90 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 9595 1400-1500 30S WER 250 75 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 9605 1600-1630 29,30 WER 250 60 ......7 281012-300313 EMG 9620 0200-0500 38-40 WER 250 135 1234567 281012-300313 NHK 9620 2200-2300 38-40 WER 500 135 1234567 281012-300313 NHK 9645 1800-1830 47,48 WER 250 150 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 9665 1600-1615 40 WER 250 105 1234567 281012-300313 BVB 9695 1900-2000 37,46 WER 500 210 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 9715 1745-1800 39 WER 100 120 ...4... 281012-300313 BVB 9715 1745-1815 39 WER 100 120 ..3.... 281012-300313 BVB 9715 1745-1830 39 WER 100 120 ....5.. 281012-300313 BVB 9715 1745-1845 39 WER 100 120 .....6. 281012-300313 BVB 9715 1745-1900 39 WER 100 120 .2..... 281012-300313 BVB 9715 1745-2000 39 WER 100 120 1.....7 281012-300313 BVB 9800 1700-1800 40 WER 500 90 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 9800 1830-1900 46S,47SE WER 500 180 1234567 281012-300313 LWF 9810 1700-1800 39 WER 250 120 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 9835 1900-2000 373846-57 WER 500 165 1234567 281012-300313 TOM 9835 2300-2330 12-16 WER 100 240 1234567 281012-300313 VZM 9840 1800-1900 37E,38 WER 250 150 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 9860 1730-1800 48 WER 250 150 .23456. 281012-300313 IBB 9925 1630-1830 39,40 WER 100 105 1234567 281012-300313 BVB 9925 1930-2015 39 WER 100 120 1...... 281012-300313 BVB 11665 1800-1900 46SE WER 500 180 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 11690 1700-1800 37,38 WER 100 180 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 11700 1700-1800 3839 40W WER 100 120 ..3.... 281012-300313 BVB 11700 1715-1800 3839 40W WER 100 120 .2.456. 281012-300313 BVB 11700 1730-1800 3839 40W WER 100 120 1...... 281012-300313 BVB 11760 1900-1930 37,38W WER 100 210 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 11760 1930-2000 37,38W WER 100 210 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 11830 1900-2000 46E WER 125 180 ....5.7 281012-300313 WRN 11860 1730-1800 37,38W WER 100 210 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 11860 1900-1930 46W WER 250 210 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 11875 1630-1730 47,48 WER 100 165 1234567 281012-300313 BVB 11905 1630-1700 47,48 WER 250 150 .23456. 281012-300313 IBB 11955 1600-1700 40 WER 500 105 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 13625 1630-1700 47,48 WER 250 150 .23456. 281012-300313 IBB 13625 1800-1900 48 WER 250 135 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 13630 1500-1600 41W WER 500 105 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 13645 1400-1500 30S WER 250 75 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 13680 1500-1630 40 WER 250 105 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 13730 1200-1230 19 - 26 WER 250 45 ......7 281012-300313 EMG 13810 1400-1600 282938-39 WER 100 120 1234567 281012-300313 TOM 13810 1700-1800 38,39,48 WER 100 135 1..4... 281012-300313 SBO 15125 0800-0830 37,38W WER 100 210 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 15150 1530-1630 40E,41NW WER 250 90 1234567 281012-300313 GFA 15205 1400-1430 41 WER 100 90 1...... 281012-300313 PAB 15205 1415-1430 41 WER 100 90 .234567 281012-300313 PAB 15205 1430-1445 41 WER 250 90 1...... 281012-300313 PAB 15215 1600-1700 4,8,9 WER 500 300 ..3.... 210213-210213 ROO 15215 1630-1645 41S WER 125 105 1...... 281012-300313 BVB 15235 1330-1530 41,43,49 WER 250 75 1234567 281012-300313 GFA 15285 1230-1500 41 WER 250 90 1234567 281012-300313 GFA 15315 1700-1730 47E,48 WER 125 135 1...... 281012-300313 RMI= 15325 1400-1500 41E WER 500 90 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 15370 1500-1600 41SE WER 500 90 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 15445 1700-1900 38-40 WER 250 135 1234567 281012-300313 NHK 15470 1400-1430 41 WER 250 90 1stSun 281012-300313 BVB 15470 1430-1500 41 WER 250 90 1...... 281012-300313 BVB 15470 1430-1500 41 WER 250 90 ......7 281012-300313 BVB 15470 1500-1600 41W WER 500 90 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 15620 1630-1700 48 WER 250 135 1234567 281012-300313 IBB 15670 1630-1700 46,47,52 WER 250 180 .....6. 281012-300313 IBB 15680 1500-1600 41S WER 500 90 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 17510 1300-1500 41E WER 500 90 1234567 281012-300313 YFR 17545 0900-1000 38,39 WER 125 135 .....6. 281012-300313 BVB 17575 1630-1700 48 WER 250 135 1234567 281012-300313 AWR 17895 1600-1700 46475257 WER 250 150 1234567 281012-300313 IBB # (per RA) * (only via order) Day 1 = Sunday ... Day 7 = Saturday No 75 mb frequency registration anymore. List of Broadcasters which are using MEDIA BROADCAST technical equipment ADM internal name (not "Abu Dhabi Media Company") AWR Adventist World Radio BVB High Adventure Gospel - Bible Voice Broadcasting CHW Christliche Wissenschaft EMG Evangelische Missionsgemeinden in Deutschland FEB Feba Radio UK GFA Gospel for Asia HCJ Voice of the Andes HRT Hrvratska Radio Televizija IBB International Broadcasting Bureau, USA KBC Mighty KBC Radio LWF Lutheran World Federation MBR MEDIA BROADCAST (ex Deutsche Telekom, DTK) MSM internal MBR customer MSM% Tentatively XVRB Radio 3rd Sun and Radio Iceman 4th Sun (wb) MVB Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Baltic Radio MWA Missionswerk Arche NHK Nippon Hoso Kyokai OGM+ NGO [RHU Radio Huriyo Xoriyo Ogaden] PAB Pan Am Broadcasting RMI Radio Miami International RMI& [Hamada Radio International] RMI= [Voice of Oromo Liberation Front] ROO Radio Oeoemrang - The Free Voice of Frisian People, Amrum island in Germany. Only single day! SBO Sagalee Bilisummaa Oromoo, Voice of Oromo Liberation. TOM The Overcomer Ministry TRS Transport Radio Mon-Fri; KBC Mighty KBC Radio, Sat/Sun. TWR Trans World Radio VZM [HCJB transmissions, Sp, Ge, Kulina, Port.] {= Vozandes Media} WRN World Radio Network [Radio Biafra London] YFR WYFR Family Radio Please send your inquiries and reception reports to: E-Mail: (MBR Michael Puetz, via Andreas Volk-D Munich ADDX, column transformed and updated by wb wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 16 via dxldyg via DXLD) ** GREECE. 9420, UT Sunday Oct 14 at 0521, ERA is JBA, so no joy on hearing the Greek Orthodox cantors this week (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11645 kHz send out different program at 0500-0600 UT Oct 13, heard Radio Filia announcement at 0531 UT, and continued at 0532 UT on R Filia's German language service at S=9+20dB proper signal level, despite African azimuth antenna of 182 degrees is in use at this time, but antenna in Avlis has a big BACK-LOBE outlet though. At 0600 UT all three outlets on //, Voice of Greece service in Greek 9420 which was signal weaker than both 11645 and 15630 kHz (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Weekend schedule of Radio Filia as of Oct. 13/14 Saturday Oct. 13 0400-0500 on 11645 AVL 100 kW 182 deg to NoAf/N&ME VOGreece 0500-0532 on 11645 AVL 100 kW 182 deg to NoAf/N&ME Albanian 0532-0545 on 11645 AVL 100 kW 182 deg to NoAf/N&ME German 0545-0600 on 11645 AVL 100 kW 182 deg to NoAf/N&ME Russian 0600-0700 on 11645 AVL 100 kW 182 deg to NoAf/N&ME VOGreece Sunday Oct. 14 0400-0500 on 11645 AVL 100 kW 182 deg to NoAf/N&ME VOGreece 0500-0530 on 11645 AVL 100 kW 182 deg to NoAf/N&ME Albanian 0530-0600 on 11645 AVL 100 kW 182 deg to NoAf/N&ME Spanish 0600-0628 on 11645 AVL 100 kW 182 deg to NoAf/N&ME German 0628-0643 on 11645 AVL 100 kW 182 deg to NoAf/N&ME Russian 0643-0700 on 11645 AVL 100 kW 182 deg to NoAf/N&ME Polish 0700-0730 on 11645 AVL 100 kW 182 deg to NoAf/N&ME Bulgarian 0730-0800 on 11645 AVL 100 kW 182 deg to NoAf/N&ME Serbian Programs in different languages are 5-7 minutes, during the rest time - music. 73! No transmissions of Radio Filia this morning Oct. 15: 0400-0500 11645 AVL 100 kW 182 deg to NoAf/N&ME Local NET FM in Greek 0500-0600 11645 AVL 100 kW 182 deg to NoAf/N&ME Classical mx in Greek 0600-0800 11645 AVL 100 kW 182 deg to NoAf/N&ME Voice of Greece Greek Greece this morning Oct. 16 on 11645: 0400-0500 11645 AVL 100 kW 182 deg to NoAf/N&ME Local NET FM in Greek 0500-0600 11645 AVL 100 kW 182 deg to NoAf/N&ME Radio Filia Albanian 0600-0800 11645 AVL 100 kW 182 deg to NoAf/N&ME Voice of Greece Greek (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) 9420, Oct 17 at 0453, VOG with VG signal presenting Greek music, serenading me to dreamland. Previous nights was not making it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This morning Wednesday Oct. 17 no transmissions of Radio Filia: 0400- 0800 on 11645 AVL 100 kW 182 deg to NoAf/N&ME Voice of Greece in Greek. 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, Oct 17, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUIANA FRENCH. 9374 & 9606, TDF Montsinéry is still radiating distorted hummy FMy spurs, 116 kHz each side of the 9490 transmitter carrying Radio República via RMI, also with enough modulation audible on the spurs to make a definite match to jammed 9490. Upper one again bothered Vatican Spanish via Bonaire on 9610. Hmm, desperate Cubans should try the spurs if 9490 is blocked. 11995, Oct 16 at 0331, big open carrier with the usual hum, as TDF has failed to turn it off after the RTI Spanish relay finished at 0300. Until 0330 it would have conflicted with BBC Urdu via UAE. Still there but weaker at 0546 check. RTI Spanish at 0200-0300 via GUF plans to continue on 11995 in B-12. 11995, Oct 17 at 0451, TDF carrier with hum, poor signal but still wasteful (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HAWAII. USA: NEW RADIO STATION DEBUTS MONDAY EVENING ON HAWAII ISLAND. (14th October 2012) October 14, 2012, By Sherry Bracken Resonate Hawaii will premier a new radio station on Hawaii Island on Monday, October 15, starting at 5 p.m. The WAVE is at 92.1 FM on the West side of Hawaii Island. The WAVE will be at 92.7 FM on the East side of the island, and will go over the air on Monday, October 22. It is also available for online listening at http://www.hawaiiswave.com The station will offer what it calls “Today’s Fresh Mix” of top hits. The station will debut with the the broadcast of 9,200 songs in a row from artists such as Katy Perry, Maroon 5, Rihanna, Daughtry, Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake, Train, Beyonce, Matchbox 20, Usher, Bruno Mars, and Adele along with many others. Matt Stone, programming director, says that complementing the station will be an array of events and concerts, an extensive online destination with local events, blogs, music videos, photo galleries, celebrity gossip reports, and an embeddable and multi-functional streaming player. Fans of the station can also stay connected through instant messaging, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking sites, as well as via texting. “After a very long road, we are very excited to be launching Hawaii’s first contemporary hit radio station,” said Dan Deeb, Market Manger, Resonate Hawaii. “Sales and samples have said Hawaii Island loves today’s hit music. For too long the fans of this music have had nowhere to turn here on The Big Island. We are proud to be that outlet by playing “Today’s Fresh Mix.” Deeb is the managing member for Resonate Hawaii, LLC. The company got permission from the FCC to acquire two Hilo-based stations, KHBC (92.7 FM) and KIPA (1020 AM) and Kona-based KHwI (92.1) from Jerrold T. Lundquist’s Chaparral Broadcasting, of Jackson, Wyoming, for $500,000 last May. The stations were not actively broadcasting at the time. The FCC filing indicates Deeb owns 49 percent of Resonate Hawaii’s assets, with U. S. citizen/Australian resident Carla Maria Morris holding 30%; Australian group Guns of Seneca Pty Ltd. As Trustee for El Gordo Trust, with Sally Dobson as Principal, holding 20%; and Deanna Stenman of Arizona owning 1%. Deeb is also general manager of Mahalo Broadcasting LLC, which operates Hawaii Island FM stations KBGX (LAVA 105.3 FM , KKOA (KOA County 107.7 FM), and AM station KHNU (620 AM). Deeb says they’ve had some equipment problems that have resulted in outages for LAVA 105.3 FM and KKOA 107.7 FM over the last week, but those problems should be resolved soon and the stations will resume being able to be heard islandwide. He reinforced the company’s commitment to continuing its islandwide country and rock stations. SOURCE: http://www.bigislandnewscenter.com/new-radio-station-debuts-monday-evening-on-hawaii-island/ (((Listen))) http://khbc.streamon.fm/ (Via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, DXLD) ** HONDURAS. 2230z Oct 11, 630 AM. Radio América, "Hora del Cafe" with host Victor Manuel Zelaya, talks to male about the coffee industry in Honduras. Religious talk at 2259, then news show at 2300, "Expreso Informativo", with various announcers. SINPO 34333. Listened off and on to this station for nearly an hour (Bill Blair, heard on TECSUN PL- 380 portable with the radio's telescoping whip antenna. All stations heard from the balcony of our stateroom on the starboard side of the Carnival Triumph cruise ship, halfway between Progreso and Cozumel, Mexico, http://weirdtransmissions.blogspot.com/2012/10/shortwave-mediumwave-and-fm-logs-for.html dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HONG KONG. 8828-USB, Cape d'Aguilar - 1045 to 1048 with weather on 11 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D - 746Pro - R8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. AIR Rajkot 1071. Like a bomb now in Aldea del Cano, Spain!! 9+20db more or less the same that COPE-Cáceres (20 km away). I have found some photos of this new tx.: http://www.becil.com/TamplateHolder.aspx?tamp_id=290&cate=Terrestrial%20Projects 73 (Mauricio Molano, Salamanca, ESPAÑA - SPAIN, RX site: Aldea del Cano, Cáceres, Oct 13, MWCircle yg via DXLD ** INDIA. AIR SPECIAL MAHALAYA-2012 TRANSMISSION OBSERVATION AT JORHAT, ASSAM Today [Oct 15], on the auspicious Mahalaya morning, I did an observation / monitoring of different AIR regional station's special Mahalaya transmission on SW and MW. I began my monitoring from 2225 UT (03:55 IST) on 15th October 2012, Monday and found 33 regional AIR stations being transmitting Mahisasura Mardini and Chandi Path by Late Birendra Krishna Bhadra in Hindi and Bengali, until I wind-up at 2330 UT (05:00 IST). Here is a brief report on AIR channel's special Mahalaya transmission reception conditions here in Jorhat (Latitude: 26 45' 0 N, Longitude: 94 13' 0 E.), Assam. Here is what I have observed on the Medium Wave band: 549, AIR Ranchi NOT HEARD 603, AIR Ajmer NOT HEARD 621, AIR Patna A Mahisasura Mardini in Bengali SINPO 24222 648, AIR Indore Mahisasura Mardini in Hindi SINPO 22222 657, AIR Kolkata A Mahisasura Mardini in Bengali SINPO 44444 666, AIR New Delhi B Mahisasura Mardini SINPO 34433 675, AIR Chatterpur NOT HEARD 711, AIR Siliguri Mahisasura Mardini heard in Bengali. SINPO 32333 729, AIR Guwahati A Mahisasura Mardini in Bengali. SINPO 34333 747, AIR Lucknow A Mahisasura Mardini SINPO 34333 756, AIR Jagdalpur Mahisasura Mardini. SINPO 25222 774, AIR Shimla Mahisasura Mardini. SINPO 34322 801, AIR Jabalpur Mahisasura Mardini. SINPO 24222 810, AIR Rajkot A Mahisasura Mardini. SINPO 24222 819, AIR New Delhi A NOT HEARD 828, AIR Silchar Mahisasura Mardini in Bengali. SINPO 44444 846, AIR Ahemdabad NOT HEARD 909, AIR Gorakhpur Mahisasura Mardini. SINPO 24222 918, AIR Suratgarh NOT HEARD 954, AIR Nazibabad Mahisarura Mardini. SINPO 35333 981, AIR Raipur Mahisasura Mardini. SINPO 33333 1008, AIR Kolkata B Mahisasura Mardini. SINPO 22222 1026, AIR Allahabad A Mahisasura Mardini. SINPO 22332 1044, AIR Mumbai A NOT HEARD 1125, AIR Tezpur NOT HEARD 1179, AIR AIR Rewa NOT HEARD 1215, AIR Delhi NOT HEARD 1260, AIR Ambikapur NOT HEARD 1269, AIR Agartala Mahisasura Mardini in Bengali. SINPO 45444 1296, AIR Darbangha Mahisasura Mardini. SINPO 25222 1314, AIR Bhuj NOT HEARD 1386, AIR Gwalior Mahisasura Mardini. SINPO 25222 1395, AIR Bikaner NOT HEARD 1404, AIR Gangtok Mahisasura Mardini. SINPO 34333 1458, AIR Bhagalpur Mahisasura Mardini. SINPO 34222 1476, AIR Jaipur A Mahisasura Mardini. SINPO 22222 1530, AIR Agra Mahisasura Mardini. SINPO 25222 1566, AIR Nagpur SINPO 25222 1584, AIR Mathura NOT HEARD. 1593, AIR Bhopal A NOT HEARD ON the SHORTWAVE bands, here are my observations, times UT 4760, AIR Port Blair Mahisasura Mardini from 2230 with SINPO 45333 4810, AIR Bhopal Mahisasura Mardini heard at 2250 with SINPO 44333 4820, AIR Kolkata Mahisasura Mardini heard at 2245 with SINPO 32333 4835, AIR Gangtok NOT HEARD 4880, AIR Lucknow Mahisasura Mardini heard from 2230 with SINPO 44333 4895, AIR Kurseong Mahisasura Mardini heard at 2255 with SINPO 25222 4910, AIR Jaipur Mahisasura Mardini heard at 2235 with SINPO 44444 4940, AIR Guwahati NOT HEARD 4965, AIR Shimla NOT HEARD 9425, AIR Delhi NOT HEARD 9470, AIR Aligarh NOT HEARD For all these observations I used JRC NRD-91 (for SW) Sangean ATS-909 (for MW loggings) receivers along with a 20 mt. long dipole antenna and Kestral W31MS active loop antenna respectively. MOTHER DURGA IS COMING. HAPPY DURGA PUJA to ALL. Enjoy the life at its best on those five days of PUJA. 73's & Regards, (Prithwiraj Purkayastha, Pub Bongalpukhuri, By Lane 4, P.O./ Dist. Jorhat, Assam - 785001, India, Email: prithwiraj.purkayastha @ gmail.com dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I listened to the start of the traditional "Mahalaya" early broadcast in Skovlunde on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire: 4760.00, 2232-2245 14.10 AIR Port Blair Sanskrit ann, religious singing by choir and vocalists 24122 CWQRM AP-DNK 4820.83, 2234-2245 14.10 AIR Kolkata same as 4760, but heavily disturbed by Xizang 21221 AP-DNK 4835.00, *2223-2245 14.10 AIR Gangtok AIR IS, 2226 ann and "Vande Mataram" hymn, Sanskrit ann, same as 4760 35343 AP-DNK 4880.00, 2236-2245 14.10 AIR Lucknow same as 4760, 35333 AP-DNK 4895.00, *2228-2245 14.10 AIR Kurseong AIR IS, 2229 ann, same as 4760, but somewhat delayed 45333. Mongolia had not yet signed on. Best 73, (Anker Petersen, Denmark, dx_india yg via DXLD) 4965.10, AIR Shimla, 2235-2245, Oct 14, just a weak carrier, no audio (Anker Petersen, Denmark, DSWCI DX Window Oct 17 via DXLD) [4965.10, AIR Shimla:] But heard at 0100-0201*, Oct 10, via Perseus site in Central Germany, vocal with instrumental music, news in 3 languages, 0140 announcement in English: "Good Morning People", program jingle of some kind and another "Good Morning People". At 0200.5 tones similar to what is heard for ads, a short announcement and almost immediately carrier off at 0201. S-4+ signal and no QRM (Bruce Churchill, CA in DXplorer via DSWCI DX Window Oct 17 via DXLD) ** INDIA. 5050, AIR Aizawl, 1206-1211, Oct 16. Have been following this one for a while now; have only heard positive IDs a few times; have not yet heard them playing any of their usual type of subcontinent music which made it hard to confirm their identity; mixing with and underneath stronger Beibu Bay Radio (BBR); 1210 sounded like “All India Radio, Aizawl”; poor; the audio seemed rather distorted (due to mixing with BBR?). https://www.box.com/s/6o8sgxquc37pmvu1z5xk contains a short, very poor quality MP3 audio of the two mixing together (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Alinco DX-R8T and Par Electronics EF-SWL antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 9425, AIR National Channel, 12 de octubre a las 1957 UT. Señal discreta, musica local e identificación a las 2000. Luego de la misma, un prolongado silencio de mas de 3 minutos. Según me acota un contacto japones en Youtube, es común que la emisora, cuando no tenga material que difundir, deje la portadora sin audio, a veces por horas. http://youtu.be/WnJDlEbLfBM 73 (desde Montevideo, Uruguay, Rodolfo Tizzi, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 11670.0, All India Radio General Overseas Service, Bengaluru (Bangalore); 2115-2127 10/12, English “Horizon” program about poetry in India; S9+20db. 73, (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Icom IC-R75 with active whip antenna, http://www.andyrobinsradio.com DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. Re: "Checked 9526 and 9680.050 channels today at 10 to 14 UT, but heard nothing from Jakarta Cimanggis Indonesia. Only RTI Taiwan and some jammers from China mainland on 9680 kHz heard from 11 UT onwards. 73 wb" Wolfgang, RRI Cimanggis today, 13/10, 0947, on 9680.08 acc. to my zero beating. Besides a very weak [avoidable] heterodyne (*) with some other signal on the LSB, no trace of the other stn I didn't even cared to ID but which you say are CHN & TWN. *) I think you'll notice the notch filter being switched on & off as well as the ext. RF amp. being engaged (second 38). Best received via the K9AY (!). 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I can hear RRI now at 1015 on 9680.05 kHz via Japan remote receivers, but nothing on 9525/6 kHz. Best regards, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, Oct 13, ibid.) 2nd message of today: "In my previous message, I forgot to explain, that the recording time shown on the label is UTC+1 h. Time now is nearly 1020 UT, and I expect RRI's signal on 9680 will hold for less than 30 mins. Readability is not an issue, it's not readable since I started observing it this morning, i.e. a few mins. before 1000 UT." 73, (Carlos, Oct 13, ibid.) 9680.052, Again RRI program 4 from Cimanggis on air at 0905 UT Oct 14. Though nothing on VoINS on 9526v kHz visible. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DXLD) 9526-, Oct 16 at 1300, Voice of Indonesia is back! But only with fluttery carrier on unique off-off-frequency, no modulation audible, nor at 1315. At 1338 there seems to be a trace of music, but the flutter-fading makes a louder noise into the headphones. They are in dire need of new/rebuilt tubes for the Marconi 250 kW transmitter at Cimanggis (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DX LISTENING DIGEST) VOI Back on 9525 kHz --- Hello Dxers, After a while of silence, VOI got back on the air, due to some transmitter problems as per their Face Book page. On 16/10/2012 I noticed a carrier on 9525 [sic] kHz around 1545 UT. Waiting for the sgin-on of the Arabic section at 1600 the reception was really weak to get an ID. Around 1620 I managed to hear a few words in Arabic, SIO 242. All the best (Tarek Zeidan, Cairo, Egypt, Oct 17, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DXLD) Thank you Tarek for the tip, now VOI back in Arabic on 9525.89 kHz at 1615 (Mauno Ritola, Finland, Oct 16, WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9526-, Oct 17 at 1150, VOI poor signal with no modulation audible. 1300 still open carrier, maybe just barely modulated. Victor Goonetilleke in Sri Lanka heard more than that: ``1300 English is on 9525.86 but although normal VOI strength, the modulation level is low, about 40%``. Still on at 1415 making its het against CRI 9525.0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Also today 9525.89 kHz was on from 1000 UTC onwards with weak signal. But RRI 9680.05 kHz was missing, so I wonder if that transmitter was used on 9526 kHz instead. Best regards, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, 1214 UT Oct 17, WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. The Hotbird Satellite is currently receiving rouge carriers which is taking out all services. Eutelsat, the satellite owner, is investigating the issue to try and establish where the rouge carrier is originating from. Currently all services are on air, but there have been several short outages already today. We will keep you updated as more information is available. Best regards, (Fleur Nittolo, Client Account Manager, 1343 UT Oct 16, WRN Broadcast to gh, DXLD) Rouge carrier? New term to me. I searched on it along with Hotbird and got only one hit, referring to Iranian jamming in 2003 from Cuba: http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/iransat/message/1225 Why call it rouge? Is it reddish? Does it smear? If one searches on ``rouge carrier`` alone, the top hits concern newspapers or air conditioners in Bâton Rouge, or Carrier, Oklahoma; images are topped by red-coloured French baby-bags. Ha! It never occurred to me, but Fleur apologizes for a misspelling: it`s ROGUE carrier, not rouge. There have been more reports about this since (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [and non]. Can hear the new Indian MW transmitter on 1071 kHz early evening onwards, and also hear Middle-Eastern music on 1080 kHz, usually best around 1730-1800 UT. WRTH lists Iran and have tried to find a // HF channel, but not managed it so far. 73's (Nick Rank, Buxton, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) If it`s a Farsi domestic service, there are never any // HF channels. Mauno Ritola pointed out that it`s in the WRTH A-12 update as the Arabic service also on SW (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** ISRAEL. 6885 NF, Galei Zahal, 0135-0145, Oct 15, New Frequency, ex- 6973, local pop music. Hebrew announcements. Very good signal. No //s heard. Thanks to tip from Dan Ferguson and Chris Smolinski. Also heard at 2310 (Brian Alexander, PA, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Frequency change of Radio Galei Zahal in Hebrew: 0000-2400 NF 6885 YAV 005 kW / non-dir to local broadcast, ex 6973 // 15850 (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, DX Re Mix News 16 October via WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DXLD) ** ITALY. Mediumwave Italy - Mittelwelle Italien. Die RAI hat im September 2012 ueberraschend zwei Mittelwellen-Standorte abgeschaltet: 567 kHz Caltanissetta (Sizilien) 657 kHz Napoli-Marcianise (bis vor kurzem noch 24 Std-Betrieb, und eine der Saeulen des "Notturno Italiano". Auf 657 kHz wird jetzt aus Pisa 24 Std. gesendet. Hintergruende und Kommentare hier: (Guenter Lorenz, Germany, A-DX Oct 10 via BCDX Oct 15 via DXLD) RAI MW: off even Naples. Towards the total sale? After the closure of Bologna Budrio - a station that dated back to Marconi and is embroiled in a complex situation related to the planning of the municipality building in Bologna - another plant RAI Radio on medium wave would be at imminent disposal, to Naples Marcianise of 657 kHz (among other things one of the frequencies deputies to remain on 24 hours of 24 to transmit what remains of the Night from Italy). [Notturno Italiano] Radio 1 Napoli should close their doors within two days, according to sources who announced the news on the Facebook page dedicated to the memory of the historic local frequency of Radio Bari (Apulia the current system in medium wave Ceglie del Campo in Bari - about chiusre - ceased operations a few months ago on 1116 kHz due to damage suffered during a raid thieves of copper). The antenna of Caserta, now reduced to 50 kW probably by more than 100 original, was inaugurated in 1948 by President De Nicola and stands on land that was owned by the family Cross (yes, the philosopher). It is now quite obvious intention - never openly declared, beyond the usual rumors - to put an end to the infrastructure in the medium wave public radio, at a time when the various "experiments" by private operators appeared in the same band in recent months have suffered a setback because of the explicit repressive attitude taken by the guardians of the Ministry of Economic Development (broadcast on medium wave in Italy is not explicitly "illegal" but it is not legal). The picture, for those on these frequencies are sometimes a solution to the problems of coverage and interference of RAI in FM stations, it's pretty bleak. If the bleeding does not stop, will soon run RAI Radio stations on medium wave and also hopes to one day see approved legislation that encourages the use of low-power systems and educational aims of the association are not objectively very real. Moreover, the tendency to "phase out" broadcast frequencies below 1602 kHz dominates a little 'everywhere in Europe, where all plants, from those at the national level to the local low power, eye-catching suffer budget cuts ended up being deleted. It must be said that in the public perception is understood in a general sense the possibility of listening on medium wave are virtually unknown, a little 'because of the now established dominance of frequency modulation and secondly because of the conditions increasingly degraded in terms of noise background, especially in densely urbanized areas. Here with me in the city, for example, often I can not hear anything below 5 MHz. A conservation and revitalization of our infrastructure in amplitude modulation is possible as well as desirable, but it should work out a real plan, inclusive of a regulatory framework that makes it more accessible the birth of low-power stations, modeled on similar legislation in Europe and the United States. At the moment, apart from broadcasters RAI Radio survivors, you can listen to the broadcasts of Radio irregular Challenger 1368 and 1566 of the Religious Radio Kolbe (audible at night in Milan) and Radio Melody, the summer has reignited, in Romagna, a transmitter that had been reported the last time in 2010. September 17, 2012 Rai, half in red and plague medium wave: it's up to Caltanissetta. Do not spend 48 hours of the news of the turning off of the Radio RAI Naples-Marcianise, announces that the newspaper La Sicilia, on the issue of September 21, the dismantling of the antenna of Caltanissetta, the imposing tower over 280 meters which were irradiated programs long wave (off in 2004). Since then, Caltanissetta are running only the 567 kHz medium wave, but I imagine that with the decommissioning of the plant (which is one of the three hills of the city, at Via Antenna) also stops transmitting this frequency, unless - but the hypothesis seems unlikely - the structure to be removed is that of the old long wave and 567 do not continue in the service of another antenna. What can I say? Perhaps the decision also weighs the location of the plant in the middle of urban district and the usual considerations of electromagnetic pollution. I discussed the question of the medium wave with friends at the Prix RAI Italy and from what I understand the plan of gradual divestiture will continue, until leaving in activities in Italy fifteen antennas on medium wave (in some cases it is structures rather new). Hard to say if at that point the path away from the infrastructure broadcast media will stop, but I have no idea that this will be only an intermediate step. As can be convinced that the medium wave RAI can still play a useful role, and despite the undoubted presence of a hard core of fixed and mobile listeners, there are too many factors of obsolescence of a technology increasingly "old" (at least in his conception of antenna very powerful and pelvis listening [???? --- gh] very extensive, especially at night). Then there is the not insignificant aspect of the economic situation of the public and of Italy in general. Just as I was in Turin employees of RAI received by mail a copy of the interim report ended 30 June (can be found here thanks to First Communication). The results, even in the face of the commitment to the European Football Championship (over 100 million of expenditure), are bad. The net operating profit saw a loss of 129 million, the net financial position was negative by 168 million. Despite an increase in revenue from fees and a reduction of external costs, the collapse of advertising (less than 14%) and other expenses, sports or not, led to a sharp deterioration compared to the first half of 2011. You can bet that the offer RAI will focus in recent months the attention of "auditors cart". Radio broadcasting, meaning programs and infrastructure will necessarily the end of the crock pot. We begin to say goodbye to the ambitions of DAB (a topic unknown to most people, and lacking any electoral weight) and get ready to see new, unpleasant cuts. (both via Guenter Lorenz-D, A-DX Oct 10 via BCDX Oct 15 via DXLD) 567 MW, RAI Caltanissetta, (Cf. DX-Window no 464. Ed). Unfortunately by the end of September also the transmitter in Caltanissetta was closed down without any previous notice. According to local press reports the antenna, built in 1954 and 286s meter high, will be dismantled. After Bari, Naples and Caltanissetta all most powerful MW transmitters in Southern Italy have disappeared in a matter of few months (Luigi Cobisi, Firenze, Italy, DSWCI DX Window Oct 17 via DXLD) Mama [sic] mia! (Anker Petersen, Ed., ibid.) ** JAPAN [non]. See CANADA ** KASHMIR. 4659.997, 13.10 1610, UNID, maybe AIR Leh still here? Very low modulation and almost impossible to get more than weak music (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin Oct 14 via DXLD) 4660, AIR Leh. Yes They have been on 4660 kHz for about 3 weeks. Somedays audio is very low. Hope they stay there for good or go to another channel on 60 mb than dueling on 4760 kHz. Just checking at 1400 UT on 4660 kHz is active, until 1630 UT sign-off usually. Their morning sign-on is I think at 0215 UT in summer but even though I am just one hop away I can't hear anything two hours after sunrise for me, but will probably get all the way to the US!!! (Victor Goonetilleke, Sri Lanka, 4S7VK, DXplorer Oct 14 via BCDX Oct 15 via WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DXLD) AIR 4660 / 4760 kHz. AIR Leh 4660 - possible here, was heard with fine signal this European afternoon, Oct 14. 4659.997 kHz on foot print exactly like I heard a South Asian language - an endless talk of a man, and on t o p another signal every and now and radio traffic from Russia (Ship or Air service announcements?) at 1615-1625 UT Oct 14th (Wolfgang Büschel, BCDX Oct 15 via DXLD) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 11510, Oct 12 at 1402, Denge Kurdistan, Kurdish music, poor with flutter, presumably via UKRAINE. Meanwhile, VOA Kurdish had just opened exactly 4 MHz higher via Wertachtal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) People kept reporting this as UKRAINE, but I was never convinced. Now we know: (gh, DXLD) Updated schedule of BRB (former TDP) stations: Here is history of changes from Denge Mezopotamya to Denge Kurdistanya: Denge Mezopotamya in Kurdish till August 31: 0300-1500 11530 SMF 300 kW / 129 deg to WeAs, WEAK SIGNAL IN SOFIA 1500-1900 11530 SMF 500 kW / 129 deg to WeAs, WEAK SIGNAL IN SOFIA Denge Mezopotamya in Kurdish, NO TRANSMISSIONS from Sep. 1 till 5: 0300-1900 11530 SMF 300 kW / 129 deg to WeAs 1500-1900 11530 SMF 500 kW / 129 deg to WeAs Denge Kurdistanya in Kurdish tests from Sep. 5 1600 till Sep. 13 1900: 0300-1900 NF 11510 SOF 100 kW / 126 deg WeAs, POWERFUL SIGNAL IN SOFIA Denge Kurdistanya in Kurdish tests Sep. 12: 0300-1500 on 11530 BIJ 250 kW / 130 deg WeAs, WEAK SIGNAL IN SOFIA 0300-1900 NF 11510 SOF 100 kW / 126 deg WeAs, POWERFUL SIGNAL IN SOFIA Denge Kurdistanya in Kurdish tests from Sep. 14, ex SMF 300/500 kW / 129 deg: 0300-1500 11510 BIJ 250 kW / 130 deg to WeAs, WEAK SIGNAL IN SOFIA 1500-1900 11510 SOF 100 kW / 126 deg to WeAs, POWERFUL SIGNAL IN SOFIA (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, DX Re Mix News 16 October via WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DXLD) DENGE KURDISTAN VIA BIJELJINA, NO SW FROM UKRAINE ANYMORE (Re: DX Re Mix) I meant to put the real hot news into the headline. To summarize it: Shortwave transmissions from Luch [UKRAINE] ceased on Aug 31, eliminating yet another SW BC transmitter country, at least for the time being. This disrupted Denge Mezopotamya / Denge Kurdistan until it had been restored from Kostinbrod in the evening of Sep 5 while Miraya FM was off even until Sep 16, a situation that indicates a sudden closure with no or little warning in advance. And the even bigger, because indeed unexpected news is that Denge Kurdistan on 11510 is during daytime now transmitted by the Radio Serbia site at Jabanusa near Bijeljina, which thus as far as I know is leased out to an external customer for the very first time. It so happened that I checked 11510 this late morning, and I found it booming in, with a modulation that would indeed fit Bijeljina (and did not fit Luch at all). The webpage that used to feature the Jabanusa transmitter fell victim of Yahoo's action to eliminate the Geocities heritage, but here are at least three photos from outside: http://www.panoramio.com/user/6795567 (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 16, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. 15540 & 17550, Oct 14 at 2000 check, no signals from R. Kuwait, English or Arabic. I think this will be the norm until spring, perhaps with some exceptions if we get more flux, but we certainly won`t be getting more insolation on the path, as RK insists on staying on too-hi frequencies all winter (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DX LISTENING DIGEST) And since it`s after dark now all the way from Kuwait to Western Europe even at the start of the broadcast at 18 UT, I suspect it is not even propagating reliably on the first hop, right? Then we cannot expect any further hops (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALAYSIA. 9835, 14/10 2245, RTM Wai FM, talk mentioning Wai FM, songs, commercials, fair (at 2300 start HCJB in German) (Giampiero Bernardini, Winradio Excalibur Pro, Ant: Maxi Whip by Capra (wire 8 meters with 1:32 balun)) & Wellbrook LFL 1010 loop; QTH: Bocca di Magra (La Spezia, Liguria) Italy, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALI. 15505, Oct 13 at 2220, open carrier with considerable fading; 2230 maybe starts a trace of modulation. Aoki and HFCC have the answer: CRI relay at 2230-2300 (only) in Chinese, 100 kW, 85 degrees from Bamako, with usual far-substandard performance (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 550, Oct 15 at 1201 UT, choral NA, then ID but not a fully detailed one like most stations at TOH: ``91.3 y 550 simultáneamente, Cuauhtémoc, La Super Estación`` all mentioned, i.e. per Cantú: 550 XEPL La Super Estación + FM 91.3 Cd. Cuauhtemoc, Chih. 5,000 150 Some years ago I caught this in Low German for the Mennonites in the area, I think in the morning. At least there`s a program grid for L-V: http://www.xepl.com.mx/programacion/ including at 18-23 local, ``Programación Menonita – Alemán Bajo``. That would be 00-05 UT, mostly 100-watt-night-power time. Maybe they also have some on weekend mornings when the schedule merely says ``variada`` for Sat & Sun (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 550 kHz UNID German Language Station Heard in Colorado I was taking advantage of auroral conditions and the IBOC being off (for good, hopefully) on 560 KLZ and was listening to 550 kHz and grabbing all the stations I Could. I added KBOW, KFYI and KTRS to my logs last night and heard a 4th station I could not figure out. Please listen to the file I uploaded to the files section of our group here: http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/UFp9UIrP6wlObl8Eejii2_kNk4_Ae_m0Aq3hRwrkyn4mbPfAf8TeFqpaXbc0f4S9rwjgUSMJlmuyBmvveXFdKOOoCm_H-UkC/550_UNID_2012-10-16_501_UTC_Clean_Clip.mp3 I cannot figure out what I am hearing but am pretty sure it is German that is being spoken. There is a song followed that ends at the start and German language from about 00:25 until about 1:08 with talk and what sounds like either a program or station jingle. Then a country song in German language is played followed by and English station fading in with what I think is an ID of KOAC over the top. The German language station faintly begins another song underneath I believe. I heard this station fade in several times during the evening but not as well as this clip. There are two European stations in Germany on 549 kHz but they were playing news at the time. I have not, as of yet, found any North American stations on 550 kHz that broadcast in German. Hopefully someone will recognize something. I recorded the full-length original clip at 0501 UT (11:01 MDT in Colorado) which means the German talk in question occurred about 6 minutes before which makes it about 0454 UT. The end of the clip is right at 0500 UT but the audio became nothing but music and the English stations were gone so I shortened it. Thanks, (John ];') kugellagers, Lakewood, Colorado, Oct 16, Hammarlund SP-600 JX-37, 30' Low-noise vertical, 26' vertical on 35' mast, 27' Low-noise vertical, Quantum Phaser, mwdx yg via DXLD) This is XEPL which has some German for Mennonites. It was common when I DXed from the San Diego area with Bevs 25 years ago and I've even logged it here in NE IL. http://www.xepl.com.mx/programacion/ 73 KAZ (Neil Kazaross, ibid.) C&W song was in German, song title most likely "Nimm Dir Zeit für Deine Freunde". Short Google search revealed, that there is such a song played by a band named "Joe Hodgkins Boss Band". And I agree with Wolfy, the announcements were in a language sounding more Dutch than German, which fits to the Mennonites "Plautdietsch". This language is rather different to the "Plattdeutsch" still spoken in rural areas of the northern lowlands of Germany. HCJB carries the Mennonites` "Plautdietsch" language, too. Very difficult for me to follow, while I have no problems understanding Plattdeutsch (Martin Elbe, mwdxyg via DXLD) Evidently none of you had read my log of a few days ago as above (gh, ibid.) And then, below: 550, Oct 17 at 1202 UT after NA, Chihuahua state PSA with phone numbers to ``denounce delinquency``, i.e. crimestoppers. 1203 on to science feature from UNAM, `Radio Esfera`, i.e. not a station ID! So this is XEPC in Ciudad Cuauhtémoc again. Meanwhile, I see that John Kugellagers in Lakewood CO was surprised to hear some sort of German on 550, UT Oct 16 at 0454, which confirms what we found on their schedule. But 150 watts at night?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 560, Oct 17 at 0516 UT, EZ-listening Spanish music, with ID ``La Tremenda`` between songs; loops SW. Cantú shows it is: 560 XESRD La Tremenda +FM 89.3 Santiago Papasquiaro, Dgo. 10,000 1,000 Must be a new one for me (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 640, Oct 17 at 1205 UT, kid choral NA, 1206 XEJUA Ciudad Juárez ID with 5 kW. Not hard to separate from OK`s KWPN Moore, ex- WWLS, ex-WNAD Norman about 90 degrees away and KFI no problem either. Have they ever got their full signal back? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 650, Oct 12 at 1159 UT choral NA, and then ID as ``Radio Ka`` (as in the letter K in Spanish). I was expecting the usual XETNT Los Mochis, and maybe this was it, with a misleading program name or something. Schedule at http://www.chavezradiocast.com/?page_id=395 still shows `Panorama Agropecuario` at 6 am weekdays. Cantú, IRCA, and WRTH show nothing resembling ``Radio K`` and not even a K anywhere in XE- 650 callsigns. Cantú shows only one other XE in the UT -6 zone where NA would be playing at 1200: 650 XETNT Radio 65 + FM 106.5 Los Mochis, Sin. 5,000 1,000 650 XEVSS Sin Límites + FM 101.1 Hermosillo, Son. 1,000 100 Altho I did hear the Mexican NA, could the ID have been from some US SS station? None listed in NRC AM Log on 650. Maybe I just misheard it. 650, Oct 13 at 1200 UT, full ID for XHTNT 106.5, Radio 65, Grupo Chávez, and also mentioned ``Radio K`` in passing, so the Radio K that I heard before was definitely XETNT Los Mochis, Sinaloa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 660, Oct 12 at 0532 UT, ``La mejor estación, 9-8-9, La Lupe, 98 punto 9``, amid romantic music. Cantú: 660 XEACB La Lupe + FM 98.9 Cd. Delicias, Chih. 3,000 1,000 Its AM predecessor and still duplicator not worth mentioning (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 710, Oct 12 at 1204 UT crime news headlines, 1205 ``Noticias 7-10``, mentions of Chihuahua: So the usual XEDP Ciudad Cuauhtémoc (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 720, Oct 12 at 1200 UT, choral NA from WSW, 1202 segué to some rock music, Radio Centro ID, 1203 Banco de México, Diputados PSA. As previously researched, this is a relay via: 720 XEJCC Extremo 7-20 Cd. Juárez, Chih. 1,000 1,0000 [sic] 720, Oct 17 at 1209 UT, talking about Morelia and Michoacán, suspect a national newscast e.g. XEJCC Juárez rather than: 720 XEKN La Z, Salvajemente Grupera, Huetamo de Núñez, Mich. 5,000 D as in Cantú. This also looped WSW, vs a musical Mexican further to the south (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 780, Oct 13 at 1202 UT, KSPI Oklahoma is kindly cooperating by not modulating its carrier, so I can catch this: ``10,000 watts, Monclova`` mentioned, so per Cantú it is: 780 XEWGR Exa FM + FM 101.1 Monclova, Coah. 10,000 250 Lacking anything that definite but ``Exa FM`` ID could also have been: 780 XEZN Exa FM + FM 104.5 Celaya, Gto. 5,000 1,000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 790, Oct 11 at 1238 UT, Spanish talk mentioning Sabinas, Coahuila, Funerario Martínez, discussing politics; loops SSW. Perhaps they were referring to the theft of the corpse of Heriberto Lazcano, founder of the brutal Los Zetas gang, from a funeral home, but checking several press reports about it, I don`t find the name or even the town where this happened, somewhere in Coahuila. There is a mortuary by that name in Sabinas (and elsewhere), but no Sabinas station on 790. Tentatively this one from direxion and talk format, per Cantú: 790 XEGZ Milenio Radio + FM 99.5 Torreón, Coah. 1,000 1,000 IRCA Mexican log says that transmitter site is across the state line in twin city Gómez Palacio, Durango (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 850, Oct 13 at 0602 UT, news quoting el gobernador de Coahuila, mentions Torreón, but there is no 850 in that state, and this is national news about the drug lord being killed and then kidnapped; loops WSW and even overrides KOA which has faded down or taken down by auroral. Very likely the usual one I hear, per Cantú: 850 XEM Milenio Radio + FM 103.7 Chihuahua, Chih. 5,000 500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 860, Oct 17 at 1215 UT, ad for Partido del Trabajo (Workers` Party, commie?), not something you hear every day from XE- land. Quick singing ID as Radio Recuerdo, temp in Monterrey, and time 7:15, live DJ greeting callers on the air including a kidvoice. KKOW nulled. Cantú shows: 860 XENL Radio Recuerdo Monterrey, N.L. 5,000 2,000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 880, Oct 12 at 1209 UT, at least three mentions of Gómez Palacio in local news, so it`s the sister-city station across the Durango/Coahuila state line: 880 XETC Kiuu + FM 91.1 Torreón, Coah. 10,000 1,000 880, Oct 15 at 1208 UT, YL with news, swooshes between items, categorized; apparently missed local and state segments, now nacional, and then internacional; 1212 hands over to OM for deportes until 1217, back to her with weather for ``la ciudad`` including chubascos. Federal PSAs for glorious government in general, and IFE`s latest elexion management in particular, ads with passing mentions finally of Torreón, 1220 a university from Monterrey, campus Laguna; 1221 TC for 7:19, temp ``en el centro de Torreón``. So it`s per Cantú: 880 XETC Kiuu + FM 91.1 Torreón, Coah. 10,000 1,000 Here`s a station named for time-checks, and they`re two minutes off, hi. Axually it`s the one Spanish-spelling the English letter `Q`, but I haven`t really heard either calls or that letter-name expressed on the air (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 900, Oct 12 at 1154 UT, mentions 98.9 FM, Los 40, from N/S, so it is per Cantú: 900 XEWB Los 40 Principales + FM 98.9 Veracruz, Ver. 50,000 10,000 No longer a repeater of co-channel behemoth XEW México DF, and thus much easier to tell apart (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 960, UT Saturday Oct 13 at 0500, local KGWA Enid provides another Fox-hole (could there be others at different hourtops? I need to check). During the pentaminute of dead air, manipulating the DX-398 to null the remaining very strong carrier as much as possible, this time the main inhabitant of 960 is Mexican music; lyrix seemed to mention ``Lupe``, rather than being a slogan ID. Prime suspect XEK Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. Based on proximity, number two possibility would be XEKS in Saltillo, Coahuila but Cantú shows its night power only 100 watts. Based on frequent reception area, and more toward the KGWA null, #3 would be XEIQ Cd. Obregón, Sonora, 500 watts. Based on highest night power, #4 would be XEHK Guadalajara, Jalisco, 2500 watts. Now, how about someone voicing a real ID during this window? It must radiate after 0500:00 and before 0505:00 UT. 960, UT Monday Oct 15 at 0500, just after local KGWA Enid goes to dead air for 5 minutes, among the mishmash of signals I hear under its partially nulled carrier, one playing the four descending chimes which are the trademark of XEW and may well have played simultaneously on 900. Can it be that one of the thirteen XEs on 960 is relaying XEW overnight? Main website http://www.wradio.com.mx has no info on affiliates, but the show starting at midnite is `Los Amos del Camino` for truckers. At http://www.mexicoradiotv.com I checked about half of the 960s, the more likely ones, and found no connexions to XEW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1050, UT Oct 14 at 0450, I find a sufficient signal to serenade me on the insensitive shower radio, XEG Monterrey. Turns out to be a preacher but not a screamer. I am paying more attention to the quena in the background looping `El Condor Pasa` --- should this be filed under ECUADOR [non]? ECP even continued playing during his sign- off prayer at 0456 which was accompanied by louder sacred choral music. He`s from a local Monterrey church, gave phone numbers on both sides of the border, and apparently is on every night at this time; XEG appended a standard disclaimer. 1050, UT Monday Oct 15 at 0430, XEG, R. Ranchera, Monterrey, switches from music to preacher, apparently daily. Once again he is playing `El Condor Pasa` constantly in background; seems to be more of a self- improvement/advice angle than strict gospel-huxtering, but really, MEGO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1090, Oct 12 at 1227 UT, Full ID for some other station: XERFR, 970, desde Ciudad de México, ``la Fórmula uno``. Seemed to be from WSW, but IRCA and Cantú show the only such relayer on 1090 is: 1090 XEXE Grupo Fórmula Querétaro + FM 92.7 Querétaro, Qro 2,500 1,000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1090, Oct 17 at 1220 UT, state-by-state headlines such as ``Milenio: Hidalgo``, and a few others, so per Cantú: 1090 XEAU Milenio Radio + FM 103.7 Monterrey, N.L. 5,000 500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1160, XEQIN, San Quintín, BCN, OCT 10, 1201 - Long national anthem; sign-on announcement at 1204:40 with call letters, "La Voz del Valle" slogan, schedule (sounded like 5 a.m.-10 p.m. weekdays, 7 a.m.- 10 p.m. Saturday and Sunday), power (10 kW), address (per WRTH), and mention of affiliation with SRCI (Sistema de Radiodifusoras Culturales Indigenistas); a similar ID followed a bit of fiddle music, this time mentioning telephone numbers and quasi-slogan "Voz y Presencia de Nuestro Pueblo"; assorted music clips followed, with man and woman chatting; occasional ID's, slogans, and PDT time checks; I monitored until around 1230 UT, with about 50% copy. Seemed all in Spanish with no Indian languages heard. Generally fair, much better than usual, due, undoubtedly, to the high 'A' Index (42). KSL was partly nulled (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge CO; Drake R8, 4-foot box loop, NRC International DX Digest Oct 12 via DXLD) ** MEXICO. 1300, Oct 14 at 1226 UT, ``Radio Trece, con la música de siempre`` then rock song in Spanish. It`s the usual XEP in Ciudad Juárez, not to be confused with another Radio ``Trece`` really on 1290 in the DF, XEDA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1420, XEXX, Tijuana, BCN, OCT 10, 1301 - Mexican anthem in progress; ID at 1302:40: "Está Ud. escuchando X-E-Doble X, catorce veinte AM, transmitiendo con 2000 wats de potencia..." also gave address at Carlos Robirosa 3110 (per WRTH); a religious program followed, beginning with a prayer, then talk by man and woman, with occasional choral music; frequent mentions of Espíritu Santo, Santa María, etc. Not much interference but faded away after about 10 minutes, as it was past sunrise here. Don't know if this is their full-time format (ex-R. Fórmula?), or just an isolated religious program. No slogans were heard (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge CO; Drake R8, 4-foot box loop, NRC International DX Digest Oct 12 via DXLD) ** MEXICO. Recorded the 1100 UT TOH with Perseus at this morning [Oct 12], and was rewarded with a cornucopia of Mexicans, including several new ones: 590, XEPH, México DF - in the clear with regional Mexican music, singing advert, national anthem then "Sabrosita 590" slogans and call sign by woman over SFX's (car horn, whistling and cheering guys) then into pop vocal music. 620, XENK, México DF - national anthem, call sign by man with rooster crowing SFX. Mixing with a domestic, but on top. 690, XEN, México DF - national anthem, call sign by man with rooster crowing SFX and mention "Grupo Radio Centro", "Free Willy" theme and more rooster crowing then into techno music bridge. Some interference from domestics, but on top. 730, XEX (presumed), México DF - national anthem, call sign (actually sounded more like XEM or XEN than XEX), program details. Even with WUMP-AL at start, eventually totally on top. 760, XEABC, México DF - talk by man and woman with mentions of Mexico, "ABC Radio", mixing with domestics. 790, XERC, México DF - electronic jingle, call sign, mention "Formato 21" and "Mexico DF" into possible news with items separated by music bridges; fair. 939.88, XEQ, México DF - light vocal music, national anthem, into more music and "Bésame 940 AM". Also heard earlier in the evening on this off-frequency. 1030, XEQR, México DF - Radio Centro and Grupo Radio Centro ID's then mixing with WNVR-IL. May have been them with big band music under WNVR 1050, XEG, Monterrey, NL - national anthem and call sign "XEG La Ranchera de Monterrey" 1190, XEWK (presumed), Guadalajara - national anthem, "W Radio" ID and WR pips, fair signal. There apparently was a pipeline directly from central Mexico to central Pennsylvania this morning; a number of additional stations were also heard playing the Mexican NA but they couldn't be identified. Recordings are at: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4cxmph92ittrooz/sv4TMO8vsN The continuing disturbed solar conditions contributed to the reception of more Mexican stations from here in central PA. This morning [Oct 14] I recorded the 1100 UT top of the hour on the Perseus, and heard these stations: 830, XEIK, Piedras Negras, Coahuila - national anthem, FM and AM calls and frequencies by woman "la 100.9, XHIK 100.9 FM y XEIK 830 AM", mention of "Grupo Radio Zócalo" and Piedras Negras. Thanks to Andrew Brade and Sylvain Naud on RealDX for verifying the FM call and city. I also wish to acknowledge the help of Mauricio Molano of Spain via RealDX for this identification. Mostly on top of presumed WCCO. 939.88, XEQ, Bésame, México, DF - a regular here with romantic music causing a huge het on 940 but easily separated in LSB. 1000, XEOY, Radio Mil, México DF - national anthem, call sign by deep- voiced man, then singing ID "Radio Mil en México, en México Radio Mil" into music; under stronger WMVP. Recordings of the past few days' Mexican stations are at https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4cxmph92ittrooz/sv4TMO8vsN As with the past several mornings, the Mexican national anthem was also heard on a number of other frequencies such as 540, 690, 810, 860, 990 and 1050 but not enough could be heard to ID the stations. 1100 UT is a good time to hunt for Mexicans, as the national anthem is a good indicator it's not a domestic Spanish station and therefore worth digging into (Brett Saylor, State College, Central PA, Perseus SDR and west-pointing Split Delta loop with Wellbrook FLG-100LN amp, NRC-AM via DXLD) ** MEXICO. 1630 (?? un-ID) 0515 MST [1215 UT]. Very strong, open carrier here, faint co-channel station heard underneath. Have been hearing this off and on lately. I stumbled onto this again doing my CME/tube radio session, then tried RDFing signal with the Panasonic RF-2200. Seems to be on an NE/SW alignment from my QTH. Times local MST (no daylight s.t.in AZ ....or HI). 73 and Good Listening! (Rick Barton, El Mirage, AZ, Hammarlund HQ-200 with Slinky, ABDX via DXLD) XEUT [Mexicali, or is it Tijuana] often runs OC in the early AM and their signal has been noticeably more healthy again lately. 73 (Tim Hall, circa San Diego, ibid.) XEUT used to run OC overnight covering KRND [Wyoming] in Spanish (Martin Foltz, Mission Viejo CA, ibid.) ** MEXICO. 6185, Radio Educacion, 0315-0507*, Oct 11, ranchera style music. Romantic ballads. Spanish pop music. Spanish announcements. Reception varied between poor to good depending on degree of adjacent channel splatter. Nice signal at times. Sign off at 0507 with transmitter being turned off at 0511 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) 6184.99, Radio Educación, XEPPM, after being missing in action for many months, noted back with usual enormous signal, but slightly muffled modulation, at 0020 on 10/16. Program of cultural and historical commentary, interspersed with snippets of many varieties of regional music from Mexico (mariachi, ranchera, boleros, etc.) At 0026, OM mentioned, “Aquí está ’México Encantado,’ un programa de Radio Educación . . .” Not hearing in mornings yet, during 1000-1100 checks (Ralph Perry, Wheaton, Illinois, Drake R8B; Japan Radio NRD- 545; Eton E1; Hallicrafters SX100, Dentron Super Tuner + Ameco PLF-2 + Palomar P-408 + Quantum Phaser antenna unit (customized for tropical bands), 355-foot bidirectional BOG positioned 150 deg / 330 deg for LA / SE Asia, Phased Longwire + Small Loop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Ralph, XEPPM has been on the air all the time, but months ago restricted schedule to sign off circa 0500 (on from 2300? or 0000?). Must be your antennas: I could never rate their signal as enormous here. 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Thanks for clarifying that, Glenn. I simply hadn't heard them in a very long time and wrongly thought they had been gone. (I usually would hear them in the mornings.) But yes, their signal usually booms in here, almost virtually melts the antennae -- so perhaps you are in between skip zones in OK, or somesuch? :) (Ralph Perry, ibid.) ** MEXICO. MEXICAN FM NEWS --- Last week we reported a new and intermittent signal on 106.9 MHz that was suspected of coming out of Tijuana. New information suggests that the signal is from 6 kW XHADA- FM, Ensenada. Why this station -- which should be located right in Ensenada -- is being heard in San Diego is a mystery unless it is the result of a new or relocated transmitter plant, so any information on that subject would be appreciated. By the way, Mexico does have a plan to migrate some of its AM stations to the FM band. The following FM inventory table from the Mexican government illustrates this point. Look for the words "Cambio de frecuencia.. ." (change of frequency) in the extreme right column. In this limited sense, Mexico is ahead of the U.S. with AM improvements. http://www.cft.gob.mx/images/InfraestructuraFM_31_08_12.pdf (CGC Communicator Oct 15, via Kevin Redding, ABDX via DXLD) ** MICRONESIA. 4755.44, Pohnpei, The Cross Radio, 0950 to 1000 with fair signal 12 August (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MONGOLIA. 4830.00, 2340-2350 12.10, Mongoliin R, Altay Mongolian ann and songs 35343 // Murun 4895 (35333) (Anker Petersen, heard recently in Skovlunde, Denmark, on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) What`s this ``Mongoliin`` spelling which Anker keeps using? WRTH 2012 spells the header for the organization MONGOLÏN, i.e. with two dots over a single I. If you go to their own website, http://www.mnb.mn you will find it in Russian --- no, it isn`t, but Mongolian in Cyrillic, with at least one extra character you don`t see in Russian, looks like a theta. And the prime word is spelt not with a double-I, but with the bI which is a single letter i-like vowel in Russian distinct from plain old i. In other Mongolian words there are a lot of backward-Ns, plus backward-Ns with a curve over them, also a typical Russian diphthong transliterated into English as iy (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MOROCCO. 9579.14, Medi 1, Nador, 0741-0800, Oct 07, theme music, French talk, 34333. For the first time, I heard this away from 9575. R Australia on 9580 started at *0800 (Tomoaki Wagai, Wakayama, Japan, DSWCI DX Window Oct 17 via DXLD) ** MOROCCO [and non]. 9579.12, Oct 13 at 0112, Médi Un, Nador transmitter is still malfunxioning, far off frequency from 9575, and producing an 880 Hz (A-note) het against the 9580 station which at this hour is CRI English via Cuba. After 0200, when CRI had switched to Chinese, the het was still audible but not as strong, altho CRI parameters remain the same per HFCC, 250 kW at 10 degrees. And the other Nador transmitter, for IGIM on 15349.1, remains totally unheard at numerous chex in the daytime. 9579.12, Oct 14 at 0519, Médi Un Nador transmitter is still off- frequency and accomplishing nothing except interfering with legitimate 9580.0 stations, such as Africa No. Un, from which French was audible beside that het, no modulation detectable from 9579.12 itself. 9579.12, Oct 14 at 2002, another daypart when Médi Un, off-frequency Nador transmitter is audibly QRMing a legitimate transmission on 9580.0, no doubt GABON. At least we don`t hear it in the mornings vs R. Australia, but it appears to be on the air at least sporadically, 24 hours, and hardly modulating itself; turned on and forgotten? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MYANMAR. 5985.8, 14/10 2318, Padauk Myay Radio, Yegu, Myanmar, long talks by female, weak (Giampiero Bernardini, Winradio Excalibur Pro, Ant: Maxi Whip by Capra (wire 8 meters with 1:32 balun)) & Wellbrook LFL 1010 loop; QTH: Bocca di Magra (La Spezia, Liguria) Italy, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MYANMAR. THAZIN RADIO WITH DIFFERENT FORMAT IN ENGLISH 7110, Thazin Radio via Pyin Oo Lwin (Mandalay Division). Since the inception of their English segment (1430-1500*), I have always heard non-stop pop songs, along with a portion about midpoint about Myanmar culture. So I was surprised today (Oct 12) at tune in at 1436 to find not pop songs as usual, but instead the news; 1441 “the weather” with current conditions in Myanmar and “rough seas . . . Myanmar waters” and the weather “outlook for the next two days”; pop songs; 1446 program “Teachings of the Buddha” about Myanmar Buddhism; more pop songs till usual sign off announcement; indigenous theme music till 1500*; almost fair. How long have they used this news/weather format? Certainly more interesting than just pop songs! (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Alinco DX-R8T and Par Electronics EF-SWL antenna, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DX LISTENING DIGEST) By the way, 7110 Thazin (Myanmar) also doing very well this morning [10/16] amid local noise, at this same time, confirming 6-7 MHz propagation indeed well open to SE Asia at this time (Ralph Perry, Wheaton, Illinois, Drake R8B; Japan Radio NRD-545; Eton E1; Hallicrafters SX100, Dentron Super Tuner + Ameco PLF-2 + Palomar P-408 + Quantum Phaser antenna unit (customized for tropical bands), 355-foot bidirectional BOG positioned 150 deg / 330 deg for LA / SE Asia, Phased Longwire + Small Loop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS. FLEVO TRANSMITTERSITE SOLD Today it was announced that the former Radio Netherlands Transmitter site in Flevoland was sold to the Dutch ministry of defense. This ministry will use the transmittersite for communication between headquarters and mobile units such as ships an landbased units. By 2014 the site will operational again to replace the present sites in Scheveningen and Ouddorp for which the lease contract ends in the near future. More information (in Dutch) can be found here: http://www.blikopzeewolde.nl/nieuws/item/1593-defensie-koopt-kortegolf-zendstation and http://www.omroepflevoland.nl/Nieuws/95545/defensie-neemt-zendstation-over (Jan Oosterveen, Netherlands, Oct 16, shortwavesites yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. 9895 via doomed BONAIRE, Oct 17 at 1154, R. Nederland Spanish quoting comments from listeners about human rights in Cuba, including two names we know: Israel González Ahumada in Yucatán, and Jorge García Rangel, Venezuela. Announcer said this only remaining SW broadcast from RN, `La Matinal` was in its final days, to be replaced from October 29 by `El Toque` (The Touch), and not at all clear whether that will still be on SW, or radio at all. After brief humburst, cut off the air at 1157*. No jamming, as 9885 VOA Greenville carrier already on about to become Spanish. Searching for info about this on the RNW Spanish website, there is nothing about the SW question. Searching on ``El Toque`` gets no relevant hits! `La Matinal` has a neat multicolored rooster mascot. See it while you can. But I do find this about a job vacancy for someone to head the Spanish department, closing date for applications October 20: http://www.rnw.nl/espanol/article/vacante-editor-jefe ``Radio`` is mentioned as the last (and least?) of several platforms s/he will deal with, but nothing about onda corta. The latest HFCC data for B-12 has nothing at all from RNW. Earlier this year they were anticipating at least a token Spanish broadcast to continue via some other site. GUF would be the obvious choice, but I expect there is bad feeling toward it for taking away other relay business from Bonaire, contributing to the decision to close and demolish it, leaving nothing but a whitish cut in the rocks by a road which was required to enable trucking in some wide load of equipment when it was being built (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DX LISTENING DIGEST) But: The following good news arrived too late to include in WOR 1639: RADIO NEDERLAND NUEVAMENTE POR ONDA CORTA EN ESPAÑOL: Las emisiones por Onda Carta de Radio Nederland en español saldrán através del centro transmisor de la emisora religiosa World Harvest Radio, en Cypress Creek, Carolina del Sur. Estados Unidos de América. El nuevo programa denominado "El Toque", se emitirá a partir del 29 de Octubre en la frecuencia de los 9895 kHz, de Lunes a Viernes a partir de las 0000 UT, y con una duración de sólo 30 minutos. Esperemos que con esta emisión por onda corta, las emisiones puedan ser captadas por los oyentes en Venezuela y el área del Caribe, ya que las emisiones matutinas eran prácticamente inaudibles con excepción de Cuba. Radio Netherlands shortwave again in Spanish: The Radio Netherlands short wave emissions in Spanish will be using the transmitter center of World Harvest Radio, in Cypress Creek, NC. USA. The new program called "The Touch" will be issued from October 29 at the frequency of 9895 kHz, from Monday to Friday from 0000 UT, lasting only 30 minutes. [UT Tue-Sat, presumably; but release below says it will be only 13 minutes; did they mean 30? ---gh] Hopefully with this broadcast via shortwave, emissions can be received by the listeners in Venezuela and the Caribbean, as emissions were practically inaudible morning except Cuba. Fuente: Sergio Acosta, periodista y locutor del Departamento en Español de Radio Nederland. Es muy probable, Don Guillermo, que Sergio se contacte con usted y le de mayores detalles sobre esta noticia. ¡Cordiales 73´s! (Jorge García Rangel, Barinas, Venezuela, Oct 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Información Complementaria para los Oyentes de Radio Nederland en Español: Adiós a La Matinal y Bienvenida a El Toque Después de varios meses sin tener contacto con nuestra audiencia de la Comunidad Cartas@RN lo retomamos el contacto. Un gran saludo a todos y bienvenidos nuevamente. Hemos estado semanas trabajando en la transición hacia la Radio Nederland nueva, que como saben tiene la nueva misión de ser la productora multimedial internacional de Holanda, que como organización periodística independiente, se dirige específicamente a los jóvenes como nuevos líderes del futuro, a través de las diferentes plataformas con contenidos en un enfoque en la “libertad de palabra” y en temas como la” buena gobernanza, los derechos humanos y los derechos sexuales” Adiós a La Matinal El viernes 26 de Octubre terminan las décadas de La Matinal con su último programa. En el mismo recordaremos el pasado de nuestro desayuno informativo para las Américas que tan popular ha sido hasta nuestros días, para dar lugar a un programa diferente y muy enfocado en la nueva misión. ¿Qué es El Toque? Es un programa interactivo multimedia dirigido a la audiencia que se encuentran ubicadas en las regiones estratégicas que Radio Nederland atiende en América Latina. Con un formato de trece minutos de duración, EL TOQUE es un programa radial donde se abordan temas clave que afectan o interesan al público meta en países como México, Venezuela, y otros permitiendo la utilización de elementos alternativos como el humor, la música, las redes sociales, debates, comentarios en primera persona, y otros. El Toque es una función de Facebook. Dar un toque significa enviarle una invitación a una tercera persona para establecer contacto. Onda Corta El Toque además de ser distribuido por Internet para toda la audiencia y las asociadas de Radio Nederland se emitirá de lunes a viernes por Onda Corta por nuestra frecuencia de 9895 kHz en la banda de 31 metros, equivalentes de las 8 pm de Cuba, y desde el 11 de noviembre, con el fin del horario de verano, a las 7 pm. La Comunidad Cartas@RN Esta comunidad estará activa hasta agosto del 2013, a partir de entonces desaparecerá. Por eso los invitamos a unirse a nuestro Facebook Radio Nederland Internacional, a seguirnos por http://www.radionederland.nl o por nuestra página http://www.hablemosdeamor.mx sobre sexualidad, o a acompañarnos por Facebook en Hablemos de Amor RN, y en Twitter por @informarn Esperando que nos siga por las nuevas plataformas, o escuchando El Toque, agradeciendo siempre su fidelidad a RNW, El equipo en Hilversum, Juan Carlos Roque, María Vaquero, Pablo Gámez, Mara Landa, Alejandro Pintamalli, Anna Karina Rosales, Luisa Fernanda López y Sergio Acosta Visitar Cartas@RN en: http://cartas.ning.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network (via Jorge García Rangel, Venezuela, Oct 18, DXLD) ** NICARAGUA. 8989-USB, "Pescador Preacher", 2345 under RTTY murdering signal on 7 October; 2314 with very strong signal on 11 October; 2353 to 2358 very strong signal "El Señor, Palabras de Dios" 13 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8, + XM - Cedar Key - South Florida, NRD 525D - R8A -E5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13 October date must be wrong since posted before that hour; probably meant 12 October (gh, DXLD) See also UNIDENTIFIED 8990 8989-USB, MISKITO COAST “El Buen Pescador” 2343 October 17, 2012. Good with extremely impassioned preaching by the man. I remind all that David Crawford discovered this one years ago, despite another one claiming he did, and oddly enough choosing to give it the same title as proof (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, JRC NRD-535; ICOM IC- R75; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phaser; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGER. 9705.39, LV du Sahel, 2105-2301*, Oct 15, tune-in to vernacular talk. Indigenous vocals at 2248. Local African music at 2253. Qur`an at 2255. Short flute IS at 2258. Sign off with National Anthem at 2259. Slightly off frequency. Was also off frequency back around Sept 22-25. Weak but readable signal. 9705.39, LV du Sahel, 2053-2302*, Oct 16, vernacular and French talk. Phone interviews. Indigenous vocals. African tribal music. Afro-pop music. Qur`an at 2256:35. Short flute IS at 2300 and sign off with National Anthem. Two second test tone at 2302 and off. Fair. Still off frequency. Ethiopia not heard tonight (Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA, Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. VON --- veeery interesting piece of info: Re 12-41: ``7254.92, Voice of Nigeria, 1945-1957*, Oct 8, English news program. ID. Abrupt sign off. Slightly off frequency for the English service but back on the air at 2000 in French on 7255.00 (Brian Alexander, PA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` This seems to mark some change that may have taken part even some months ago but found it never reported: When Abuja on 15120 was in AM earlier this year, 7255 or 9690 carried a different English programme from Lagos. But this points to Abuja on 7255 for the English evening service (probably // 15120 in DRM?) while French is still from Ikorodu/Lagos. One may conclude that there is still no proper audio link from Lagos studios to Abuja transmitters, as it seems that transmitters in Abuja are only used for programmes produced in Abuja (such as the evening edition of 60 minutes which IDs as Voice of Nigeria Abuja unlike other newscasts). 80-100 Hz offset are common to AM transmissions from Abuja (also Hausa in the mornings), while Ikorodu is usually properly on frequency, or occasionally about 750- 1000 Hz off. 73 (Thorsten Hallmann, Germany, October 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7255, Voice of Nigeria (presumed); 2133-2140+, 10-Oct; Very Dylanish sounding tune with harmonica; native chant/vocal with thumb harp; brief announcement at 2139 over music. All in LL [unknown language; Hausa?]. SIO=433 with downfrequency ARO splash (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) Terrible mess on 7255 kHz at 19-20 UT slot. Noted at 1940 UT Oct 14, CRI Turkish and R Belarus on EVEN frequency 7255.000 kHz, but terrible 80 Hertz heterodyne signal, seemingly caused from Voice of Nigeria Ikorodu on ODD 7254.920 kHz (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 15 via DXLD) 7255, Voice of Nigeria, 2230-2302:40*, Oct 14, talk in listed Hausa. Some local music. National Anthem at 2301. Test tone at 2301:40. Off the air at 2302:40. Very strong but an overall poor signal with strong whine in audio and weak adjacent channel splatter. 15120, Voice of Nigeria, 0502-0525, Oct 14, tune-in to English news. ID. At 0506:10 gave TC as “0505”. Weak in noisy conditions and slight whine in audio (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) We discussed that already past days here in German newsgroup [A-DX] Nigeria is using 2 transmitters on 7255 kHz (judging by tracks) interchanging, so appearing alternatively on both 7255.000 and 7254.992 kHz. wb 15120.000, Abuja vs. Ikorodu. Now at 0750 UT on Oct 14 on 15120.000 kHz just exactly on the frequency. S=9+10dB here in Germany, flute music from West Africa. Also 0600 UT Oct 16. Just measured it at 0920 UT on 9690 kHz in English, the channel is exactly 9690.000 kHz, rather down half a Hertz. Terrible mess on 7255 kHz at 19-20 UT slot. Noted at 1940 UT CRI Turkish and R Belarus on EVEN frequency 7255.000 kHz, but terrible 80 Hertz heterodyne signal, seemingly caused from Voice of Nigeria Ikorodu on ODD 7254.920 kHz (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 14, dxldyg via DXLD) 15120, Oct 17 at 0450, VON with drumming IS, fair signal, along with 15400 Dabanga/MADAGASCAR, the OSOBs. VON is often inaudible here at this time, but Thorsten Hallmann in Germany says it`s almost always on the air (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6925, PIRATE, Radio Paisano, 10-12-12, 0042. 55455. Radio Paisano with his usual great signal here. I always look forward to this broadcast. This annual broadcast is a few days late this year for some reason as it is usually on the US Columbus day holiday. As indicated by the SINPO an outstanding signal as it is always. 6925, Radio Paisano, 10-13-12, 0019-0109, second broadcast this week, normally a once a year op. 45444. On at 0019, 0022 story about the Italian version of goldilocks and the three bears, 0024 "please don't squeeze the banana," 0026 Radio Pisano ID, 0109 off (Mike Rohde, Ohio, Ten-Tec RX340, Drake R8B attached to a Multi Band (3) inverted Vee Dipole, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. Unid Pirate station right now on October 13th at 2115 UT with heavy metal music; strong here in Montreal, 6925 USB. Pirate station undercover radio on air now at 2130, 6925 USB, great signal here in Montreal. Hi all, Another pirate on 6955 AM, no ID yet; playing a song by Depeche Mode at 2306 UT. Radio Clandestine pirate at 0005 UT on October 14th (UT), 6925.2 AM mode, quite weak here in Montreal (Gilles Letourneau, Montreal, Canada, http://www.youtube.com/officialswlchannel dxldyg posts combined, via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6925 AM 0147 Oct 14. Someone playing an episode of the Lumpy Gravy Show. Signal varied from down below the static floor, all the way up to S9+20 at times. Captain Morgan Shortwave 6925 AM 0018 Oct 15. Pirate station playing classic rock (David Pete, Old Town, Maine, which is near the center of the state, Icom r-75 with a dual band (60 meter and 40 meter) dipole antenna, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6925, Undercover Radio, 2215-2307*, Oct 14, talk by Dr Benway with Dr Benway radio-drama. IDs. Address: undercoverradio@gmail.com. Talk about psychodelic drugs. Fair to good signal (Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA, Equipment: Icom IC- 7600, two 100 foot longwires, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6925-AM, UT Sat Oct 13 at 0519, pirate music audible, with a pumping sound, but that`s on the original, not a transmission or propagation problem. 0523 ID break but during fade, could not copy; then ``Lola`` (by the Kinks?); 0533 ``The music makes the difference`` again missing the full ID, then ``Rose Garden`` by Lynn Anderson. [Meanwhile I am distracted by much better signal than usual from CHHA 1610 Toronto, trying to listen to both; see CANADA.] 0537 ``The Edmund Fitzgerald`` by Gordon Lightfoot [could this pirate also be Canadian? Allegedly]. 0542 partial ID copied; 0547 finally full ID: ``Radio Trans-America, relayed by Radio True North; from somewhere on Planet Earth, this is Radio Trans-America`` by robotic YL voice. 0548 ``Green Onions`` by Booker T and the MGs; 0552 segué to ``Slow Ride``, by The Eagles?, ``take it easy``. 0555 another segué to YL singer, unrecognized; 0558 same ID as above, ``Fire``. Still going past 0600; 0611 another canned ID and I should add that it includes some neat electronic sounds; I quit at 0611 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 780, Saturday Oct 13 at 1157 UT, KSPI Stillwater is in open carrier/dead air. At least I haven`t noted this daytimer lately in the nightmiddle (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 930, WKY OKC, Sunday Oct 14 at 1229 UT ending ``Sunday Morning Magazine en La Indomable`` --- Yes, their weekly token English semihour, back to Spanish, altho some ads may be partly or fully English (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 960, UT Thursday Oct 11 is another dead-air day for KGWA Enid at 0500: see U S A for log of something else. 960, UT Friday Oct 12 at 0500-0505 is another silent midnight on KGWA Enid; see USA for something else heard. 960, UT Saturday Oct 13 at 0500, KGWA provides another Fox-hole (could there be others at different hourtops? I need to check). See MEXICO, but no ID. 960, KGWA Enid, 5-minute dead air Fox hole occurs again UT Sunday Oct 14 at 0500-0505, but tonight I can`t really pull anything significant when nulled, vs also the increasing hum level near the null position. 960, UT Monday Oct 15 at 0500, KGWA Enid is again providing a Fox-hole of dead air for 5 minutes; among the mishmash of signals audible with its carrier almost nulled at 0503 is a Fox ``news`` credit mixing with the more usual `ABC News`. Per NRC AM Log there are besides KGWA itself, about 7 Fox affils on 960 around the country, none of them very likely here. WSBT South Bend IN maybe by proximity and 5 kW power, except all its signal at night supposedly goes north into Michigan. At 0504 a bit o` blues, WABG Mississippi? See also MEXICO. 960, UT Tuesday Oct 16 at 0500-0505, local KGWA again with a Fox-hole, during which nulling the open carrier, I am getting mainly a rather Singspiel-like mixture of Spanish talk and music. 960, UT Wednesday Oct 17 at 0500, local KGWA Enid fails to transmit dead air for five minutes, instead Fox ``News``, so no understation DX tonight. Same thing happened last Wednesday Oct 10; and the previous Wednesday Oct 3 nothing was logged either way. Most nights, there continues to be DA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1020, Oct 16 at 0458 UT, KOKP Perry is again unmodulated, allowing one to detect KDKA Pittsburgh ID after the news at 0506, and KOKP still dead air past 0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. [Re 12-41] Hi, Glenn. Noted your comments re: un-reported Oklahoma MW stations. KTLQ-1350 definitely on the air, listening as I type this with local ads and promo for KTLQ1350.com. KTLQ seems to be a bit low in frequency (1349.98 zero-beat by ear). KMUS-1380 local with Spanish language programming. KBIX 1490 also on, have heard here recently but not this afternoon. I work in Tahlequah a couple of times a month and my route takes me within 4-5 miles of the KBIX xmtr site north of Muskogee (if RadioLocator is accurate). I'll try to confirm this the next trip to Tahlequah. 73, (Bruce Winkelman, Tulsa, Oct 12, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 31-3, Oct 15 at 1530 and still at 1723 UT, the third subchannel of KXOK Enid still has PSIP label AZTECA, but black video and no audio; while 31-2 continues to funxion as MUNDO FOX, and 31-1 as TVOK. Black channel still beepingly registers good signal level on the Zenith converter (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) It was back on a day or two later (gh) ** PAKISTAN. Due to some reports, including some press statements, the remaining two 250 kW Swiss transmitters dating from 1972 will stop transmissions soon to be dismantled. R Pakistan will then only rely on satellite and internet broadcasts. The transmitter area seems to be an object of some housing construction speculations and corruptive state agents. Perhaps this explains the horrible technical "quality" of the transmissions (Walter Eibl, ed., Oct WWDXC DX News via DXLD) A very large proportion of the content in WWDXC DX News comes from DXLD (gh) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3235, Radio West New Britain 1125 to 1135 with good audio, 7 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3385.00, Radio East New Britain, Rabaul, fair signal 1150 on 10/16 with pop music thumping away. News at top of the hour. Also noting PNGs on 3205, 3235 and 3315 this morning, but not 3260, 3275, others. Losing signal by 1210 or so, with rising noise level (Ralph Perry, Wheaton, Illinois, Drake R8B; Japan Radio NRD-545; Eton E1; Hallicrafters SX100, Dentron Super Tuner + Ameco PLF-2 + Palomar P-408 + Quantum Phaser antenna unit (customized for tropical bands), 355-foot bidirectional BOG positioned 150 deg / 330 deg for LA / SE Asia, Phased Longwire + Small Loop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3915 6.10 1208 Radio Fly, PNG. Som vanligt(!) med nonstopmusik, endast avbrutetvar 20-25:e minut med enkla annonseringar och prat. Fladdrig signal, men läsbar trots en del splash från Nordkorea med vidhängande Firedragon på 3912. HR 3915, 6.10 1208, Radio Fly, PNG. As usual(!) with nonstop music, only interrupted every 20-25th minute with simple announcement and talk. Fluttery signal, but readable despite some splatter from North Korea with attached Firedragon on 3912. HR (Hans Östnell, Norway, SW Bulletin Oct 14, translated by editor Thomas Nilsson for DX LISTENING DIGEST) Firedrake, from N Korea?? (gh, DXLD) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 7324.96, Wantok Radio Light with nonstop music and an ID at 1802, not loud but anyway. Heard at Lovisa-Kungsbole QTH with a temporary lwog (wire on the ground) of about 250m pointing at about 50 degrees Sept. 26. Seems to be an easy catch now as the channel is open around 17-18 UT (Tarmo Kontro, Finland, SW Bulletin Oct 14, via DXLD) 7324,97 5.10 1759 Wantok Radio Light, Port Moresby väldigt bra denna eftermiddag när QRM på 7325 stängde. Kanon-ID kl 1816: "...Papua New Guinea Christian Radio Network [...], this is Wantok Radio Light...". För övrigt lättare kristen pop och gospel på menyn. Rapport? Jajjamän! QSL? Inte än, men borde rendera i. HR 7324.97, 5.10 1759, Wantok Radio Light, Port Moresby very good this afternoon when the QRM on 7325 closed downe. Perfect ID at 1816: "...Papua New Guinea Christian Radio Network [...], this is Wantok Radio Light...". By the way easy listening Christian pop and gospel on the menu. Report? Yes, yes! QSL? Not yet but ought to come. HR (Hans Östnell, Norway, SW Bulletin Oct 14, translated by editor Thomas Nilsson for DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 3329.53, Perú, Ondas del Huallaga, Huánuco, 0950 om with rustic OA music, om over the music, better signal to 1043 on 10 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D - 746Pro - R8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4747.09, Radio Huanta 2000, 1000 fair sig on 10/10 with Spanish ads and into plucked guitar huaynos with yipping vocalists. 4826.60, tentatively Radio Sicuani, Sicuani, came across this during 10/15 morning bandscan of 60 meters, first noted at 1013. Sig only poor-fair QSA, fading in and out, over and under a rushing static ambient noise level. Minor QRM from soft, swishing CODAR. Live announcer in Spanish talking with OA folklórica music. Program mainly of him talking, interspersed with, or over, rustic huaynos. Seemed to possibly have been a program type which has become rare (overtaken by technology) in this age of internet communication: a morning ‘peticiones’ or ‘mensajes’ program directed to surrounding provinces – as heard him calling out ‘Atención!’ and giving phone numbers and city names (again heard mention of Huancavelica, as per previous logging.). Fragments of speech readable at fade-in peaks, “ . . . sintonía al día de hoy . . . en la calle de . . . número teléfono . . . .” By 1025, signal had already deteriorated, tho OM could still be heard with his rapid-fire talking. 60-METER BANDSCAN 10/15: A moderately okay morning for 60 meter propagation to LA, but a bit noisy; many frequencies below are approximations, only did precision measurements on those few where info might be significant: 4747.09 – at 1012 recheck, R Huanta 2000, Huanta, had now signed on, fairly good signal with huaynos program. Again, probably nominal *1000. 4775a – Radio Tarma, usual great signal at 1012, folklórica. Probably signed on shortly after 1000, not noted when on frequency a few minutes earlier. 4790 – Radio Visión, Chiclayo, strong signal and missing the usual technical mess from its transmitter or wherever. Nice listening quality. 4826.58 – tentatively Radio Sicuani, at 1013 when first noted folklórica música here. (See separate log report.) 4955 – Radio Cultural Amauta, huge signal nearly melting my speakers at 1030 check. 5039.19 – R Libertad de Junín, Junín, only poor signal under rushing noise at 1008 first check. Recheck at 1031 and now strong signal, OM with echo ads (“Más baratos!”) with quenas in background. Also, “Las 5 de la mañana . . . escuchando al program . . .ciudad de Junín . . .” (Ralph Perry, Wheaton, Illinois, Drake R8B; Japan Radio NRD-545; Eton E1; Hallicrafters SX100, Dentron Super Tuner + Ameco PLF-2 + Palomar P-408 + Quantum Phaser antenna unit (customized for tropical bands) 355-foot bidirectional BOG positioned 150/330 degrees for LA/SE Asia, Phased Longwire + Small Loop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4789.85, Perú, Radio Visión Chiclayo, 0955 good signal 12 October; still on 0430 to 0433 on 13 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4789.90, Radio Visión, Chiclayo, 0940 on 10/17, appears to have mainly fixed its transmitter problems as signal really blowing in, this morning. Only a little bit of the previous ‘buzzing’. Armchair signal as OM drones on in sermony Spanish, with YL popping in regularly with a perky, brief time-checks (Ralph Perry, Wheaton, Illinois, Drake R8B; Japan Radio NRD-545; Eton E1; Hallicrafters SX100, Dentron Super Tuner + Ameco PLF-2 + Palomar P-408 + Quantum Phaser antenna unit (customized for tropical bands), 355-foot bidirectional BOG positioned 150 deg / 330 deg for LA / SE Asia, Phased Longwire + Small Loop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4810, Perú, Radio Logos, No logs! last in log book, strong signal on 4 October at 1030 to 1050 (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8, + XM - Cedar Key - South Florida, NRD 525D - R8A -E5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4826.54, Radio Sicuani, Sicuani, Cusco, 0930 gentleman announcer into 0934 brief woman vocal, 0940 new music, 0943 back to om, 1000 mention of palabras de dios? 1012 fade out, 10 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Is a gentleman different from an OM? (gh, DXLD) ** PERU. 4985.55, Radio Voz Cristiana, Huancayo no logs in last five days (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 12 October, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5039.18, Radio Libertad de Junín, nice signal 10/17 at 1015 when locutor in middle of ad string including for an ‘abogado’ and ‘supermercado’. At 1020, lamenting YL vocalist singing Peruvian folklórico song with chorale of ladies yipping/whining in background. At 1025, echo ad, plugging ‘una margarina’. Then YL en eco, “Las 5! y 25 minutos!!” Then OM studio announcer rattles off some program info, mentioning “… amigos . . . y los niños . . . 5 – 26 . . . cada día a las 5 horas . . . el día de hoy . . . peruano . . .” Tuned out 1029 (Ralph Perry, Wheaton, Illinois, Drake R8B; Japan Radio NRD-545; Eton E1; Hallicrafters SX100, Dentron Super Tuner + Ameco PLF-2 + Palomar P-408 + Quantum Phaser antenna unit (customized for tropical bands), 355-foot bidirectional BOG positioned 150 deg / 330 deg for LA / SE Asia, Phased Longwire + Small Loop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5460, Radio Bolívar, Cd. Bolívar, 2345 to 0010 with deep fades, om dj 12/13 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5921.20, Radio Bethel, Arequipa, 2320 to 0030 deep fades, Oct 5; 2305 to 2312 om in Spanish 7 October; 2245 to 2335 on 8 October; 2313 to 2353 with marginal signal on 11 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 6173.9, Radio Tawantinsuyo, Cusco, 2301 to 2310 om in Spanish, very narrow filter, 6 October 9 [sic] (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. 9430, Oct 11 at 1352, FEBC Chinese with Firedrake QRM? No, it`s Firedrake-like background music on their own program; a bit later changed to Beethoven in the background (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES [and non]. Radio Veritas Asia SHORTWAVE TRANSMISSION SCHEDULE, 28 October 2012 to 31 March 2013 Bengali 0030–0057 15265 1400–1427 11870 Myanmar 2330–2357 9720 1130–1157 15450 Filipino 2300-2327 9720 1500-1553 15320 [VIA CVA] Hindi 0030–0057 15280 1330–1400 11870 Hmong 1200–1227 11935 Kachin 2330–2357 9645 1230–1257 15225 Karen 0000–0027 11935 1200–1230 15225 Khmer 1000–1030 11850 Mandarin 2100–2257 6115 1000–1157 11945 Sinhala 0000–0027 11855 0000–0027 15460 1330–1400 9520 Tamil 0030–0057 11935 1400–1427 9520 Telugu 0100–0127 15530 1430–1500 11750 Urdu 0100–0127 15280 0100–0127 17860 1430-1457 15330 [VIA CVA] Vietnamese 2330–2357 9670 0130–0230 15530 1030–1127 11850 1300–1327 11850 Chin 0130–0157 15255 1430-1500 11870 [CVA = Città del Vaticano = Santa Maria di Galeria] (via Ashik Eqbal Tokon, Rajshahi, Bangladesh, Oct 12, Source RVA Technical Dept, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PUERTO RICO. IDs, slightly different from the WRTH 2012, heard by Stig Hartvig Nielsen, visiting North Eastern part of Dominica, July 19-21, 2012: 580, WKAQ, San Juan – this one always IDing as “Radio KAQ” or “WKAQ”, no Radio Reloj ID heard 740, WIAC , San Juan, ID as “Acción 7-40” 840, WXEW, Victoria ID “Victoria 840 – la Reina del Caribe” 1030, WOSO, San Juan ID “WOSO Radio”, including CBS news in English 1260, WISO, Ponce ID “Poderosa” (Central American [sic] News Desk Oct 15, edited by Tore Larsson ARC Mv-Eko via DXLD) ** QATAR [non]. AL JAZEERA ENGLISH WILL BROADCAST DEBATE OF US THIRD- PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES. Posted: 17 Oct 2012 Examiner.com, 11 Oct 2012, Mark Wachtler: "In what some are calling an obvious sign that America’s election system is broken, Qatar-based broadcasting company Al Jazeera announced it will be airing the US opposition Presidential debate. In contrast, the alliance of US media outlets continues to enlist a strict media black-out of independent and opposition party candidates and will not air the otherwise widely- viewed event. While America tunes in to watch the Republican and Democratic Parties debate each other over America’s corporate-owned airwaves, the 42% of voters who identify themselves as ‘independents’ will instead be tuning in to Al Jazeera. The upcoming first, and possibly only, opposition Presidential debate is being blacked-out by US media outlets nationwide. ... Participating candidates will include: Gary Johnson (Libertarian Party), Jill Stein (Green Party), Virgil Goode (Constitution party), Rocky Anderson (Justice Party). When: Tuesday, October 23, 2012, 8:00 pm CST [sic]." (kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD) -- I don't see it on their schedule grid, but I would not be surprised in C-Span also covers this, at least on a delayed basis (Kim Andrew Elliott, ibid.) ** ROMANIA. R Romania International English Schedule valid from October 28th 2012 1200 – 1300 cAf 17765; 21570 1200 – 1300 wEu 15460; 17530 1800 – 1830 GBrit. 5895 (DRM) 1800 – 1900 wEu 9780(DRM); 11955 2130 – 2200 wEu 6030(DRM); 7380 2130 – 2200 eNAm 7310; 9435 2300 – 0000 wEu 6015; 7220 2300 – 0000 Japan 9530; 11810 0100 – 0200 eNAm 6145; 7340 0400 – 0500 wNAm 6130; 7305 0400 – 0500 seAs 15220; 17870 0630 – 0700 wEu 7310; 9600(DRM) 0630 – 0700 Pac. 17780; 21600 (RRI Website via Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, Oct 15, dxldyg via DXLD) The 5895 position is apparently imagery [imaginary], like a similar one announced by the German service, 1700-1730 on 5875. These were former slots at Kvitsøy [NORWAY] which as well known has been shut down late in last autumn and demolished shortly afterwards. One has to wonder if the apparent lack of communications resulted in these programmes still being played out into nowhere, with circuits vanishing in dead ends at London at the latest? Preliminary data shows that Babcock intends to use 5875 extensively for the BBC WS in B12, including Dari/Pashto 1700-1800 from Cyprus. And the listed 5895 transmission would badly clash with RL to Belarus from Biblis. But no such RRI transmissions are shown, neither from Kvitsøy nor from Romania itself. The announcement from the German service, as quoted by Jan Balzer in the A-DX list, also revealed that in next year RRI will cease to participate in Euranet. That's an EU-sponsored project in which also Deutsche Welle participated. RNW did as well, with such an enthusiasm that for some time they put one hour of English on the Orfordness transmitter, only to make the Euranet show available on mediumwave radios at Brussels to impress the Eurocrats (this had been discussed in DXLD back then if I recall correct). Brussels allocated a budget for Euranet for five years, and it so happens that these five years will be over in next year. Promptly the house of cards is collapsing, it seems (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. Winter B-12 schedule of Radio Romania International ARABIC 0730-0756 15155G 15330T 17500T 17810T 1500-1556 9655G 11620G 15280T 17540T AROMANIAN 1530-1556 6060S 1730-1756 5960S 1930-1956 7345S CHINESE 0500-0526 17870T-DRM 21500T 1400-1426 9725T 11825T ENGLISH 0100-0156 6145G 7325G 0400-0456 6130T 7305T 15220G 17870T 0630-0656 7310T 9600G-DRM 17780G 21600T 1200-1256 15460G 17530T 17765G 21570T 1800-1830 5895(DRM) - questionable ? joke; Kvitsoe-NOR IS DEAD. via KVI-Norway 65 kW 220deg hardware in Norway is dismantled now. (wb) 1800-1856 9780T-DRM 11955T 2130-2156 6030G 7310T 7380G 9435T 2300-2356 6015G 7220G 9530T 11810T FRENCH 0200-0256 5975G 7325G 0600-0626 9650G-DRM 9690T 11740G 11790T 1000-1056 15260G 17870G Suns only 1100-1156 15150T 15255G 17820G 17870T 1700-1756 9690T 11635T 1800-1856 7350G 2000-2056 7380G 2100-2126 6030G 7370G-DRM GERMAN 0700-0726 9450T-DRM 11810T 1300-1356 9810T 11700T 1700-1730 5875(DRM) - questionable ? joke; Kvitsoe-NOR IS DEAD. via KVI-Norway 65 kW 160deg hardware in Norway is dismantled now. (wb) 1900-1956 6010T 9805T-DRM ITALIAN 1500-1526 7390S 1700-1726 7415S 1900-1926 7345S-DRM ROMANIAN 0100-0156 5910T 7340T 0200-0256 5910T 7340T 0500-0556 6145G 7220G 0800-0856 15370T 15430G Suns only "Curierul romanesc" 17850G 17860T 0900-0956 15380G 15430T Suns only "Curierul romanesc" 17745T 17775T 1000-1056 17780T 21500T Suns only "Curierul romanesc" approx.1300-1356 7420S Saftica transmission opens earlier or later too... sometimes 1252 UT, or late at 1306 UT ... -wb 1300-1456 11870G 15170G 1600-1656 9655G 11870G 1700-1756 5995G 7325G 1800-1856 5990G 1900-1956 5990G 7430G 2000-2056 5990G RUSSIAN 0530-0556 6175T-DRM 7210T 1430-1456 11690T 15735T 1600-1656 7300T-DRM 9810T SERBIAN 1630-1656 6030S 1830-1856 6030S 2030-2056 7425S SPANISH 0000-0056 7315G 9525G 13590T 15110T 0300-0356 9765G 11825T 11850G 13630T 2000-2056 6010T 9895T 2200-2256 13860T 15160T UKRAINIAN 1600-1626 5960S 1800-1826 6090S 2000-2026 6170S G=Galbeni 2 x 300 kW, S=Saftica 1 x 100 kW, T=Tiganesti 3 x 300 kW (Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 14, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 15 via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. FUTURE OF DRM DIGITAL RADIO IN RUSSIA {automatic translation by go_ogle}. Specifically, this confirms that the financing of the entire Russian DRM plan was canceled in broadcasting development plan 2009-2015. Called the exact number of the originally planned new stations: 17 LW, 79 MW and 30 Radio Rossii Russian KW transmitter for domestic programs, also 82 "MW + KW" transmitter (i.e. combined number) for foreign service abroad programs. We will now develop "a new concept", but it should be clear that this will all ultimately fizzled ... wb. Russia has developed a special concept for digital radio! The Government Commission on the development of broadcasting before the end of the current city is going to consider the establishment of a separate concept of broadcasting, said the Ministry of Communications. Such a need has appeared in communication with the fact that the government decided the development of digital radio in the country are excluded from the federal program "The growth of broadcasting in Russia in 2009-2015." Accordingly, aside from the state budget financing activities for the invention of a strong network of digital broadcasting for public radio. However, the issue of the digital radio can be raised again, much less that they are interested in Russian military. What was planned to make for broadcasting in the FTP "The growth of broadcasting in Russia in 2009-2015," digital radio has been devoted a special section. The program states that the fundamentally important condition for the development of the industry is a gradual transition to digital broadcasting in the wavelength range (LW), medium (E) short (HF) waves. Even more so now that radio transmitters in the park ranges in the network is a strong radio equipment operating time of 50-60's. last century. Moreover, its depreciation is 80-100 percent. Because this equipment is not only unsuitable for broadcast quality to a modern standard, but also can not be often even reconstruction. At the same time, the properties of wave propagation in LF, MF and HF broadcasting bands from covering vast remote areas of the Russian Federation with a low population density, where other types of broadcasting, including VHF and FM, to develop cost effective. Too powerful in the radio band allows broadcast and overseas. Today, a strong national network broadcasting in LW, MW and SW bands is in analog standard and operated by RTRS to broadcast programs of public radio stations. FTP Broadcasting Development before its change involves the replacement of equipment in the broadcasting network to digital and the overall modernization of the network. Work is expected to take place in 2012-2015, ... Planned to install 17 digital transmitters for LW band. For programs of "Radio Russia" had to be fixed transmitters NE 79-band and 30 transmitters HF band. To broadcast programs in foreign countries in the mid and short waves envisaged 82 digital transmitter and NE-SW- band antennas and 12 full-circle HF band. The total amount of government funding of such work was 13.7 billion rubles ... Another 310 million rubles allocated for the emergence of local government networks for digital broadcasting in FM-band. The government's own orders determined that for digital radio in the RF will be standard DRM. Although after all these activities were excluded from the current FTP. What will happen to the radio in the Ministry of Communications said that the issue of the digital radio will bring to a session of the Government Commission on the development of broadcasting before the end of the current city. In the case of a positive decision in establishing the concept is supposed to consider and take into account the likelihood of views of all stakeholders. The problem of the concept of use - prioritizing development of broadcasting with the latest trends in the music and broadcast technologies. The financial component of the work has not been determined, said the ministry. Although it is possible to assume that the implementation of the proposed concept will need financing, comparable to what has been previously found in the previous version of FTP. It is significant that in the development of a strong digital broadcasting in Russia are interested military. Available is the message sent in June, Acting Chief of the Armed Forces Communications Oleg Maslennikov to the consortium "Digital Broadcasting Technology Platform" (CTPD) and the Ministry of Communications. The letter states that the radio transmitting the centers of strong interest to the Defense Ministry. The question of their further development and functioning is relevant. For this reason, the representative of the Ministry of Defense concluded that the modernization of strong radio and its infrastructure is appropriate. Military interest due to the fact that the powerful digital broadcasting may be a dual purpose: used for both civilian and military purposes. Including such a system can be used for electronic warfare, passive radar, the purpose of determining the location. The governmental commission on development of tele-radio broadcasting till the end of current year plans to consider the problem on working out of the separate concept of development of broadcasting, have informed "Marker" in Minkomsvjazi. Such necessity has arisen because under the decision of the government questions of development of digital radio in the country are excluded from federal program "tele- radio broadcasting Development in the Russian Federation for 2009- 2015". Accordingly, financing from the state budget of actions for creation of networks of a powerful digital announcement for the state radio programs is cancelled. But the question on digital radio can be lifted again as the Russian military men are interested in it. That was planned to make for broadcasting In FTP "tele-radio broadcasting Development in the Russian Federation for 2009-2015" the special section has been devoted digital radio. In the program it was noticed that essentially important condition of development of branch is gradual transition to digital broadcasting in ranges long (LW), average (N) short (HF) waves. As now the park of radio transmitters in these ranges on a network of powerful broadcasting consists of the equipment of working out of 50- 60th years of the last century. Thus its deterioration makes 80-100%. Therefore such equipment not only is not suitable for maintenance of an announcement with the quality meeting modern requirements, but also is not subject frequently even to reconstruction. At the same time characteristics of distribution of radio-waves in LW, MW and Kv-ranges allow to cover with broadcasting the big remote territories of Russia with small population density where other kinds of broadcasting, in particular VHF and FM, to develop is economically inexpedient. Besides, powerful broadcasting in these ranges allows to conduct translations and on foreign countries. Now the state network of powerful broadcasting in LW, MW and Kv-ranges works in the analogue standard and is maintained by company RTRS with a view of translation of programs of the state radio stations. FTP developments of tele-radio broadcasting before its changes assumed replacement of the broadcasting equipment in this network on digital and the general modernisation of a network. Works were supposed to be spent in 2012-2015. It was planned to establish 17 digital transmitters for the Dv-range. For translation of programs "Radio of Russia" 79 transmitters of the Sv-range and 30 transmitters of the Kv- range should be established. For an announcement of programs on foreign countries in ranges of average and short waves 82 digital transmitters Sv - and Kv-ranges and 12 full-circle Kv-range aerials were provided. The total amount of state financing of these works made 13,7 ???? roubles. With 310 million roubles more it was allocated for creation of the state networks of a local digital announcement in a FM-range. The government the decision has defined that standard DRM will be applied to digital radio in Russia. However then all these actions have been excluded from operating the FTP. That will be from radio In Minkomsvjazi today have told to "Marker" that the question on digital radio is planned to take out for one of sessions of the governmental commission on development of tele-radio broadcasting till the end of current year. In case of acceptance of the positive decision by concept working out it is supposed to consider and whenever possible to consider opinion of all interested parties. The purpose of working out of the concept - a choice of priorities of development of broadcasting taking into account the last a tendency in development of technologies of a sound announcement. The financial component of works is not defined yet, speak in the ministry. However it is possible to assume that for realisation of the prospective concept financing, comparable is required to that has been earlier established in the previous variant of FTP. It is indicative that military men are interested in development of powerful digital broadcasting in Russia. At the disposal of "Marker" there is a letter directed in June VrIO of the chief of Central administrative board of communication of Armed forces of the Russian Federation by Oleg Maslennikov to a consortium "Digital broadcasting technological platform" (CTPD) and in Minkomsvjazi. In the letter it is underlined that radio transmitting centres of powerful broadcasting are of interest for the Minister of Defence. The question of their further development and functioning is actual. Therefore the representative of the Minister of Defence does a conclusion that modernisation of powerful broadcasting and its infrastructure is expedient. Interest of military men is caused by that powerful digital broadcasting can be system of double appointment: to be used both in civil, and in the military purposes. In particular, such system can be applied to radio-electronic struggle, a passive radar-location, problems of definition of a site. "krakoziabr" A blog about computer security, new threats Privacy of your information and control. New products-reviews antivirus their advantages and disadvantages. (krakoziabr website, July 5, 2012 via BCDX Oct 15 via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. 5930, Oct 16 at 0537, R. Rossii via Pet/Kam is already audible with Titanic theme, ``My Heart Will Go On``, sounds like Sarah Brightman rather than Celine Dion, and in fact S.B. has recorded it. Also audible on weaker // unsynchronized 5940 Magadan, since fortunately, skip is long, and intervening DGS 5935 WWCR has faded way down. At 0543, Pet/Kam also on stronger 7320 // 5930 now with a novelty song in Russian. At 1254 I am again hearing 5930 with jazz, but not 5940 or 7320. Gaisma.com says sunset at Pet/Kam today is 1826 local, its zone is UT+11 but now on DST, which means subtract 12 hours for UT = 0626. Timeanddate.com says its permanent zone is UT+12, no DST. From its longitude Pet/Kam ought to be UT+10. If Russian zones get readjusted for winter, it may be back to UT+11, which is still effectively yearound DST (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) < http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/europe-dst-end-2012.html > "Uncertain in Russia --- In 2011, then-president Dmitry Medvedev decided to abolish winter time and stay on Daylight Saving Time, also known as "Summer Time", all year round. However, only a year later, in late September 2012, a proposal for Russia to set the clocks back to standard time permanently was introduced and backed by current president Vladmir Putin. Whether and when this DST change will occur has not yet been made public. It could mean that Russia will follow the rest of Europe and set the clocks back on Sunday, October 28, 2012, but another possibility is that they may wait until spring 2013. timeanddate.com is following this closely and will post updates and amend the DST information for Russia as soon as a public announcement is made." (via Ron Howard, dxldyg via DXLD) 6075, Oct 16 at 1257, piano music, 1258 Chinese announcement of ruvr.ru pronounced in English, VOR Mussorgsky IS. Poor signal, due west from Vladivostok (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13665.37, Radio Rossii, 1240-1300 Noted two females in Russian language conversation. These two continue their program until the hour which included a male singing. At 1257 heard familiar canned ID for Rossii. More ID's by a female follows. However, the schedule finishes by 1301. Signal was fair but had a disturbing carrier on the lower side. No more activity from Rossii after 1300 (Chuck Bolland, October 11, 2012, Clewiston FL, 26N 081W, Excalibur, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Charles, 13665.000, Rossii SW outlet from Moscow still disturbed in audio quality today at 1240 UT Oct 12. This faulty audio last at least for past 2-3 weeks now! But TX outlet is strong even exact at x.000 kHz. Suffers by some strange audio tone companion of 97 Hertz peaks on browser screen, counted approx 44 peaks, i.e. 22 peaks or more on each sideband. Signal of 265 deg azimuth out of Moscow for Rossii is always strong here in Germany, like S=9+35dB at least. Similar 97 Hertz BUZZ tone also heard on 9480.000 kHz at 1330 UT Oct 12. vy73 wolfgang df5sx JN48OR 48 43 N 09 11 E (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) ** RUSSIA. Short / long path echo on 21800 kHz --- A simultaneous reception of long and short path propagation can be observed in Europe during late morning. V of Russia, 21800 Irkutsk and 21810 Novosibirsk are heard at my QTH with an echo when the short path strength gets a bit lower. Perseus Servers in Finland, Moscow show the same, while Japan is echo-free: http://dx.3sdesign.de/temp/21800-21810-VOR-echo-121011.mp3 This starts with 21800 weak, with a clear echo, then I switch to 21810 signal is stronger, and during the strong periods no echo is heard. Later I tune back to 21800 and then to 21810. Too bad that there are no servers along the long daylight path, which would have allowed to follow the signal. The servers in the US don't hear the signal since they sit in darkness (Jurgen Bartels, Suellwarden, N. Germany, mwdx [sic] yg, 1017 UT Oct 11 via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. PIRATE BROADCASTING: October 10, 2012 took connection of Togliatti "pirate" Radio Yupiter on 27205 kHz from 0800 to 0820. For 20 minutes in touch with Radio Kosmonavt - with Radio Kombat - Daugavpils. with Radio Cherny - Kyggyzstan. with Radio Mayak - Engels. R. - Vitebsk. Radio Spartak - Saratov. R. - Abkhazia. Links were valid without the Mat and music [sic] I don't know exactly, but earlier like it was 21 channel by long-distance truck drivers? Who knows what it was? (Alexander Golovikhin, Togliatti, Russia / “open_dx” via Rus DX 14 Oct via DXLD) Standard communication on the CB range. Distance, like how to use 27135 kHz (Sergey Smolin, Ukraine / “open_dx”, ibid.) It seems 27205 kHz frequency for long distance relationships have CB the CIS (Shukhrat Rakhmatullaev, Uzbekistan / “open_dx_ via Rus DX 14 Oct via DXLD) ** RUSSIA [and non]. U.S. TO END PRO-DEMOCRACY BROADCASTS IN RUSSIA RADIO LIBERTY FIRES LARGE PORTION OF ITS STAFF IN WAKE OF RUSSIAN LAW BY: Adam Kredo October 15, 2012 5:00 am [See original for numerous crosslinx embedded in article:] http://freebeacon.com/u-s-to-end-pro-democracy-broadcasts-in-russia/ America’s broadcast voice in Russia will soon be silenced following Moscow’s ratification of a new law that will force a legendary broadcasting company to abandon the Russian airwaves. Radio Liberty (RL), a division of the U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe (RFE), recently fired a large portion of its staff after the passage of a Russian law prohibiting foreign-owned media outlets from broadcasting on AM frequencies. The unexpected mass layoffs came as a shock to RL journalists and Russian human rights activists alike, and spurred accusations that the Obama administration is kowtowing to Russian President Vladimir Putin as he seeks to silence the democratic voice that helped topple communism. “The timing of it, the way it was done, and the lack of explanation” sends an unfortunate message, said David Kramer, president of the human rights organization Freedom House. “It creates the impression, whether intended or not, that the U.S. is pulling out [of Russia], and that’s not the impression we want to leave.” On Nov. 10, RL, known by locals as Radio Svoboda, will cease its AM broadcasts after nearly 60 years on the airwaves. During that time, RFE-RL fought communism from behind the Iron Curtain, where its pro-America broadcasts provided an alternate source of news for Russians interested in a Western perspective. The station’s American overseers have announced that Radio Svoboda, which reaches an estimated 150,000 listeners daily, will turn exclusively to the Internet where it hopes to reach a younger generation of Russians. The new broadcasting law, spearheaded by Putin, orders companies that are more than 48 percent foreign-owned to leave the Russian airwaves. It comes on the heels of the ouster of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), a nonprofit aid group recently banned from operating in Russia. Soon after the radio measure was approved, RL axed the majority of its veteran reporters, radio hosts, and editors—a move viewed as suspicious to many on the inside. A handful of additional RL staffers quit in protest following the firings. Experts fear that the disappearance of RL’s independent voice from the airwaves will allow Putin’s regime to further tighten its grip on the flow of information in Russia. “I think they have already destroyed the radio so much loved and followed by those Russian listeners who stand for freedom and democracy,” Mario Corti, a former director of Radio Liberty’s Russian Service, told the Free Beacon. “They are lying to the media by playing down the scale of the firings.” Corti and other insiders who spoke to the Free Beacon both on and off the record believe that RFE’s Washington-based leadership used the new law as an excuse to abandon the radio businesses, which had become costly and difficult for D.C. bureaucrats to control. However, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), which oversees RFE-RL, disputes these accusations. It maintains that the new law forces leaders to take painful yet necessary steps that will benefit the organization in the long run. “What I think is that the new law on the media was just an excuse for the BBG and [its president and CEO Steven] Korn to do what they had already previously planned to do—get away [from] radio altogether,” Corti said. “The bottom line is that some BBG members and RLE/RL bureaucrats are not and have not been comfortable with radio as a medium at all.” The BBG and RFE’s leadership are acting in a shortsighted manner, others maintain. A pro-democracy presence is needed more than ever in an increasingly authoritarian Russia, these experts say. “They’re making budget cuts and they don’t know much about the region,” said one former RFE executive who requested anonymity. “They’re just political appointees.” RL’s overseers in D.C. “are not Russia specialists or journalists,” griped another source familiar with the station’s operations. “It’s really a blow against the American radio presence and American media presence at a time when Putin is already doing all he can to undermine Western influence.” A “perfect storm” is brewing in Russia as Putin’s regime cracks down on Western freedoms, the RFE source warned. “This is capitulating to Putin, and Putin is very sophisticated and knows how to work the Americans,” the former executive said. “The reaction [by the Obama administration] has been too limp.” “It doesn’t surprise me in the least that there’s been little pushback from the administration because they don’t want to piss off the Russians,” the source said, pointing to President Barack Obama’s policy of a “reset” with Russia. BBG officials argue that their critics are overreacting. “Some of our critics claim quite incorrectly that we are withdrawing or retrenching in Russia,” Korn told BBG’s board during its monthly meeting last week. “Nothing could be further from the truth. We are adapting to change conditions with a new strategy and focus.” The U.S. government is “not decreasing the amount of money” spent on funding RL in Russia, despite speculation, Korn said. RL will pivot to the Internet and other new media platforms in the coming months in an effort to reach a younger generation of Russian dissidents. Masha Gessen, a veteran Russian journalist, was recently selected to head RL’s Russian service. Gessen has drawn both praise and criticism for her reportage, which has often been critical of Putin’s regime. Questions remain, however, as to why so many veteran RL reporters were fired suddenly. “I don’t know the reason. I don’t know why it has happened,” said Russian journalist Natalya Rostova, who has been covering the controversy as a senior correspondent for the website Slon. “Everybody is unhappy with it, but we don’t get any answers of why.” The former RL reporters lent the station much-needed credibility, a source said. “You’re losing contacts, a knowledge base,” explained the former RFE executive. “You’re losing that whole network of stuff and the news operation was good. You’re losing that.” Others doubt that the Internet is the best place for RL’s content. “I remember the Soviet Union as a child, and how my parents huddled over our radio listening to Radio Liberty, hanging onto the words,” recalled Anna Borshchevskaya, assistant director of the Atlantic Council’s Patriciu Eurasia Center. “It was a symbol of hope, a connection to the West, a source of information they could trust.” RL had a proud tradition of “defending democracy in Russia,” explained a source who has knowledge of the station’s operations. “By decapitating the station, they’re breaking the link with the past.” Officials on both sides of the ocean have failed to offer a comprehensive plan for the station’s future, experts maintain. “We don’t see what it will be instead,” said Rostova, who is also a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. “It has no base—all it has is the name ‘Radio Liberty,’ but it won’t be Radio Liberty at all. The audience will be destroyed.” The BBG, however, remains confident that it has made the right moves. “In the world in which we live today, AM radio is a bygone era,” Korn said during last week’s board meeting. “If we are to succeed in reaching those young, urban educated Russians who are at the forefront of change in their country and who will lead Russia in the future, it will not be on a weak AM signal that can only be heard in parts of Moscow.” Korn went on to defend the firings. “Sadly the cessation of our AM signal and switch to a digital service requires new ways of working with fewer people and some people with different skill sets,” he said. Critics of the plan suggest the U.S. should find a Russian business partner who could take over majority ownership of the station, thereby skirting the new broadcasting law. Korn and other American officials have maintained that this is not feasible, however. For many like Borshchevskaya, the end of Radio Svoboda signals the defeat of American values. “I remember how during on of the putsches [or attempted coups], when emotions ran high, a song kept repeating on the radio with a refrain saying that there’s one word that ‘turns a mob into a people: svoboda,’ the Russian word for ‘freedom’ or ‘liberty’,” she said (via DXLD) ** RUSSIA [non]. " RFE/RL RUSSIAN: SAME BUDGET, FEWER EMPLOYEES, "NEW EQUIPMENT. Posted: 15 Oct 2012 Kim's summary: The Broadcasting Board of Governors meeting on 11 October included a nearly 20-minute discussion (hear audio mp3) on the future of RFE/RL Russian Service (Radio Svoboda). RFE/RL has been involved in a "firestorm" of controversy since it fired 41 of its Russian Service employees and announced that it would end its medium wave broadcasts in Moscow (see previous post). The BBG Acting presiding officer Michael Lynton said that "RFE/RL last month consulted with this board on some proposed changes," indicating that the board had advance notice of the employee terminations. He also stated, referring to RFE/RL president Steven Korn, "we support the seasoned executive we have appointed in Russia and elsewhere to keep RFE/RL's audiences apprised of the news in spite of their government's efforts to quash it." RFE/RL president Steven Korn then spoke: "There has been a lot of inaccurate information circulating here in the US and in Russia about the future of our Russian service Radio Svoboda." He said that the future of the service would be in the "Digital media: internet, mobile, and social." The closing of the medium wave transmitter was actually "an opportunity to accelerate our plans to move to digital platforms. Truth be told, in the world in which we live today, AM radio is a bygone era." Mr. Korn addressed the reason for the terminations: "Sadly, the cessation of our AM signal and the switch to digital services requires news ways of working with fewer people and some people with different skill sets." "Fewer people" however, does not mean a reduced budget: "We are not decreasing the amount of money we are spending on Radio Svoboda, not by one penny. ... Indeed with our new approach, we'll be able to spend more of our budget directly on programming and new equipment." BBG member Michael Meehan noted that the last meeting of the BBG Budget and Strategy Committee dealing with Russia was in April 2011, and that a "more robust and detailed" discussion of Us international broadcasting will be included in a future meeting of the committee. BBG member Victor Ashe said that he does "not have the same enthusiasm for the direction in which we're headed in Moscow as Mr. Korn does at this time." He added, in reference to the new digital and video production facility in Moscow that RFE/RL and VOA will share, "I think it's just a matter of time before we are effectively barred from being in Moscow in any way, and that we will have to regroup and reestablish ourselves outside the territorial limits of the Russian federation." He said he hoped there would be no more dismissals of RFE/RL Russian- service staff. "When people say we acted according to Russian law in terms of termination, my initial thought is, what a low bar that is." During the session, it was revealed that 41 RFE/RL Russian employees were let go, ten new employees hired in Moscow, with another four or five yet to be brought aboard. Mr. Korn also said that there will be terminations of RFE/RL Russian staff in Prague, but could not give a specific number, other than "more than five, less than twenty." (Kim Andrew Elliott, kimandrewelliott.com mvia DXLD) FORMER BBG MEMBER WRITES THAT THE BBG "HAS GONE TOO FAR" IN THE FIRING OF 41 RFE/RL RUSSIAN JOURNALISTS. Posted: 13 Oct 2012 Washington Times, 10 Oct 2012, Blanquita Cullum, member of the BBG 2002-2010: "The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) has gone too far, and once again in the wrong direction. .... http://kimelli.nfshost.com/index.php?id=13798 (kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD) PLUS MANY related stories at this link. Portrait of Blanquita, now in her mid-sixties, indicates she has had a lot of work done (gh) ** SARAWAK [non]. DEMOCRATIC ACTION PARTY (DAP) TO USE SHORT WAVE RADIOS FOR CAMPAIGN --- Borneo Post, Kuching, October 13, 2012 The Democratic Action Party (DAP) Sri Aman will distribute portable short wave radios during campaigning to longhouses in the parliamentary area. Branch chief and probable DAP candidate for Sri Aman Leon Jimat Donald said they had taken delivery of 150 radio sets. He said this would enable longhouse dwellers to listen to Radio Free Sarawak. “Campaigning via radio has started and it is the cheapest and arguably the most effective weapon. According to reports from the ground, Radio Free Sarawak is so popular that folk in the longhouses would crowd around the radio to listen to the negative news which affects their lives but never gets reported in the mainstream media. “Many of them said they would prefer to postpone their dinners than miss the daily live broadcast,” he claimed. Leon said DAP Sri Aman has already distributed 160 radio sets to various longhouses. He added that the branch is also conducting voter registration at their Jalan Sabu office. http://www.theborneopost.com/2012/10/13/dap-to-use-short-wave-radios-for-campaign/#ixzz299RASIhM (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) Referring to Radio Free Sarawak. I suppose it is still on 15420 via PALAU at 10-12 UT, when I haven`t been able to hear it (gh, DXLD) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 17625, Oct 13 at 1333, big humbuzz upon poor signal in Arabic talk, as BSKSA manages to penetrate from afar, while the only bigsigs on 16 and 19m were from Cuba. This is 500 kW, 100 degrees from Riyadh, while the duplicate and unhummy HQS on 17615 at 190 degrees could not be heard today. 15120, Oct 17 at 1448, monotonous unison chanting with flutter, but unseems Qur`an; or rather bitonous, occasionally slipping one note higher. Not something VON would do, which may come up at 1500. For now per Aoki it is BSKSA, 1200-1457 in Bengali, 500 kW, 70 degrees from R. Riyadh (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SEALAND. ROY BATES, PRINCE OF SEALAND AND RADIO ESSEX FOUNDER, DEAD AT 91 LONDON — Where most people saw a crumbling, rust-stained hunk of concrete and steel, Paddy Roy Bates saw a kingdom. Bates, who has died aged 91, occupied an abandoned wartime fort in the North Sea and declared it the sovereign Principality of Sealand, with its own passports, flag, anthem and stamps — and himself as its monarch. What began as a swinging 60s attempt to set up a radio station became a micro-state that is still going strong more than 45 years later — although it has not been recognized by any government. "I might die young or I might die old, but I will never die of boredom," Bates said in a 1980s interview. Bates' son Michael said Wednesday that his father died Tuesday at a care home in Leigh-on-Sea in eastern England. He had been suffering from Alzheimer's. In the 1960s, inspired by the "pirate radio" movement of unlicensed stations broadcasting pop music from outside Britain's boundaries, Bates set up Radio Essex on an offshore fort. When that was closed down, he moved in 1966 to Fort Roughs, a disused World War II artillery platform in international waters about 7 miles (13 kilometers) off England's east coast. Michael Bates said his father initially intended to set up another radio station, but then "had the bizarre idea of declaring independence." Rejecting a British order to leave, he proclaimed the fort the Principality of Sealand, declaring himself Prince Roy and his wife Joan as princess. The 550-square-meter (5,920-square-foot) fort — two concrete towers connected by an iron platform — claimed to be the world's smallest sovereign state, though it was not internationally recognized. Bates was tried in 1968 after an incident in which shots were fired from the platform at a British boat. He was acquitted, with the court ruling that Sealand fell outside the U.K.'s jurisdiction. Britain later expanded its territorial waters to encompass Sealand, but has largely ignored the breakaway platform. Despite the lack of legal status, Bates gave Sealand its own constitution, red, white and black flag, passports, stamps, coins, national anthem and motto: "E Mare Libertas" — "From the Sea, Freedom." Today, Sealand makes money by selling aristocratic titles and hosting Internet servers. According to Sealand's official website, Bates fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War and worked at London's Smithfield meat market before joining the British army during World War II, serving as an officer in North Africa, the Middle East and Italy. After the war he imported meat from Ireland to the north — where rationing was still in effect — imported rubber from Malaysia and ran fishing boats off England's east coast before founding Sealand. In his old age Bates moved to the mainland, making his son Michael regent and head of state of Sealand. Michael Bates remembered his father as a "huge, huge character." "How many people do you know that are discussed by governments and prime ministers?" Michael Bates said. "The history is absolutely amazing." Bates is survived by Joan, Michael and his daughter Penny. By Associated Press, Updated: Wednesday, October 10, 11:37 AM Online: www.sealandgov.org Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/roy-bates-self-proclaimed-prince-who-turned-wartime-fort-into-nation-of-sealand-dead-at-91/2012/10/10/1e617e4a-12e9-11e2-9a39-1f5a7f6fe945_story.html (via Sergei S., Oct 10, dxldyg via DXLD) Roy Bates RIP http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19901944 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_Roy_Bates (via Steve Whitt, MWCircle yg via DXLD) BRITISH PIRATE RADIO BROADCASTER DIES AT 91 NPR, October 11, 2012 Listen to this story http://www.wbur.org/npr/162695155/british-pirate-radio-broadcaster-dies-at-91/player Transcript: "Good morning. I'm Renée Montagne. Starting a pirate radio station and declaring your own nation, it's the sort of thing people did in the '60s. In 1967, Roy Bates made himself prince of Sealand, an old British fort on a platform off the coast of England. Never mind it was the size of a McMansion. Prince Roy ruled Sealand for four decades. In that time he fought off others who claimed it, even confronting the Royal Navy. Roy Bates died this week at 91, not from boredom." It's MORNING EDITION. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright National Public Radio." There is much more on the updated Wikipedia pages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_Roy_Bates (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) This was forwarded on to me from my radio enthusiast up in St. Albert, Alberta: Hi Ed, The founder of Sealand and Radio Essex has passed away. You may have spent a few hours listening to this station. http://www.pressherald.com/news/nationworld/paddy-roy-bates-ruler-of-sealand-dies-at-91_2012-10-15.html (Via Edward Kusalik, AB, DXLD) The Radio New York International ship Sarah was registered to Sealand and broadcast under that flag for a few days in October 1988 as a result of Allan Weiner meeting Michael Bates at the Communicate 88 offshore/pirate radio convention in Blackpool: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Newyork_International#Lichfield_I (Mike Barraclough, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1S/S1, PRINCIPALITY OF SEALAND (Once Claimed To Be A DXCC Entity). Do you remember this one? A former UK anti-aircraft tower/fort (called Roughs Tower) located in the North Sea was occupied by a retired army major Roy Bates and his family in 1967. Major Bates declared the fort an independent sovereign state from the UK and renamed it Sealand on September 2, 1967. Bates established Sealand as a nation in 1975. Sealand had its own constitution, flag, National Anthem, stamps, passports and currency. There were even a few DXpeditions to Sealand - 1SLA1 (2000 by a Dutch group) and S1A (1982 by a German group). However, it has been reported that Major Bates passed away on October 9th, at the age of 91 in a care home in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, after a long battle with Alzheimer's. His wife Joan is now expected to take over the rule of Sealand. Here are some interesting URLs to read about the history and view pictures of the Principality of Sealand: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2216596/Retired-army-major-occupied-fortress-North-Sea-declared-sovereign-principality-Sealand-dies-aged-91.html http://www.sealandgov.org http://www.angelfire.com/nv/micronations/sealandinfo.html http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Principality-of-Sealand/42469203122 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand http://www.southgatearc.org/news/july2006/sealand_appeal.htm (Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin No. 1082, October 15, 2012, Editor Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW, Provided by BARF80.ORG (Cleveland, Ohio) via J. Dave Raycroft, VA3RJ, ODXA yg via DXLD) ** SERBIA [non]. SERBIA. 6100, Oct 16 at 1900, Radio Serbia Internacional, Programa en Español, muy fuerte señal, ID, Locutora conduciendo Boletin de Noticias, Receptor utilizado: WebSDR Amateur Radio Club ETGD. - Correo electrónico radioju @ sbb.rs Escúcha un fragmento de esa transmisión: http://frecuenciaaldia.podomatic.com/entry/2012-10-16T13_23_31-07_00 (Dino Bloise, USA, Frecuencia Al Día, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also KURDISTAN [non]: Denge Kurdistan now via the Bijeljina, Bosnia-Herzegovina transmitter on 11510 partly; first time used to relay something else (gh, DXLD) ** SEYCHELLES [non]. FEBA Broadcast schedule, Winter B12 28th October 2012 to 31st March 2013 Transmitter Site Codes - ASC Ascension Island DHA Dhabayya UAE ERV Yerevan Armenia KIG Kigali Rwanda MOS Moosbrunn Austria TAC Tashkent Uzbekistan Days Frequency Metre Site Time UT 1234567 Languages kHz band code -------------------------------------------------- AFRICA, ETHIOPIA, SOMALIA - B12 winter schedule 1600-1630 s...tfs AMHARIC 12125 25 ERV 1600-1630 .mtw... GURAGENA 12125 25 ERV 1630-1700 smtwtfs AMHARIC 12125 25 ERV 1600-1627 smtwtfs ETHIOPIA 11875 25 KIG 1630-1700 smtw... TIGRINYA 9850 31 DHA 1630-1700 ....tfs AMHARIC 9850 31 DHA 1700-1730 smtwtfs OROMINYA 9595 31 KIG 1730-1757 smtwtfs TIGRINYA 9595 31 KIG 1700-1730 smtwtfs SOMALI 6180 49 DHA 1730-1800 smtwtfs ETHIOPIA 7510 41 ERV 1830-1845 smtwtfs FRENCH (Cent+West Af) 15250 19 ASC 2145-2215 smt.tfs HASSINYA/PULAAR (WAf) 11985 25 ASC -------------------------------------------------- INDIA, BANGLADESH, TIBET - B12 winter schedule 0000-0030 smtwtfs BANGLA rural 9390 31 TAC 1200-1230 smtwtfs TIBETAN 15215 19 DHA 1430-1500 smtwtfs HINDI 9540 31 TAC 1500-1530 smtwtfs BANGLA rural 9390 31 TAC -------------------------------------------------- PAKISTAN, AFGHANISTAN - B12 winter schedule 0200-0230 s...... URDU 7315 41 DHA 0200-0215 .mtwtfs URDU 7315 41 DHA 0215-0230 .mtwtfs MIXED LANGUAGES 7315 41 DHA 0230-0300 smtwtfs DARI 6125 49 DHA 0300-0315 smtwtfs MIXED LANGUAGES 6125 49 DHA 1400-1430 smtwtfs URDU 7230 41 TAC 1430-1445 smtwtfs MIXED LANGUAGES 7230 41 TAC 1500-1530 smtwtfs DARI 9400 31 ERV 1530-1600 smtwtfs PASHTO 9400 31 ERV -------------------------------------------------- MIDDLE EAST - B12 winter schedule 0800-0830 smtwtfs ARABIC 15220 19 MOS 1800-1927 smtwtfs ARABIC 9550 31 KIG -------------------------------------------------- Schedule Engineer, FEBA Radio, Ivy Arch Road, WORTHING BN14 8BX, UK. WEBSITE: http://www.febaradio.net B12 bs01 dated 01.10.12 rww (FEBA website via Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, Aug 14, dxldyg via DXLD) ** SICILY. Closing down MW transmitters: see ITALY ** SIKKIM. 4835, 13.10 1545, AIR Gangtok, “This is All India radio” then into pop music (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin Oct 14 via DXLD) ** SINGAPORE. Kranji 2 (Ex Radio Singapore International) Transmitter Site -- Updated Google Street View imagery of the ex Radio Singapore International - Kranji 2 site now seen. Imagery date: November 2011. All the SW antennas have gone. Just one mast remains on site and the transmitter building remains (Ian Baxter, NSW, 12 Oct 2012, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) ** SOMALILAND. 7120, Radio Hargeisa, *0333-0355. Oct 11, sign on with local chants. Talk at 0345. Fair to good signal strength, but weak modulation at times (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) 7120, 14/10 1535, Hargheisha Radio, Horn of Africa songs, fair, better in USB to avoid Hams (Giampiero Bernardini, Winradio Excalibur Pro, Ant: Maxi Whip by Capra (wire 8 meters with 1:32 balun)) & Wellbrook LFL 1010 loop; QTH: Bocca di Magra (La Spezia, Liguria) Italy, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7120, Oct 16 at 0329-0332, poor carrier on and off numerous times, R. Hargeisa trying to keep the transmitter on? Or if totally missing, could have been ham playing around. Is anyone hearing Hargaysa lately in these mornings? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9980, Oct 15 at 1248, Brother Scare is blasting away from WWCR, so probably really started at 1200, despite posted program schedule to the contrary. Along with equally superstrong WTWW with PPP on 9479, the entire 31m band is overloaded, requiring attenuation to try to hear anything else, thus weakening their signals too. Our cup runneth over: after 1400, BS not only on 9980, but also ``Milano`` on 15215 (heard from 1358 with ``Aída`` sign-on), also 13810 via Germany, 13570 via WINB, and 9370 via WWRB --- wait, no signal at 1406 but cuts on at 1407. I could have spent a lot of time timing the relative delays on these unsynchronized feeds, but that would have required axually listening to his nonsense over and over so fortunately forewent that. As for the secret site on 15215 --- could be Romania, or Bulgaria, or Armenia, or ??? IRRS CEO Alfredo Cotroneo has explained that it`s for competitive reasons, and: we don`t need to know exactly what cell tower is relaying our phonecalls, so why should we need to know SW radio sites either? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) USA(non) Updated A-12 of Brother Stair TOM from European relay as of Oct. 3 1400-1500 15215 TIG 100 kW / 100 deg SoAs 1400-1600 9655 WER 100 kW / non-dir WeEu ex 1400-1500 WER 100/185 deg 1400-1600 13810 WER 100 kW / 120 deg N/ME ex 1500-1600 NAU 100/130 deg 1400-1800 11800 ERV 300 kW / 192 deg N/ME, new additional transmission 1700-1800 17770 TIG 100 kW / 187 deg CSAf 1900-2000 7290 TIG 100 kW / 290 deg WeEu 1900-2000 9830 NAU 500 kW / 170 deg CeAf, new additional transmission 2000-2200 9400 ERV 100 kW / 305 deg WeEu (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, DX Re Mix News 16 October via DXLD) 11800 does not make it here, whew (gh, OK, DXLD) ** SPAIN [non]. 11880 & weaker // 11815, Sunday October 14 at 1251, REE COSTA RICA relays again lacking `Amigos de la Onda Corta` at former Sunday 1230 time; instead, interview in Castilian with a singer named Johnson, preceded and followed by his songs in English. 11880, Oct 15 at 1247, REE via COSTA RICA, back in Basque for a change, having been missing on several Mondays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN. 9505.01, 1850-1906*, CLANDESTINE, 11.10, La Voix du Soudan (presumed), vernacular announcement, mostly gentle instrumental music from Horn of Africa - New frequency, 25332 (Anker Petersen, heard recently in Skovlunde, Denmark, on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) Why do you think it is clandestine? Otherwise looks like it`s from Khartoum (gh, DXLD) ** SUDAN. Re: SUDAN [non]. From October 1 Voice Of South Sudan Revolutionary Radio ceased its shortwave broadcasts 0500-0800 on 15725 & 1200-1500 on 11650, both from DB. Instead of it, on October 2, 0500- 0600 on 15725 and 1400-1500 on 11650, a new program with African music and several times announcements in Arabic: "Saut Afrikya min Idaa-tu Sudanya" and in French: "La Voix du Soudan, Radio National du Soudan" was being broadcast. There were announcement in third language too, probably in Somali/Swahili. Please check in next few days!! 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11650 not heard since (Ritola, DSWCI DX Window) Until when? (gh) Not heard today on 15725 khz at 0530. But instead, per Thorsten Hallmann tip I hear similar announcement on 9505 kHz at 1840 yesterday. 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, Oct 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED, 9505.000, Arabic songs of HOA? type at 1800 UT Oct 12. Whole western Europe remote units had only reflected a rather weak undermodulated audio signal. Much fluttery. I guess some signal from South Africa, probably Meyerton site? (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 12, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Sudan on 9505 kHz --- Listening since 1818, several IDs in Arabic, and at 1833 in French "... la radio nationale du Sudan". Program consists of typical songs and announcements, good signal and modulation. 73, (Günter Lorenz, D-85354 Freising, Germany, RX: Perseus ANT: ALA1530+SSB, 1833 UT Oct 13, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DX LISTENING DIGEST) As I pointed out elsewhere, this transmitter is very likely the same as on 7200 after 1900. Today, modulation is better at least for the music bits. As ``"Saut Afrikya min Idaa-tu Sudanya" and in French: "La Voix du Soudan, Radio National du Soudan"`` was 0500-0800 and 1400-1500, it could have been of course also via the same transmitter - Sudan on 7200 was only observed 0230-0430v and ?- 2200v recently. Of course, VOSSRR might have been also via this transmitter. However I do not remember reports of weak modulation for these transmissions. 73 (from rainy NW Germany, Thorsten Hallmann, Oct 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I found in my old logbooks: 9505 Radio Omdurman 30 december 1970 2150 UTC (Max Van Arnhem, The Netherlands, HCDX via DXLD) Yes, but the current IDs sound like tests for an external service. (Mauno Ritola, Finland, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Also observed this morning Oct. 15 Radio Omdurman Sudan in Arabic: 0230-0730vNF 9505#ALF 100 kW / 090 deg to EaAf, ex 7200 non-dir CeAf # 0330-0430 very strong co-ch from Adventist World Radio in Persian And yesterday evening Oct. 14 also Radio Omdurman Sudan in Arabic: 1800-1900vNF 9505*ALF 100 kW / 270 deg to NoAf, ex 7200 non-dir CeAf * QRM from Radio Romania International in German in DRM mode on 9495 Here the frequencies of Sudan for A-05 season, old version of A-04: 4995 2200 1130 38S,47,48 ALF 20 0 0 925 1234567 270305 301005 6150 1000 1800 38S,47,48 ALF 20 0 0 925 1234567 270305 301005 7200 0300 0830 38S,46E,47,48 ALF 100 0 0 305 1234567 270305 301005 7200 1100 2200 38S,46E,47,48 ALF 100 0 0 305 1234567 270305 301005 9505 0300 0830 38S,39,48 ALF 100 90 0 805 1234567 270305 301005 9505 1100 1700 38S,39,48 ALF 100 90 0 805 1234567 270305 301005 9505 1800 1900 27,37NE,38W ALF 100 270 0 805 1234567 270305 301005 9505 1900 2300 38,39,48 ALF 100 90 0 805 1234567 270305 301005 11835 0300 2200 38,47,48,52N,53N ALF 120 180 0 218 1234567 270305 301005 15170 0300 2200 38E,39SE ALF 300 90 0 218 1234567 270305 301005 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Saut Afrikya min Idaa-tu Sudanya in Arabic and in French: "La Voix du Soudan, Radio National du Soudan this evening Oct. 15: 1500-1552 on 7200 1600-1900 on 9505 and maybe also till 1910/1915 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, ibid) Today the s/on on 9505 kHz was at 1624. Strange empty carrier on 600 Hz above. VOIRI signed on at 1627! 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, ibid.) Currently schedule of Radio Omdurman Sudan in Arabic v0200-0400v 7200 ALF 100 kW / 000/090 to EaAf, confirmed Oct. 15/16 v1500-1600v 7200 ALF 100 kW / 000/090 to EaAf, confirmed Oct. 15/16 v1900-2100v 7200 ALF 100 kW / 000/090 to EaAf, confirmed Oct. 15/16 And the current schedule of program with announcements: "Saut Afrikya min Idaa-tu Sudanya" in Arabic and "La Voix du Soudan,Radio National du Soudan" in French. Also announcement in third language, probably Somali or Swahili: v0400-0700v NF 9505#ALF 100 kW / 270 deg to NoAf, confirmed Oct 15/16 v1600-1900v NF 9505*ALF 100 kW / 270 deg to NoAf, confirmed Oct 15/16 # till 0426 very strong co-ch from Adventist World Radio in Persian * 1630-1726 very strong co-ch from Voice of Islamic Rep. of Iran in Armenian * 1800-1856 QRM from Radio Romania International in German DRM mode 9495 (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, DX Re Mix News 16 October via WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DXLD) ALF = Al Aitahab, even tho there is no F in it, site as designated by HFCC: ALF Al Aitahab SDN 15N30 032E28 (gh, DXLD) This specific site info may not be correct as discussed by wb in dxldyg and next DXLD 9505, Oct 17 at 0455 poor signal with talk and music. I am looking for R. Omdurman which is reported reactivated on this frequency after many years, altho it has continued to be HFCC-registered, currently 05-10 as 100 kW non-direxional in Arabic. Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria reported October 16 that Sudan 9505 is aimed 270 degrees and heard at variable times around 04-07 and 16-19, with announcements: "Saut Afrikya min Idaa-tu Sudanya" in Arabic and "La Voix du Soudan, Radio National du Soudan" in French. Also announcement in third language, probably Somali or Swahili. It`s the same 100 kW transmitter heard on 7200 at other times from the site designated ALF, which despite no F in it, per HFCC stands for Al Aitahab, at 15N30 032E28. Other 9505 registrants not to be confused with: 0330-0430 AWR Farsi via Austria; 1630-1730 Iran in Armenian, 19-20 YFR in Kikongo via Germany; 20-22 CVC Zambia in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non]. Frequency changes of Sudan Radio Service, Darfur program from Oct. 8: 0400-0500 13720*DHA 250 kW / 240 deg NEAf only in Arabic, ex 11800 DHA 1600-1700 17745*WOF 250 kW / 140 deg NEAf only in Arabic, ex 15500 WOF * former frequencies of EDC Sudan Radio Service in Arabic/English & various langs. Future plans: Extended transmissions up to 90 minutes: 0400-0530 & 1600-1730 (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, DX Re Mix News 16 October via WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DXLD) ** SUDAN [non]. Updated schedule of BRB (former TDP) stations: Here is history of transmitter changes of Radio Miraya: Radio Miraya in English/Arabic till August 31: 0300-0600 on 11560 SMF 250 kW / 180 deg to EaAf, WEAK SIGNAL IN SOFIA Radio Miraya in English/Arabic, NO TRANSMISSIONS from Sep. 1 till 15: 0300-0600 11560 SMF 250 kW / 180 deg to EaAf Radio Miraya in English/Arabic tests Sep. 16: 0300-0600 11560 SOF 100 kW / 195 deg to EaAf, GOOD SIGNAL IN SOFIA Radio Miraya in English/Arabic, NO TRANSMISSIONS from Sep. 17 till 19: 0300-0600 11560 SMF 250 kW / 180 deg to EaAf Radio Miraya in English/Arabic from Sep. 20, ex SMF 250 kW / 180 deg: 0300-0600 11560 SOF 100 kW / 195 deg to EaAf, GOOD SIGNAL IN SOFIA (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, DX Re Mix News 16 October via WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DXLD) ** SWAZILAND. 4775.0 kHz – Trans World Radio, Mpangela Ranch, 0344- 0349 10/10 male with choral group; fair. 73, (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Icom IC-R75 with active whip antenna, http://www.andyrobinsradio.com DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWEDEN. SAQ transmission 24 October --- Hi all, Just seen on the SAQ homepage: ------------- begin quote ------------- Transmission on United Nations Day We have the pleasure to announce that SAQ will be on air on United Nations Day, Wednesday 24th October. We start the transmitter about 1010 UT, and a message will be sent at 1030. The frequency is 17.2 kHz CW. Reports from the transmission will not be confirmed by QSL card. The transmission is a part of the celebration of the United Nations Day in Grimeton, see http://undayorg.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/unday-english1.pdf The start procedure will be streamed over Internet, appropriate link will soon be published here. -------------- end quote -------------- -- vy 73 + gd DX, Michael, ENDBH & NANDBH editor http://ndbchangeblog.blogspot.com http://www.ndblist.info/beacons/NDBpublications2012.pdf (Michael Oexner via ndblist via Alokesh Gupta, cumbredx via DXLD) ** THAILAND. 15275.0, HSK9, Radio Thailand, Udon Thani; 0040 10/13, English promo for Thai Airways followed by ID; poor level and faded out soon after. 73, (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Icom IC-R75 with active whip antenna, http://www.andyrobinsradio.com DX LISTENING DIGEST) I think we can consider it an ad, not just a promo (gh) ** TIBET. 4920, China, Xizang PBS 2330 to 2337 // 4905 on 8 October (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TUNISIA. 7335, Oct 13 at 0612, IWT is on and // 7275 with Arabic music and announcements. I`m seldom up late enough to hear 7335 during DST, which does not start until about 0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. 9830, Oct 15 at 2228 check, JBA carrier beneath the constant RTTY on this frequency, presumably what`s left of the VOT 2200 English broadcast to North America. TRT doggedly stix to this unusable frequency in the A-seasons. In B-12 from Oct 28 will be on 5960, and shifts to one UT hour later at 2300, providing a Week of Confusion until NAm also sets the clox back (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE. LUCH SHORTWAVE OPERATIONS APPARENTLY CEASED See: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2012/10/dx-re-mix-news-751.html This indicates that the shortwave operations at Luch ceased on 31 Aug without fanfare, perhaps even without any warning in advance, considering the break it caused until the Kostinbrod replacements were in place. Another SW BC transmitter country bit the dust it seems. Remarkable is the new arrangement for Denge Kurdistan at Bijeljina/Jabanusa, since as far as I know it is the first time ever that Radio Serbia leases out its transmitter to an external customer. And considering Luch: The parabolic antennas (see also message #1348 in the archive) there have been brought down already in 2005 because they were dilapidated. I saw some material about this but, frankly, have no time to dig it out and digest it (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 16, shortwavesites yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DXLD) No more SWBC from here: Luch site off the air August 31. See KURDISTAN [non] --- except: ** UKRAINE. On October 14, from 0600 UT accept [heard] radio "Dniprovska Khvilya" at a frequency of 11980 kHz, broadcast the first program ?????????? radio. Reception - 45444. It is interesting, hear them who are in Ukraine? Yes, and in other places (Receiver: Degen 1103 Antenna: LW-10 m, Dmitry Kutuzov, Ryazan, Russia / “deneb-radio- dx”), Rus DX 14 Oct via DXLD) ** U K. BBC WORLD SERVICE WEBSITE WAS PORTAL TO 27 LANGUAGE SERVICES. Is now iPlayer app. Posted: 15 Oct 2012 http://kimelli.nfshost.com/index.php?id=13802 http://bbcworldservice.com which transfers you to http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio : The new BBC World Service website is obviously designed for mobile devices and tablet PCs. In my implementation of Firefox on a regular PC, the home page does not seem to be displaying correctly, and is difficult to navigate. It behaves better in Internet Explorer. Those who do not speak English and are looking for a certain BBCWS language site will be out of luck. Those who do speak English might guess to click on the Help page, where a page with links to the 27 language services can be found. For BBC World Service corporate information, click on About World Service. For those who want to listen to BBC World Service radio on a radio, you must find your way to this page. (While navigating, one of those pop-up surveys about the website popped up, so, brimming with opinions, I clicked. "Thanks for agreeing to take part in this survey. We are currently only looking for responses from residents of the UK, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man," I was informed.) There is a See All Headlines link for those who want to read news in text format. This took me to a mobile-formatted page with no advertisements. I think we outside the UK are really supposed to visit bbc.com, have a look at the advertisements, then read the news in text (Kim Andrew Elliott, kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD) ** U K [non]. Letters From America gets online archive: Radio Today with RCS --- Want to hear Alistair Cooke's musings on the USA over again? Coming soon to an Internet connection near you: http://radiotoday.co.uk/2012/10/letters-from-america-gets-online-archive/ (Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA USA, Oct 14, internetradio via DXLD) ** U S A. This explains the close-down of AFN on 3 USB SW frequencies --- merely part of a much larger QRT (gh, DXLD) NAVY RADIO FACILITY SLIPS INTO HISTORY From Morse code to broadband, station was link for 107 years BY ADAM LINHARDT Citizen Staff Story and photos at: http://keysnews.com/node/42850 Saturday, October 13, 2012 When Hurricane Andrew tore through Homestead in 1992 it severed nearly every communication line between the Florida Keys and the mainland -- save one. Tucked away on Boca Chica Key at Naval Air Station Key West and on the northern edge of the Saddlebunch Keys are two plain, whitewashed buildings that for the better part of the past century have been quietly providing high-frequency radio communications between naval vessels at sea and their shore-side counterparts. [MIKE HENTZ/The Citizen] [caption] The Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station Jacksonville Detachment Key West -- call sign NAR -- was about to embark on one of its busiest missions in its 107-year existence shortly after the hurricane made landfall. "We had hunkered down and were riding out the storm," said Director David Flight. "It began to dawn on us that no one had communications, no phone service, but we were quite capable out at the transmitter site." And so Flight and his crew of "Conch communicators" -- some of whom also set up ham radio stations -- opened their often-clandestine mission to Navy families, the Red Cross and civilian Keys residents, all needing to send word to the mainland. "In the first four days we sent 18,000 messages out to families," Flight said. Flight came to the Keys in 1973 as part of the now- defunct Air Force 671st Radar Squadron. He moved over to the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station in 1979. Last month, the Navy began the process of closing the long-running radio communications center. Improvements to high-frequency broadcasting require fewer stations. By November, the Key West service will be consolidated with Air Force assets in Puerto Rico and Maryland. The station was officially decommissioned on Sept. 21. The station's mission began in 1905 at what is now Truman Annex, when it was called the Naval Wireless Telegraph Station. The operators formed a link in a chain of Morse code stations in what was then known as the Coastal Signal Service of the Navy, said Naval Air Station Key West spokeswoman Trice Denny. The chain extended from Maine to New Orleans, La., and included Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Isthmus of Panama. In those days, many of the messages included non-classified information, like weather reports, Denny said. "The hardware in those days wasn't the best, so carrier pigeons were kept as well to ensure messages were deli [Photo courtesy of Navy|Senior officers inspect receiver site equipment at Boca Chica.] vered between here and the fleet, as well as other stations," she said. "In the mid-1930s the Navy reduced its mission here with the radio station, becoming the only mission left," Flight said. "For a time, the officer over the radio station had a duel role as commander of the base as well." World War II changed that, and the Navy dramatically expanded the radio station's role as new voice communications went online. By the mid-1940s, new Teletype and encryption technologies were on the rise. "In essence, the Navy began broadcasting Morse code at an extremely fast rate," Flight said. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis, when naval assets in Key West cemented the city's role as the "Gibraltar of the Gulf," as Commodore David Porter said a hundred years earlier. The radio station's role provided vital communication between military branches that had massed in the Southernmost City. The military buildup led to the expansion of the station as it swelled to 19 officers, 268 enlisted personnel and 31 civilians, Denny said. In 1965, the Navy bought more than 600 acres of land in the Saddlebunch Keys to build the transmitter site. From that time to the present, more changes -- most notably the advent of satellite and Internet communications -- were made as technology improved, and it finally became a civilian-operated facility. By 2000, the formerly named Navy Wireless Telegraph Station became the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station Jacksonville Detachment Key West. [Photo courtesy of Navy|Radioman 3rd Class Bayne operates the Mode 1 Univac computer, which was located in the message center.] Military high-frequency broadcasts will continue as backup communications for the military, but the time has come to "close up shop" and turn the buildings over to NAS Key West commander Capt. Pat Lefere, Flight said. Naval Command Telecommunications Station Jacksonville Cmdr. Matthew Lear called those who manned the station a "cast of characters," and told them at the decommissioning ceremony last month that the history of the station will live on. "That is the nature of classified communications," Flight said, reflecting on his 30-year mission. "We were never out there in the limelight for obvious reasons. Radar and communications are always the first target of the enemy, so we kept a low profile over the years." (via Terry Krueger, FL, DXLD) ** U S A. IS THE BBG SECRETLY PLANNING TO SHUT DOWN VOA? http://www.afge1812.org/SaveStory.cfm?newID=228 AFGE Local 1812 has been hearing credible reports that the senior staff of the BBG is working hard on contingency plans for VOA if there is no agreement to modify the sequestration deal reached last year to avert a government default on its debt. Sequestration is the term used for an across-the-board budget reduction to save over $1 trillion in federal spending. If nothing changes it will take effect on January 2, 2013. In a letter to the IBB office of Labor Relations in early August, AFGE Local 1812 President Tim Shamble expressed his concern on behalf of the nearly 900 employees we represent about the potential negative impact this could have on bargaining unit members and the Union has requested bargaining on the subject. Said Shamble in the letter, “AFGE Local 1812 requests a copy of the Agency’s contingency plans that show how the Agency plans to address sequestration should it occur.” So far there have been no responsive documents. If BBG, IBB and VOA management are making contingency plans to deal with the effect of sequestration, why haven’t they notified your Union? How many employees will be furloughed or RIFed? Will language services be shut down? Will VOA be shut down altogether? We think it is highly irresponsible if there is no contingency planning. If there is, why aren’t we being notified? Nobody’s telling us how we should advise our members to prepare. AFGE Local 1812 suggests you contact your Member of Congress and ask him or her to demand that the BBG explain what it plans to do and why we are being kept in the dark! Happy Holidays! Posted: Monday, Oct 01, 2012 (AFGE Local 1812 via DXLD) ** U S A. MILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND COUNTING http://www.afge1812.org/SaveStory.cfm?newID=231 Do you know why U.S. taxpayers were forced to fork out half a BILLION dollars in 2001 to compensate some 1,100 women who claimed to have been discriminated against by the Voice of America? Because VOA and its parent Agency (now called the Broadcasting Board of Governors) would not abide by legal decisions. Even at the very bitter end of that very long and arduous legal saga, a former top VOA official who presided over the stunning mess wrote a piece that was published in the Washington Post denying any discrimination had ever occurred. Obviously, the judicial system thought otherwise and the Agency finally paid the piper - to the tune of 500 million dollars. But never mind. By pretending the whole thing did not happen, some of the managers who presided over that outrageously costly mess were able to hang on to their jobs and keep doing what they know best: fighting hard to avoid following the law. Today, VOA is pretty much back in a similar position, denying that it violated the rights of other employees, even as judicial authorities keep saying it did. Some of the very same managers who were present in the 1990s, when Hartman vs. Albright was being dragged out in court, are still around, either as managers, or former managers/re-hired as contractors/consultants. Is it any wonder that now two costly legal cases are being fought, also to the bitter inevitable end? One mess concerns the firing of 16 employees in an illegal RIF in 2009, at the Office of Cuba Broadcasting based in Miami. The Agency not only let it happen, but has been fighting tooth and nail so that this illegal act will stand. In her 96-page ruling, dated November 19, 2011, a Federal Arbitrator stated that the Agency acted in "willful disregard of the express directives of Congress ... urging the Director of the Office of Cuba Broadcasting to find alternative employment opportunities and job training" in proceeding with what was in effect an illegal RIF (Reduction in Force). Instead of doing the legal, not to mention the moral thing, and rehiring and compensating these OCB employees, the Agency filed exceptions (akin to an appeal) with the FLRA (the Federal Labor Relations Authority), contesting the Arbitrator's finding. On September 25th, 2012, almost a year after the Arbitrator's decision, the FLRA ruled against every one of the Agency’s 30 exceptions. So now, the U.S. taxpayer has lost another year. If these OCB employees had been compensated a year ago, as the Arbitrator ruled, the financial damage, however extensive, might have been limited. But no, Agency management chose to continue the legal fight, because after all, they are not footing the bill; that dubious honor goes to the good old American taxpayer. And now that overdue bill has grown larger, and keeps growing daily. But wait, why should Agency management care? They are appealing another case that concerns many more people than the 16 employees illegally displaced by the OCB. We are referring to employees who have been illegally denied promotions or employment by the Agency in violation of the Smith-Mundt Act --- a law passed by the U.S. Congress that states that qualified U.S. citizens should have priority over foreign aliens in hiring. Remember that AFGE Local 1812 filed a grievance in 2006 and after a long legal battle, on November 25th, 2011, the FLRA dismissed the Agency's exceptions in that case as well. The Agency should have compensated U.S. citizen employees it illegally failed to hire and should have changed its policy regarding the hiring process, but it decided instead to appeal the FLRA's ruling to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Then, it suddenly withdrew its appeal (did someone at the Justice Department tell the Agency that the law is the law?) But do not assume for one minute that the Agency decided to finally comply with the law. No, AFGE Local 1812 was forced to file a ULP (an Unfair Labor Practice complaint) with the FLRA because of the Agency’s continued refusal to comply with a binding arbitration decision. We have a nagging feeling that the Agency will appeal the FLRA's decision concerning the OCB to District Court as it runs roughshod over any and all employees in its attempts to vindicate its illegal actions. What will it gain? It almost certainly will lose once again. The same Agency that stiffed U.S. taxpayers for 500 million dollars in the Hartman vs. Albright case is simply, once again, piling up legal bills and liabilities, and in the end, it will simply stiff taxpayers for both the OCB, and the Smith-Mundt case. And while your tax dollars go to compensate dozens of Agency employees for management's illegal behavior, these same managers will be able to do what managers did in the Hartman vs. Albright case: shrug and walk away, retire at the top of their earning power, without ever having to face the consequences of their behavior. And the Agency will, no doubt, keep adding more and more lawyers to the General Counsel's office to fight the employees and help them justify breaking the law at every turn. And these same managers wonder out loud every year, when the OPM employee morale survey comes out, why they are at the bottom of the Federal government. But deep inside they know. Respect is earned. So is contempt. Posted: Wednesday, Oct 03, 2012 (AFGE Local 1812 via DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. 17530, Oct 12 at 1919, strong open carrier causing fast SAH against much weaker French underneath, i.e. Greenville is already on instead of crash-starting at 1930 to avoid VOA vs VOA in handover from São Tomé site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. None of the Dallas-Fort Worth or Denver 26 MHz studio links have been reported here in about 3 months. John Wilkins in Wheat Ridge CO (a Denver 'burb) checked at 1200 10-Oct and found the KOA relay on 25950/FM. He said that the relay was running about 17 seconds ahead of 850 KOA. The previous day, he found only a carrier on 25950 (MARE Tipsheet 12 Oct via DXLD) Absence correlates with post-season lack of sporadic E HF openings, let alone VHF; may well still be as active on air as ever (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1638 monitoring: completed in time for first airing on WRMI, UT Thursday Oct 11 at 0330 on 9955: confirmed on webcast, but only mixture of bubble and pulse jamming, rather than full wall-of-noise, on 9955. Try again and again: Sat 0800, 1500, 1730, Sun 0800, 1530, 1730, Mon 0500, Tue 1100=new. Or on WTWW: Thu 2100 on 9479, UT Sun 0400 on 5745 Or WWRB: UT Fri 0330v on 5050 --- if they manage to play it this week Or Area 51 via WBCQ: UT Sat 0130v on 5110v-CUSB Or HLR: Sat 0630 & 1630 on 7265; Tue 0930 on 5980 Or WRN via SiriusXM 120: Sat & Sun 1730, Sun 0830 WORLD OF RADIO 1638 monitoring: WWRB, 5050, UT Friday Oct 12: first checking webcast, so times approx.: 0330 ``Amen & amen``, SC preacher finishes, respectful pause for 52 seconds, then hum starts, then after another 23 sex, WOR 1638 starts. Now the audio quality is much improved, also on 5050 itself checked with good signal at 0356. Next: UT Saturday 0130v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB. Saturday 0630 & 1630(?), Hamburger Lokalradio 7265, Tuesday 0930 5980 Saturday 0800, 1500, 1730, Sunday 0800, 1530, 1730, Monday 0500, Tuesday 1100 on WRMI 9955 UT Sunday 0400 on WTWW 5745 Sat & Sun 1730, Sun 0830 on WRN via SiriusXM 120 WORLD OF RADIO 1638 monitoring: on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB: AWWW finished around 0116 and announced the three frequencies re-splitting to separate programming: on 9330 GFRN, 7490 BS and 5110 Area 51. Music fill ensued, and WOR 1638 started a bit early at 0128.5. Fair reception here vs T-storm noise elsewhere in OK, KS. Next plays: Saturday 1630 on HLR 7265 (presumably, got no confirmation last week) Saturday 1730 on WRMI 9955 and WRN via SiriusXM channel 120 UT Sunday 0400 on WTWW 5745 Sunday 0800, 1530, 1730, Monday 0500, Tuesday 1100 on WRMI 9955 Sunday 0800, 1730 also on WRN via SiriusXM 120 WTWW #2, 5085 kHz, 0200 UT [Oct 14] with World of Radio. Rock solid signal and audio (Tom Nyberg, Sumner, Iowa, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Tom, Also noted here on the coast of Calif. with fair to good reception on 5085 at 0140 (Ron Howard, listening at Asilomar State Beach, near Monterey, ibid.) 5085, UT Sunday Oct 14 at 0253, WTWW-2 is on again with Ted Randall, inbooming signal; still at 0515 amid `HF Radio Show` from Rod Hembree talking about comparing `The Munsters` with `The Addams Family`, except he kept mispronouncing as ``Monsters`` and John ``Austin`` instead of Astin! Soon on to the barely hidden agenda of all his seemingly secular programming, a pro-God promo. Seems WTWW-2 is hoping to lure some business from Good Friends Radio Network. Last week there were indications that WTWW-2 would be on the air the following Saturday nights, perhaps including WORLD OF RADIO, but I received no specific information. I did check 9990 and 5085 earlier but they were not on yet. Fortunately, Thomas Nyberg in IA caught 5085 playing WORLD OF RADIO 1638 at 0200 UT Sunday, ``rock solid signal and audio``, so perhaps that will be a continuing new time for us (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1638 monitoring: besides the new time of 0200 UT Sunday on WTWW-2 5085: still heard UT Sunday 0400:34 on WTWW-1 5745, starting intact following canned TOH ID, which covered up the first part of the ``we will be changing to 5745`` advisory, which axually started 2+ weeks ago. WRMI 9955: October 14, Sunday 1530, JBA carrier, can`t be sure it`s me, but nothing else scheduled at this hour, and no jamming audible either. Hope it`s audible southward from Hialeah Gardens. Confirmed on webcast. Tried again at 1730 Sunday: no better here; UT Monday 0500, Tuesday 1100. The Sunday 1730 broadcast is axually from WRN also via SiriusXM 120. [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1638 monitoring: UT Sunday 0500 on WRMI 9955 checked at 0523: rapid pulse jamming atop. I probably won`t be awake to check the new time of 1100 Tuesday, but if anyone is, please evaluate the signal vs jamming. Europeans also have another chance Tuesday at 0930 from HLR 5980 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. 12105, Sat Oct 13 at 1402-1407+, fast SAH and CCI from two poor signals, one in Chinese, one in Arabic, i.e. KSDA GUAM and WTWW respectively, which the FCC saw fit to assign to the same frequency at the same time. WTWW probably on early this Saturday following Saturday-only Russian until 1400. 12105, Sunday Oct 14 at 2001, no signal from WTWW-3; certainly off the air as neighbor 12160 WWCR was inbooming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9980, Thursday Oct 11 at 1304 I am getting Brother Scare overload on various 31m band frequencies, because WWCR-4 is already up and running on 9980: much stronger than via non-synchronized WWRB 9370. WWCR website shows 9980 available as early as 1200, but the program schedule dated 1 Oct shows not used until 1400 on weekdays, 1500 on weekends. Oh, yeah? And the transmitter schedule is effective Oct 7, so there must have been some change to that. Not sure what, but maybe a 1-hour shift in some of the QSY times (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also SOUTH CAROLINA [non] 6970, University Network via WWCR Nashville TN (presumed); 2336, 7- Oct; Dead Dr. Gene; poor, presume WWCR mixing product 13845 - 6875 = 6970. 6970 // 13845; 6875 also English huxter, but not DDG (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9980, Oct 17 at 2100, WWCR with two promos for shows later on this frequency, at 6-7 pm and at 8 pm [CDT]; 2101 UT cuts back to Brother Scare. Stations can`t be blamed for cutting into and out of his blather, since he doesn`t provide any station ID breaks! Nor does DGS nor does PPP, all with 24/7 output. Haven`t tracked it fully, but apparently this monstrous 9980 signal has had its hours expanded, already heard before 1300, perhaps to the fully registered A-12 span of 12-01. In fact, HFCC shows 11-01 effective this very date (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9955, Oct 11 at 1345, very poor signal but recognizable as Jeff White narrating some radio history item, so must be `Wavescan` on WRMI, as now scheduled Thursdays at 1330, a recent change. Need to update my DX/SWL/Media programs schedule. No jamming audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7506.4, Oct 11 at 0225, presumed WRNO is still a very poor signal instead of the usual blowtorch, so mismodulation can`t even be evaluated. Assumed previous nights that this was taken out by propagation disturbances, but now I am wondering it they are really on much reduced power? Also suspect my measurement of 7506.8 was a miscalculation. 7506.4, Oct 12 at 0356, no signal from WRNO. Were they off all evening? A few nights before someone heard them on a couple hours before usual *0100. 7506.4, Oct 13 at 0108 check, no signal from WRNO. This is a great improvement, since when on the air, they were unable to modulate fully and/or free of extreme distortion. Maybe someone in Fort Worth finally turned on a radio and heard how awful their own station sounded? It was also absent the previous night just before usual 0400*. 7506.4, Oct 16 at 0140, 0331 chex, WRNO is still missing. Will they ever get their transmitter operating normally? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9825, UT Sunday Oct 14 at 0400, checking for `DXing With Cumbre` on WHRI: no signal; wait! At 0401 fades in just barely so I can tell it is DWC opening. 168 hours earlier it was inbooming, and e.g., CRI via CUBA 9790 is also inbooming right now. What`s going on at Furman? BTW, last Sunday after 2130+ I could confirm Pirating with Cumbre on 17510. 21670, Sunday Oct 14 at 1427, gospel huxter in English, good signal from WHRI; this is per Aoki only on Sat & Sun at 14-15, since BBCWS in Hausa occupies 21630 until 1430. When on the air after 15, WHRI takes over 21630. 17510, Sunday Oct 14 at 2158, WHRI with an amusingly-accented gospel huxter; you know, ``extremely evangelical``. Suspect this replaced `DXing with Cumbre` at 2130 as heard previous week, since unlikely to start the next program early even if DWC is over (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15550.1, WJHR “John Hill Radio”, Milton (Pensacola), Florida; blew through the top of the hour at 1700 10/13 with non-stop religious program in USB mode but no ID; finally caught an ID with the station’s e-mail address when I checked again at 1952; fair-good level. 73, (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Icom IC-R75 with active whip antenna, http://www.andyrobinsradio.com DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 11715, Oct 17 at 1420, KJES in clear with undermodulation in English, mixing two audios: woman singing with guitar, and man reciting Biblicisms; the relative levels varied intentionally and both paused for a kID from The Lord`s Ranch, NM 88072 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. 15255.0, Adventist World Radio via? (WRTH 2012 says Wertachtal, Germany, but AWR’s new schedule effective 28 October says it will be Trincomalee, Sri Lanka); 1528 interval signal followed by multilingual ID at 1530 10/14; weak. 73, (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Icom IC-R75 with active whip antenna, http://www.andyrobinsradio.com DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 560, Oct 12 at 0537 UT, `Coast to Coast AM` mainly from KWTO Springfield MO, but quick echo from a second station. Affiliate list http://www.coasttocoastam.com/stations shows KLVI Beaumont TX is by far the most likely altho there are more 560s in seven further states (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 600, Oct 11 at 0523 UT, `Coast to Coast AM` from two stations about one second apart, very annoying. One is certainly the usual WMT Cedar Rapids IA; NRC AM Log shows four other affiliates and so does the C2C website: we can rule out KVNA AZ which is 48 watts at night and doesn`t join in until 0607 UT. Also unlikely is faraway KOGO San Diego. That leaves KCOL in Wellington CO, and WREC in Memphis TN, the latter with a 10x power advantage. KCOL also has a deep null toward us and Memphis, while WREC is a tangent circle to the southwest, but not a full null toward here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 630, Oct 13 at 0558 UT, anti-Obama commentary, 0559 ``KSLR.com, AM 620, The Word in South Texas, San Antonio, Salem Communications``. Promos for programs at other times. Being a gospel huxter, it was first assumed to be KJSL Saint Louis MO. It and KHOW Denver usually dominate the frequency, but nothing from them at the moment. Conditions may be somewhat auroral. KSLR is 5000/4300/PSRA 500 watts, per NRC AM Log. NRC Pattern Book shows KSLR at night has null to the SW (Monterrey), so most of signal goes northward, while daytime also nulls XEFB, but spurts out instead to its sides, WSW and SSE with big nulls also northward, especially toward St Louis and Denver. This looks the opposite of what ought to be called for, day vs night, so I check day and night patterns at FCC AM Query: Sure enough, they are reversed in the 2006Y NRC PB, so the dotted lines for San Antonio 630 should be solid, and the solid line should be dotted. Here`s the real day pattern: http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/175125-24652.pdf which matches the `night` pattern in the book. And here`s the real night pattern: http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/282725-1949.pdf which matches the `day` pattern in the book. I trust this will be fixed in the new edition under preparation, and that there were not too many other such reversals in the old one, but be on the lookout (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Do You Remember This? OUR BEST TO YOU --- Seems to be WPTF. It looks like they play old DJ programs on Sunday night (Jim Renfrew, NY, NRC-AM via DXLD) In a letter from Don Curtis, President of Curtis Media Group, The program was "Our Best to You." This program ran from late 1947 to early 1962 on WPTF. The Host was Jimmy Capps, a marvelous announcer and an even better person! He was inducted into the North Carolina Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame in April 2001. Other members include Billy Graham, Edward R. Morrow [sic], Kate Smith, William Friday, and others." Our Best to You" OBTY was originated by the late Jimmy Capps and aired nightly from 1O PM to Midnight [ET]. In addition to requests, Jimmy also read poetry. The program was the highest rated of all WPTF programs. No WPTF personality has ever been more Popular than Jimmy Capps. Jimmy died in 1967. We have a program on Sunday Nights and at 11 O'clock each Sunday night we still today play the traditional Jimmy Capps opening theme song (a song recorded by Eddie Howard entitled My Best to You) and still have Jimmy's voice on the air. As a tribute to Capps, the 11 PM hour of the WPTF Hall of Fame features nothing but love songs, and begins each week with the original theme sound in the voice of Jimmy Capps. From time to time the program features some of the readings of poetry by Jimmy Capps from the WPTF archives (via Jim Renfrew, IRCA via DXLD) 680 Raleigh NC; also webcast?? (gh) Robert: Sounds like you might have the Sunday night oldies show from WPTFin Raleigh, NC -- although I'm trying to understand why their stream window lists "artist" as Nino Tempo & April Stevens and "title" as "Deep Purple" at the same time that I'm hearing Dave Ramsey. Why wouldn't they be streaming said oldies show? Surely there can't be copyright issues involved (Rick Dau, NE, ibid.) Don't be so sure! Stations have to pay more for the rights to play music over their streams, and for a station like WPTF that's talk for 164 hours a week, the cost of licensing for a few hours on Sunday night is likely prohibitive - which is why the talk goes out on the stream while the oldies play on the AM (Scott Fybush, NY, ibid.) ** U S A. 730, Oct 11 at 0508 UT, ``Hot Soul in the Summertime, 730 KKDA`` momentarily atop XEX Spanish sports talk, which soon resurged, fast SAH between them. They are apparently unaware that nowhere in the world is it summertime, including Grand Prairie TX: a station on autopilot. Will they still be playing this after December 21 too? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 790, Oct 16 at 1317 UT, ``Newstalk 790, KFYO``, ``official weather station`` Lubbock TX hi in the 80s today, interview about a festival. Atop channel, CCI perhaps Arkansas. I don`t hear much from KXXX Kansas. Skywave, altho KFYO is at the edge of possible groundwave range on a quiet midday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 830, Oct 16 at 1322 UT, ads including H2O softener, hoping for something more interesting 42 minutes after sunrise here, but it`s still ``Newsradio 830, WCCO``, then sports interview. Weak but steady (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 960, Oct 11 at 0500 UT, local KGWA again provides a Fox-hole this UT Thursday, so nulling its strong open carrier, this time there is something besides ABC News from KMA et al., instead some jazz music, and ID in passing sounds like ``WKZG-AM``. Checking NRC AM Log later, the closest match is WABG in Greenwood MS with has a talk/blues format, 500 watts at night. I bet that`s it! FCC AM Query shows its night-only direxional pattern is mainly south but a minor lobe at 285 degrees towards here: http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/708653-80603.pdf 960, Oct 12 at 0500 UT, during KGWA`s fox hole, main signal audible when carrier nulled is blues music, which again points to WABG in Mississippi (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also OKLAHOMA ** U S A. 1030, UT Oct 11 at 0225, KCTA is back with hummy open carrier, altho had been missing night before at 0559 UT. And Oct 11 at 0505 check, also not heard. So they are still running it past legal daytimer-only sign-off, but not as late. 1030, Oct 12 after 0500 UT, again no longer hearing hummy carrier from KCTA; monitored as official October sunrise approached at 1230: 1228, Montana/Wyoming water furnace(?) ad, obviously KTWO, and still past 1230 without any sign of KCTA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1140, Oct 16 at 1327 UT, as I tune by, immediate ID as ``1- 1-4-0, K-S-O-O`` instead of contracted ``11-40 K-Soo``, i.e. 10 kW Sioux Falls SD on 10 kW non-direxional day power, overcoming OKC and anything else (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1190, Oct 12 at 0506 UT, `Phil Hendrie Show` is starting. Figure it`s just KFXR in The Metroplex, and his affiliate list http://www.philhendrieshow.com/stations-index/ confirms it`s the only 1190 and starting at midnight CDT. Unfortunately not a solid signal with their multitower pattern (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1260, Oct 11 at 1246 UT, banda music again, and this time a definite slogan ID at 1247 as ``La Reina``, and 7:47 TC, so now it`s definitely KDLF in Boone IA, which on day power of 5 kW (officially starting at 1230 UT in Oct, 1300 in Nov), aims at us with major lobe to the southwest, but also sufficient signal to its SE to cover Des Moines (a.k.a. De Los Monjes) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1270, Oct 16 at 1330 UT, no sign of OK or TX stations but instead ``Faith 12-70`` [KNWC Sioux Falls], with SD news headlines: prisoner executed, George McGovern in hospice, weather hi 75 today, but 40s on Thursday; 1331 `Insight for Living` about Daniel. NRC Pattern Book shows most of day signal aims toward Liberal KS which is non-direxional! FCC AM Query shows 5 kW with equal day lobes to the NNE and SSW. KNWC is licensed as non-commercial to the appropriately-initialed Northwestern College which despite its nondescript innocuous seemingly secular name obviously has religious agenda, admittedly private and Christian and axually an hour away in Orange City IA. Station KNWC however has an address in Sioux Falls. Transmitter site is about halfway between but appears to be in SD. The topo maps FCC provides are very unhelpful without coördinates or site markers (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1360, Oct 12 at 1235 UT, about new ``forever`` international letter mail rate of $1.10, Minnesota item, 7:35 TC, Sacred Heart of Jesus promo, 1237 Catholic talk show about importance of taking kids to bathroom before mass. From NNE/SSW, probably KAHS El Dorado KS, altho our nearest 1360 in the other direxion, KDJW Amarillo TX is also EWTN/Catholic and sometimes echoic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1360, Oct 15 at 1238 UT, Spanish restaurant ad with 214-AC phone, also mentions variedades, referring to what, programming? Must be KMNY Hurst TX (The Metroplex, address in Dallas), which is 50 kW in the daytime, but major lobe to the WSW, and quite a null to the NNW. It was sufficiently weak here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1420, Oct 11 at 1325 and still 1336 UT, Laura Ingraham show about weight loss rather than politix. Affiliate list shows only one around here with her on this early is: KBHS Hot Springs AR. Format must have changed from NRC AM Log 2012 as C&W - Classic Country, 5 kW in daytime and non-direxional. Seemed to be ENE/WSW, but DF on the DX- 398 must have been skewed from ESE/WNW. She`s also on 1.5 kW KTAN Sierra Vista AZ, from 13 UT, which is more like WSW, but I doubt it would be dominant this late; daytime non-direxional 1.5 kW is supposed to start at 1330 UT in October (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1430, Oct 11 at 1325 UT, ``KZQZ, where the oldies sound best``, St. Louis MO. No sign of KTBZ Tulsa or KALV Alva OK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1490, Oct 12 at 1243 UT local newscast from E/W, 1249 ending sponsored by funeral home in Springfield, references to Stillwater County (which is only in Montana; or something-water county?), 1255 ad for something on south highway 65 (which connects Springfield to Branson MO), TC for 7:55, stories concerning southwest Missouri. The SW MO 1490 station is KDMO in Carthage, which is just east of Joplin and the county seat of Jasper County (Joplin is not). But that`s too far from Springfield for this graveyarder with a listed nostalgia format, so suspect it is relaying a Springfield station at least for the morning news. Don`t find a website for it or anything about such a connexion (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1530, Oct 12 at 1142 UT, Lowes ad, Cincinnati, ``ESPN 1530`` reminding me that when I usually tune across WCKY, it`s totally different programming, Brother Scare after midnight. I seek the program schedule of this curious hybrid, without success, instead sidetracked to gallery after gallery of cheesecake, such as: http://www.espn1530.com/cc-common/gallery/photos.html?album_id=121743&p=7753711 Some audio stations just gotta have visuals (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Javascript must be enabled ** U S A. In recent months, KLNG has been making it a habit of staying on 2 hours past local sunset, then signing off, even though, as you pointed out, they are clearly licensed as daytime-only. If they stay true to form, they should go off at 2145 ELT. And since they are daytime-only, they also should probably not be signing on at 0600 local time, either, as they've been doing for over 20 years. KTIC-840 in West Point, Nebraska, also licensed as daytime- only, has been doing this for a long time, as well. 73, (Rick Dau (doing some DXing whilst packing my suitcase for a 5-day trip to Milwaukee, South Bend, and Iowa City!), South Omaha, Nebraska, NRC-AM via DXLD) Don't assume because a station is "Daytime Only" doesn't mean they don't have pre-sunrise authority. It's not in the FCC online records; most stations have it on paper at the studios or transmitter sites as it was issued long ago. Pre Sunrise Authority allows a station to sign on at 6 am with some amount of power. I worked at one station where we had PSRA of 1/2 of our daytime power, which was 1 KW (Paul Walker, PA?, ibid.) And similarly, if they have a post-sunset authorization they could conceivably operate up to 2 hours past local sunset. Those should be available on the FCC's AMQuery (Russ Edmunds, 15 mi NNW of Philadelphia, ibid.) OK, this clears things up a little bit, then. I, too, had taken a PSRA into account, but I couldn't find it anywhere in the info on KLNG when looking it up through the FCC AM Query page -- now I know why. That's why I was assuming KLNG was supposed to be daytime-only, and not on at all before the local monthly sunrise time. Maybe the FCC should tweak their online records a little bit to show PSRAs for all the stations that run them; but then again, that might be too costly for their budget to have somene do that. ?:) Thanks for your input, Paul! 73, (Rick Dau, South Omaha, Nebraska, ibid.) It would be too costly as the FCC no longer has the old records that the stations were issued years ago; and the PSRA/PSSA stuff that was calculated a few years ago was rescinded. PSRA power could be several hundred watts or more. PSSA is not usually as much (Paul Walker, ibid.) I'm sure I don't need to remind you, Rick, that 1560 may also be a special case. Remember a certain station in a certain, shall we say, Iowa city that we used to live in, that was on 1560 but had to sign off at Local Sunset but was then allowed to SIGN ON at Bakersfield Local Sunset? To protect New York, which didn't have to go to their night pattern until Bakersfield Local Sunset? For folks who may not remember this, that station was KCJJ before it moved to 1630. If anybody remembers more details about this bizarre allocation, chime in! Sincerely, (Earl Higgins, RX-321 and 15 m end fed wire thing outside, St. Louis, Missouri, USA (W 90.32 N 38.65), ibid.) I do remember that one, and I believe there were a few more (not X- banders) mid-continent stations where similar arrangements existed (and may still exist. Alas, I'm struggling to recall which stations (Russ Edmunds, 15 mi NNW of Philadelphia, IRCA via DXLD) Wayne Heinen has explained this before, so here goes again to save him the trouble, if I beat him to it: Yes, FCC AM Query ought to present PSRA and PSSA parameters right up front with day, night and CH info, but at least it can be found if you look under Correspondence for each station. Sometimes these pdf files are lacking, but sometimes you will find something like this for KLNG: http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=5866 Most of these seem to be from Feb 2007. Or is this what Paul says has been rescinded? It`s still in their files. 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) I`m pretty sure this is what the FCC rescinded. I`m not clear on why they did it, but I recall it being done (Paul Walker, ibid.) Thanks Glenn! didn't get to the PC till now! And MOST PSSA's and PSRA's are still valid unless the station radically changed their daytime and or nighttime parameters, which neither KLNG or KBEW have done. 73 (Wayne Heinen, NRC AM Radio Log Editor, ibid) ** U S A. 1590, Oct 16 at 1333 UT, more than we ever wanted to know about hockey games between Galesburg and Peoria; Galesburg vs Canton; refers to ``kills``, apparently a game term involving penalties. Must be WAIK in Galesburg IL, 5 kW, overcoming OK and KS stations. Yes, skywave still in from the NE almost an hour after LSR here at 1240 UT, and 1690 WVON Chicago sports was also still in at 1337 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. NY Times article on NPR's "Morning Edition" --- Interesting read, for a program and platform that don't get much publicity. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/15/business/media/nprs-morning-edition-broadcast-by-a-bicoastal-team.html?pagewanted=all&src=ISMR_AP_LO_MST_FB&_r=0#h[WwtTpr,1] Interesting quote, possibly reflecting a change in policy: ``We want to replicate `Morning Edition` in all the other spheres that our audience is likely to reach us,`` said Madhulika Sikka, the program`s executive producer S/He was promoted to the post last week; historically NPR has worked to protect its affiliates with Morning Edition and ATC -- allowing Internet listening by segment but not really the whole show. I'll need to check to see if this is now an option. RC (Richard Cuff, internetradio via DXLD) NPR used to provide a link-together funxion to hear the whole program in order, segment after segment (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** U S A. CANADIAN COMPANY HOLDING STEEL NEEDED FOR WTC ANTENNA 'HOSTAGE' FOR MILLIONS --- By DAREH GREGORIAN Last Updated: 5:58 AM, October 13, 2012. Posted: 1:40 AM, October 13, 2012 A Canadian company is holding the steel needed to build the new World Trade Center’s antenna “hostage” for millions of dollars — jeopardizing the completion date for the tower and at least 100 iron- worker jobs, court papers charge. The building reached 104 stories in August, but is expected to reach 1,776 feet when the antenna is done. “When it is complete, the building known as 1 World Trade Center will be the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere and a symbol of the recovery of New York City, New York state and the United States from the terrorist attacks of 9/11,” the Manhattan Supreme Court suit says. STUCK: The Port Authority is suing to get the needed steel to finish 1 World Trade Center. But, the Port Authority’s WTC Tower 1 LLC says in court papers that it can’t happen unless ADF Steel stops trying to shake them down and ships the rest of the metal they desperately need to finish the project. The “only remaining steel to be erected is the steel comprising the antenna structure for the top of 1 WTC Tower,” the Manhattan Supreme Court suit says. The “unique custom pieces of steel,” including the antenna mast, antenna ring steel and roof nodes,” were supposed to begin shipping on Sept. 24, the suit says. “ADF refuses to ship this antenna steel unless and until it receives approximately $6 million allegedly owed under another contract for another project as ransom,” the suit says. The filing on behalf of the site’s owner, the bi-state PA, says time is of the essence. “The schedule for completion” has “already been comprised,” the suit says — and it could get much worse soon. If “ADF does not ship certain pieces of the antenna steel” by December, “the St. Lawrence River will freeze and bar transport of the delivery of the steel until the spring,” the filing says. “As the project is delayed, there is an increasing risk that approximately 100 iron workers will be laid off because they will not have steel to erect, that 1 WTC will miss date-specific deadlines owed to its tenants, and the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site, which has become a symbol for the city and the country, will be unnecessarily delayed for the foreseeable future,” the suit says. It seeks a court order to force the company, which has its US headquarters in upstate Plattsburgh, to turn over the steel. The filing does not dispute the Port Authority owes ADF money for other WTC projects, but says ADF’s contract “expressly promised not to withhold delivery of this steel so long as it received progress payments” on the antenna steel, which the PA had been dutifully paying. A rep for ADF could not be reached. There was no listing for the company in Plattsburgh, and no answer at its parent company’s location in Toronto. A rep for the PA declined to comment (NY Post via Steve Rich, Indy, Oct 13, WTFDA via DXLD) ** U S A. CUMULUS ACQUIRES 94.7 WFME NEW YORK --- OCTOBER 16, 2012 BY LANCE VENTA Family Stations has sold 94.7 WFME Newark NJ/New York to Cumulus Media for an undisclosed price. WFME was the last commercial band FM in Family Stations` portfolio following sales of stations in Maryland and Philadelphia last year. The station will now join a Cumulus cluster that includes Talk 770 WABC and Adult CHR 95.5 WPLJ along with a few suburban stations. Cumulus plans on closing on the station by the end of the year and will announce programming plans at that time. In a statement to the press, Cumulus CEO Lew Dickey stated, ``This strategic acquisition of our second FM in the nation`s largest market will enable us to provide compelling new programming for our listeners and a powerful marketing vehicle for our advertising partners.`` WFME`s signal is weaker than the rest of the commercial band FM`s in the market as its tower is in West Orange, NJ about 15 miles west of midtown Manhattan. It is shortspaced to multiple stations, including Cumulus? 94.7 WMAS-FM Enfield CT/Springfield MA, a downgrade of which may remove the biggest hinderance to moving WFME to the city itself. (From RadioInsight.com via Mike Bugaj, Enfield CT, WTFDA via DXLD) Hmm. A coverage downgrade for WMAS, the strongest signal on the FM dial here? Interesting. And what happens to Family Radio in the NYC area? (Mike B, Enfield, CT, ibid.) There's a much bigger obstacle beyond WMAS-FM to moving WFME into Manhattan. It is already short-spaced to WWSK 94.3 (I think that's this week's callsign) on Long Island, and that short-spacing isn't grandfathered and thus can't really be alleviated without moving WWSK, which in turn is nearly impossible because of tight spacings to WYBC- FM and several other signals. And WMAS-FM has its own problem: it's no longer licensed to Springfield, but rather to Enfield (a move that allowed Clear Channel to relocate WPKX 97.9 from Enfield/Springfield to Windsor Locks/Hartford, in exchange for which Citadel got the use of Clear Channel's emergency generator in Albuquerque). So any WMAS-FM downgrade must continue to put a 70 dBu signal over all of Enfield; which in turn means there's not much moving you can do to it without losing its Springfield signal. > And what happens to Family Radio in the NYC area? Expect them to buy an AM, just as they recently did in Philadelphia (WPEN 950). Ironically, finding a decent AM for sale may be harder than finding an FM in New York right now. Salem and Multicultural are both making lots of money from their low-budget AMs (570/970 for Salem, 1380/1430/1480/1530/1660 for Multicultural). Maybe they could snag WLIB or 620. s (Scott Fybush, Rochester NY, ibid.) No doubt IBOC will follow on 94.7. 94.5 WPST Trenton, NJ could see a significant drop in coverage in Middlesex County if that occurs while FME remains in West Orange (Steve W., K3PHL, near Allentown, PA, ibid.) ** U S A. Blaine Thompson wrote: http://www.wotv4women.com/dpp/home/introducing-wotv-4-women (I don't know how they're channel 4, if their virtual channel is 41.) Scott Fybush wrote: ``It's their cable channel, and has been for decades.`` Very interesting. I wonder if this means that WOTV no longer carries the ABC schedule, or is this just a lame advertising gimmick (probably advertising more to advertisers than to viewers). I assume this is being done with the main (41.1) channel, as any subchannel would not be channel 4 on the cable systems. I REALLY don't like the current logo, which makes no mention of its over-air virtual channel 41. Their old logo (at present visible on Wikipedia, about half way down) was very clever. An OTA viewer could easily perceive it as a red-and-white "41", whilst a cable viewer could just as easily see a white "4" on a red background (Robert Grant, ibid.) WOTV is still a full ABC affiliate. This is a marketing gimmick, and one they've been trying since the first of the year. It may make sense, if only because of the weird ABC situation in West Michigan. There are two ABC affiliates in the market: WZZM 13 Grand Rapids, with a signal coming from north of GR that has never reached well into the southern portion of the sprawling market (Kalamazoo- Battle Creek), and WOTV (ex-WUHQ), which is licensed to Battle Creek and used to position itself as ABC specifically for Battle Creek and Kalamazoo. Since WOTV came under common ownership with NBC affiliate WOOD-TV 8, it's tried to position itself as ABC for the full market. I'm pretty sure both WOTV and WZZM have cable carriage throughout the market now, so WOTV may as well try another way to differentiate itself...and why not leverage a daytime schedule full of talk shows to become "WOTV 4 Women"? It's not like WOTV has much else to market; it hasn't done separate news from WOOD since 2003, and now carries very little local news (just WOOD simulcasts in the morning and at 6 PM) at all. > I assume this is being done with the main (41.1) channel, as any > subchannel would not be channel 4 on the cable systems. Correct. That logo was clever for us geeks; I suspect the hidden "41" was probably lost on most viewers. Cable penetration is very high in West Michigan, given how the OTA signals are spread widely around the sprawling market, and I suspect most viewers in the market can't even get an OTA signal from WOTV, especially if they're in Grand Rapids or points north and west. s (Scott Fybush, ibid.) That is correct Scott (as usual, of course!). WOTV isn't the easiest catch for OTA viewers like myself. I'm 10 miles north of the WZZM tower (some 80 miles north of Kalamazoo) and while we can see WOTV now and then with the others in that area, it's usually during nice enhancement. I do agree also that it's all just a marketing gimmick. WOTV is owned by WOOD (despite WOOD being NBC) so all the marketing originates with WOOD TV 8 whose news they've almost always shown, and some years back started to use the hidden "41" logo disguised as a "4" and that bugged me also. It bugged me more when the 1 disappeared and they started calling themselves plainly WOTV4 because the fact is, a LOT of people here still don't have cable. Interestingly, cable TV wasn't even available in my location at all until about 5 years ago. We had to rely solely on satellite TV or else OTA. Most of our local TV was from Milwaukee and Green Bay as the small hills to our south between here and Grand Rapids weakened our usual locals, while the stations to our north (Cadillac, Traverse City) had similar problems with the even hillier terrain up there. Worse off, conditions over the water often interferred with the inland stations further (hence WOOD's lakeshore translator army to fight off what used to be a digital WMVS on the same channel as analog WOOD - and those translators are still there, and running nowadays in digital, although weak). After the digital conversion, most of our solid locals (WITI, WTMJ, etc.) changed coverage patterns and used directional antennas, thus wiping out virtually all of our local channels, which is the case today here with digital. So since then, certainly a lot more have gotten cable in this area. It still doesn't excuse channels like WOTV abandoning their analog numbers. They're still 41.1, etc. WZZM is indeed carried on cable, even many of the Kalamazoo cable companies (when I was in college not to long ago, although interestingly the signal on the cable channel was weak and staticy!). However, they recently had an issue with... DISH? I think I'm right on that. They were blacked out within the past few weeks. Not sure if that has been resolved, mostly because we have an antenna and could care less :) (Chris Kadlec, Fremont, Mich., ibid.) Not that many, really. The most recent numbers to which I have easy access http://admin.tvb.org/iframe/dma/cable_and_ads_penetration_by_dma.asp?sortby=DMAName show that the overall Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo market has 87.7% of households watching either cable or satellite, with cable the dominant non-OTA delivery mechanism at 56%. That puts it right about dead center at the national average; but GR-Kalamazoo-Battle Creek isn't an average market, what with having multiple population centers spread out over a hundred miles north to south and 50 or 60 miles east to west. WOTV is particularly disadvantaged, being the southernmost signal in the market. Of the 13.3% of households in the market that use OTA, I'd guess that well over half of them (Grand Rapids, Muskegon, probably Holland as well) don't get WOTV. If I'm trying to promote a TV station, why would I want to brand it with a channel number where most of its viewers won't find it? The only reason to do that is if that channel number represents a brand with lots of heritage in the market. (WXMI probably just skates by on this attribute, what with having been "Fox 17" for a quarter of a century now.) But WOTV doesn't have that heritage; or rather, doesn't want it. "Channel 41," for those who remember the old WUHQ, was that low-budget little UHF station out of Battle Creek. When LIN bought the station, it wanted a fresh start, and branding as "Channel 4" not only puts the station's marketing in line with the channel position where 70% or more of its audience finds it, but also provides that fresh start. > It still doesn't excuse channels like WOTV > abandoning their analog numbers. They're still 41.1, etc. And why not? If I'm in the marketing department of a TV station, I want to be promoting the product and dial position my viewers are getting today, not the one they might have been getting 20 or 30 or 60 years ago. You know WOTV is "really" 41.1. Your neighbors, if they know WOTV at all, know it only as "channel 4." Why is it not "really" channel 4 to them? The WZZM/Dish dispute was larger than just Grand Rapids; it affected all of Gannett's TV stations, and was resolved just as the blackout was about to begin. And yes, WZZM has had cable carriage throughout the Grand Rapids- Kalamazoo-Battle Creek DMA for decades now. That's helped to make it by far the dominant ABC station in the market - and it's all the more reason for WOTV to try a different branding strategy (Scott Fybush, ibid.) ** URUGUAY. Uruguay on 550 --- Hi All, I was very happy when I received the following e-verification in Spanish after filling Radio Colonia's contactform and providing an audio file link. Quoted text: ``Estimado oyente. Hemos recibido su mail y escuchado la grabaci?n que nos enviara. Le comunicamos que efectivamente la emisora que usted ha podido captar es: CW1 RADIO COLONIA AM 550 Estudios ubicados en Rivadavia 383 - COLONIA DEL SACRAMENTO REPUBLICA ORIENTAL DEL URUGUAY Muy cordialmente. DIRECCION GENERAL DE CW1 RADIO COLONIA`` **(Oct 9th 2012)** This email confirms that in the clip I've sent, the station heard was indeed CW1 Radio Colonia, AM 550 from Colonia del Sacramento, URUGUAY. That concurred with my thoughts first for the accent typical from the "Cono Sur" countries (at least Argentina and Chile) and second, for the reference to "Capital Federal" which fits the Buenos Aires area, facing Colonia del Sacramento, 40 km on the other side of the "Rio de la Plata" estuary. The clip was extracted from the same .wav recording than the one where I heard Argentina last Summer. It surely worth the effort digging a little more and happily, add this new country to my total :-) http://www.quebecdx.com/uruguay_cw1_550.mp3 (07-16-2012 05:09 UTC) 9200 Km / 5200 mi (Sylvain Naud, Portneuf, QC, Gear in service: Perseus SDR + 105m / 350 ft short Beverage NE-SW, IRCA via DXLD) OM Sylvain, Congratulations from a DXer living in Montevideo, the capital city of Uruguay. In my blog (in Spanish) I've made an article for this station. I would be happy to include that DX audio of yours and your name and location at the end of that posting. 73 and congrats! (Horacio Nigro, Montevideo, Uruguay, ibid.) Thanks Horacio! No problem to put the clip on your blog (I'm an occasional visitor and each time, it is a renewed pleasure to read you). I'll send you the file privately. Best regards, (Sylvain, ibid.) As far back as I can remember, there have been no receptions of Uruguay outside of Newfoundland from North America. Maybe the PEI or NB teams have heard one, but I don't remember. In Cappahayden we've heard a bunch of them. So very nice job getting it from Quebec! (Jim Renfrew, Holley NY, ibid.) ** URUGUAY. Canal A2 con programación religiosa --- Algunos datos mas que parecen ser significativos. En la página de Facebook del Radio Club Uruguayo me informa un colega que es un canal de TV comunitaria de una iglesia que se encuentra a a unos 2 km de mi QTH y que al parecer él mismo instaló. Hacia la medianoche de ayer, aproveché que andaba dando vueltas con el auto para ir hasta el lugar que me indicaron, y si bien no encontré la iglesia en cuestión, con el celular pude captar con señal local el audio y el video del canal, que coincide con lo que escuché aquí. Parece ser que son las pruebas de un equipo bastante modesto, con 50 w de potencia, encuadrado dentro de lo que sería una ley de TV Comunitaria que desconozco y pergeñada por el organismo regulador de la radio y la TV en Uruguay. De ahí el hecho que quizás no se identifique, si bien le dan de punta y hacha a la transmisión las 24 horas. Esta gente al parecer tiene una emisora de FM (FM Cielo, 90.5 MHz) con las mismas características que tampoco anda muy lejos de aquí, pero no encuentro su página web. Encuentro sí por internet, en cambio, una FM Celestial en 90.7 en cuyo sitio web, muy lleno de efectitos en flash pero muy carente de contenidos, la entrada correspondiente a la TV está totalmente vacía (al igual que otras). A lo que se ve, en poco tiempo más me parece que empezaremos a disfrutar de los beneficios y pesadillas de la TV Comunitaria, al menos en Montevideo. Ya bastante tenemos con que el espectro de FM esté atestado de emisoras que se solapan, se sobremodulan y salen mucho más calzadas de lo que las leyes les permiten, con programación que va desde lo anodino hasta lo insoportable, generando armónicos y desparramos de todos los colores. Otra de tantas modas que habrá que aguantar hasta que pase --- Así que, adiós, hermosa TEP... :) 73 (desde Montevideo, Rodolfo Tizzi, condiglist yg via DXLD) His TVDX is now blocked by a local low-power outlet on ch 2 (gh) ** VATICAN. 15595.1, Vatican Radio, Santa Maria di Galeria; 1559 interval signal followed by multilingual ID at 1600 10/14 into news in French; carrier seems to be about 78 Hz high; fair-good with peaks at S9. 73, (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Icom IC-R75 with active whip antenna, http://www.andyrobinsradio.com DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM. 12000, Oct 11 at 1259, S9+20 open carrier; after timesignal bleedover from 11990 CNR1 jammer, at 1300-sharp sign-on VOV in Chinese ``Viet Nam zhisheng guangbo diantai`` or something like that; had been in pause after Russian service on same azimuth 27 degrees from 100 kW Hanoi-Sontay site, also USward. No jamming audible from Cuba or China, nice clear signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM [non]. 9555, Oct 12 at 0523, Sackville, CANADA puts VOV relay on correct frequency tonight instead of 6175; Vietnamese lesson presented in English to conclude the Vietnamese language hour. Only fair signal here, but at least it`s propagating again, while NHK relay on 6110 is inbooming. MUF was about 10 MHz, with higher bands dead from all direxions. VOV check for CANADA [q.v.] relays just in time at 0527 Oct 15: nothing on 6175, despite NHK inbooming on 6110, and a JBA carrier on 9555, so maybe that`s VOV on the latter, proper frequency not propagating; seemed to go off at 0529, which fits, but could not make out any BaBcoCk IS before then (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZAMBIA. 6165, ZNBC - Radio 2, 0242-0256, Oct 11, tune-in to Fish Eagle IS at 0242. National Anthem at 0251. Local African music at 0253. Reception too poor to pull out any further program details. Covered by Voice of Turkey at their 0256 sign on. Zambia poor, weak in noisy conditions (Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA, Icom IC- 7600, two 100 foot longwires, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6165, Radio 2/ZNBC, 0400, Oct 11. In English; advertisement for “Autoworld” for tires, batteries, garage equipment, wheel balancing and alignment center, boats, car audio systems and car alarms; “At Autoworld you will find everything. Why not pop into your local branch now? You will find us in Livingstone, Ndola, Kitwe and Lusaka . . . Autoworld keeping Zambia moving”; drums and African Fish Eagle IS; news; repeat of the same “Autoworld” ad; 0405 pop songs; one of their better receptions, but with the noticeable transmitter “whistle” as first reported by Bill Bingham and Vashek Korinek, both in RSA. https://www.box.com/s/p6jsga7b8potur2jxpip contains an MP3 audio recording that I asked Bill to review. His response: “Thanks for putting me out of my misery! Yes, you have a beautiful recording of the dreaded "warbly whistle". I think that lays to rest, once and for all, all suggestions that it is just interference originating close to my location in Jo'burg. Unless anyone can suggest an alternative source, I think we have to accept Vasheck's suggestion that it is caused by a faulty transmitter. Thanks for the undeniable proof. Regards, Bill” (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Alinco DX-R8T and Par Electronics EF-SWL antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZANZIBAR. TANZANIA: 11735, Zanzibar Broadcasting Co. (presumed); 2050-2053:41*, 9-Oct; Arabish pop tune; off abruptly in mid-tune. SIO=3+53 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6015, Oct 11, 2012. Hi everyone, Following the usual Spice FM fadeout and 5+1 time pips at *0300, ZBC Radio immediately introduced the Koran recitation, followed by the recitation itself. They gave no usual early-morning welcome or station ID, at least so far as I could hear. Presumably a one-off oversight! ZBC Radio, 6015 Dole. Oct. 13, 2012. Saturday. *0300-0318. No Spice FM warm-up time today. Carrier suddenly on at *0300, but no modulation until 0305, when it cut-in in mid-monologue, Swahili. Apparently no Koran today, or it was unusually brief. Fair-poor. Some weak broadcast QRM which I could not pin down, did not seem to be either co- or adjacent-channel, possibly an image or intermod product? Jo'burg sunrise 0335. Regards, (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11735.0, Zanzibar Broadcasting Corporation, Dole; 2020 10/13 long selections of what I call “Middle Eastern calypso” music; female announcer mentioned “Spice FM” at 2058 followed by several recorded “Spice FM” IDs by a man played back to back; continued past 2100 but was gone on 2115 recheck; carrier frequency was about 40 Hz high; S9+10db level allowed pleasant listening on speaker using the wide AM filter. 73 (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Icom IC-R75 with active whip antenna, http://www.andyrobinsradio.com DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi everyone, Thanks to Ron Howard for pointing me in the direction of John Herkimer on the USA east coast, and John's recent recording of ZBC Radio on 11735. I usually have little luck with this frequency in our local evenings, but John's recording is so good it prompted me to give it another try, with this result: ZBC Radio, 11735 Dole. Oct. 14, 2012. Sunday. 1736-2058*. Afro music to 1800 then news in English. Back to afro music at 1810, but the last half hour at least was more like Indian-style music and songs, language for the latter was not Swahili. Mostly poor reception, but slowly improved after about 2015 and then remained fair-good until sudden cut-off at 2058*. Jo'burg sunset 1614. I am normally asleep at this late hour, so I don't know if this late- night improvement is typical, although on the odd occasion I have tuned through at this time I have not noticed anything readable there. John confirms that his own reception of East African stations is enhanced at present. Thanks John, for your recording and your prompt reply to my query. Regards, Bill [and non]. HI everyone, Following last night's log of Zanzibar ZBC Radio on 11735, I had another go tonight. With less success. Zanzibar. ZBC Radio, 11735 Dole. Oct. 15, 2012. Monday: 1712-1713. Nothing from Zanzibar, just splash from adjacent channel Radio Romania International on 11740. Jo'burg sunset 1615. 1758-1800. Something unreadable there when Romania has signed off, but at 1800 it is stomped upon afresh by Afia Darfur from Vatican City. Very poor, unreadable. Jo'burg sunset 1615. 1832-1916. Channel is now clear with no adjacent channel QRM. Something is there but at, or close to, noise level. Sounds like an OM singing with piano accompaniment, quite un-Zanzibar type music. But is it Zanzibar? The talk sounds Spanish or Portuguese like last night at this time. Followed by more un-Zanzibar sounding music, definitely western. Presumably, must be co-channel Radio Transmundial in Portuguese from Santa Maria di Galeria [sic] (according to Aoki anyway; EiBi says it signed off at 1800*, only it didn't). Afro music and rapid SAH suddenly start at 1845, as though just switched on. That sounds more like Zanzibar and without the het it would be a good signal. But did Zanzibar come on air late, at 1845? ID at 1859 "ZBC Radio" followed by drumming, typical Zanzibar 5+1 time pips at 1900. Heard "Zanzibar" twice at 1901, it sounds like the news in Swahili. Co-channel Portugese talk is still there as well, and getting stronger; Aoki says it will be on air until 0200 tomorrow morning. ID again at 1911 "ZBC Radio" and into afro music. Unreadable and useless signal up to 1845 when it sounded like Zanzibar suddenly came (back?) on air. Then the two by-now equally strong signals and a rapid SAH make it unpleasant to listen to. Abandoned listening at 1916, but at 1926 check, Radio Transmundial was stronger than Zanzibar. Jo'burg sunset 1615. 2036-2040. AWOL. Nothing to be heard. Presumably Zanzibar went off-air very early (should be there until about 2100*), or propagation just crashed. No sign of the Portuguese from Vatican City either. Jo'burg sunset 1615. And the interlopers: Roumania. Radio Romania International, 11740 Tiganeshti. Oct. 15, 2012. Monday. 1713-1720. ID at 1715 "You are listening to Radio Romania International, broadcasting from Bucharest". Fair-good. Splashing on to Zanzibar's frequency of 11735. Jo'burg sunset 1615. Vatican City. Afia Darfur/Hello Darfur, 11740, Santa Maria di Galeria. Oct. 15, 2012. Monday. *1800-1808. Arabic, OM with what sounds like news. Further talk by various OM's, snippets of jingle-like music, and suddenly cut off a few secs before 1830. At 1830 US-accented OM id's with "Welcome to the Voice of America" and the carrier is cut immediately. Very good, s9 - s9+10 signal, but wiping out whatever is on 11735. To Sudan (EiBi). Jo'burg sunset 1615. Vatican City. Radio Transmundial, 11735, Santa Maria di Galeria. Oct. 15, 2012. Monday. 1832-1916. Portuguese talk co-channel with ZBC Radio. Very weak at first, gradually getting stronger with time. By 1926, stronger than Zanzibar, despite being targetted from Vatican City to South America (EiBi). Jo'burg sunset 1615. Regards, (Bill Bingham, RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Bill, Radio Transmundial on 11735 is a station in Brasil, nothing whatsoever to do with Vatican. And I assume it is Protestant like all the other TWR stations (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Hi Glenn, Thanks for the correction, it should remind me to scan right across the page! It also makes more sense propagation-wise, and interesting that it was even stronger than Zanzibar for a while. Regards, (Bill Bingham, ibid.) Correct Glenn. The SW transmitters are located in Santa Maria, State of Rio Grande do Sul, South Brazil. They have a DX programm called "Amigos do Rádio" produced in partnership with DX Clube do Brasil (DXCB), on Wednesdays 1430 Z and Sundays 1930 Z at 800 kHz (Bonaire), 9530 kHz and 11735 kHz. Here the map on TWR Brazil website: http://transmundial.communiplex.com.br/noticias/images/mapa_cobertura_rtm_site02.gif DX Clube do Brasil: http://www.ondascurtas.com (Flávio PY2ZX Archangelo, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) So to add to the confusion, both Vatican and R. Transmundial have transmitter sites named ``Santa Maria ---`` (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) 11735 17/10 1630-1702 ZBC, Zanzibar, Tanzania, Islamic talks, Holy Kuran, some afro mx, talks, news in Swahili at 1700, good signal, but strong QRM from close channels (Giampiero Bernardini, RX: Winradio Excalibur Pro & Drake SPR-4, Ant: Maxi Whip by Capra (wire 8 meters) & Wellbrook LFL 1010 loop, QTH: Bocca di Magra (La Spezia, Liguria) Italy, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZIMBABWE. 4828.00, 2325-2335 12.10, Voice of Zimbabwe, Guineafowl, Gweru - just a weak carrier without audio noted (Anker Petersen, heard recently in Skovlunde, Denmark, on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) 6045, ZBC, Guineafowl, Gweru, 0254, Oct 06, up-tempo Afropops, Shona announcement on FM frequencies, but English for the numbers, e.g. ”Victoria Falls, 96 comma 1”, 44444, very irregular at the moment (Graham Bell, Simon`s Town, South Africa, DSWCI DX Window Oct 17 via DXLD) ** ZIMBABWE [non]. MADAGASCAR, Co-operation between two stations SW Radio Africa and Voice of People in Shona, Ndebele & English to Zimbabwe. Confirmed Sat/Sun Oct. 13/14: 0601-0720 15115 MDC 250 kW / 265 deg Zimbabwe Sat/Sun SW Radio Africa 0720-0801 15115 MDC 250 kW / 265 deg Zimbabwe Sat/Sun Voice of People (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, DX Re Mix News 16 October via WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific carrier search, Oct 15 at 1226 UT detected JBAs: 702, 738, 828; others assume they are Australia, Tahiti, Japan respectively (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 800, Oct 12 at 1201, extremely distorted `Donald Duck` modulation from SSW. Presumably just signed on as not heard before 1200. And fades out before long, or maybe it`s a warmup problem only, eventually resolving itself? 800, Oct 13 at 1152 UT, the distorted-Donald-Duck transmitter is detectable under KQCV and XEROK, so it is on the air before 1200, presumably one of two stations in NE Mexico (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 930, Oct 12 at 1210 UT, WKY OKC nulled while mostly talk in Spanish: 1217 ``Radio Novecientos Treinta`` singing ID; another at 1225, while a station in English took over briefly in between, ad for Mountain Park Electronics, which gets too many search hits to be credible. And I have to keep readjusting the null, since remnant of WKY is about as strong as the DX, WKY alternates with music bits, and even the occasional ad in English, to be sure which one I am hearing at the moment. Prime suspect is still KHJ Los Ángeles. I`m not running the computer while DXing, but will have to listen to stream later to see how it sounds. Around 2000 UT I do so at http://player.estrellatv.com/la-laranchera-930 Yes, it`s owned by the minor Estrella TV network seen on KOCY-LP 48 in OKC, and carried a promo for its canal 62 (in L.A.). ``La Ranchera 9- 30`` is the SID heard on webcast, and later also as a spoken ID along with call letters in English with Spanish accent (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1030, Oct 15 at 0516 UT, gospel huxter in English roughly N/S. Am no longer hearing open carrier with hum from 50 kW daytimer KCTA Corpus Christi, but could they now be modulating it? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1430, Oct 12 at 1256 UT, ``NBC News Radio`` with Jim Miklaszewski (? Didn`t sound like him, too hyper), 1257 optional cutaway, ending already at 1258; seems east-west. I would figure KZQZ St Louis most likely, but NRC AM Log has the `N` network on 1430 listed only for KBRK in Brookings SD. Network website doesn`t provide affiliate list; it`s just another brand under Westwood One, under Dial Global, ``Air Time: One-minute, hourly reports from 6AM – 10PM ET Monday through Friday`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1460, Oct 11 at 1327 UT, Spanish putting phone caller on the air, soon losing out to Catholic talk in English, the latter no doubt KHOJ St Charles MO. Roughly E-W, so could be KBZO Lubbock TX, listed as nostalgia in Spanish, rather than KZUE in El Reno (pronounced Ree-noh) OK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Unknown: 4756.5-USB, 2100 Oct 13. A couple of lobster fisherman talking in English about the poor fishing and high fuel prices. 4756.5-USB 1134 Oct 14. Fisherman again talking. Complaining about a mutual acquaintance that they dislike, and what they would do if they saw him, up to possible disembowelment (David Pete, Old Town, Maine, which is near the center of the state, Icom r-75 with a dual band (60 meter and 40 meter) dipole antenna, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 4900 5.10 2002 UNID. Märklig sak. OID med prat om ditt och datt på italienska. Absolut inga id:n och heller inga annonseringar om något som helst. Italienskt prat, rätt och slätt. Förefaller inte vara utility. Pirat? Någon annan som hörde detta, eller bara ett hjärnspöke hos undertecknad? HR 4900 5.10 2002 UNID. Strange thing. Unid with talk about everything in Italian. Absolutely no id:s and not any ann. pointing in any direction. Only plain Italian talk. Doesn’t seem to be any Utility. Pirate? Someone else hearing this or just a brain ghost here? HR (Hans Östnell, Norway, SW Bulletin Oct 14, translated by editor Thomas Nilsson for DX LISTENING DIGEST) Just a comment, those Italians are heard talking now and then on this frequency so no brain problem. I think they have no check on their transmitters (Thomas Nilsson, ibid.) UNIDENTIFIED. 4991.98, What was this?? Sounded like a newscast in English by M & F voices, almost like ABC news. Extreme QRN this evening 10/13. S-3 at 0130 tune-in, S-1 at 0153 check, carrier weak at 0227, and carrier nearly gone at 0251. Spur? (Jim Young WPC6JY, Wrightwood, CA, 756 ProIII, 60-M vertical, 60-M inverted Vee, 80-M inverted Vee, 40-M yagi, NASWA yg via DXLD) What ABC? (gh, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. LAOS / CHINA – 6130.00, 1215 to past 1230 on 10/16, looking for Vientiane and believe it is likely one of the two stations being heard here at fair level but well mixed up! Noting two stations in exact zero beat – no het – with one sounding very much like RNL did last year (lady announcer, type of music), with the other possibly the listed Chinese regional at Xizang. Neither station doing all that well, but should improve now as season progresses. Using active //s for Xizang (6200, 4920?) should be able to start ‘mentally unpiling’ these two stations. Vientiane always a sentimental and much-desired target for me (Ralph Perry, Wheaton, Illinois, Drake R8B; Japan Radio NRD-545; Eton E1; Hallicrafters SX100, Dentron Super Tuner + Ameco PLF-2 + Palomar P-408 + Quantum Phaser antenna unit (customized for tropical bands), 355-foot bidirectional BOG positioned 150 deg / 330 deg for LA / SE Asia, Phased Longwire + Small Loop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Dear Glenn, Yesterday, October 14, 2012, I picked up the signal from UNID on 7200 kHz at 1536 UT. The program was in German. I didn't find any information about this station and broadcasting in data bases AOKI, Eike. Maybe this signal came from Afghanistan or North Korea? Please help me with ID. Thank you in advance! I have attached audio file with OM talk in German. With kindest regards, (Ihor Karivets, RX: Degen-1121 and ANT.: Degen-31MS, QTH: Lviv, Ukraine, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Ihor, Very interesting. I agree it sounds like German, but I can`t make anything out. I`ll send this on to Wolfgang Bueschel. Could be Sudan which seems to be adding languages, such as French. Or possibly a spur (Glenn to Ihor, ibid.) Hi re 7200 German. Sounds like two amateur radio operators talking PRIVATE to each other. The Amateur Radio band in Europe stretches from 7000 to 7200 kHz. Is beyond me, as has the Degen receiver decodes the amateur radio SSB signal? 73 wolfy (Wolfgang Buschel, ibid.) Hello, Thank for help. No, I heard this talking in AM mode. Anyway, I know now that this was amateur on the air at this time, no broadcasting station. 73's (Ihor, ibid.) UNIDENTIFIED. 7203.77, unID Asian? 1100-1111 with no ARO interference 12 Oct (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D -746Pro - R8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Programming? UNIDENTIFIED. 8990-USB, Oct 13 at 2359, looking for `Pescador Preacher` circa Nicaragua often reported in this hour on 8989-USB, nothing there but here instead some QSOs in Spanish, weak signals, one mention of tortillas. Something else, or is P.P. net ever 1 kHz higher? 8990-USB, Oct 16 at 0000, QSOs in colloquial Spanish, one speaker with ``engine noise`` in background. Only a quick check so I couldn`t be sure it`s the ``Pescador Preacher`` net around Nicaragua, formerly reported on 8989-USB where again there was nothing. 8990-USB, Oct 16 at 2343, QSOs in Spanish, not 8989-USB, so the `Pescador Preacher` net circaNica? I still don`t have time to sit and listen minute after minute for clues (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 12365-USB, Oct 16 at 2345, very weak talk, can`t tell if Spanish or a Chilean broadcast relay as previously heard; in while q.v. ARGENTINA 13363.5-LSB was being heard much better (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 15739-SSB, Oct 13 at 1358, 2-way in colloquial Spanish, narcotraffickers or poachers? 15739.2-SSB, approx., Oct 13 at 2215, Spanish 2-way, also heard around this frequency earlier at 1358 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Channel A2, Oct 16 at 1607, after running the TV set for a sesquihour of snow, a prolonged meteor-scatter burst provided some NTSC video and audio, but nothing identifiable; antenna south, likely Mexico via Orionids (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1639: This contribution is in honor of Mal Fuller who has medical issues. I also sent a check to WBCQ for Mal (William T. Hassig, IL, which a check to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702) TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED FUTURELY: Thanks to David Cole, OK for a generous check (gh) Thanks to another, anonymous via PayPal, to woradio at yahoo.com, $50. I may mention the amount only in such cases (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) Thanks to Tom McLaughlin, Lubbock TX, for annual donation ``in memory of Gigi Lytle`` to Box 1684 Glenn --- please accept this as a far-too-small ``thank you`` for all of oyour hard work on WOR, DXLD, etc., now and in years past. 73 (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo MI, check to Box 1684) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ B-12 SCHEDULES ON HFCC No clickable link yet at the HFCC site, but complete B-12 schedules are available as of today at this URL: http://www.hfcc.org/data/b12/index.phtml Still subject to change before October 28, and, as always, beware of wooden registrations (Steve Luce, Houston, Texas Oct 15, dxldyg via DXLD) The HFCC have uploaded B12 schedules onto their website: http://www.hfcc.org/data/b12/index.phtml (Stephen Cooper, Oct 16, ibid.) BBC MONITORING IS NOW OFFERING SOME MEDIA NEWS STORIES VIA TWITTER - https://twitter.com/BBCMonitoring - and FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/BBCMonitoring (Chris Greenway, Oct 17, dxldyg via DXLD) FM LIST: NEW FEATURES FOR FM DXERS Here are some special URLs for North American FM DXers: 1. RSS feed for all logs made in North America: http://www.fmlist.org/logfeed.php?area=50 Only Es: http://www.fmlist.org/logfeed.php?area=50&band=Es (other valid propagation modes [band=] are Tropo, MS, TEP, Au, AuEs) 2. Log map centered on North America: http://www.fmlist.org/fm_logmap.php?area=NA (this is an initial center only. Zoom and center settings as changed by user will be stored in a cookie and used from there. 3. Log panel with a bit of statistics ... http://www.fmlist.org/fm_logpanel.php?area=NA Times change and methods of DXing and the reporting of DX changes. The RSS feed looks really nice to me (Mike Bugaj, Enfield, CT, WTFDA via DXLD) DX-PEDITIONS ++++++++++++ FOLLOW THE ONGOING ARCTIC DXPEDITIONS A reminder that there are currently at least four ongoing DXpeditions in the Arctic region of the Nordic countries, and each of them is blogging or otherwise updating information on a daily basis. Here you can access the latest logs and news from above the Arctic Circle: Aihkiniemi, Finland: http://www.dxing.info/community/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=2686 (move to page 2 for the latest updates) Lemmenjoki, Finland: http://www.tapiokalmi.net/dx/lem/index.html Kongsfjord, Norway: http://arcticdx.blogspot.fi/ Parkalompolo, Sweden: http://www.furuogrund.se/pax/PAX/paxarkiv.htm - open the "Log" file next to PAX98, or download directly from here: http://www.furuogrund.se/pax/PAX/pax98.rtf Mid-October is often the opening of the AM DX season in Scandinavia, and at no other time can you find such a flurry of activity in all the major DXpedition bases up here. 73 (Mika Makelainen, Finland, Oct 17, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) MUSEA +++++ PRESERVE YOUR HISTORIC SHORTWAVE RECORDINGS! Many of you know me from my five decades of activity in the shortwave hobby. You may also be aware that I have spent a great deal of time involved in transferring recordings from the best years of the shortwave broadcast era from tape (reel or cassette) to digital format. Such recordings have historic value, with shortwave broadcasting in rapid decline, in fact on the way to eventual disappearance sooner than we may expect, and it becomes ever more important by the day to preserve recordings made by members of the SWL/DX'ing community. Some of you may have already been doing this, in which case you won't need anyone to do it for you. But we are losing colleagues, and it's a tragedy when reel to reel or cassette collections, often containing quite historic and rare material, are dumped. Unless family members are aware of the value of this content, tapes can end up in the dumpster. While there are a number of websites where such material is posted and accessible, often these contain only brief excerpts. Tragically, whole collections with longer recordings of historic importance go out on the trash heap. So, I'm putting out an appeal through this and other groups. If you have recordings made over the course of your "career" in the SW hobby, perhaps have not been able to apply the time to ensuring their preservation in digital audio form, please get in touch with me. For individuals sending me their collections, I place the material in my job lineup for eventual conversion. I preserve the cassettes / reels and can return them to you, or not, provided you pay USPS/UPS for this. I accept PayPal. Digital recordings are labeled and associated with the name of the SWL/DX'er so there is a record of the specific personal listening accomplishment. If you are looking to have a digital copy of your entire collection or certain files, I can provide you with that, but there will be a fee associated with this, based on the number of hours required for the work, and type and cost of the medium you prefer to be used. I recommend SDHC cards for this rather than CD's -- it's just simpler, and flash memory can be used to replay material in a variety of solid state devices and laptops. So, that's the story. Whether it's your own tape collection, or you know of someone who has been lost to us but their recordings are still obtainable, please do get in touch. We have all spent decades enjoying the SW hobby, and should all do our part to try to preserve the sounds of these times. Contact me at: Dan Robinson, 11700 Charen Lane, Potomac, MD 20854 EMAIL: dxace1@gmail.com A brief final note. Those who do still have their reel to reel or cassette collections may have recordings of specific SWBC stations that are of particular historic value and significance and I have a high priority in getting such material transferred. This would be due to political events over the decades, the rarity of a station, or indeed because certain broadcasters were, at the time they were on the air, considered so routine that many people actually DID NOT make recordings of them. Examples would include: Radio Tahiti, which was so common and easily-heard that many would listen to it but not record it . . . VTVN Saigon around or at the time of the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam or the Communist takeover. . .or something like Falkland Islands at or around the time it went off shortwave. . . Portuguese Timor before the transition to Indonesian rule. . . or even Tristan da Cunha (one that to my knowledge no recording of exists). So -- thanks again for your attention. Preservation of the sounds of our hobby is important and I urge you to do your part (Dan Robinson, Oct 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF HOROLOGY See also RUSSIA: DDST or merely DST and when? +++++++++++++++++ PIRATE RADIO WEEKEND 26-28 OCTOBER Again, I'm organising a *pirate radio event* when most of the *European* and *American pirate* operators will be on air with their stations, playing *music*, sending *greetings*to listeners and having *fun*! The *pirate radio weekend* will take place on the *26th and 27th October (Friday and Saturday)*, as well as on the Sunday morning. I would like as many stations as possible to take part in it. If you would like to take part in it, just tell me your frequency and time of transmitting, as well as your power and send them to my email: georgi.bancov @ gmail.com ! Thanks in advance. More information: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2012/10/pirate-radio-weekend.html 73, (Georgi Bancov, Bulgaria, Oct 13, HCDX via DXLD) WORLD RADIO DAY 2013: WHAT DO YOU WANT TO TELL THE WORLD ABOUT RADIO? Radio Watch October 7, 2012 The International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) and Fundación Comunica are supporting World Radio Day 2013. On 13 February 2013 we will celebrate World Radio Day for the second time since it was proclaimed by UNESCO as a day to celebrate radio broadcasting, improve international cooperation among radio broadcasters and encourage decision-makers to create and provide access to information through radio, including community radios. As part of the celebration, UNESCO is offering you an opportunity to tell a story about radio to the world. “Did you know that...?” will be a series of short (1.5 to 2 minutes) radio spots in which broadcasters and researchers, can share their facts, figures and anecdotes about radio with the world. If you have a story, an interesting fact or an example of an innovative programme, let us know. If your story is chosen, UNESCO will make arrangements to call you from their radio studio in Paris, record your story, edit it and package it for broadcast, targeting prime news and current affairs time slots of radio stations around the world. The series will be offered to the world's international broadcasters, 257 public radio broadcasters, and other UNESCO partners, made available in broadcast quality over the internet and distributed on UNESCO iTunes. You can tell your story in your mother tongue, or in any of the six UN official languages: English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic or Russian. If you are interested in telling a story, please go to https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/wrd2013 and let us know what it's about and how to contact you. The deadline to submit your proposal is 19 October 2012 and the interviews will be recorded during November and December. For more information visit UNESCO's World Radio Day internet page (Source : The International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)) http://sw-radio.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/world-radio-day-2013-what-do-you-want.html?spref=fb (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) Quotes on radio Compiled by UNESCO: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/events/prizes-and-celebrations/celebrations/world-radio-day/quotes-on-radio/ Some important dates for radio Compiled by UNESCO: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/events/prizes-and-celebrations/celebrations/world-radio-day/some-important-dates/ (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) Certainly a strange but multi-national selexion with significant omissions (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) Statistics on Radio Complied by UNESCO: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/events/prizes-and-celebrations/celebrations/world-radio-day/statistics-on-radio/ (all source links listed)(via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) LANGUAGE LESSONS See MONGOLIA ++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See BELGIUM; GERMANY; NIGERIA; ROMANIA; ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ RUSSIA; SUDAN; IBOC DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IBOC ALL-DIGITAL TEST Radio World is reporting an AM station has been selected for an all- digital IBOC test. Unfortunately, they aren't saying *which* station -- but it is a CBS-owned station in a "medium" market. There are a limited number of such stations. If forced to bet money, I'd put mine on KYDZ-1140 Las Vegas. Again, in all-digital mode, there is no regular analog AM signal, only IBOC. The digital coverage is likely to be MUCH better than anything experienced in the current hybrid mode -- but the test station is going to lose 100% of its audience for the duration of the test. -- (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66 Oct 12, WTFDA AM via DXLD) CBS-owned AM stations: #2 CA Los Angeles KNX-1070 news #26 CA Riverside KRAK-910 sports #27 CA Sacramento KHTK-1140 sports #4 CA San Fran. KCBS-740 news #4 CA San Fran. KZDG-1550 Hindi ethnic (brokered) #52 CT Hartford WTIC-1080 news/talk #7 DC Washington WNEW-1580 news/talk #18 FL Tampa WHFS-1010 sports #9 GA Atlanta WAOK-1380 news/talk #3 IL Chicago WSCR-670 sports #3 IL Chicago WBBM-780 news #10 MA Boston WBZ-1030 news #21 MD Baltimore WJZ-1300 sports #12 MI Detroit WWJ-950 news #12 MI Detroit WXYT-1270 talk #15 MN Minneapolis WCCO-830 news/talk #22 MO St. Louis KMOX-1120 news/talk #24 NC Charlotte WFNZ-610 sports #24 NC Charlotte WBCN-1660 news/talk #32 NV Las Vegas KXNT-840 news/talk #32 NV Las Vegas KYDZ-1140 kids #1 NY New York WFAN-660 sports #1 NY New York WCBS-880 news #1 NY New York WINS-1010 news #8 PA Philadelphia WIP-610 sports #8 PA Philadelphia KYW-1060 news #8 PA Philadelphia WPHT-1210 news/talk #25 PA Pittsburgh KDKA-1020 news/talk #5 TX Dallas KRLD-1080 news/talk #6 TX Houston KILT-610 sports #6 TX Houston KIKK-650 talk #13 WA Seattle KPTK-1090 news/talk Numbers are market rank. City & format per CBS website, may not agree with city-of-license or NRC Log. – (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66 ibid.) Which middle-market CBS is doing the most poorly in terms of ratings and/or financials? To me that would be the prime suspect as if there's only a small listenership to begin with, and you're losing money on it, what's to lose? (Russ Edmunds, 15 mi NNW of Philadelphia, ibid.) RADIO WORLD: STATION CHOSEN FOR ALL-DIGITAL AM TEST http://www.radioworld.com/article/station-chosen-for-all-digital-am-test-/215874 More information is dribbling out of the NAB Radio Technology Committee about its plans to test all-digital AM HD Radio technology on an existing radio station. A test station has been chosen. Look for testing to begin “probably right after the presidential elections,” said CBS Radio Senior Vice President of Engineering Glynn Walden during the fall Radio Show, speaking as a member of the group. Walden and other committee members declined to identify the facility. Other committee members told Radio World it is a CBS station in an area that could be characterized as a medium-sized market. The committee has been meeting since last November to discuss technical options for the revitalization of AM. Testing would quantify both indoor and outdoor coverage. In general, the goal is to verify whether the station coverage and robustness are improved with an all- digital signal — both day and night — and to quantify any change. There’s little technical data in the public arena for all-digital AM operation, said one source. iStockphoto/ Pavel Ignatov Testing an all-digital option is one of several possible solutions to help AM stations being discussed by the committee. A third member emphasized that the decision to test does not necessarily mean the all-digital option is the one the committee prefers. “It’s just one we can work on first.” The group is trying to assess several ideas proposed in an engineering report commissioned by the NAB board and prepared by an outside consulting engineering firm. One source described that report as a “laundry list” of every conceivable idea that could help the band. Committee members say other ideas to pursue with the FCC could include options such as further relaxation of proof of performance rules or allowing more AMs to operate on FM translators. The commission itself has expressed interest in helping AMs thrive; and at the fall convention, Commissioner Ajit Pai called for the formation of an FCC committee to revitalize AM radio. More to come? Now that one station is on board for all-digital testing, the committee hopes member radio groups will offer other facilities, according to the six members interviewed for this article. The hope is to test all-digital AM on a variety of facilities — ideally three or four — with various equipment configurations and antenna systems. The group has received offers of possible AMs to use for testing from owners who have not gone digital and/or are on the expanded portion of the band. Ideally, they’d like to use stations that have digital gear already installed and operational. Beasley Broadcasting is particularly interested in all-digital testing. Vice President/Chief Technology Officer Mike Cooney said, “Beasley is committed to supporting an all-digital AM test but we have not made a decision on which (or if) one of our AM HD signals fits the requirement.” Still to be determined is who would pay for such testing and who would perform the trials, though it’s likely an outside engineering contractor would perform the tests, according to several committee sources. IBiquity Digital would provide equipment or other support needed for testing, according to President/CEO Bob Struble. The company has conducted testing of its all-digital system in the past on its original experimental station in Cincinnati and a CBS station in Los Angeles. Anecdotal tests were done as recently as last year on an iBiquity experimental station in Frederick, Md. The tests showed “significant improvement” in all-digital signal coverage compared to the current hybrid AM HD system, according to two non- committee sources familiar with the work. While current HD Radio receivers could receive an all-digital signal, testers will be interested to explore the impact on analog-only receivers; right now, that’s presumed to be hiss or static. Analog transmission would be turned off as part of the testing, presumed to occur in both day and night. That’s one big reason why all-digital testing is controversial and committee members cautious in discussing it. Broadcasters do not want to spook advertisers, who typically have a year-long contract with a station, with “a test that lasts a few weeks,” said one source close to the issue. Fuzzy future But the topic is contentious for reasons beyond the mechanics of testing. HD Radio’s “hybrid” system was designed with the idea that it would give radio the option of moving someday to all-digital broadcasting; but that was always for some distant future. Discussion of actually doing that across the band raises the specter of millions of AM analog receivers being made obsolete and thousands of radio stations having to choose whether to upgrade transmission facilities. Avoiding obsolescence is one reason the industry chose to adopt IBOC and a transitional “hybrid” path, rather than a system using another band, such as DAB, which would have obsoleted receivers right away. Serious discussion over all-digital AM may just be starting. The conversation about an all-digital AM option presumes that a future transition would be voluntary, not mandated. But even under a voluntary scenario, future debate on this topic is likely to include the consequences to existing AM listening and to dial neighbors. In August, Radio World broke the story that engineers at major radio groups within NAB were considering all-digital testing. Commentary generated by that story on Radio World’s website and elsewhere “tells us the kind of” debate the industry is going to have to face, said one expert. For example, several commenters said that any testing for an all- digital AM future should involve both HD Radio and Digital Radio Mondiale. DRM supporters say consumer-grade receivers are “coming.” Others say the lack of any established consumer receiver base makes comparison testing difficult. Some commenters tout the value of moving AMs to FM translators and then moving some or all of those to TV Channels 5 and 6, instead of (or in addition to) exploring all-digital AM; but that raises the question of what happens to TV stations who’ve told the FCC they intend to remain on those channels. Another commenter argued that the HD Radio system is the most efficient path to all-digital at a time when spectrum is becoming more precious. “Our government won’t give us any spectrum,” one source said. “They may not take away what we’ve got, but they’re certainly not giving us any more.” Another observer commented that some critics may not understand the nuances AM owners face in trying to get a regulatory scheme through the FCC. According to its backers, criticism of the iBiquity AM system serves little purpose at this point because it’s the technology the industry has available to it. Meanwhile, they say, traditional “distance listening,” long enjoyed by many analog AM stations, has become less relevant as more consumers move closer to cities. Further, people under 25 have no significant awareness of the AM band, so some action to improve the situation is needed. “People simply don’t look there for anything,” said one observer of the AM band. “So if there’s a new technology that gets them to what they want to hear with the device they’ve got, be that AM/FM, Pandora or whoever, it’s up to the marketing to tell people where to find it.” It’s an era when consumers generally no longer hit “seek” on a radio anymore to find a frequency or station. Yet given the history of debate over HD Radio, particularly over its AM implementation, the discussion over whether and how to pursue an all-digital AM option is likely to be heated. Confidential report Meanwhile, the NAB committee’s report about options to improve AM has not been made public — and may never be. The association has said it has no current plans to release the document publicly. A committee source said the report is extremely technical and would need to be explained and/or possibly watered down for consumption by non-engineers. Asked why discussions about options for AM improvement are taking place behind closed doors, engineers told Radio World they are following the wishes of the NAB board, which consists of executives from member radio groups. Closed meetings are typical in such situations, according to the leader of one NAB member company. The executive said that if such meetings were open to reporters, no one would feel free to participate and no work would be accomplished. (via Kevin Redding, Oct 12, ABDX via DXLD) Thanks for the interesting article. I wouldn't really trust anything Ibiquity has something to do with. I think they have trashed the AM band enough with their IBOC hiss makers. For some reason the NAB seems to be stuck on the idea of digital transmission on the AM band. C-Quam AM Stereo is a good technology that can work very well with newer DSP radio hardware/software and good noise blankers to quiet static and is fully compatible with existing AM radios. I don't know anyone that didn't like the sound of a good AM Stereo station back in the days it was still being widely used. I still haven't heard any really good explanations of why AM Stereo was discontinued other than it was sort of a perfect storm that happened just as AM Stereo was becoming popular many or most of the AM music stations switched over to news/talk or sports radio "because it seemed like the thing to do" and people were brainwashed into thinking only FM gave hi-fidelity music. Nowadays many AM stations are switching back to a music format so this would be a good time to re-introduce AM Stereo again. I think the NAB needs to promote more knowledge among the public about improving AM reception and AM radio in general. People need to learn about the benefits of outdoor antennas for quiet AM reception. Back in the 70's and 80's people didn't mind setting up outdoor TV and FM antennas and running cables back indoors for good reception. Folks down in Australia are much more serious about quality AM reception than folks here in the USA and they know more about using outdoor antennas for good AM band reception. 73 - (Todd WD4NGG Roberts, ibid.) I can give an explanation and suggestion that DOESN'T need to be watered down by the NAB to explain why AM failed, and what can be done about it: Air something enjoyable to listen to. Period. Dump the sports-talk. Dump the snake-oil health ads. WIDEN the NRSC curve. Go STEREO (using SOME analog or digital system - no excuse NOT to in 2013). PROGRAM your AM stations interactively IN THE EXACT SAME IDENTICAL MANNER as a major music-formatted FM radio station. You'll get listeners, advertisers, and ratings --- promise. It works in most every other country. Can't get awareness from younger ears? Put ads on billboards, TV, local websites, bus benches, sister FM stations --- younger people are curious about things new and old, and like to start fads (Darwin Long, Buras, LA, ABDX via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ FCC AND RELATED NEWS BRIEFS Deborah McAdams comments on the real cost of spectrum redistribution: http://tinyurl.com/TellingTheUntoldStory (CGC Communicator Oct 15, via Kevin Redding, ABDX via DXLD) Viz.: Deborah D. McAdams / 10.05.2012 04:03PM McAdams On: Lies, @#%&! Lies, and Statistics Blinding them without science... NUMBER$: From the very beginning of the fed’s efforts to redistribute spectrum, the case has been made with kind of math that only wizards and jinn are privy to. Our friend the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is one of the two, or maybe both. He provided an example of his wizardry at the Wharton School in Philadelphia this week he said the FCC was “on track to exceed” its target of freeing up 300 MHz for wireless broadband by 2015. That benchmark was set in the National Broadband Plan two years ago, when nearly 70 percent of the 547 MHz already dedicated to wireless broadband was not being used, according to a commission white paper. But the 2015 benchmark did not take into account that 377 MHz of unused wireless spectrum because it did not support the commission’s arbitrary decision to reclaim TV Chs. 31-51 (572-698 MHz) – 40 percent of the remaining frequencies dedicated to broadcast TV. And at no point did the commission provide any information regarding the build- out status of that 377 MHz, much of it held by Verizon, AT&T, Dish, Comcast and other conglomerates. The one guy at the commission who did press Verizon on its build-out status was shown the door two weeks later. That wasn’t the official line, of course. There was no official line. Rick Kaplan heads the FCC Wireless Bureau. He writes a letter asking Verizon what it’s done with the spectrum it won in the last TV frequency sale – the 2008 700 MHz auction. Rick Kaplan doesn’t head the Wireless Bureau. . . [much more] http://www.tvtechnology.com/feature-box/0124/mcadams-on-lies--lies-and-statistics-/215805 (via DXLD) POWERLINE COMMUNICATIONS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ OPEN PETITION AGAINST PLC INTERFERENCE It is in German. If necessary use your translation possibility in your browser and please, do sign the petition (Max Van Arnhem, Netherlands, Oct 15, MWCircle yg via DXLD) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ COW TRANSPONDERS 790, WSGW Saginaw MI; 11:54 AM EDT, 5-Oct; Terry Henne on Farm Service 7-90 interviewing a dairy farmer; farmer said all his cows were equipped with transponders. I smell a QSL opportunity here! Could we call this a new QSL country -- Bovinia? Anybody know what frequencies cows use? Rookie grandfather-to-be Ken Zichi, ask your son-in-law about this. Howcum I've never heard about this on KRVN? Don't beef cattle need transponders too? What else are they keeping from us? Do sheep use lower freqs than cows? [According to Tom Venney, it might be 134.2 mhz] (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) ARGENTINA: NUEVO RECEPTOR WEBSDR! Saludos amigos Diexistas: Gracias a la información suministrada por el colega Jorge Pérez, LU6DKT, nos enteramos de un nuevo receptor WebSDR, situado en la Ciudad de Saladillo - Bs. As. - R. Argentina; es operado por Néstor (LU5DNP), e-mail lu5dnp @ hotmail.com Su página web es: http://lu5dnp.dyndns.tv/ 73 (Dino Bloise, Frecuencia Al Día programasdx.com/frecuenciaaldia.htm Oct 15, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) MY COMPARISON OF THE TECSUN PL-660 TO THE SANGEAN 909X Posted by: "mrhermit" mrhermit @ yahoo.com Date: Tue Oct 9, 2012 11:30 am ((PDT)) I could not decide on the Sangean 909X or the Tecsun PL660 so I bought both. I liked both of them and I disliked both of them. The 909X does not do SSB as well as the PL660. I liked the SSB knob on the 660 over the SSB setup on the 909X of having to push a button and then turning the tuning dial to tune in the station. With the 660 I could tune in the SSB station where the voice sounded normal. With the 909X I could not, unless it was a very strong signal. As far as shortwave reception the 660 was much better. Using the same external antenna the 660 would pick up weak but readable stations that the 909X couldn't. The antenna gain switch on the 660 was more useful on then the RF gain knob on the 909x. I just wish it was on the front of the 660 instead of the side. The AM broadcast and FM broadcast reception was about the same to me. I have not found the Air Band on the 660 to be very useful. So if you are going to buy it for that feature, I would recommend buying a scanner radio that will do aircraft frequencies. The speaker on the 909X may sound a bit better then the PL660 but not much. Most of the time I am using headphones so that did not really matter. I liked the smooth tuning knob on the PL660 over the Jog tuning of the 909X. I found it a bit awkward. I prefer the buttons and the memory settings and the larger brighter display on the 909X over the PL660. I liked that I could lock in a station on the 909X, but I did not like the memory bank storage of only 10 stations per page. I liked the 660 because you could set 100 stations per page. It would have been nice if the stations settings could be locked like the 909X. The buttons on the Tecsun are a bit small and harder to push then the 909X. The PL660 has 2000 memory settings and the 909X has 406 memory settings. The PL660 is a bit smaller and lighter in weight then the 909X. After about a two month evaluation of both radios I sold the Sangean on ebay. I do not miss it in the least. Overall the Tecsun 660 was the clear winner. For my money, the 660 was the better buy for a portable shortwave receiver. For the cost of the Sangean, you can buy two 660's. With the money I got for selling the Sangean, I applied it to the purchase of an Icom R-75 (via Enrique Wembagher, Argentina, condiglista yg via DXLD) Original source?? Is Mr Hermit = David Crystal, Israel? Reads like his style, but not online, I think (gh) VICTORIA B.C. CABLE SYSTEM NOISE UPDATE - Hey radio people - I reported recently that (a month ago) I was shocked by the appearance of a very powerful broadband noise source in my normally quiet apartment building – 100 kHz to almost 200 MHz at levels up to -23dbm (that is around 30 to 50 db over S9! Try DXing through that!) This QRN has effectively ended my DXing career at my current QTH Reported it to SHAW-Cable (via Twitter) this week and had a tech visit scheduled within a few hours. Oddly, I had a call from Ohio last night - an engineer from Cincinnati (which really surprised the tech) who was FCC certified (and allegedly works for SHAW) that was very interested in my trouble ticket --- and was astounded by the numbers I was reporting. Anyhow - Had the tech in at 3:30 PM today. Shut the power off to the entire apartment and grabbed one of my transistor radios and demonstrated the issue. His jaw hit the ground when he noted the energy levels of radio-frequency noise that were emanating from the cable system. He apologized that he could not do anything at the moment and would have the maintenance team check it out starting on Monday. Will be interesting to see where this goes. ================================================== Colin Newell - Victoria B.C. DXer and Ham - VA7WWV ICOM 703+ / DRAKE R8 / ETON E1 / Kenwood R2000 Antennas: Wellbrook ALA100's " Workman Verticals, Occt 12, IRCA via DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ P.I.G. Bulletin 121014 --- SOLAR & GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY FORECAST FOR THE PERIOD OCTOBER 15 - NOVEMBER 10. Solar activity will be a bit enhanced at solar flux levels between 90 - 145 s.f.u. in next few weeks, depending on present active regions on solar disc (high about October 23, next low about November 7). Occurrence of C class, sporadically M class flares is expected. Geomagnetic field will be: quiet on October 19 - 22, 25 - 26, 29, 31. mostly quiet on October 15, 23 - 24, November 1, 3. quiet to unsettled on October 17 - 18, 30, November 2, 7 - 8. quiet to active on October 16, 27, November 6, 9. active to disturbed on October 28, November 4 - 5, 10. High probability of changes in solar wind which may cause changes in magnetosphere and ionosphere is expected on October (15-)16, (21, 23,) 27. November (3,) 4 - 8(, 9). F. K. Janda, OK1HH, Czech Propagation Interest Group (OK1HH & OK1MGW, weekly forecasts since 1978) e-mail: ok1hh(at)rsys.cz (via Dario Monferini, DXLD) Geomagnetic field activity reached major storm levels on the 8th and 9th of October with the arrival of an Earth-directed CME that occurred on 05 October. An interplanetary shock was observed at the ACE spacecraft at 08/0445 UTC. A sudden impulse of 21 nT at the Boulder magnetometer followed at 08/0515 UTC. By 08/0556 UTC the Kp index had reached active levels. Minor then major storm levels were subsequently observed at 08/0718 UTC and 08/0834 UTC respectively. The major storm conditions persisted through 08/1200 UTC, after which conditions returned to mostly active levels. Major storms were again observed during the first two synoptic periods on 09 October, followed by a minor storm period and an active period. Late on the 9th, a coronal hole high speed stream became geoeffective bringing geomagnetic activity to minor storm level for the final period of the day. Solar wind speed at the ACE spacecraft rose from about 380 km/s to near 560 km/s during the latter half of the day. The geomagnetic field activity then declined and, with the exception of one active period on the 12th, remained at quiet to unsettled levels. By the 13th, another coronal hole high speed stream became geoeffective. It was preceded by a corotating interaction region and a solar sector boundary change. This led to active conditions by 13/0450 UTC and minor storm conditions by 13/0819 UTC. Minor storm levels persisted until 13/2100 UTC before briefly decreasing to unsettled levels for the final period of the 13th. The 14th began with minor storm conditions, after which activity ranged from quiet to active levels. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 15 OCTOBER-10 NOVEMBER 2012 Solar activity is expected to be at low levels with a slight chance for moderate activity through 21 October when Region 1589 rotates around the west limb. Generally low levels of activity are then expected to persist through 03 November, after which there is a slight chance for moderate activity as old Region 1589 returns. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at high levels from 13 October through 18 October and again from 05-10 November. Recurrent coronal hole high speed streams are responsible for both periods of high flux. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at quiet levels for the majority of the period. The two exceptions are 15-19 October and 08-10 November when recurrent coronal hole high speed streams are expected to bring active levels with a slight chance for minor storm levels. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2012 Oct 15 1356 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 2012-10-15 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2012 Oct 15 135 12 3 2012 Oct 16 140 8 3 2012 Oct 17 140 8 3 2012 Oct 18 140 10 3 2012 Oct 19 135 8 3 2012 Oct 20 135 5 2 2012 Oct 21 130 5 2 2012 Oct 22 130 5 2 2012 Oct 23 130 5 2 2012 Oct 24 130 5 2 2012 Oct 25 130 5 2 2012 Oct 26 130 5 2 2012 Oct 27 130 5 2 2012 Oct 28 130 5 2 2012 Oct 29 125 5 2 2012 Oct 30 120 5 2 2012 Oct 31 115 5 2 2012 Nov 01 110 5 2 2012 Nov 02 105 5 2 2012 Nov 03 100 5 2 2012 Nov 04 105 5 2 2012 Nov 05 105 5 2 2012 Nov 06 110 5 2 2012 Nov 07 115 5 2 2012 Nov 08 120 10 3 2012 Nov 09 125 20 4 2012 Nov 10 130 15 3 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1639, DXLD) ###