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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1660 headlines: *DX and station news about: Alaska, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Belarus, Belgium non, Bolivia, Canada, China and non, Cuba and non, Egypt, Eritrea non, Germany, Guam, India, Indonesia, Korea North, Madagascar, Mexico and non, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Sarawak non, Sikkim, South Africa, Sudan South non, Taiwan, Tatarstan non, UK and non, USA SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1660, March 14-20, 2013 Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [repeated 1659 this week] Thu 2100 WTWW 9479 [confirmed] Fri 0328v WWRB 3195 Sat 0130v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 [confirmed] Sat 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [not on air] Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [not on air] Sat 1500 WRMI 9955 Sun 0400 WTWW 5830 [confirmed] Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 Wed 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [expected back on air] Wed 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [expected back on air] Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or maybe 1661 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/98/10:00:00UTC/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]. 9400, R. Sadaye Zindagi via Armenia Mar 07 *1459-1517 35433 Dari, 1459 sign on with IS, IS and ID and opening announce, Talk (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX and ANT, IC-R75+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-525+RD-9830+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-515+35m Long Wire, NRD- 345+35m Long Wire, Satellite 750+30m Long Wire, DE-1130, WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) A FEBA service, i.e. Christian (gh, DXLD) ** ALASKA. HAARP is on again --- between 6850 & 6950 kHz At 0235 UT (Dave Hughes, KCMO, UT March 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Nothing unusual at 0243. What did it do to WYFR on 6875?? Please describe what HAARP sounds like if not provide a recording (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Glenn, It was "popping" away under WYFR. They are linear frequency modulated continous wave (LFMCW ). It sounds like radar & looks like it too. I was checking the pirate bands around 6925 & heard it start. The HFU chat board was discussing it when I logged in at 0230. I've heard it start & stop twice since my post. I'm not sure if I can record with this screwy computer but I'll try. http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,10302.0.html shows the HAARP signal & WYFR amidst it (Dave Hughes, KCMO, ibid.) I don't know if you believe in conspiracy theories but some say this is the beginning of Project Blue Beam. The following article may be of interest. It may be something or it may be nothing. http://12160.info/profiles/blogs/project-blue-beam-is-unfolding-all-over-the-world-today-and-only (Richard Lewis, MS, ibid.) Hi Glenn, I posted about the HAARP transmission on 8605 & 9305 to the HFU & was corrected (again) by Token who says "... it is conventional to list the center frequency. In this case the center freqs for the 2 transmissions (simultaneous) were 8630 and 9330 kHz. HAARP has been using these freqs (and others) for this FMCW signal for the last 5 or 6 nights." I wonder if I, we have heard HAARP many times & didn't realize it. The sound that I've heard the last few nights is just like a "regular" radar signal. At any rate someone wanting to hear it would want to check around 8630 & 9330 (DH, KCMO, March 8, ibid.) Just noticed HAARP is active again on 8630 & 9330 with 50 kHz wide signals 25 kHz each side of center frequencies. just sounds like a fast radar (DH, KCMO, 0339 UT March 13, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Once again by the time I tune in, some minutes later, nothing noted, but WBCQ on 9330. Isn`t HAARP aware of SWBC stations to avoid, even US ones? (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DXLD) ** ALASKA. KNLS heard in Chinese with poor signal on 9615 at *1400 (Joe Hanlon, Took my Grundig G5 with a Sony 23-ft. rollup antenna to hear these stations at Freedom Park in Medford, NJ, Monday March 4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7355, 1348-, KNLS, Mar 9. Listed broadcast not present this morning. KNLS normally booms in here, so something's up since they brought their 2nd transmitter back on-line. Listed English at 1400 also a no- show. 9615, 1400-, KNLS, Mar 9, IS heard only on this single transmitter, and only at fair/good levels (unusual for us in Masset: should be booming in). Into Chinese. Something's afoot at KNLS again. 7355, 1604-, KNLS, Mar 10, I spoke too soon earlier, stating that KNLS was off the air. Back at 1600 with very powerful signal. Christian vocal. Chinese listed at this time. Yes, Chinese speaker came on after the song at 1607:30. Usual exceptionally strong signal. 7355, 1600-, KNLS, Mar 11. Checking again today, confirms a reduced schedule. Some hours, neither transmitter seems to be on the air. At 1600, only the Chinese hour heard. Nothing on 6190. 7355, 1601-, KNLS, Mar 12. One last check before dismantling my set-up prior to departure. Confirm once again only a single transmitter in use, with Chinese programming. Nothing on listed Russian on 6190 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALBANIA. Radio Tirana, Albania was featured next, including recordings from Jonathan Marks` Media Network Vintage Vault with the station’s announcement of the death of Albania’s “dear leader” in April 1985 and studio recordings of Radio Tirana from 1990, including Radio Tirana’s attempt to attract on-air advertising. Hear these recordings at: http://jonathanmarks.libsyn.com/rss Mark Palmer had also sent along a typical script from the Albanian Telegraphic Agency from 1st January 1978: “Albanian People Celebrate New Year with Revolutionary Optimism”. Also, a photo of an Albanian-made transistor radio was shown – the URT Iliria which was made in Durres, Albania included shortwave – see: http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/urt_iliria.html (Reading Meeting Report – March 2013, March BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** ALGERIA [non]. 7295, RTV Algerienne, 2 March, 0650 Qur`an chants, 0656 again ID with frequencies. Audio comes from streaming of low quality (<36 kb) S9 (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, not reported until 12 March, DX LISTENING DIGEST) FRANCE, 7295, 0513-, Radio Algerienne, Chaîne 1, Mar 9. Very powerful reception with presumed Qur`an recital. I've set my timer to see whether the French news listed from 0600 to 0605 occurs (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7295 & 5865, March 13 at 0549, RTA and RTA via Issoudun & Issoudun, France & France, with two separate Qur`an recitations. Enough is not enough, but it`s better than doing them both on the same frequency as recently logged (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANGUILLA [and non]. 11775, University Network/Caribbean Beacon with Rev Barbi QRMed by crashing and banging! I had no idea that East Jammerstan was offended by pornographic bible bumping! 44554 0124-0125 24/Feb (Ken Zichi, Brighton MI DX-pedition, MARE Tipsheet 1 March via DXLD) ** ARGENTINA. "AM AMÉRICA" - 1630 kHz - San José, Entre Ríos - QSL En tres días, y al segundo intento, he recibido respuesta del Sr. Armando Pietroboni, director de la empresa propietaria de esta emisora, de "Melody 105.3" y de Canal 10TV. "AM América" (o AMerica como reza su logo) ha estado entrando bastante a menudo, peleando con la estación de La Plata. Es facilmente identificable pues sale ligeramente desviada de frecuencia, en 1629.826 kHz. Suele retransmitir la señal de la emisora hermana "Melody 105.3" y por la noche la de "Cadena 3 Argentina". El Sr. Pietroboni me anuncia el envío de la tarjeta QSL a la mayor brevedad. Muchas gracias! Envié el informe a: danycanal @ hotmail.com Mauricio Molano http://moladx.blogspot.it (via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** ARGENTINA. 13363.5 LSB, LTA, Argentina Armed Forces, Buenos Aires, 1420, Mar 02, programme relay, 22222 (Mauro Giroletti, Milano, Italy, DSWCI DX Window March 6 via DXLD) ** ARGENTINA [and non]. RAE 'English connection' 11710.9: first 1/2 hour of Radio Argentina International English service, 0200-0300 UT is blocked now by AIR Nepali service DRM from 0130 to 0230. I often listened to the RAE English program on the Twente receiver for its good clear signal. I haven't been able to actually copy RAE on 11710 for years & this was a good alternative. I guess the last 1/2 hour will still be audible on Twente. Nepali in DRM, eh? Pretty huge audience for that I guess (Dave Hughes, Kansas City MO, UT March 12, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) You can still hear narrowing the frequency or using LSB. 73 (Jorge Freitas, Brasil, ibid.) ARGENTINA/INDIA: 11710.857, Now RAE Buenos Aires English program in the clear at least here in western Europe, - but on more easterly Moscow and Greece remote SDR units, RAE were heavily interfered of this AIR digital signal noise to the mountain people on the glacier valleys. AIR Nepali from New Delhi covered 11710.165 to 11719.945 kHz frequency range, when checked on Perseus unit. Nice Andean music for my alegría from RAE, similar also heard 5 minutes back on 11780.0 kHz of R Brazilia program. Heard also Spanish from Buenos Aires an hour ago at 0050 UT with S=9+10dB strength in Germany (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC- DX TopNews March 12, ibid.) I have requested DRM stations to avoid using traditional analog band frequencies without much success, other than Vatican Radio which did move away from inband 15190 to out of band to 15775. I told them it is against my conscience to help with any reports on in-band frequencies as they cause so much of hash far beyond the target for analog receivers. HFCC should consider a section of the band, band edges for it. INDIA on 15050, 9950 is great, if only they move out for other services like from 15140, 11715, 17715... (Victor Goonetilleke, Sri Lanka, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Very admirable, Victor. As Jorge has pointed out, I can always listen in LSB AND not worry about the signal degradation but I really have to question how many people are listening to this DRM broadcast. I mean, seriously, who the hell --- don't get me started. I think a lot of swl/dx'ers really appreciate you taking a principled stand on the issue. The "loss" of RAE`s English connection program really bothers me as I consider it to be one of the friendliest, well-done English language programs on shortwave and the music is really nice, too. At least I still have half of it to listen to (Dave Hughes, ibid.) ** ARGENTINA. Fwd: [vhfskip] Log N-Germany ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jurgen Bartels Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:24:17 +0100 The last evenings around 1800z with weak audio 30.6888 ARG Radio Argentina Exterior, Buenos Aires, 2x 15,3444 [in kHz, please: 30688.8v, 2 x 15344.4v --- gh] Jurgen Bartels Suellwarden, N. Germany, Ant. hor: 29-45 MHz 7-el, 45- 87MHz 11-el, FM 15.11, Band-3:13-el, UHF:48-el. TV: Winradio G305 / Fly2000 + video noise filter & variable IF BW FM: Downconverter + Perseus + Speclab as WFM demod. MW: 300m Bev 260 , 30 x 4m EWE 320 with JB-terminator, Winradio & Perseus --- http://zeiterfassung.3sdesign.de/station_list.htm (via Tim Bucknall, harmonics yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DXLD) Notice he does not include a receiver for 30 MHz SW, so how did he get it? I think I heard this many years ago; anyhow, when LU`s are replete on the 10m hamband, so look for this too if during the hours 15345v is scheduled, per Aoki: M-F 09-14 & 17-22 RAE in various languages; Sat 2000-0230 Sun & Sun 1800-0300 UT Mon with R. Nacional (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** ARMENIA. Transmitter usage for Armenian MW transmitters based on monitoring by Rumen Pankov during February (maximum power usage 4500 kW at 0200-0400): Tx 1 (1000 kW) on 1314 kHz : 0100-0600 (T, T, E, E, K) 1300-1600 (T, T, K), 1600-2100 Arabic 2100-2230 Turkish Tx 2 (1000 kW) on 864 kHz: 0200-0300 & 1500-1600 L (U, M) 1610-1755 W (C Asians, R, E, Caucasians) on 1350 kHz: 0300-0500 & 1300-1500 T; 1800-1916 W (K, T, H/R/E) 2000-2030 J (A) Tx 3 (1000 kW) on 1377 kHz: 0200-0400 E 1500-1700 P 1800-2100 W (P, A) Tx 4 (500 kW) on 1395 kHz: 0100-0600 & 1300-2400 R Tx 5 (500 kW) on 1395 kHz: 1400-2400 R Tx 5 + Tx 6 (500 + 500 kW) on 1395 kHz: 0100-0500 R. Abbreviations: D=Radio Pridnestrovye; J = Radio Japan ; L = Radio Liberty; W = World Radio; all others broadcasts are of Voice of Russia. Languages: A=Arabic B=Belarusian C=Chechen E=English H=Hebrew I=Italian K=Kurdish M=Turkmen O=Moldovan P=Persian R=Russian S=Serbian T=Turkish U=Uzbek V=Ukrainian (Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, March BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** ARMENIA. 9395, 2342-, Voice of Russia World Service, Mar 11. VOR ID, then an interview with an American living and teaching in Russia. Good to very good reception, via this transmitter directed to South America. A screen capture is [not] added below. 11985, 1801-, VORWS, Mar 10, English news about a crash of a Russian helicopter in Congo. Very good, although OTH radar interference (between 11980 and 12065) (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARMENIA. 9400, R. Sadaye Zindagi, via Armenia, Mar 07 *1459-1517, 35433 Dari, 1459 sign on with IS, IS and ID and opening announce, Talk (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) A FEBA service, i.e. Christian (gh, ibid.) ** AUSTRALIA. Radio Symban (2368.48) off the air today! (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, March 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 2368.492, 1408-, Radio Symban, Mar 12. First time I've heard them this weekend. Perhaps they were off the air, or conditions too poor. In any case, only a little above threshold today. Audible on my AOR 7030+ but not on the Perseus SDR (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 4910, VL8T Tennant Creek 0820 to 0830* with OM chat, audio improving as Southern Hemisphere moves toward fall 12 March (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D, Icom 746 Pro, Drake R8, Drake R7, dxsf, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 2485, March 12 at 1243, Aussie talk, poor signal from VL8K but no ute blob, I am relieved to note, tho some het maybe from a local device. Somewhat better on 2325 VL8T. I have yet to detect any signal at all from 2368 Radio Symban (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4835, March 14 at 1302, poor signal in English, so VL8A is still here, tho Ron Howard found it absent yesterday, audiblizing something on 4837, maybe Sikkim. Perhaps VL8A is about to resume nighttimes on 2310? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 12080, RA-Shepparton noted at 1305 with big signal, but ran Waltzing Matilda IS the whole time, continuing past 1400; likely a test broadcast (Joe Hanlon, Took my Grundig G5 with a Sony 23-ft. rollup antenna to hear these stations at Freedom Park in Medford, NJ, Monday March 4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA [non]. 9965, March 8 at 1341, RA Chinese via PALAU is again subject to a big humbuzz. Now I am not quite so sure it`s a T8WH defect rather than ChiCom jamming. BTW, despite all the press about China starting to jam R. Australia in English, I have yet to hear any sign of it on the numerous RA English frequencies checked. But if they impose it on English surely they would even more so on Chinese. 9965, March 9 at 1410, RA via PALAU in Chinese in the clear today, no hum/buzz! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRIA. 9630, March 14 at 0515, good signal in tonal Afrolang. HFCC shows AWR in Hausa, 300 kW, 190 degrees from Moosbrunn, but a hefty bit must be USward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BAHRAIN. 9745, 0114-, Radio Bahrain, Mar 10. Just above threshold, with western sounding orchestral music. Nothing on the LSB side, so a presumed logging. Too weak to be sure of any content (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH. 4750, Bangladesh Betar 1200 to 1210 two OM with news or commentary in English 9 march (XM, Cedar Key, South Florida, NRD 525D, R8A, E-5, via Robert Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH. 7250, Bangladesh Betar, Mar 07 *1313-1319, 32432 Nepali, 1313 sign on with IS, Opening announce, News (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX and ANT, IC-R75+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-525+RD-9830+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-515+35m Long Wire, NRD-345+35m Long Wire, Satellite 750+30m Long Wire, DE-1130, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15105, Bangladesh Betar, Mar 07 *1227-1235, 23432-22432, English, 1227 sign on with IS, Opening music, Opening announce, News (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX and ANT, IC-R75+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-525+RD- 9830+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-515+35m Long Wire, NRD-345+35m Long Wire, Satellite 750+30m Long Wire, DE-1130, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15505, March 8 at 1359, tune in just in time to hear the Bangladesh Betar IS once, 1400 timesignal only two seconds late, ID and Urdu sign on mentioning Pakistan; music and no news until 1403. VG signal level but as always with that huge hum, which you would think the Senior Engineer would find extremely embarrassing! Some more music toward end, sign-off with a yahoo.com address, hum stops at 1430:40 and clean carrier continues another dekasecond until 1430:50*. 15505, March 9 at 1414, Bangladesh Betar is on today with S Asian vocal music, but is it in Urdu or Bengali? Beneath usual big hum (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15505, Bangladesh Betar *1359-1430* Mar 10. IS, 5+1 time pips, then talk in presumed Urdu, followed by 10 minutes of sub-continental music to round out the xmsn; off at 1430. Very good signal but accompanied by the usual annoying xmtr hum. 15505, Bangladesh Betar *1515-1545* Mar 10. Much the same format as above but in listed Hindi. Signal still strong (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge, Colorado. Drake R-8, 100-foot RW, dxingwithcumbre yg via DXLD) 15505, March 10 at 1421, BB with big hum, also Urdu talk, something about a Chávez and Venezuela, 1423 music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Bangladesh Beter in Hindi is on the air right now 1538 GMT (10 Mar 2013) using 15505 kHz with S-9 signals being heard in the Great Lakes region. They have been on for a while, just had a chance to post. Great music (Steve Handler, IL, March 10, ODXA yg via DXLD) 15505, 1411-, Bangladesh Betar, Mar 12. Good signal, but buzzy audio, also a first for this visit to Masset. I took a screen capture to show what I mean! I rechecked at 1428, and the buzz had improved, but not disappeared. Transmitter buzz cut at 1430, leaving a clean open carrier, which cut about 20 seconds later (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15505, Bangladesh Betar, Mar 13 *1358-1412, 25322, Urdu, 1358 sign on with IS, Opening announce, Opening music, News, (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX and ANT, IC-R75+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-525+RD-9830+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-515+35m Long Wire, NRD-345+35m Long Wire, Satellite 750+30m Long Wire, DE-1130, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15505, March 13 at 1402, hum and Urdu from Bangladesh Betar, as often heard now, but can it ever become passé? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BELARUS. 2340 kHz, 1 Mar -1700* UNID. Sounds Russian, maybe second harmonic of Voice of Russia, Sasnovy on 1170?? According to an old log by Jouko Huuskonen from Nov 10, 2005 at 1845z he says: This transmitter is producing harmonics, also noted on 2340 kHz with almost equal reception with 1170 kHz. Mauno Ritola listened to the recording an says: Yes, the same transmitter, but R. Belarus Polish *1600-1800*, see WRTH 2013 (Mauno Ritola, SW Bulletin March 3 via WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DXLD) Thanks a lot for taking the time to listen and for the information above (Thomas Nilsson, ed., ibid.) ** BELARUS. 11730, 4/3 2030, Radio Belarus, talks in English, mentioning many times Belarus, fair (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Qualche ascolto fatto in Toscana, a Pescia (Pistoia) con l'Elad FDM-S1 e l'antenna Windom lunga 60 metri (by A. Capra) Immagini sul blog: http://radiodxsw.blogspot.it/ playdx yg via DXLD) Radio Station Belarus. This may be old news which I missed somewhere, but website at http://www.radiobelarus.tvr.by/en/efir now shows Spanish 3 days a week: Sat, Sun and now also Mon from 2000 to 2020, with English starting at 2020 on those days. Also French is now shown 4 days a week: Sat, Sun and now also Mon and Thu at 1940- 2000, with German ending at 1940 on those days. Frequencies 6155 and 11730. I tuned in today 11 March at 2022 on 11730 to hear English news in progress, and just too late to confirm the Monday Spanish segment (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BELGIUM [non]. GUIANA FRENCH. 17875, 2046-, Disco Palace, Mar 11. Extremely high bit-rate of 20.96 kbps with their usual uninteresting disco music. SNR here about 29 dB, so only very rare drop-outs. Nothing noted below to 17765 on the Perseus waterfall! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BHUTAN. 6035.007, 1413-, Bhutan Broadcasting System [Service], Mar 12. A tentative logging, as audio is just above threshold. Pretty solid signal, with clean audio. I'm assuming that it's Bhutan, owing to the slightly high frequency (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5030 and 6035. QSL letter with BBS letterhead, full data and detailed reply received from Kaka Tshering, BBS General Manager for Dec 22, 2011 reception on 5030 (test frequency) from 0019 to 0134 (UK Perseus site) and for Jan 12, 2013 "all-nighter" reception on 6035 from 2119 to 2211 (Finland Perseus site). I used http://www.box.com to send Mr. Tshering the audio files, Perseus screen shots and a map of the great circle paths. After listening to audio files, he was able to confirm that both receptions were indeed BBS programs, although he indicated that the 5030 transmission was not regular programming (I believe that was a part of their testing in late 2011). He did not offer an explanation of why BBS had an "all-nighter" broadcast on Jan 12 (Bruce Churchill in DXplorer, Mar 05 via DSWCI DX Window March 6 via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. Radio Yura en 4716.65 kHz es como mejor la escucho aunque hay bastante ruidos, UT 0135 ahora con Boleros (Ernesto Paulero, Argentina, 0135 UT March 8, condiglista yg via DXLD) Radio Yura con problemas --- Pareciera que hay un problema en el transmisor; sale muy saturado el audio (Ernesto Paulero, 0145 UT March 8, ibid.) 4716.76 approx., March 14 at 0053, ballad vocal music from presumed Yura; 0104 announcements mentioning Bolivia, events or ads. Fair but best 60m S American signal around here now. Occasional QRM from carrier on hi side, ute (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4795.87, Radio Lípez, Uyuni, 1010 to 1040 fade with music, thunderstorm interference 11 March; 0923 to 1045 with OM and music 12 March. This reactivated Bolivian, if history repeats, will be off again in about a week. Fade pattern similar to 4716.65 Bolivia Radio Yatun Ayllu Yura with fair to good signal (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D, Icom 746 Pro, Drake R8, Drake R7, dxsf, WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4795.8, Radio Lípez, Uyuni, 2345 to 0000 Bolivia, following up tip of morning reception, threshold but getting slightly stronger, first evening reception here in quite awhile 11 March (XM, Cedar Key, South Florida, NRD 525D, R8A, E-5, via Robert Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 5952.44 approx., March 14 at 0057, Spanish from R. Pio Doce, Siglo Veinte [not ``Viente``], holding its own surprisingly well against the Cuban jamming on 5955 against not even a carrier from Radio República on 5954+ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 6135-, March 14 at 0109, tune in to ID in progress: ``6135 onda corta, 92.3 FM, transmite Radio Santa Cruz, desde Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia``, with music background, ``tan lejos . . . siempre tu compañera`` as befits this best signal by far out of CP-land (but no CP-calls any more; call-sign freak Bill Hepburn at http://www.dxinfocentre.com/Call_Signs_SW.htm shows CP32 and the same for MW 960) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOTSWANA [and non]. 4930, 0413-, VOA, Mar 12. Very decent reception with African accented English. Almost as strong as WWCR on 4840. Parallel 4960 from São Tomé only at fair level (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 3365 kHz Boa Musica --- Amigos, ontem Domingo por volta das 22h40 hora de Brasilia [0140 UT 11 March], fiquei ouvindo no Degen 1103 só com a antena telescópica, a Cultura de Araraquara, 3365, o sinal chegando bem aqui no DF, música de qualidade e as vinhetas da Cultura são bem feitas, uma ótima rádio (Neto Silva, Brasília DF, 11 March, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Neto, Coincidentemente, também andei escutando ontem por volta das 21~22 horas (local) a R. Cultura de Araraquara. Concordo com você: ela tem uma excelente programação, pelo menos para o meu gosto, bem como um sinal de boa qualidade. Aliás, ontem ouvi bastante OT e OC (Giusseppe Cysneiros, Santa Rita do Sapucaí-MG, ibid.) ** BRAZIL. 4805, Brasil, Rádio Difusora do Amazonas, Manaus 1005 to 1015 noted with locutor em português and unusually strong signal 12 March (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D, Icom 746 Pro, Drake R8, Drake R7, dxsf, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4824.96 approx., March 14 at 0051, Portuguese sounds like preacher, could be Davi Miranda, poor signal with flutter, but no sign of a het on hi or lo side from Peruvians. Presumed R. Canção Nova, Cachoeira Paulista SP (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Jorge Freitas points out that RCN is Catholic, so if it was really Miranda, it must be from the other ZY on 4825, R. Educadora, Bragança. He could also be on a Peruvian in Portunhol (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4876.2, Brasil, Rdif Roraima, Boa Vista RR, 0906 to 0930 OM in Portuguese into Brasil ballads very strong signal 12 March (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D, Icom 746 Pro, Drake R8, Drake R7, dxsf, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. RADIO RELOGIO RIO DE JANEIRO IN 4905 kHz --- NEW XAVANTINE MT BRAZIL [listener`s location]: Today 21/02 I note that the 0415 UT clock radio broadcaster of Rio de Janeiro this reactivated in tropical waves of the 4905 kHz sodium [SIO mis-translated??] reception was 352 it leads progamas gospels of the international church of grace here listening to this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wPuW0i07Gk station and here is a matter of complete new station operating in tropical waves: http://dxbrazilsw.blogspot.com.br/2013/02/radio-relogio-reativa-em-4905-khz.html (Daniel Wyllyans, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) It`s not a completely new station; he must not have been reading all the recent discussion of this. Not heard here; or anywhere in NAm? (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 4965.1, Brasil, Rádio Alvorada, Parintins 0900 to 0930 om portuguese good signal 12 March (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D, Icom 746 Pro, Drake R8, Drake R7, dxsf, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4975, Brasil, Rádio Nossa Voz, 0900 to 0940 locutor em português, período de música do Brasil 12 March (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D, Icom 746 Pro, Drake R8, Drake R7, dxsf, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4985 tentative, Brasil, Rádio Brasil Central, Goiânia noted 1000 to 1015 on 7 March. Usually weak in the morning covered by rtty 2300 to 0100. Speculation rtty may be local (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D, Icom 746 Pro, Drake R8, Drake R7, dxsf, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re my previous unID on 4985 at 0006 March 10, Jorge Freitas in Bahia replies, ``Yes Glenn, Rádio Brasil Central is active on 4985. Yesterday had a better signal than is customarily heard here at my QTH. 73`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11764.843, 2356-, Super Rádio Deus é Amor, Mar 11. ID'd at 2359. Powerful signal, noted when passing the other super powerful Rádio Nacional Amazônia on 11780. Feed seems slightly overmodulated / muffly, and sounds like a telephone feed. Initially thought I was listening to a political rally, but rather I think it's a live religious rally. Into music just before the TOH. Canned ID. At 0001:20 full ID, including www website, onde corte [Italian??], potencia, etc. Too bad for the muffly audio (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 15191.56 approx., March 9 at 0105, Brazilian Portuguese talk and music obviously offset as I make 5-kHz steps, then measured here on the 40-Hz fine tuning steps on the DX-398, R. Inconfidência, Belo Horizonte, poor and fluttery. It`s usually about one sesquikHz hi, but occasionally reported on the lo side of 15190 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also UNIDENTIFIED 4915 ** BULGARIA. Transmission problems: see ERITREA [non], KURDISTAN [non] ** BURMA [non]. 11795, March 12 at 1329, English ID from R. Free Asia, music, mixing with open carrier, and 1330 cut to RFA theme, another English ID introducing Burmese, but dumps off the air at 1332*, resuming at *1333. VG signal here, and hope it is at least half as good in Myanmar! Per HFCC here`s what was happening with site shifts: 1230-1330, 250 kW, 280 degrees from TINIAN 1330-1400, 250 kW, 57 degrees from Iranawila, SRI LANKA plus later: 1400-1430, 250 kW, 94 degrees from Kuwait Is it really necessary to make all these changes during a single transmission? Because they can! Surprised I was getting the biggest signal from Sri Lanka, if that still be correct (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 2598-USB, 0743, Placentia [Newfoundland] Coastguard, - Local sea forecast, nav. info. English ID, 242, 25/02 NR 2749-USB, 0742 Sydney [Nova Scotia] Coastguard, Canada - Marine forecast, nav. info in English & French, 242, 25/02 (Nick Rank, Buxton, Derbyshire, Sony ICF2001D, long wire and passive tuner, March BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** CANADA [and non]. [North American stations audible in Michigan now that CBEF Windsor is off] 540, CBGA1, Grande Anse QC (tentative); 2231-2303+, 4-Mar; M host in French with news feature segments including phone interviews; jazzy music bumpers between segments. Segment at tune-in was with a woman, mentioning Quebecois, economie, liberté & I swear, I thought she said merde twice. Many mentions of Québec throughout. Into presumed news at ToH. On top till about 2255 when equal to challengers, mainly Spanish - presume WLIE. Per Niel Wolfish, this one is still on. 540, WAUK, Jackson WI; 2012-2051+, 3-Mar; The NBA on ESPN; 5-40 ESPN non-IDs at BoH & H:50 and finally a WI Honda ad. Barely on top with CBEF gone. Last logged as WRRD. It looks like this one is going to be the predominant one during the day here with CBEF gone. I've not heard any call IDs; only 5-40 ESPN non-IDs & the occasional WI ad. 540, WDAK, Columbus GA: 2358-2403+, 3/4-Mar; News-Radio WDAK spot & Fox News Radio spot into Fox News. Suddenly on top, but just barely over the mix. It looks like this one is going to be the predominant one here at night with CBEF gone, AND they ID! 540, WLIE Islip NY; 2256-2350+, 3-Mar; Spanish on top at tune-in; announcements & "Nueva York" spot. Gave way back to WAUK at ToH. At ToH, there was an English call ID which I think was them, but too buried. Crept back up at 2346 in Spanish; 2348 English ad string including one for mortgages for New Yorkers. NY #58. At 2321, someone turned on a pulsing whoosher for a few seconds. 1059, 4-Mar; Heard the U.S. National Anthem & at 1100 "AM 5-40 WLIE Islip NY" into Spanish. The anthem might have been a daytimer coming on, as WLIE is 24 hours (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. Venerdì 8 marzo 2013, 1223!!! - 14670-USB, CHU, Ottawa, Canada, t/s. SF-IN (Luca Botto Fiora, QTH G.C. 09E13 - 44N21, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) !!! ??? I guess he found this reception unusual, unlike here (gh, DXLD) ** CANADA [non]. Radio City relays: Friday 15th: 1900-2000 UT on 7290 via IRRS, and on MW 1368 kHz from Padova, Italy Saturday 16th: 0900-1000 UT on 9510 kHz via IRRS 2000-2100 UT on 1485 kHz via R Merkurs in Latvia with a weekly separate programme. Every 4th Sunday: [March 24] 1300 to 1400 UT via Hamburger Lokalradio on 7265 kHz The email address remains citymorecars @ yahoo.ca Thank you! 73s, (Tom Taylor, March 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA [non]. GERMANY, More changes of Media Broadcast: Bible Voice Broadcasting Network 1630-1830 on 9925 ISS 125 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Farsi on air, not cancelled! (DX RE MIX NEWS #771 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov. March 11, 2013, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 6159.980, 2338-, CKZU, Vancouver, Mar 11. Measured this CBC outlet at exactly this frequency, at very good level here in northern BC. Het from CKZN measured at 6160.712 kHz. An excellent service for those few people in isolated locations without local AM or FM CBC service (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. Here in Alberta, economics is also the primary reasons why CKUA has decided to take their AM (Edmonton, 580 kHz) off the air later this spring. Essentially the AM site requires a million dollars in upgrades to make it compliant with Industry Canada Safety Codes, and CKUA cannot justify making that expenditure. Here’s the link to the explanation on the CKUA web site: http://www.ckua.com/02/19/13/CKUA-AM-Signal/landing.html?blockID=666821&feedID=7375 As they state, the province is well covered with a network of FM transmitters, so very few people will be unable to get a good quality signal, even without the AM. The AM signal does get out very well, given its low frequency, and I’ve heard rumblings that another company will be applying to use the frequency (Nigel Pimblett, March CIDX Messenger via DXLD) As already reported now (gh) ** CANADA. VETERAN CBC BROADCASTER MAX FERGUSON, DEAD AT 89 http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2013/03/07/max-ferguson-obit.html (via Fred Waterer, March 8, http://www.doghousecharlie.com --- tagline: To those of you who seek lost objects of history, I wish you the best of luck. They're out there, and they're whispering. - Clive Cussler dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DXLD) CBC Radio personality Max Ferguson, best known for his longrunning programs Rawhide and The Max Ferguson Show, has died. He was 89. In more than 50 years at the CBC, Ferguson became a celebrated satirist and award-winning broadcaster and writer. Born in Durham, England, Ferguson arrived in Canada at the tender age of three and grew up in London, Ont., where he graduated with a BA in English and French from the University of Western Ontario. Max Ferguson gained notoriety portraying different characters on the CBC Radio show Rawhide, which featured country music. [caption] He soon embarked on a broadcasting career, joining CFPL London as an announcer. Only a few months later, he was in Halifax, employed by the CBC. However, when he went to work one Saturday, he was horrified to learn he had been scheduled to host a half-hour show on country music, which Ferguson loathed. That’s when he decided to invent a character called Rawhide. "I then proceeded for the next half-hour to introduce each cowboy record in the most insulting fashion I could devise," he wrote in his 1967 memoir, And Now…Here's Max, which nabbed the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. It was an instant hit and much to Ferguson’s chagrin, he was soon hosting a a six-mornings-a-week show, which ran for 17 years out of Halifax and Toronto, starring Rawhide and as many as 14 other characters that Ferguson could create. CBC DIGITAL ARCHIVES: Max Ferguson - CBC Radio Entertainer After retiring Rawhide in 1962, he soon launched The Max Ferguson Show, which ran five days a week and featured topical skits based on the news of the day. Ferguson would mimic prominent politicians and celebrities, and he wrote his own sketches. Ferguson was a busy broadcaster. He also appeared on the satirical comedy show Inside From The Outside, the afternoon TV talk show 55 North Maple and the TV news program Tabloid. After 52 years at the CBC, he retired in 1998. Ferguson was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1970 and garnered many other accolades, including the Governor General's Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement in 2001, the John Drainie Award for significant contribution to Canadian broadcasting, the Gordon Sinclair Award, three ACTRA trophies, and honorary degrees from the University of Western Ontario, the University of Waterloo and Dalhousie University (via March CIDX Messenger via DXLD) ** CANADA. CBC FINANCES: ROBBING RADIO TO PAY TV By CHRIS COBB, Ottawa Citizen March 2, 2013 [RCI mentioned graf 5] http://www.edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/Finances+Robbing+radio/8035960/story.html If you listen carefully, any day of the week you can hear the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. creaking under the weight of its financial burden. A $115-million cut to its $1.1-billion federal subsidy, NHL hockey rights with a $100-million-a-season price tag, two expensive U.S. television game shows and pricey in-house TV drama productions — all of them wrapped in an unexpected recession — have cost the public broadcaster dearly. On CBC Radio, listeners are encountering an increased number of program repeats and they are getting their news from national reporters — shared with CBC television news — who are “reporting” on stories hundreds, sometimes thousands of kilometres from their home base. At the local level, critics say, a newly-adopted “if-it-bleeds-it- leads” approach has resulted in TV and CBC Radio newscasts replete with routine crime stories and fires of no particular importance. Radio Canada International, once Canada’s voice to the world, is a shadow of its former self. A $10-million budget cut has reduced it to an Internet radio station and in the process cut its availability to swaths of the world’s population, including China, where RCI’s Internet site is blocked. Last fall, in an effort to generate more revenue, the CBC asked the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) for permission to broadcast commercials on its upscale Radio Two and Espace Musique networks, a bid that is said to be opposed by most listeners and is certainly disliked by private broadcasters, who see it as a major threat and a slippery slope that would lead to the same on CBC Radio One. CBC management predicts advertising would bring a modest return — $15 million to $35 million over seven years — but the advocacy group Friends of Canadian Broadcasting suspects CBC is likely lowballing the figure and says the music network’s highly-educated, affluent loyal national audience would be irresistible to advertisers. At the CBC/Radio-Canada licence renewal hearing at the CRTC last November, network President Hubert Lacroix warned that if the regulator refuses its request to carry ads, it will have a significant impact on programming. “We have no intention of closing those radio stations down,” he said, “but they will change in format and content.” That might not go down well with listeners, either. A few years ago, a Radio Two move away from all-classical-all-the-time caused a furor, lost the network 30 per cent of its audience, and to this day remains a hot-button issue for listeners. The world of CBC budgets is complex, but before the latest cuts TV was getting approximately $861 million in taxpayer money and radio $315 million. That breaks down to $488 million for English-language TV, $185 million for English radio, $373 million for French-language TV and $130 million for French radio. According to CBC figures filed with the CRTC, English-language radio has received a slimmer slice of the pie over the past few years, losing $5 million between 2011 and 2012 at the same time English TV was getting $24 million more. Those figures, coupled with the anecdotal evidence gleaned by viewers and listeners, has convinced critics that CBC’s upper management is robbing radio to pay TV. Radio is increasingly being made “the junior partner” by CBC brass, says Friends spokesperson Ian Morrison, who worries advertising will further affect the quality of radio programming. “Commercials would turn Radio Two into a commercial broadcaster chasing audiences,” he says, “so programs would be chosen to drive audience share rather than following the CBC mandate to be distinctive. This deterioration is a threat to public broadcasting as we know it.” CBC guards the details of its biggest TV expenditures, but sources within the organization indicate that its current contract with the National Hockey League, which expires next year, costs about $100 million a season, plus production expenses and fees for its on-air talent. CBC’s recently expired five-year contract for the U.S. game shows Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune cost an estimated $20 million a season, combined, but apparently did not generate the expected revenue. The network also spent about $75 million on TV drama and comedy programming, such as Republic of Doyle, Heartland and Mr. D., although foreign market sales have made Doyle in particular a revenue generator. CBC-TV advertising accounts for about 30 per cent of English TV revenue, dropping slightly from 2011 to 2012 from $246 million to $245 million. But Hockey Night remains the network’s big ticket item. “CBC is addicted to Hockey Night in Canada,” says Morrison, “not because it makes a lot of money but because if it wasn’t there they would have to fill 400 hours of prime time programming.” It also brings in large audiences, loyal viewers that would migrate to CTV-owned TSN if it were to outbid CBC for the NHL rights. It’s the slippage in CBC’s journalism that concerns others, including University of Toronto journalism school director Jeffrey Dvorkin, a former managing editor of CBC News, and blogger Bruce Wark, a journalism professor emeritus at King’s College Halifax and former producer of radio news programming. “Hiring freelancers to fill in the gaps or picking up a BBC report used to be standard practice,” says Dvorkin. “Now there seems to be a lot more CBC reporting from the wires, where instead of being on site (where the story is happening) they are basically doing a rip and read — taking copy from the news agencies and maybe picking up video and blending it all into an report and pretending its original journalism.” Wark, who has been in a war of words with CBC News management sparked by coverage of the Oscar Pistorius bail hearing in South Africa done from Toronto by sports reporter Peter Armstrong, who used news agency and other remote sources to piece together his story — a process called “melts.” “CBC should be more honest with its audiences about the effects of these budget cuts,” Wark told CBC News editor-in-chief Jennifer McGuire in an email, “and one way would be to make it plain in news intros that reporting is not based on first-hand observation, interviewing or gathering of facts.” “In my day,” he said in an interview, “we would have refused to do it but because of the budget cuts the union has been weakened, reporters have been weakened and the CBC is battling to keep their ratings because that’s what has become important to them in big cities.” Jonathan Whitten, executive director of CBC News content, says “melts” are not the CBC’s preferred or usual method of reporting, but he defended coverage of the Pistorius story. “The Pistorius pieces were signed off from Toronto,” he says. “There was no visual reference to Peter Armstrong being there. I wouldn’t want to be seen as the defender of the melt but sometimes they do make sense for somebody like Peter who has sports as his beat and has been a foreign correspondent.” Cuts made to foreign coverage have largely been in personnel reduction at foreign bureaus, adds Whitten, with fewer people multi-tasking: “It isn’t simply a matter of shuttering bureaus and reducing output.” Dvorkin gives the broadcaster credit for creating national and local investigative units and “producing some interesting and worthy journalism.” He is less complimentary about local CBC newscasts, which he says are driving audiences away in a misfiring effort to increase audiences. “CBC still has a good reputation but it’s being frittered away in the quest for ratings,” he said. “And it’s not working.” McGuire says the aim in each city is to cover local and breaking news. She rejects the notion that local newscasts have become crime dominated but says audiences care about “personal security” issues. “We have all kinds of research that tells us what the audience cares about and this is one of the things,” she says. But Dvorkin says a study by the Committee for Concerned Journalists in Washington has shown that “decontextualized” crime reporting drives away the audience. “It basically showed that crime reporting that doesn’t differentiate between why crime has happened and what the consequences are actually decreases audiences,” said Dvorkin, “because people don’t like to be frightened when they watch news.” Unlike its local TV news shows, which have traditionally struggled against private competitors, CBC Radio remains strong and an audience leader in most of its markets, though during the past year, CBC Radio in Ottawa has shown some slippage. Consultant Barry Kiefl, a former CBC director of research, says such a significant shift in resources and broadcast strategy should require public consultation. The reason the CBC wants ads on Radio Two — and Radio One would follow, he says, is simple math: $54 million was cut from CBC Radio between 2009 and 2012. “This isn’t just a decision of where to spend money,” he says, “but a strategic direction.” (via Dan Say, alt.radio.networks.cbc via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** CANADA. MONTREAL — A year after it proposed to kill TSN Radio 690 by converting it into a French-language radio station, owner Bell Media is drumming up public support to save it. As part of its application to acquire Astral Media, which includes CJAD, Virgin Radio and CHOM, Bell is asking the Canadian Radio- television and Telecommunications Commission for an exception to its policy that limits the number of radio stations in one market that can be owned by the same company. It also set up a website, http://savetsn690.ca to encourage the station’s listeners to write to the commission in support of that request. Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Bell+makes+CRTC+proposal+save/8058919/story.html#ixzz2NT4xi02i (via Artie Bigley, DXLD) ** CHAD. 6165, Radio Chadienne; 2205-2211+, 6-Mar; M&W with French news to 2208 ID into more commentary. Centers about 6164.97. SIO=3+33- with splash from CKZN (presumed) on 6160.7 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) Very nice reception of Chad on 6165 kHz at 2155 UT, March 11, 2013. African pop music. Seems to me this station had lately been covered by another broadcaster and rarely audible at all (Bruce Fisher (Massachusetts, USA), dxldyg via DX LISTENIING DIGEST) Not covered at this time of day, if you have any propagation, unlike way out here in OK (gh, DXLD) ** CHINA. 4940, Voice of the Strait, Fuzhou, 1145 to 1200 strong signal, commentary by YL enjoyable Chinese ballads 9 March (XM, Cedar Key, South Florida, NRD 525D, R8A, E-5, via Robert Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. [As always, we try to arrange diverse reports of Firedrake in chrono order. CNR1 jamming interspersed --- gh] 11500, CC Music Jammer; seems sporadic schedule - not every day. 2330- 0000* 2/13, 0055-0100* 2/16, also 1245-1300* 2/17. 14980, 14700 CC Music Jammer; 2343-0000* 2/21 (Larry Russell, Flushing MI, MARE Tipsheet 1 March via DXLD) 9955, Crashing & Banging poor-fair under Brother Scare on WRMI (finally a good reason for c&b!) 1505 23/Feb. 11775, Crashing and Banging under Rev Barbi 0124 24/Feb 15610, EZL Crash & Bang (Crash and Bang Lite?) with a slightly mellower Chinese Opera tune in WELL 0107 24/Feb 15700, Crashing & Banging poor-fair 0023 23/Feb 15900, Crashing & Banging fair 0020 23/Feb 16100, Crashing & Banging poor-fair 0021 23/Feb (Ken Zichi, Brighton MI DX-pedition, MARE Tipsheet 1 March via DXLD) Sabato 2 marzo 2013, 0911 - 21590 kHz, CNR 1 JAMMER (echo long+short paths) + FIREDRAKE, Segnali buoni-sufficienti 0922 - 17750 + 17690 kHz, CRI English (echo long+short paths), Segnale buono-sufficiente FIREDRAKE 0926 - 17080 SF 0928 - 16160 + 16100 SF-IN 0929 - 15870 + 15800 BN 0936 - 13970 BN 0938 - 13765 (+ VOA Mandarin) BN (Luca Botto Fiora, QTH G.C. 09E13 - 44N21, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) EAST JAMMERSTAN: 9955, Crash & Bang Music Jammer; 1558-1600*, 6-Mar; Over B.S. via WRMI (presumed) who continued past 1600; // 15485 also off at 1600 before Taiwan came on. 15485 much stronger. This one was more of a drum riff. Seems like they've added some new wrinkles lately, including -- as Ken Zichi called it -- Crash & Bang Lite (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, this morning`s Firedrake logs 1250-1257 GMT: 11500 14980 15510 15900 16100 Nothing heard above or below (Steve Handler, IL, March 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Venerdì 8 marzo 2013, 1105 - 15375 CNR 1 JAMMER + Noise vs. TWN+RFA. SF-IN (Luca Botto Fiora, QTH G.C. 09E13 - 44N21, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) Today (3-8-13) Firedrake intercepts: Between 1227 and 1229 the following were in use: 12230 excellent signal, 12370 excellent signal, 15870 good signal, 15970 JBA signal and 16360 good signal. 1223-, 12370, and 16360 were in audio sync with each other and 15870 was 2-3 seconds out of sync and behind the others. 15970 was too weak to positively determine if it was in sync with the others. Between 1235 and 1238, 12230 was excellent, 12370 was excellent, 15500 was good with a het, 15870 was excellent and 16360 was good. The following were in audio sync with each other: 12230, 12370, 16360. 15870 was out of sync with the rest running about 2-3 seconds behind. 15500 was not checked for sync and also it signed off at 1245 while the others did not. That's apparently because the VOT broadcast in 15502 it is targeting ends at 1245. At 1312 the only Firedrake found anywhere was 15510 good signal targeting VOT. Might have been too early in the hour for the SoH targeted transmitters to have returned after their ToH silence. Between 1331 and 1344, 12230 was excellent, 12370 was excellent, and 13970 was poor all in audio sync with each other. 15870 was excellent and the audio was out of sync and behind the others by about 2-3 seconds. Between 1429 and 1429: 11500 excellent signal, 12670 excellent signal and 14700 good signal were all heard // and in audio sync with each other. Between 1442-1445 the following were heard all // and in audio sync with each other, 11500 good signal, 11970 excellent signal, 12670 excellent signal, 13530 fair signal, 14700 good signal and 16100 poor signal. During all of the searches today, frequencies above and below those listed were searched, except the frequencies of 11600-12100 were only searched from 1442 to 1445 (Steve Handler, IL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Firedrake March 8, after 1300: 6075, very poor at 1317, and just as I tune in next to CFRX, it goes off. Maybe a tune-up or mistake, as Aoki shows no target until: ``6075*R.TAIWAN INT. 1400-1800 1234567 Chinese 100 310 Kouhu`` March 8 after 1330: 15870, very good with flutter at 1331; none in the 14s, 16s, 17s 13970, poor at 1334 13530, good at 1334 12370, very good at 1335 12230, very good at 1336 11970, very good at 1338; none in the 10s, 9s, 8s 7390, very poor at 1344 mixing with Chinese = VOA Cantonese, Tinang 6240, very poor at 1345 mixing SOH 100 kW, 310 from BauJong, Taiwan March 8 after 1400: 15550, fair at 1414, with QRM from WJHR [see USA], off by 1431 March 8 after 1430: 11500, poor at 1436 11970, very good at 1436 12670, very good at 1436 13530, poor at 1437 13970, JBA at 1438 14700, very good at 1438; none in the 15s 16100, fair at 1439 17535, good at 1440 vs V. of Tibet, Madagascar, unheard; none in 18s 15610, March 9 at 0103, Firedrake with poor signal. EiBi shows RFA Tibetan via Tinian this hour only, plus CNR1 jamming, but it`s FD instead tonite. [and another below] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, Firedrake was heard in use on the following requests between 0242 and 0248 GMT on March 9, 2013. I am of the opinion that all frequencies except 17730 were being used by China to jam the Mandarin language broadcast of the Sound of Hope. I am of the opinion that 17730 was being used to jam the Tibetan language broadcast of Radio Free Asia. 13850-JBA signal, 14700, fair signal, 0245, 14980 poor-JBA signal, 15970 fair signal, 16100 poor signal, 170780 fair signal, 17730 poor signal. March 9, 2013 Hope this is of interest (Steve Handler, ibid.) 15555, March 9 at 1413, Firedrake is very poor with het on lo side, so hitting V. of Tibet from its hi side again clears 15550 for WJHR-USB, unlike colliding with it 24 hours earlier. No full-spectrum FD searches at either time today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) EAST JAMMERSTAN: 9955, Crash & Bang CC Music Jammer; 1514, 9-Mar; About = to Bro Stair, the last days prophet of god, via WRMI (presumed) and over other audio. (Frodge-MI) 15485, Crash & Bang CC Music Jammer; 1540, 9-Mar; strong over weak audio (Harold Frodge, MI, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Firedrake, UT March 10: 13820, poor at 0022, mixing with leftover Cuban pulse jamming against R. Martí; per Aoki, 13820 is only another of countless 100-watt SOH nuisance frequencies from Taiwan 13850, very poor at 0022 with ACI from strong 13845 WWCR 13970, very poor at 0022 with flutter 14750, poor at 0024; none higher 21590, March 10 at 1323, two poor signals in CCI, i.e. BBC Uzbek via CYPRUS at 1300-1330, and CNR1 jamming, as the ChiCom continue interfering in the internal affairs of Uzbekistan. Will BBC continue to hit this from some other site once Cyprus is abolished in A-13? And why no frequency hopping to avoid the jamming? There are scads of open frequencies on the 13m band. Duh. Firedrake check March 10 at 1353-1357: none found 18-10 MHz, tho there were plenty of CRI and CNR frequencies audible up thru 17 MHz. At 1424, one FD found, 15555, poor with het on lo side from V. of Tibet. Firedrake, March 11: 12670, very good at 1432 with flutter, when there is a pause, and shortly later, a jump-cut in the music, which sounds like it has been sped-up, to make it even more annoying? 13530, very good at 1433 15870, very good at 1435, and I find it is not synchronized with 12670, but hard to tell the difference with such repetitive music. None found in the 16s 17535, fair at 1441, vs V. of Tibet, Madagascar; none in the 18s 15610, March 12 at 0106, Firedrake in drumming-only passage, and traces of its victim talking (RFA Tibetan via TINIAN at 01-02), then adding usual instrumental cacophony; poor with flutter. Firedrake March 12, before 1300: 11500, good at 1256 with flutter. No further search at this hour. Firedrake March 12, before 1330: 11955, good but stops at 1327 while a[nother?] carrier remains; 1330 CRI theme opening scheduled Indonesian via Kunming. Nothing in Aoki to account for Firedrake here, as CRI is also on 11955 in Malaysian from Kunming in the 1230-1330 hour. Maybe a mistake? Or maybe Sound of Hope was on 11955 instead of usual 11970 attracting FD. Firedrake March 12, before 1400: 12370, good at 1345 12500, good at 1345; none in the 13s 14750, very poor at 1350 15510, good at 1352, het on hi side from V of Tibet 16160, very good at 1353-1400* with flutter; none in 17s, 18s, 19s, 20s [I hardly ever tune the 20-21 MHz range, normally devoid of any broadcasters, even harmonix] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12230 / 12370 / 13130, CHINA, Firedrake jammer. 2321 March 12, 2013. All in the clear, with the first two good/fluttery, the latter weak/non-flutter, with the usual instrumental jammer loop (Terry L Krueger, FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, Firedrake was bust this morning our time (evening in China) (3/13/13) I heard the following - 11500, fair with flutter signal and 13970 JBA signal, 1156 The following heard 1245-1255 // and in audio sync with each other: 13530, poor 13920, good 14980, good 16100, fair 16920, good 14750, also heard 1245-1255 with JBA signal but too weak to see if in audio sync with other Firedrake broadcasts 1245-1255: the following four frequencies were // and in audio sunc with each other: 13920, good 14980, good 16100, fair 16920, good 1245-1255: 13530, poor, too weak to tell if in sync with above frequencies 14750, poor, too weak to tell if in sync with above frequencies 11500, 1245-1255 fair-good but out of sync, behind by 2-3 seconds with 13920, 14980, 16100, 16920 15510, heard 1248-1255 // and in sync with 13530, 13920, 14980, 16100 and 16920 1321-1328 the following heard // and in audio sync with each other: 11500, good-excellent 11970, good 14750, excellent 14980, excellent 15520, good with het 16920, fair. Two frequencies also heard 1321-1328 but were too weak to tell if in audio sync with the others- 13920, poor 16100, fair 15510 heard 1302-1306 with het until 1305 which I assume is when VOT signed off. Not sure if you questioned target on 11970, but that is reported to be a SoH frequency 2000-1700 GMT. Good DX (Steve Handler, March 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11640, Firedrake Jammer music on Mar 13, 1030. Radio Taiwan International, heard under jamming with male in Chinese. Sweep of SW band from 3890 to 18000 kHz turned up only one other (Firedrake), 11970, with target station not heard. Similar sweeps turned up no Firedrakes on Mar 10 or 11 at this hour. Did note loud jamming on 3985, likely DPRK having its run at Echo of Hope. 73 and Good Listening to all (Rick Barton, El Mirage, Arizona, Hammarlund HQ-120X, HQ-180A, Drake R-8, Slinky and random wire, ABDX via DXLD) Firedrake March 13: 11500, good at 1355 11970, good at 1359, stops at 1400 and then a few words of Chinese from a Beijing station before cutoff 15565, fair at 1429-1430* vs V of Tibet, Tajikistan split but unheard 17535, good at 1433 vs V of Tibet, Madagascar, unheard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Firedrake 11500 and 12230 at 1157, both fair to good signal // and in audio sync with each other. 3/14/13 Firedrake 1246-1300 sign off // and in audio sync on 12230-excellent signal, 13970-fair, 15510-good, 16920 fair, 17080 poor-fair, 17370 poor fair, 17370, poor-fair and 17450 poor fair. Also // Firedrake on 15940 but 15940 about two seconds behind all of the other frequencies. 3/14/13. Heard Firedrake 1323-1329 // and in audio sync on 15870-good signal, 15940 good-excellent signal but with occasional audio drop outs, 16600 fair to good signal, 16920 fair-good signal, 17250 JBA signal and 17370 fair signal and also // to Firedrake on 6100 with good signal but 2 seconds behind the rest. No Firedrakes heard lower or higher than these. 3/14 13 Firedrake heard 3/14/13 1345-1355, // and in audio sync on 14750-good signal, 15870 excellent signal, 15940 good signal, 16600 fair-good signal, 16920 fair-good signal, 17250 fair signal, 17370 excellent signal and 18970 excellent signal. Also // to Firedrake on 16100 with an excellent signal but 16100 audio was 3 seconds behind all the rest. No Firedrake heard above or below the listed frequencies. 3/14/13 (Steve Handler, IL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) PALAU: 9965, Radio Australia (List Log); 1418-1430:27*, 13-March; English/Chinese lesson with girlfriend-boyfriend phrases; start of English program at BoH & off abruptly. Listed in Mandarin. SIO=3+43 till 1422 when pulse-buzzer jammer started up & continued past 1430 (Harold Frodge, MI, DX LISTENING DIGEST) R. AUSTRALIA --- "BROADCAST GROUP CONDEMNS CHINA OVER RADIO JAMMING" http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/2013-03-08/broadcast-group-condemns-china-over-radio-jamming/1098826 I cannot confirm the fact with our monitor. We confirm jamming for the English broadcast of AIR instead. http://www.mediacat-blog.jp/usr/hiroshi/air7550_20130225_2130.gif http://www.mediacat-blog.jp/usr/hiroshi/air11620_20130303_1450.gif (S. Hasegawa, March 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: BROADCAST GROUP CONDEMNS CHINA OVER RADIO JAMMING Updated 8 March 2013, 12:02 AEST The Association for International Broadcasting says English-language broadcasts from Radio Australia, the BBC World Service and the Voice of America are being jammed. (Credit: ABC) [caption] An international broadcast association has condemned the deliberate jamming of shortwave broadcasts, including those from the ABC's Radio Australia service, into Asia. The Association for International Broadcasting (AIB) says English- language broadcasts from Radio Australia, the BBC World Service and the Voice of America are being jammed. Chief Executive Simon Spanswick has told Radio Australia’s Connect Asia program research has indicated the jamming signals appear to be coming from within China. "It appears to be quite wide," he said. "We've been talking to some monitors who keep ears on the shortwave bands around Asia and they say that it's certainly audible well outside China. "So, one imagines, even with the geographic scale of China itself, that this is right across the region." Audio: Hear the Interference during a broadcast of the Asia Pacific program (ABC News) The AIB says broadcasts in Mandarin from broadcasters including the BBC, Radio Free Asia and Voice of America have been interfered with for many years. Mr Spanswick says while the methodology appears to be the same, this is the first time English-language services have been targeted. "Essentially what you do if you're trying to stop people listening to a program on shortwave is you transmit another audio feed on the same frequency. "What the Chinese have done for a long time is actually broadcast Chinese folk music...what's happening in this case is that they're transmitting a different sort of noise. The aim is to simply make it so uncomfortable to listen to that people switch off and don't bother trying to listen to the program that they wanted to get." The AIB has lodged protests over the jamming with the Chinese embassies in Washington, London and Canberra. Mr Spanswick says it's particularly concerning at a time when China is expanding its own international radio and television services. "They're going global...and nobody is trying to stop them from making available information about what the Chinese Government wants the rest of the world to hear," he said. "So there's go to be a level playing field...there's a universal right to fair and free information and freedom of speech. Jamming is simply so contrary to that sort of notion that it simply can't be allowed to continue." (via DXLD) The 2+ minute countdown clip of the jamming with this RA story is certainly not the ``new kind`` of noise jamming reported elsewhere, nor Firedrake, but typical program-modulation co-channel, i.e. CNR1. But WTFK? Why won`t those claiming such jamming release such basic info, frequency, time and date? We`d like to hear it on our own radios (Glenn Hauser, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Oh-oh: No independent monitor can confirm that Radio Australia in English is being jammed, and an audio clip they provide does not have the new Chinese jamming signal (a square wave mixture in DSB with suppressed carrier -- I assume these are newly developed modulators, still used with broadcasting transmitters, not necessarily domestic made ones) but some other interference? First: Has Radio Australia in Chinese already being jammed so far? Probably the Chinese have not added new "enemy stations" to their list at all, just extended the jamming of long determined ones to the English services of these stations, perhaps because knowledge of English is now widespread in China as Glenn pointed out. After reading the latest DXLD it seems to me that the knowledgeable source quoted therein has misunderstood the previous discussion. I have not seen any comments on the timing of the BBC's news release. What had been noted were two other points: They claim that shortwave jamming is not as widespread as satellite jamming. Which, taking the risk of sounding harsh, is a pretty absurd statement. The other point: That China in last year jammed only the Uzbek transmissions of BBC WS does not mean that they left the BBC alone so far. It was merely the result of the Chinese radio broadcasts being closed in 2011. And to my knowledge these have been routinely jammed. Thus from my side the BBC's news release was described as "not comprehensible", because I indeed did not assume a sinister background, in this case that the BBC tries to pretend that they never had radio broadcasts in Chinese. The real question is why they make the fuss only now, because I have never seen any statements from the BBC about the everyday jamming against their Chinese service. I offered the possible explanation that by jamming also the English broadcasts, thus ruining a service for much more than just China, the Chinese have in the opinion of the BBC now really crossed a red line. Now one could think that the BBC should have been asked instead of putting every word it publishes on the gold-scales: Good idea, but a contact inside BBC WS, if he still works there at all after the last cancellations of job positions, has developed a behaviour of flatly referring to the press office. Which will not be asked anymore after they once quite rudely (it has been perceived as a politely put "this is not the business of you Krauts") rejected an enquiry about the closure of the BBC studio in Berlin (Kai Ludwig, Germany, ibid.) Today I checked and it`s still on the BBC frequencies 17790 (Nakhon) and 15575 (Al Seela) - this type of digital noise is working well inside the region, but I don't think people outside region will get a good reception of jamming, as I move the direction of the active loop towards the transmitter sites the jamming gets weaker. The jamming signals are most strong between directions towards between Lhasa to Shanghai, from my QTH at Siliguri. Hope you already heard this sound clip http://snd.sc/XqK7C5 BBC 17790 kHz 301 UTC 22 February 2013 Digital Interference (Partha Sarathi Goswami, WB, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DXLD) Thanks Partha, I suppose even our measurement to be the Lhasa area of Tibet (S. Hasegawa, Japan, ibid.) I found some more recordings from FB: 26 February 2013 - Keith Perron of PCJ Media from Taiwan recorded and posted as "Voice of America between 2300 and 0000UTC always very clear and strong. But for a few weeks it's been like this at 11860 kHz. http://www.radio4all.net/files/kperron@gmail.com/3101-3-Voice_Of_America_11860_2320UTC.mp3 " And Victor Goonetilleke from Sri Lanka replies on the same day "This is the VOA 15155 used for South Asia 0030-0200. I have recorded at 0059 past 0100 with my Log Periodic beamed to China. https://soundcloud.com/victor-4s7vk/voa-15155-khz-pht-2-26-2013-00 " On 5th March 2013 at PC Media forum Victor Goonetilleke posted an interesting observation as follows... "Usually here in Colombo, Nakon is ahead and the best for coverage. A'Seela is always behind whatever the frequency, beam heading is. The two clips below are the Log Periodic beamed to Nakon on 15310 and A'Seela on 17790. Nakon and the Chinese jammers are more or less peaking in the same beam heading give or take 10 degrees. A'Seela on the other hand is way West of China from Colombo and the jammer. So A'Seela is much better than Nakon when beamed at the transmitter site. https://soundcloud.com/victoribbmonitor/aseela-17790-bbc-beamed-3-5 https://soundcloud.com/victoribbmonitor/nakon-bbc-beamed-15310-3-5 (via Goswami, dxldyg via DXLD) NEW TYPE JAMMING FROM CHINA TO RADIO TAIWAN INTERNATIONAL IN ENGLISH I confirm the jamming of the new type from China for English service of RTI on Mar. 12 at 1600 UT on 15485 kHz. http://www.mediacat-blog.jp/usr/hiroshi/rti15485_20130312_1640.gif The jamming of the new type has the possibility that it is transmitted from Yunnan, Xinjiang other than Tibet. de Hiroshi (S. Hasegawa, March 13, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RTI Taiwan 15485 via ISS in English is being heard at fair to good strength today (13 March) with no trace of any jamming/interference. Maybe no propagation to me from China at this time on 15 MHz? (Noel R. Green (NW England), ibid.) IMHO, I have said it earlier, unlike normal jamming, this digital jamming is very effective in the region with not much effect outside target area; for example, one may try listening via globaltuners, Hongkong receiver and other receiver outside Asia - will confirm the same. In my place 15485 has little noise but fair average reception with some fading but it`s much weaker and disturbed at Jorhat, Assam, 500+ Kilometer east of my QTH (Goswami, Mar 14, ibid.) ** COLOMBIA. RADIO SANTAFE "ME GUSTA MAS" --- A la información publicada sobre la "alianza" entre Caracol y Radio Santafé, en que la primera entra a manejar y comercializar la frecuencia 1070 kHz en Bogotá y en la ciudad de Pasto 100.1 del pasado mes de febrero -- ver: http://www.larepublica.com.co/empresas/caracol-radio-se-fortalece-sumando-ahora-las-emisoras-de-radio-santa-fe_30668 Desde el 1 de marzo se realizó el cambio de programación en la emblemática emisora capitalina; así ahora tiene el formato de Radio Recuerdos (ex-690), dejando los programas de contenido a una emisión en su mayoría musical en incluso utilizando el slogan "me gusta más" que por mucho años acompañó a Radio Recuerdos; es claro que la marca Radio Santafé no va a desaparecer luego de casi 75 años que se cumplen el próximo 1 de abril, pero el manejo es total de Caracol quien dejó a cargo a Hernando Galvis Caballero quien manejara a Radio Recuerdos por más de 15 años, trayendo también las voces que tenía esta emisora. La situación que precipitó esta "alianza" fue la demanda laboral que perdiera Radio Santafé ante quien fuera uno de sus directores. German Salgado; cuyo monto alcanza los 1.500 millones. También se suma que Carlos Albornoz, esposo de Blanca Bernal (quien se encontraba al frente de la emisora) un político nariñense se encuentra vinculado a un escándalo de corrupción en la DNE, Dirección Nacional de Estupefacientes, entidad que maneja las propiedades incautadas al narcotráfico. Así se inicia el fin de la que fuera la emblemática emisora de la capital (Rafael Rodríguez R., Bogotá D.C. - COLOMBIA, March 11, condiglist yg via DXLD) ** CONGO Rep. 6115, R Congo, Brazzaville, 1935, Feb 22, actuality programme in French with two male speakers, mainly about west African countries, contact telephone numbers, ID as ”Radio Congo”, then into local chant music, 44444 (Graham Bell, Simon’s Town, South Africa, DSWCI DX Window March 6 via DXLD) Remains a tough one in N America, on air only early evenings there? If on in mornings, blocked? (gh, DXLD) ** COSTA RICA. 5952.410, R República from probable Costa Rica transmitter center. Male announcer on S=8-9 level in southern Germany, 0145 UT (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 12) 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, dxldyg via DXLD) NO, this must have been R. Pío Doce, BOLIVIA, in its split-frequency area; R. República was above 5954, not heard now (gh, DXLD) ** CUBA. 1550 - Radio Progreso, unID site. Heard here on Feb. 27th at 0700 "... y seguimos con más música aquí, en el Club de la Madrugada de Progreso...". Three unsync Rebelde signals were clearly heard few seconds before. 73! (Mauricio Molano, Salamanca, ESPAÑA - SPAIN, RX site: Aldea del Cano, Cáceres, LAT: 39º17'09.70 N, LONG: 6º19'00 W, RX: PERSEUS. ANT: WELLBROOK ALA1530S+ http://moladx.blogspot.com/ dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 5025, March 8 at 0741, R. Rebelde is off: that could prove useful for DXing Quillabamba or Katherine, but neither audible now: too early for either, I expect. Next check 1322, CMBA is back. 15340, March 9 at 1415, RHC is absent, opening frequency for weak S Asian language, no doubt HCJB AUSTRALIA. COSTA RICA [sic; mis-blamed at first instead of CUBA 11840]. 11715- 11915, March 10 at 0015, extent of big buzz most audible closer to 11815 and in clear spots, such as 11805, 11825, 11860, depending on relative strength with AM signals which deserve no such competition. Could be mistaken for local source, but only in this 200 kHz range, and centered on the REE DRM transmitter?! I think not. Ban DRM to the wide open spaces of the fixed utility bands! Stray DentroCuban noise jamming: 11970, March 10 at 0020, rapid pulsing; nothing on 12000 where it usually opposes VOA whether it`s on at the moment or not. 13820, March 10 at 0022, long after R. Martí is off, instead pulse- jamming to Firedrake! See CHINA. See also PERU [non] 5980! 15330, March 10 at 0028, rapid pulse jamming ``better`` than usual also against non-Martí at this hour. 5980, March 10 at 0639, wall-of-noise jamming is already running here even tho R. Martí won`t start until 0700. DentroCuban Jamming Command confused by DST just about to start? But RM stays on same UT frequency schedule. 6010, UT Sunday March 10 at 0700, RHC wraps up English, having blocked Radio Mil for a bihour, and ID in Esperanto as it`s time for that weekly semihour on this frequency only --- or was I dreaming? No show, just dead air follows and off at 0702:50* clearing frequency for the Colombo-Mexican radio war; see MEXICO [and non]. 12220, March 10 at 1312, RHC Spanish is fading in and out, quite readable at peaks, i.e. leapfrog of 15340 over 13780 another 1560 kHz lower. Such a two-band leapfrog opens many other possibilities to be on the lookout for: e.g. 13100 = 17580 over 15340. 12950 = 17730 over 15340. The Cuban Commie lapdogs of Yankee Imperialism have just changed their clox to UT -4 in lockstep with the USA as daylight SHIFTING has just started (believe me, NO DAYLIGHT can possibly be SAVED by messing with clox!), which means program and frequency schedule changes at RHC. Yes, they have moved their morning features one real UT hour earlier, e.g. Sunday March 10 at 1320 on 17580 and all the others, `Amigos de Cuba` is one hour earlier than it had been all winter, with pen-pal segment. This means the DX program `En Contacto` will also be at 1335 ex-1435, (and presumably 2235v, UT Monday 0135 too). The 1335 broadcast will again conflict with one of only two airings of Spain`s DX program `Amigos de la Onda Corta` which is rarely about SW at all, 1305-1355 on 17595, 21610; which maybe will shift an hour earlier, be completely rescheduled, or cancelled but not until March 31. At 1325, AOC was in a segment about Óscar Romero and El Salvador. Axually ``EC` starts close to 1336 and confirmed on all these: 17730, 17580, 15340, 13780, 12220, 11860, 11760, 11750, 11690, 9540-(with CCI from CRI Chinese via Kunming, Commies vs Commies!). After weekly birthday greetings to individuals, a much bigger birthday is commemorated in the body of the show, the seventieth of Radio Mil, México DF (is that all, only 70?), so out of the archives comes an interview recorded at the XEOY studios in 2003y when Manolo was there for the DX meeting in Hidalgo, with Julián Santiago Díez de Bonilla, and Héctor García Bojorge who were then producing their `Encuentro DX` show on R. Mil since 1999y, and was aired several times each weekend on the SW frequency (only, I think). Or course, we are all wondering if they will now resume it? JSDB was at that time a big fan of RHC (or a gracious host), saying it was the first station he heard on SW in 1961; may have soured a bit since, as RHC has no real respect for R. Mil, taking over its only possible frequency. (But Manolo is blameless, not responsible for RHC frequency mis-management: that`s Arnie Coro`s job per WRTH.) JSDB is a cirujano otorrino (ENT surgeon), while HGB was a college student then. Segment concluded with a full ID for MW & SW from Radio Mil: XEOY is pronounced ``equis-e-oye``, OY being a play on letters for oye which means listen. I.e. the Y is run together with the O before it, stress on the O, not the E as would be the case if pronouncing the letters separately. Now we know, while on SW, XEOI would mean oí = ``I listened``. Past tense was certainly apropos until March 8, 2013. No mention on RHC that XEOI has just reactivated, probably unaware of that, but it may not be a coincidence that XEOI came back just before the anniversary of XEOY; on what date did the SW inaugurate at first? 13780, by 1426, this one RHC frequency has signed off early, as usual in Sunday-only anomaly to make way for `Aló, Presidente`, non-existent in more ways than one. Time to embalm that show too, if not bury it. RHC may have missed the 0700 UT Sunday Esperanto broadcast, but what about the next one? During winter it has been at 1600v Sundays on 11760 only, so should now be at 1500 UT after Spanish is finished: yes, March 10 at 1500, 11760 et al. are carrying the sign-off announcement, ``hasta las 22 horas UTC`` (should now be 2100!), with ``Audio Real`` in the meantime (really Windows Media --- there is a difference!!); first four notes only of the IS, and deadair, so no Espo? No, here it finally comes at 1503 with IS hiccuping, opening Esperanto. At 1501 tuned down to 11750 and despite just ``signing off``, Spanish is reopening on this frequency with ID, theme, until cut off at 1502:15*. Welcome to the two sesquiweeks of confusion! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Further chex of RHC time-shifting due to imposition of DST March 10 by Yankee Imperialism: not yet checked in the 1900-2130 UT period when 20-21 English is expected to shift to 19-20 on 11760, etc. The Spanish to Europe on 15340 has been at 22-24 UT, and should shift one hour earlier: yes, at 2130 there it is. Also // 11840 undermodulated and 17705. `En Contacto` DX program had been circa 2340, and now it starts Sunday at 2246, just in time to finish before 15340 close-down, we hope. BTW, preceded at 2245 by RHC`s impressive multi-lingual ID, but still including two incomprehensible tongues, which must be both Quechua and Guaraní, despite the latter having been dropped years ago when the announcer died and was not replaced. Just another lie out of Habana. This followed the philatelic show. Yes, 15340 was off the air by 2305, good news for Argentina 15345v. 11880, the newest transmission had been at 21-23 to Africa, 2100 French, 2130 Portuguese, 22-23 English (and with a VG signal to NAm somehow, for those who would like to get the RHC hour out of the way early). But nothing there on 11880 at 2129 check; has it been moved an hour earlier? Possibly, altho that will cause consternation in non-DST Africa. NO, French and Portuguese have been moved one hour *later* on 11880, at 2200 & 2230 confirmed respectively. But what about the English hour? It is not at 2300 or 2100, kaput? New frequency? If so, as yet unfound. It doesn`t make sense to move French & Portuguese an hour later, so perhaps a first-day anomaly, meriting rechex of 11880 as days go on. 15370, Sunday March 10 at 2230 opening Esperanto, same as before. I try to copy the schedule announcement; 0700 on 6000 instead of 6010 where it failed to appear this week; the first time on 11760 I couldn`t copy but already confirmed at 1500 instead of 1600; second time on 11760 announced as 1930, which I think has not really been on the air consistently; and 2230 when it sounded like they gave frequency as 6010 instead of 15370. RHC Esperanto website is no help with up-to-date schedule, and the announcers are clueless about what is reality. 5040, as expected, the tropical-time English broadcast has as usual shifted one UT hour earlier to be at 23-24, in progress at 2340. But 5040 is off the air at 0618 UT Monday March 11 during DXUL, so no longer added at 06-07? Or just another anomaly today needing to be reconfirmed. Alan Pennington, BDXC-UK says 5040 carried English at 05- 06 on March 10 and 11 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) In fact RHC was in English on 5040 0500-0700 this morning Glenn (12- March). Heard here from 0505 tune-in through to 0704 when tx went off all in English. Third consecutive day I've heard two hours of English on 5040 from 0500 parallel usual 6060 6125 etc. 73 (Alan Pennington Caversham, UK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I noticed that Radio Havana Cuba's 5040 kHz channel has carried their English service (not Spanish) between 0500-0600 UTC the last two mornings (10 and 11 March) as well as between usual 0600-0700 UT. Not sure if this was just a temporary aberration, or a permanent change. Although 5040 gives fair clear reception during these hours, best reception here is still on 6060 kHz 0500-0700. Of course RHC switches its 49mb English frequencies at 0500 each day, so maybe they've decided to switch 5040 at the same time? (Alan Pennington, Caversham, UK, Sony 7600GR, telescopic, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) Further chex by monitoring of RHC`s DST-adjusted schedule, long before they attempt to revise it on their own website, which is never a 100% match with reality: 11760, March 11 at *1900, English is as expected moved one hour earlier, like it was during last year`s DST season; and 2003 check 11760 is in French; but 15340 remains with Portuguese at same time, Arabic after 2030. And 11880 is not on the air, in case one expected it to shift one UT hour earlier from: 21-23; to: 20-22, as Ivo Ivanov did. After 2030 both 11760 and 11880 are off. 17705, at 2003 is open carrier/dead air already, altho Spanish is not expected to start until 2100. At 2130, Spanish is running on 11840, 15340, 17705. However at 2204, 15340 is off again, but back at next check 2254, so presumably was intended to be continuous at 21-23 like day 1. 11880, at 2203 is now on and in French, like March 10, ex-2100, And in Portuguese before 2300, ex-2130-2200. At 2340 check, 11880 is still on and now in English, unlike yesterday when it was off after 2300. So indeed the 22-23 English hour to Africa has also been moved one hour later to 23-24, regardless of how inconvenient that may be in the target area. And starting right at 2340 is the weekly `Focus on Africa` ``from the unique perspective of Cuba``, which I assume is on all the Monday/UT Tuesday English hours, not just the one allegedly for Africa itself. This means English is now on two frequencies at 23-24, the other being 5040 which shifted from 00-01; I`ve yet to check whether the two are synchronized. Some coincidentally simultaneous French broadcasts earlier are aired as much as a minute apart (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) New B-12 of Radio Habana Cuba from March 10, 2013: 0000-0030 5040 100 kW / 130 deg SoAm Creole 0000-0030*15370 100 kW / 130 deg SoAm Quechua 0030-0100 5040 100 kW / 130 deg SoAm French 0000-0400 11680 250 kW / 160 deg SoAm Spanish 0000-0400 11760 100 kW / non-dir CeAm Spanish 0000-0400 17705 100 kW / 130 deg SoAm Spanish 0000-0500* 6060 100 kW / 010 deg NoAm Spanish 0000-0500 6120 250 kW / 315 deg CeAm Spanish 0000-0500 9810 100 kW / 340 deg CeAm Spanish 0000-0500 11840 100 kW / 010 deg NoAm Spanish 0000-0500*15230 100 kW / 130 deg SoAm Spanish 0100-0500 5040 100 kW / 130 deg SoAm Spanish 0100-0500 6000 100 kW / non-dir CeAm English 0100-0700 6165 100 kW / 340 deg CeAm English 0500-0600 5040 100 kW / 130 deg SoAm English 0500-0700 6010 250 kW / 315 deg CeAm English 0500-0700 6060 100 kW / 010 deg NoAm English 0500-0700 6125 100 kW / 010 deg NoAm English 0700-0730 6010 250 kW / 315 deg CeAm Esperanto Mon [no, supposedly Sun --- gh] 1100-1300 6150 100 kW / 160 deg SoAm Spanish 1100-1300 9550 100 kW / 340 deg CeAm Spanish 1100-1300 9850 250 kW / 160 deg SoAm Spanish 1100-1500 9540 100 kW / 340 deg CeAm Spanish 1100-1500 11690 250 kW / 315 deg CeAm Spanish 1100-1500 11760 100 kW / non-dir CeAm Spanish 1100-1500 11860 100 kW / non-dir CeAm Spanish 1100-1500 15230 100 kW / 130 deg SoAm Spanish 1100-1500 17580 100 kW / 130 deg SoAm Spanish 1100-1500 17730 100 kW / non-dir CeAm Spanish 1300-1500 11750 250 kW / 160 deg SoAm Spanish 1300-1500 13780 100 kW / 010 deg NoAm Spanish 1300-1500 15340 250 kW / 160 deg SoAm Spanish 1500-1530 11760 100 kW / 020 deg NoAm Esperanto Sun 1900-2000 11760 100 kW / non-dir CeAm English 1930-2000*15340 100 kW / 053 deg WeEu French 2000-2030 11760 100 kW / non-dir CeAm French 2000-2030 11880 100 kW / 100 deg SoAf French 2000-2030*15340 100 kW / 053 deg WeEu Portuguese 2030-2100 11880 100 kW / 100 deg SoAf Portuguese 2030-2100*15340 100 kW / 053 deg WeEu Arabic 2100-2200 11880 100 kW / 100 deg SoAf English 2100-2300 5040 100 kW / 130 deg SoAm Spanish 2100-2300 9710 250 kW / 315 deg CeAm Spanish 2100-2400 9810 100 kW / 340 deg CeAm Spanish 2100-2400 11840 100 kW / 010 deg NoAm Spanish 2100-2400 17705 100 kW / 130 deg SoAm Spanish 2200-2400*15340 100 kW / 053 deg WeEu Spanish 2230-2300*15370 100 kW / 130 deg SoAm French Mon-Sat 2230-2300*15370 100 kW / 130 deg SoAm Esperanto Sun 2300-2330*15370 100 kW / 130 deg SoAm Creole 2300-2400 5040 100 kW / 130 deg SoAm English 2300-2400 6000 100 kW / 010 deg NoAm Spanish Mon-Fri Mesa Redonda 2300-2400 6120 250 kW / 315 deg CeAm Spanish 2300-2400 9640 100 kW / 230 deg NoAm Spanish Mon-Fri Mesa Redonda 2300-2400 11680 250 kW / 160 deg SoAm Spanish 2300-2400 11760 100 kW / non-dir CeAm Spanish 2300-2400*15230 100 kW / 130 deg SoAm Portuguese [no, it`s Spanish] 2330-2400*15370 100 kW / 130 deg SoAm Portuguese * time of transmissions are unchanged, all others 1 hour earlier (DX RE MIX NEWS #771 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov. March 11, 2013, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) The above schedule was issued prematurely, based partially on assumptions; Ivo has already corrected the 11880 broadcasts to *2* hours later than shown, i.e. one hour later than previously, not one hour earlier than previously. The 15340 broadcast is in fact now at 21-23, as I have already confirmed, not 22-24. There are other deviations from reality, but I am sure other DX bulletins will just copy this without taking into account my axual monitoring. Why do I bother? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Update of Radio Habana Cuba 2200-2230 11880 HAB 100 kW / 100 deg to SoAf French, not 2000-2030 2230-2300 11880 HAB 100 kW / 100 deg to SoAf Portuguese, not 2030-2100 2300-2400 11880 HAB 100 kW / 100 deg to SoAf English, not 2100-2200 -- 73! (Ivo QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) It`s not so much an update, as a correxion to something that was never in effect (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) I still can't help wondering how many listeners they have in Southern Africa in the time slot of local midnight to 2 am. Regards, (Bill Bingham, RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) CUBA [and others co-channel] Despite I had not realized some DST change last weekend yet, - in Cuba ? Or US? Please Glenn or Arnie tell us the real exact schedule. Noted RHC 11680 kHz at 0035 UT S=9+15dB in Germany. Speech to the crowd by political leader about revolution, of course in Spanish (was NOT co-channel PBS Pyongyangs Kim Jong-Un speech). RHC 11840 kHz towards CeAM had poor S=6 signal and were much fluttery in Germany. RHC S=6 signal on 9810 at 0125 UT female locutora, bad mixture with co-channel CNR2 Bussiness Radio in Chinese from Baoji in western China, latter which was stronger - ahead. 5025, R Rebelde in Spanish phone-in program at 0128 UT S=9+20dB, proper signal, and next door 5040 English from La Habana with little stronger S=9+30dB, wonder when same NVIS antenna type used, from very same location ... ? 6000 kHz is bad mixture result now at 0135 UT March 12, since also TRT Emirler Turkish night service requested this co-channel. RHC brought "Focus on Africa" program and played nice music from Kenya. 6060 kHz RHC Spanish program, fair with S=9+10dB signal strength, deep in our European night at 0138 UT, co-channel suffered by little stronger V of Iran Arabic from Zahedan site. Poor on 6120 kHz at S=6 signal at 0140 UT, but covered totally by co- channel CNR XJBS Uighur service PBS Xinjiang from Urumqi, western China. Nothing heard on either 6140 or 6165 kHz, latter channel used now by BBC Urdu service and an African music station, - latter probably NBC Zambia program (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 12, dxldyg via DXLD) 6140 is not in use at all by Cuba now (gh) UNIDENTIFIED. 11790-11890, March 10 at 2305 big buzz across this range, but not out of the Costa Rica 11815 DRM which doesn`t start until 0000; now the center peak is around 11840 where RHC in AM is audible mixing with it. Even if not the cause of this particular problem, DRM still needs to be moved out of the AM SWBC bands, so it cannot be accused (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 11790-11890, big buzz ranges here, March 11 at 2130, peaking around 11840 vs a strong but undermodulated RHC Spanish signal. I`m not prepared to say that transmitter is responsible for it, but obviously nothing to do with Costa Rica DRM, which isn`t on until 0000, and 11815 at the moment is full of buzz as are many other `open` frequencies, closest to 11840. The buzz could be semi-local, but not from my household as I am hearing it elsewhere in the block, and nothing like it anywhere else on the SW bands. 11740-11940, March 12 at 0053 the buzz is still going and spreading further, even covering 11815 where REE/CR is presumably still DRMing. Need to check around 0500 whether the buzz cut off when RHC 11840 doth. 11740-11940, big buzz all evening March 11-12 UT. Prime suspect is the RHC 11840 transmitter which is at the center of this range, but where the buzz is also audible. *Now* I can definitely pin the source on that, since I was monitoring from 0455 UT March 12 with the buzz circa 11855 on one receiver, and RHC 11840 on another. Both cut off at exactly the same instant, 0501:01*. 11840 is currently scheduled at 21-05 UT on 10 degree antenna, says Ivo Ivanov, so that`s 8 hours a day of this crap: Yet another example of the horrible engineering at RHC, where they don`t give a damn about interfering with other stations, most of an entire band. I had thought the same transmitter is probably used on 11860 in the mornings [not 11840 as I miswrote originally] with similar undermodulation level, but so far no such buzz around it or any other RHC frequency. How long will it take to fix this? Listeners may want to complain directly to Arnie Coro: he won`t acknowledge anything from me but if he has any sense at all, keeps up with the daily reports from RHC`s most dedicated volunteer anomaly monitor in the USA. This buzz must be blocking countless other 25 mb signals from countless other SWLs, but I`ve yet to see anyone else mention it (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) continued below Heard two hours of English again from RHC on 5040 kHz this morning (12-Mar) from 0505 UTC tune-in to 0703 UTC when 5040 tx went off. Also last night (11-Mar), English was an hour earlier than before on 5040 at 2300-0000. But strangely, English to Africa on 11880 khz was an hour later than before, at 2300-0000, so parallel to 5040(though 2300-0000 seems a bit late to target Africa). RHC does carry a programme called 'Focus on Africa' in its Monday English broadcasts to all areas e.g. at 0540 this morning which today featured Kenyan singer George Mutinda (Alan Pennington, Caversham, UK, BDXC-UK yg March 12 via DXLD) ...but changed again this morning (13 March) with English on 5040 only 0500-0600 UT, then switched off at 0600. Presumably these timing changes are because USA put their clocks forward to Daylight Saving time last weekend, and US is main target for RHC's English (Alan Pennington, ibid.) Not exactly. It`s because Cuba also puts their clox forward in lockstep with the USA (also back in the fall on same date), causing all kinds of anomalies and confusion in transmissions. More to come. 73, (Glenn Hauser, Yanqui, ibid.) 5040, March 12 at 0543, RHC English now at 05-06, moved up from 06-07, with Afro song. Having confirmed yesterday that the wideband noise on 25m in the evenings is coming from the 11840 RHC transmitter until it all went off at 0501:01* March 12, I tune in for the sign-on at nominal 2100 March 12, but RHC IS is already playing at 2057, undermodulated as usual, and at first it seems the buzz has been fixed, as the adjacent channels each side of 11840 lack it, but it`s there again further out, peaking circa 11810 and 11870, but audible in clear spots 11785-11830, 11850-11905 or so. RHC seems to have adjusted its range but certainly not eliminated it. Next check at 0050 UT March 13: now the close-in frequencies have the buzz, worst 11830-11865, and audible 11790-11910. This is a different pitch and intensity than the REE/CR DRM 11810-11820. As for axual jamming, at 0052 UT March 13 once again there is pulsing on 11970 against nothing discernible, and a wall-of-noise on 12000 about equal level to VOA Spanish which is now one UT hour earlier. 5955, March 13 at 0103, pulse jamming here but still no sign of even a carrier on 5954+ where R. República used to be; just 5952+ Bolivia. 5040 // 11880, Tuesday March 12 at 2345 check during `DXUL` the two English frequencies are synchronized, one having moved in from 0000 and the other from 2200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Very hot here at my QTH. Every day 34/36 C. I'm a headache. Someone pass a little cold northern, :-) 11840, 12/Mar 2059, RHC in Spanish. Start of transmission, ID at 2100. Very weak signal. Going back at 2152, improved the signal modulation, is clear, but the signal still is weak. Until 2155 I have not heard the big buzz ranges between 11740-11940. Back at 2230 good signal (Jorge Freitas, Bahia, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17580, March 13 at 1350 is the AWOL frequency from RHC today; still on 17730, 15340, 15230, et al. Next check 1432, 17580 is back on. Another check of the noise/buzz producing transmitter, 11840, March 13 at 2120: no buzz at first and it`s still undermodulated, which is often a bad sign meaning some of the signal is squeezing out on spurious frequencies. Then the buzz starts spurting here and there, peaking plus/minus 35 kHz circa 11805 and 11875 --- the latter adjacent another RHC 11880 which has gone back to an earlier start: see below. At 2131 a noise burst around 11855. At 2157, the buzz is worst at 11830 and 11840. After 2200 it seems the buzz is intermittently on and off, at various levels and at various peak frequencies. At 2320 buzzing 11790-11820 peaking at 11805, and also around 11865. May really be symmetrical, but affected by where other signals reside and how strong they relatively are. Also at 2320 I notice something new: under-modulated spurs // stronger 11840 on exactly 11830 and 11850, as if intentional separate transmitters, but surely not; // 11680 so that transmitter is separate. By next check at 0110 UT March 14, 11840 is alone, no plus/minus 10 parasites and no buzz at the moment. BTW, in a previous item I misstated the morning frequency which is not surrounded by buzzing: it`s 11860, not 11840. Meanwhile, I am checking other RHC frequencies to find what they are doing. Since March 10, 11880 has been starting at 2200 instead of 2100, but today it`s already on at 2120, in Portuguese! At 2134 it`s in French, i.e. swapped from previous pattern --- wait a minute, this is fraxured French = Kriyol! At 2157 a song in Spanish is playing but that could be within any other language service, cut off at 2158 to open carrier. 2200 few words unknown language, cut to dead air again. 2201, theme and opening (real) French, false start; try again at 2202, and now it keeps going, claiming temp in La Havane is already 30. At 2240, 11880 is back in Portuguese. After 2300, at 2320 it`s still in English at its new hour. So will 11880 keep on the additional 21-22 hour? Some other language-frequency chex: 15340 in Spanish at 2134, 2240, off at 2320. 15230 in Spanish at 2320: used to be Portuguese 23-24. 15370 in French at 2240, Quechua at 2320. 5040, March 14 at 0524, RHC English with IADs; quick check of the overkill four parallels on 49m: none of them with such a problem. 9555-9560, 9590-9600-9615, March 14 at 1327, intermittent buzz like we have been hearing evenings surrounding RHC 11840. Most likely source here would be the 9570 CRI relay transmitter. No particular buzz around 11840 at quick check 2140 March 14. 11880 is off the air, unlike yesterday. 5025, March 14 at 1308, song in English, ``Devil Went Down to Georgia`` by Charlie Daniels Band with hot fiddling worthy of Kyle Dillingham --- could it be Australia? Naah, back-announce in Spanish, so R. Rebelde as usual. I wonder if the literal Commie Cubans read something negative into this song about the Yankee Imperialists? http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/charliedanielsband/thedevilwentdowntogeorgia.html Also mentioned FM 96.7, so was this a separate R. Reb FM program on SW? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 9330, March 8 at 0726, big open carrier making a slightly varying LAH atop always-off-frequency WBCQ CUSB; 0729 recheck, YL with 5-digit Spanish number groups already in progress. First time I`ve heard this clash with WBCQ, but apparently part of the regular complex schedule from Habana, as others have complained about it; does not happen at earlier/other hours. Strangely enough, 9330 is also being reported as the center frequency for HAARP transmissions, says Dave Hughes. Enough already. Fortunately there is nothing on this WBCQ frequency worth listening to (except `AWWW` of course Sat at 0100, but better on 7490, also on 5110) (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) HM01 numbers station Escutas de 10/03 : HM01 9240 kHz 0900z 10/03 9155 kHz 1000z 10/03 and 5855 kHz 1000z 10/03 voice > RDFT (decoded with DIGTRX, encrypted file) 18834 > 17171600.TXT 995 bytes 14677 > 77072574.TXT 992 bytes 28766 > 32304763.TXT 1006 bytes 43164 > 35284671.TXT 966 bytes 83062 > 72210411.TXT 971 bytes 81606 > 05358004.TXT 961 bytes 11530 kHz 1700z 10/03 11635 kHz 1800z 10/03 11635 kHz 2100z 10/03 10715 kHz 2200z 10/03 11530 kHz 2300z 10/03 voice > RDFT (decoded with DIGTRX, encrypted file) 18835 > 17171600.TXT 995 bytes 63371 > 23553578.TXT 960 bytes NEW ! 35401 > 60357534.TXT 961 bytes NEW ! 43165 > 35284671.TXT 966 bytes 83063 > 72210411.TXT 971 bytes 81607 > 05358004.TXT 961 bytes 73 de (Roland, PY4ZBZ, 11 March, http://www.qsl.net/py4zbz/en.htm radioescutas yg via DXLD) Escutas de hoje 12 March, HM01 12120 kHz 0900z 12/03 12180 kHz 1000z 12/03 voice > RDFT (decoded with DIGTRX, encrypted file) 18836 > 17171600.TXT 995 bytes 63372 > 23553578.TXT 960 bytes 35402 > 60357534.TXT 961 bytes 43166 > 35284671.TXT 966 bytes 83064 > 72210411.TXT 971 bytes 65051 > 12243711.TXT 985 bytes 11435 kHz 1600z 11/03 11530 kHz 1700z 11/03 11635 kHz 1800z 11/03 16180 kHz 2100z 11/03 17480 kHz 2221z 11/03 17540 kHz 2300z 11/03 voice > RDFT (decoded with DIGTRX, encrypted file) 38831 > 85244373.TXT 955 bytes NEW ! 63373 > 23553578.TXT 960 bytes 35403 > 60357534.TXT 961 bytes 52561 > 28144785.TXT 991 bytes NEW ! 83065 > 72210411.TXT 971 bytes 65052 > 12243711.TXT 985 bytes 73 de (Roland, ibid.) ** CYPRUS. Probably not able to join us on the IoW [Isle of Wight??] is DAVID CRYSTAL who writes from Israel. “The BBC WS from Cyprus on 1323 kHz can be heard in Israel with any cheap radio. Reception is perfect during daylight, and there is interference at night. The BBC can save money without harming listeners by not using 1323 kHz at night. I listen to the BBC only during wartime. In wartime, most Israelis listen to the radio all day long. People who know enough English listen to 1323 kHz. In Israel, all the media is censored. 1323 kHz discourages our government from telling fairy stories. To almost all Israelis, 1323 kHz is the BBC WS. They know nothing about short wave.” (David Crystal, Israel, March BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) [BDXC Ed note: BBCWS 1323 kHz from Cyprus is due to close at the end of March] ** CYPRUS. Cyprus Broadcasting Corp transmissions on SW to the UK were unheard when checked on 3 February and may have gone. They were scheduled at 2215-2245 Fri -- Sun on 6135, 7220, and 9760 via the BBC Cyprus relay station which is due to close at the end of March (Dave Kernick, DXLD via March BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) Checked here since and also unheard, so it does appear to have gone. (ed., March BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** CZECHIA. Czech Republic. New medium wave station Radio Dechovka has been licensed on 1233 kHz with 10 kW via Líbeznice and hopes to start tests in Spring 2013: http://mediamania.tyden.cz/rubriky/televize-radio/do-eteru-miri-radio-dechovka-dostalolicenci_262087.html Auto translation of this with some editorial tweaking: “Probably in the spring students will be able to tune into Radio Brass. The Council for Radio and Television awarded a licence for nationwide broadcasting on medium wave. Radio Dechovka (Brass band radio) was possible to listen to only on the Internet. RadioPraha company, which operates Radio Brass, awarded RRTV license for nationwide broadcasting on medium wave transmitter through Líbeznice 1233 kHz with a power of 10 kW. "Radio Broadcasting Brass with these parameters must be initiated no later than the statutory period of 180 days from the grant of a license, it is assumed, however, start trial operation during spring 2013," said a spokesman for Radio Brass Radek Blazek. The Internet Radio broadcasts Brass since July 2009. Musical dramaturgy is based on the Czech, Moravian and Silesian wind and folk music. The programme schedule also includes special music programs, focusing on instrumental ballads, songs, or large orchestras, sprostonárodní pub songs, "said Blazek” (via mediamania.tyden.cz 21-Feb, via March BDXC- UK Communication via DXLD) ** DIEGO GARCIA. 12759, 0141-, AFN, Mar 11. Fair reception, so the best I've heard them since my brief visit to Masset, with modern music 12759, 0336-, AFN, Mar 9. Just at threshold level at this time. I'll have to listen earlier, since I'm sure that the MUF has dropped since darkness (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12759-USB, March 13 at 0053, JBA talk, presumed AFN, and on the air earlier than 0100 instead of 4319-USB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 11540 EGYPT . Radio Cairo/Voice of the Arabs, -Zaabal on 2/26. . M, later W and rapid AA talk. Not strong and with a hum or het accompanying. "Arabs" was slowly succumbing to the noise. 11560-Abis in EE was better at the time. ( Dexter , WI ) 11560 EGYPT . Radio Cairo-Abis, at 1035 on 3/6. W talk in (l) GG then ME music. Better than normally, as was the modulation. ( Dexter , WI ) [sic] (Gerry Dexter, Lake Geneva WI, NASWA Flashsheet March 10 via DXLD) ??? German is scheduled at 19-20 UT on 11560, so meant 1935? And the previous log lacks any time at all. But the two are far from the same date, so not necessarily related. Such slipshod reporting by an editor himself is one reason I don`t bother to read PopComm, where any possible DX `news` would already be 3-4 months old in the first place (gh, DXLD) 9720, R Cairo. Sit down. Take a deep breath. You are about to be shocked. English OM transmission re Islam and religion in general and ID at :22 by YL into Arabic music at :23 to tone at :29. As you can probably tell from the details above, the modulation was actually passable. I wouldn't call it 'great' or 'perfect' but it was definitely moderately OK -- which is head and shoulders better than usual! Did they fix things or are they just having a good day? Inquiring minds want to know! 454+4+3+ 0315-0330* 23/Feb (Ken Zichi, Brighton MI DX-pedition, MARE Tipsheet 1 March via DXLD) The latter -- nothing is ever permanently fixed at R Cairo (gh, DXLD) 9905, 0451-, Radio Cairo, Mar 9, Arabic programming. Very strong, but sharing the same characteristics as the Swahili transmission from Saudi Arabia. Distorted audio. Too bad, as it is very loud and strong this way (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. UNID Arabisch 11116.008 kHz um 2130-2200 UT Wer hat sich hierher verirrt? Schwere ägyptische-arabische Gesänge. Hat sich der Operator von 11600 in LBY vertippt? 116..... Gehört in Nürnberg, Kiev, Wien, Norddeutschland und Norditalien. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, March 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11116.008 kHz Arabic singer, like Egyptian music in the 60ties and 70ties under Nasser, 2130-2200 UT --- UNIDentified Arabic program on odd channel. Heard in Perseus net in Nuremberg, northern Germany, on UNI receiver at http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ in Kiev and Vienna, northern Italy. Puzzle ... please help. Keyboard glitch for LBY 11600? 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, March 10, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes Wolfgang. I'm hearing in SDR, Twente. No signal in my QTH. 73 (Jorge Freitas, 2213 UT March 10, ibid.) Dear Tarek, may you can check this recording of this night, about 2203 til 2206 UT on 11116.008 kHz. Google shows this hit: XTB is a new ENIGMA designator. Its characteristics are as follows: Frequency 11116 kHz. Daily. It is best heard in Europe in the early morning. It transmits 1 tone, 2 buzzes. Thanks in beforehand. vy73 (wolfy df5sx via DXLD) ?? Zufall der gleichen Frequenz? Hört sich nach E11 Cairo EGY an? E11 - From logs posted to the ENIGMA list by Gert and AF, we learn that E11 is active on the following frequencies: Tuesday at 1030 UT on 9610 kHz 1230 UT on 9448 kHz Thursday at 0800 UT on 10125 kHz Friday at 0800 UT on 11116 kHz 1030 UT on 9610 kHz 1230 UT on 9448 kHz E11 has changed its schedules and is now on Thursdays at 0800 UT on 10125 kHz, and on Fridays at 0800 UT on 11116 kHz (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hello wolfy, Now this is interesting. This is the Middle East Radio (MW 774 and FM 89.5) in Cairo, first time to hear them on SW. The Arabic ID is Idhaat Elsharq Elawsat. All the best (Tarek Zeidan, Cairo, Egypt, Sent from my iPad, March 11, ibid.) Just a thought, 11116 plus 774 is 11890. Is there Egyptian broadcast at that time on 11890 from the same site? Could then be tx site mixing product (Jari Savolainen, Finland, WORLD OF RADIO 1660, ibid.) There certainly is! That must be it, English at 2115-2245 on 11890, usually with awful/little modulation. Altho I don`t know about matching the sites for sure. Aoki says: 11890 R.CAIRO 2115-2245 1234567 English 250 315 Abu Zaabal EGY 03122E 3016N ERU b12 Unless 11116 is heard at any time other than this sesquihour (Glenn Hauser, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Great analysis, but the Q remains the same. Why would ERTU broadcast Middle East Radio instead of the General Program or Radio Cairo in any language (Tarek, Sent from my iPad, ibid.) Because it is an unintentional mixing product, shortwave minus a mediumwave frequency. However, WRTH shows 774 site is Abis, the other one. So now they would both have to be at the same site, one or the other, for this theory to work. Perhaps there was a recent site change, which would explain why this just now showed up (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) And EiBi says it is from Abis site: 11890 2115-2245 EGY Radio Cairo E Eu a EGY: a-Abis 31N10-30E05 73, (Günter Lorenz, Germany, ibid.) There's a typo in WRTH 2013: 11890 kHz should be Abis, not Abu Zaabal. (Mauno Ritola, Finland, WRTH, ibid.) I have vague recollections of Middle East Radio turning up maybe 10/15 years ago somewhere in the 9100-9500 kHz range, which I think turned out to be some kind of mixing product (Dave Kernick, Interval Signals Online, ibid.) Many thanks. hfcc: 11890 2115-2245 27,28 ABS 200 325 0 211 Eng EGY ERU Also AOKI NAGOYA list show WRONG entry ABZ Abu Zabaal 325 degrees would fit to cover western Europe, even on very small INTERMODULATION power signal... MW 774 former 1000 kW powerhouse, now 500kW reduced? 4-mast like BBC / Marconi design of Cyprus / Oman Masirah etc. Abis 774 kHz MW - to shortwave at ABZ would not work, distance already 156 kilometers. There is any formula for the other 9.4 to 9.448 MHz Enigma E11 outlet? often heard in past 2 decades with same Nasser era like songs of the 60ties/70ties? Also reported by Rumen in the past. 73 (Wolfy, ibid.) Checked also 11890 + 774 kHz = 12664 kHz tonight - Negative ENIGMA sign number broadcast E25 and E11 carried the very same program also in the past decades (Wolfgang Büschel, March 11, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 12 via DXLD) Recording was made after 2200 UT news cast, is 0000 LT in EGYPT, WRTH shows ABS 774 'Program 5 - Middle East Program' Should check also 11890 + 774 = 12664 kHz tonight. 73 (Wolfy, ibid.) I guess you refer to E25 not E11 wolfy ;) Sent from my iPad (Tarek, ibid.) Strange though - still a puzzle: Abis 11890 is weak signal S=5-6 in southern Germany tonight, came on air 2111:00 UT, but left for a short break 2113:20 UT again. After one minute back on air, but still weak tonight. 11116 came also on air at same time 2111:00 UT but left also 2113:20 UT. At start appearance 11116 was much stronger at S=8-9 level, never any low power INTERMODULATION signal, this was a real 100 kW shortwave broadcast, for two minutes only ... ! Latter appeared again now, but channel signal is very weak and distorted on threshold level. More like question mark occurred, still a puzzle what happens on the SW antenna matrix or feederline at Abis, towards 11890 kHz curtain array. vy73 de (Wolfy, 2147 UT, ibid.) Strange though - still a puzzle: 2115-2245 on 11890 minus 774 = 11116 2300-0030 on 9965 minus 774 = 9191 What is this? (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DXLD) I guess it was 9990 minus 774 kHz some few years ago. 73 wb (Büschel, ibid.) = 9216 (gh) Thanks Ivo, Now at 0020 UT, right another Abis INTERMODULATION outlet, according to formula 9965 minus 774 kHz = 9191.012 kHz. S=7-8 signal strength here in southern Germany. Stronger than 11116 kHz this night. vy73 (Büschel, UT March 12, ibid.) 11116, March 11 at 2202, nothing audible, altho R. Cairo English is on 11890, good level fair signal, but modulation distorted. 11116 was a big mystery heard mainly in Europe, and then Tarek Zeidan in Egypt recognized 11116 as ``Middle East Radio (MW 774 and FM 89.5) in Cairo, first time to hear them on SW. The Arabic ID is Idhaat Elsharq Elawsat``. Guess what, 11890 minus 774 = 11116, so it`s a mixture between SW and MW transmitters at the Abis site, possible on 11116 only during the 2115-2245 English broadcast on 11890. Wolfgang Büschel says it`s intermittent. The 774 mix would also explain the previous strange frequency from Egypt, 9191, 774 kHz below 9965 which is on at 2300-0430, so be on the lookout for anything else 774 kHz away from an Abis R. Cairo frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Middle East Radio on MW 774 kHz on short waves: Izaat Al-Sharq Al-Awsat (Middle East Radio)on MW 774 was noted on SW 1800-1900 9655 ABS 200 kW / 325 deg WeEu Italian minus MW 774= 8881v 1900-2000 11560 ABS 200 kW / 325 deg WeEu German minus MW 774=10786v 2000-2115 11560 ABS 200 kW / 325 deg WeEu French minus MW 774=10786v 2115-2245 11890 ABS 200 kW / 325 deg WeEu English minus MW 774=11116v 2300-0030 9965 ABS 200 kW / 325 deg NEAm English minus MW 774= 9191v 0030-0430 9965 ABS 200 kW / 325 deg NEAm Arabic minus MW 774= 9191v -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1660, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, March 13 DXLD) ** EGYPT. 15710, March 14 at 2010, Horn of Africish music, fair with some distortion, overridden by some brief running-H2O ute. It`s axually Hausa from R. Cairo per HFCC, 250 kW, 241 degrees from Abis at 18-21 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ERITREA. Hello Glenn, When I heard two unIDs tonight near 4700 I returned to your log below which was copied for SWB 1764 a few weeks back. Have you noted anything after that date here? The first recording is from 4699,945 and very weak. The signal is alone when the recording starts at 0156. At 0256 also 4700,010 is there and stronger and at 0356 4699,945 is gone. I enclose one very weak recording of 4699,945 which is too weak to give any clue. But what is your opinion of the music of 4700,010? First music at 0256, then talk and more music from 0300. Those two need more investigation. 73 (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, March 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Thomas, No, I have heard nothing further around 4700 since my log cited. Your clips are confusing with the times shown on them not matching your text. I guess they are in SNT on the clips? Agree the 4699+ one is too weak to tell anything. But I suppose the frequency would imply Bolivia. The 1+ minute 4700 one sounds like ``Horn of Africa`` music. Surely it`s VOBMEritrea, as per many other reports. And probably the 3+ minute 4700. Of course VOBME would not be expected to be on as early as 0100 when I had my unID. 73, (Glenn to Thomas, via DXLD) Hello Glenn, The time given in each clip is correct. It was wrong in my mail, times should be 0256z and 0300z. The recordings are from VoBME. I found a parallel on 5670 from the same night and same time with exactly the same program. Mp3 file from 0300z enclosed. Also noted at 1740z on 4700,010 the same day. The next night I got a definite ID of R San Miguel on 4699.945. In the meantime I got help from Jari Savolainen and Henrik Klemetz via REALDX telling me it was Eritrea. Unfortunately I have completely missed the Dave Valko and Ron Howard Eritrea logs seen in latest DXLD for this 4700 one!! Thanks for your help. 73 (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, ibid.) 5670?? That`s a new one on me for VOBME (gh, DXLD) ** ERITREA [non]. BULGARIA. 11620, Radio Sunrise at 1600 UT, March 11. Schoenes Signal von Radio Sunrise ("Idha'atul Sharouq") in Arabisch fuer Eritrea um 1600 UT auf 11620 kHz, nur gab's massive Problem bei der Programmzufuehrung. Ploetzliches Ende des Programms nach 3 Minuten, nach 2-3 Minuten Traeger gab's einen Neustart von vorne, nur um an der gleichen Stelle wieder abzubrechen. Nach dem 3. Neustart- Versuch scheint man's engueltig aufgegeben zu haben (Patrick Robic, Austria, A-DX March 11 via BC-DX 13 March via WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DXLD) BULGARIA, 11620 Sunrise R. via Bulgaria, Mar 12 *1600-1620 35322-35333 Arabic, 1600 sign on with opening music, Opening announce, Talk and eritrean pop, ID at 1618 and 1619. 11620, Sunrise R. via Bulgaria, Mar 13 *1600-1620, 25332-35333, Arabic, 1600 sign on with opening music, ID and opening announce, Talk and Eritrean pop, ID at 1609 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX and ANT, IC- R75+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-525+RD-9830+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-515+35m Long Wire, NRD-345+35m Long Wire, Satellite 750+30m Long Wire, DE- 1130, WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ERITREA [non]. MADAGASCAR, 11560, Dimtse R. Erena via Madagascar, Mar 13 *1700-1715, 35333-35433, Tigrigna, 1700 sign on with opening music, Opening announce and ID, Talk, ID at 1704 and 1706 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX and ANT, IC-R75+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-525+RD- 9830+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-515+35m Long Wire, NRD-345+35m Long Wire, Satellite 750+30m Long Wire, DE-1130, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA. Voice of Tigray Revolution was heard on 5950 kHz, March 10, 2013 at 1755 UT - Horn of Africa song, YL singer, 1759 OM briefly talk in vernacular, 1800 not c/d, but IS, local music, and YL talk in vernacular. Fair signal with quick fades and noise, SINPO 35333, but since 1801 strong splashes from RCI (5955 kHz), reception became impossible. I have attached some audio files with records of such broadcasting from Ethiopia. I would like to ask DXers around the World: Has some of them received QSL card or verification letter from VoTR recently? If so, what is QSL address or e-mail? Thank you in advance! RX: Degen-1121 and ANT.: Degen-31MS, My kindest regards, (Ihor Karivets', Lviv, Western part of Ukraine, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Ihor, You know, this is a government not clandestine station - We`ll see if we get anything more specific, but WRTH shows: http://www.dimtsi-woyane.com webmaster@dimtsiwoyane.com P O Box 450, Mekele, Tigray, Ethiopia (Glenn to Ihor, via DXLD) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. 15360/15365/15370/15375/15380/15385/15390/15395, E- SAT Radio, 1700-1800, monitored Feb 01-Mar 01, reveals a new schedule, where the frequency daily randomly is selected amongst these eight frequencies in order to avoid the jamming by Ethiopia with broadband DRM-like white noise (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, Mar 02, via DSWCI DX Window March 6 via DXLD) Is ``randomly selected`` what Ivo said or the DXW editor`s rewording? Ivo`s DX Re Mix News monitored schedule of this as published in full in DXLD, is complex, but NOT random. He has found clearly repetitive patterns depending on day of week and week of month. Is all this bother successful in avoiding jamming? (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** EUROPE. Action of Saturday 9th of March --- Hello friends, Radio Spaceshuttle will be on air 9th of March on frequency 15880 kHz USB/(AM) with programmes of Radio Rainbow at 08 and 12 UT HotRadio 09 and 13 UT Artem's World Music 10 and 14 UT Radio Spaceshuttle-CoolAM 11 UT Friendly yours, (Dick [Spacewalker] and Spacegirlsarmy ;) 0814 UT March 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15880-USB, 9/3 1140, R. Spaceshuttle - spaceshuttleradio @ yahoo.com English ID e music, buono (Roberto Pavanello, Italy, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) 15880-USB, PIRATE, Spaceshuttle Radio-Finland, 1136-1235+, 03-09-13. Finnish station testing with 1500 watts. Noted fading in here 1136 with ID's by Dick Spacewalker, rock tunes by Space, Midnight Oil, John Hiatt. Likes postal reports to: P. O. Box 2702, 6049ZG, Herten, Holland. Email: spaceshuttleradio @ yahoo.com (Chris Lobdell, Tewksbury, Massachusetts, Eton E1; 40 Meter Dipole, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) Well heard here in VA 03/09/13 on 15880.0 USB from 1215Z. Lots of ID's, music and e-QSL to: SpaceshuttleRadio @ yahoo.com (Chuck Rippel, Chesapeake, VA, NASWA yg via DXLD) ** EUROPE. 6950 - Currently on the air Blue Star Radio, which I believe is a Europirate, with a wide mix of rock, pop & techno music. first tuned in approx. 2115 to a poor signal that was just barely audible. Now the signal level has come up enough to hear a clear ID at 2204. Still lots of band noise but improving. Now playing some German Umpah music. Anyone have any information regarding station location or contact info? (Stephen Wood, Harwich, Mass., March 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Blue Star bluestarradio @ live.nl PO Box 73, 7160AB Neede, Netherlands this is via http://www.freewebs.com/ukdxer/addresses.htm Regards (Dave Hughes, KCMO, ibid.) http://www.mkvk.se/Piratspecial.pdf http://www.freewebs.com/ukdxer/addresses.htm 15 minutes ago (2235z) I heard Baltic Sea Radio - BSR on 6950 kHz - with a strong signal LSB with carrier, as Jingle typical cry of the seagull. Unique ID + Address. Now away from the frequency (roger, Germany, ibid.) Present at 2255 in SDR from Twente. Tecno music. Weak signal and QRM from ham radio (Jorge Freitas, Brasil, ibid.) Must be heard via ground wave. Dead zone here for 7 MHz over 800 km. Also for me, the Netherlands are in the dead zone. See here at Pruhonice and Dourbes (Julisruh is not updated) http://www.rhci-online.de/iono.htm (roger, ibid.) ** FRANCE. Re 1557 site change: Locations on image map: Two masts for Radio Orient 1350 kHz, and R FranceInfo 1557 kHz at 43 47 39.38 N 07 24 56.35 E another part 600 meters southerly away, 2 masts for Col de la Madonne Cabannelles, R Monte Carlo 702 kHz and lower power 1467 kHz occasional daytime at 43 47 21.42 N 07 25 06.00 E (Wolfgang Büschel, March 5, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 12 via DXLD) ** FRANCE. Street View - Issoudun B - Saint Valentin http://goo.gl/maps/o5WTj I think I count 10 Alliss Antennas (Ian Baxter, NSW, Shortwavesites Yahoo Group via DXLD) I count 10 too. JL (Jerry Lenamon, Waco, ibid.) [later:] Wolfgang Bueschel has pointed out that there are 12 Alliss arrays at Issoudun. An additional two arrays are located east of the main transmitter facility, south of the village of Saint-Aoustrille, easily seen if the search area is expanded. Issoudun is indeed an impressive facility. JL (Lenamon, ibid.) ALLISS antennas look like some kind of jagged mechanical monster, but I guess they can`t walk around (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** FRANCE [and non]. 17858, FRANCE, Radio France International, 1746, 3/4/13, in French. Woman and man alternating, 1757 series of announcements with ID included, off 1757. Fair. (Taylor-WI) 17858, GERMANY. Adventist World Radio – Wertachtal, 1640, 3/4/13, in Somali. Somali music with male announcer. Nice music. Fair (Mark Taylor, Madison WI, Microtelecom Perseus, WinRadio g313e, Eton E1, Grundig G5 & Satellit 800; EWE, Flextenna, 40 meters dipole, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) So both sites were off-frequency the same? What a coincidence. Maybe one was previously Wertachtal, but current HFCC shows both Issoudun with RFI. OR: The AWR Somali log must have really been on 17575, the only frequency scheduled, per WRTH 2013, Wertachtal. OR, TDF/MBR made a mistake and put the AWR broadcast on 17858 instead of 17575? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. 2/3, 7265, H:R, 0643 seems news and ID at 0644, S3 (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, not reported until 12 March, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Must be typo for HLR, Hamburger Lokalradio, CUSB, and that should have been when WORLD OF RADIO was airing on a Saturday. Can`t you recognize my voice at least? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Again no show of Hamburger Lokalradio in German on Wed, March 13: 0600-0800 7265 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg CeEu USB+carrier, incl. WOR 0630 0800-1100 6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg CeEu USB+carrier 1100-1500 7265 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg CeEu USB+carrier, incl. WOR 1430 Also no show of Hamburger Lokalradio in German on Sat, March 9. The reason? -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF- 2001D 30 m. long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. KBC test program via Nauen on 5955 kHz, March 11, 2013 at 0907 UT, fair to poor signal with deep fading and noise, ID heard at 0910, then rock-n-roll is playing, SINPO 35222. Quite surprised that reception was so bad at such time. Much better on 6095 via Wertachtal in Saturday and Sunday. RX: Degen-1121 and ANT.: Degen-31MS, Location: Lviv, Ukraine My kindest regards, (Ihor Karivets', DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also NETHERLANDS [non] ** GERMANY. EMR is on next Sunday the 17th of March between: 0800 to 0900 UT on 7265 via MVBR 0900 to 1000 UT on 6005 & 9480 via MVBR & R. 700 EMR's internet broadcasts are at the following times: 0900, 1400, 1700, 2000 on Sunday & Monday: Please visit http://www.emr.org.uk and click on the "EMR internet radio" button which you will find throughout the website (see the menu on the left). 73s, (Tom Taylor, March 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. Radio Geronimo Sunday 17th of March: 1000 to 1200 UT 9480 kHz via MVBR All reports to: geronimoshortwave @ hotmail.com Thank you! Good Listening! 73s, (Tom Taylor, March 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. Sabato 2 marzo 2013, 0948 - 6070 kHz, Riattivata Röhrbach (Germania), Inglese, tk OM e rock'n roll (usual recs.), Segnale sufficiente-insufficiente (Luca Botto Fiora, QTH G.C. 09E13 - 44N21, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) ** GERMANY. Radio OOoomrang (Alemania), QSL --- 15215 kHz, desde Wertachtal (Alemania) y con 500 kW. No se puede decir que sea un gran DX; lo interesante es que esta emisora solo sale al aire una vez al año y fue el 21 de febrero 2013 entre 1600 y 1700. Mi informe ha sido confirmado con un pdf muy profesional y lo envía Michael Puetz de Media Broadcast GmbH, los dueños del transmisor. Michael.Puetz @ media-broadcast.com Todos los intentos de verificar directamente la emisora han sido infructuosos. OOoomrang es un dialecto de la lengua Frisia del Norte y hablado en la isla OOoomrang (Amrum en alemán). Está previsto que vuelva a salir al aire el 21 febrero 2014. Best regards, Michael Publicado por jaarranzs en http://jaarranzs.blogspot.it/ (J Arranz S, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) I received an e-mail reply in German that is a serviceable QSL for R Öömrang. It was received last March for the Feb 21, 2012 broadcast. It is not signed, but is from “Family Koelzow.” I translate it from German into English as: “I have received your e-mails. Thank you for your MP3 broadcast recordings of your listening to Radio Oomrang on 15215 kHz on 21 February. I hope you will listen next year.” It took several e-mail follow ups to get a reply (Don Jensen, WI in DXplorer via DSWCI DX Window March 6 via DXLD) ** GERMANY. Video Footage of Nauen (Germany) --- On Tuesday march 12th 2013 I was at the Nauen transmittersite. The reason was a testtransmission of Transportradio, a station for which I'm doing frequency management and coordination. The transmission was at 0900- 1100 UT. The frequency was 5955 kHz, beam 240 degrees with 100 kW. The antenna configuration was HR 2/4/0,5. We transmitted our regular program which at the time was also on the air at 6095 kHz from Wertachtal. Together with my colleague Vincent Schriel from http://www.iradiocafe.nl we took a lot of pictures and some videos. The pictures will be uploaded as soon as we have reviewed them. For now you can watch the videos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gFrFU6aAuxM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXIPZ-2hBzc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aFX2IdacJs&feature=youtu.be Enjoy the videos (Jan Oosterveen, Mar 13, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) ** GERMANY. 15896, 2049-, biteXpres, Mar 11. Interesting to see this DRM signal. Way too weak to demodulate, but my HFSkeds database lists this as the origin. Never seen it before. RNZI DRM at 15720 is also present, but a bit too weak to demodulate (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. DW NEW FREQUENCY GUIDE 31.03.2013 to 26.10.2013 http://www.dw.de/frequencies-and-customer-service/a-1777509 [gh removed clutter of effective dates, all same as above, ``kHz``, and useless meter bands, whose column would have been much more useful filled with azimuths. Note motley collexion of languages left on SW] AMHARIC 1600-1657 09800 KIGALI Ethiopia AMHARIC 1600-1657 11800 KIGALI Ethiopia AMHARIC 1600-1657 15275 KIGALI Ethiopia AMHARIC 1600-1700 21650 DHABAYYA Ethiopia DARI 0830-0900 15640 DHABAYYA Afghanistan DARI 0830-0900 17860 DHABAYYA Afghanistan DARI 1330-1400 15215 DHABAYYA Afghanistan DARI 1330-1400 15595 KRANJI Afghanistan DARI 1330-1400 17860 KIGALI Afghanistan ENGLISH 0400-0500 05905 KIGALI Africa (east) ENGLISH 0400-0457 09470 KIGALI Africa (west) ENGLISH 0400-0457 12045 KIGALI Africa (central, east, south) ENGLISH 0500-0527 05905 KIGALI Africa (east) ENGLISH 0500-0527 09470 KIGALI Africa (central, east, south) ENGLISH 0500-0530 09800 KIGALI Africa (south) ENGLISH 0500-0530 12045 KIGALI Africa (west) ENGLISH 0530-0557 09800 KIGALI Africa (south) ENGLISH 0530-0600 12045 KIGALI Africa (west) ENGLISH 0600-0630 12045 KIGALI Africa (west) ENGLISH 0600-0627 15275 KIGALI Africa (west) ENGLISH 0600-0630 17800 KIGALI Africa (west) ENGLISH 0630-0700 15440 KIGALI Africa (west) ENGLISH 0630-0700 17800 KIGALI Africa (west) ENGLISH 1900-1930 11800 KIGALI Africa (south) ENGLISH 1900-1930 11865 KIGALI Africa ENGLISH 1900-1930 15275 KIGALI Africa ENGLISH 1930-1957 11865 KIGALI Africa ENGLISH 1930-1957 15275 KIGALI Africa ENGLISH 2000-2100 11800 KIGALI Africa ENGLISH 2000-2057 11865 KIGALI Africa (south) ENGLISH 2000-2100 12070 KIGALI Africa (central) ENGLISH 2100-2200 11800 KIGALI Africa (central, east) ENGLISH 2100-2200 11865 KIGALI Africa ENGLISH 2100-2200 12070 KIGALI Africa FRENCH 1200-1257 09800 KIGALI Africa FRENCH 1200-1257 15275 KIGALI Africa FRENCH 1200-1257 15700 KIGALI Africa FRENCH 1200-1300 17800 WOOFFERTON Africa FRENCH 1200-1300 17820 WOOFFERTON Africa FRENCH 1200-1300 21780 KIGALI Africa FRENCH 1700-1757 09810 KIGALI Africa FRENCH 1700-1757 12070 KIGALI Africa FRENCH 1700-1757 15275 KIGALI Africa FRENCH 1700-1800 15700 WOOFFERTON Africa HAUSA 0630-0700 12045 KIGALI Africa (west) HAUSA 0630-0700 15275 KIGALI Africa (west) HAUSA 0630-0700 21780 DHABAYYA Africa (west) HAUSA 1300-1400 15275 KIGALI Africa (west) HAUSA 1300-1400 17800 KIGALI Africa (west) HAUSA 1300-1400 21780 KIGALI Africa (west) HAUSA 1800-1857 12045 KIGALI Africa (west) HAUSA 1800-1857 15275 KIGALI Africa HAUSA 1800-1857 21780 KIGALI Africa (west) PASHTO 0800-0830 15640 DHABAYYA Afghanistan PASHTO 0800-0830 17860 DHABAYYA Afghanistan PASHTO 1400-1430 15215 DHABAYYA Afghanistan PASHTO 1400-1430 15595 KRANJI Afghanistan PASHTO 1400-1430 17860 KIGALI Afghanistan PORTUGUESE 0530-0600 05905 ASCENSION Africa (south) PORTUGUESE 0530-0600 11800 KIGALI Africa (south) PORTUGUESE 0530-0557 12070 KIGALI Africa (south) PORTUGUESE 1930-2000 07425 MEYERTON Africa (south) PORTUGUESE 1930-1957 11800 KIGALI Africa (south) PORTUGUESE 1930-2000 12025 KIGALI Africa (south) SWAHILI 0300-0400 05905 KIGALI Africa SWAHILI 0300-0357 05925 KIGALI Africa SWAHILI 0300-0357 07425 KIGALI Africa SWAHILI 0300-0357 12070 ASCENSION Africa SWAHILI 1000-1100 09800 KIGALI Africa SWAHILI 1000-1100 12070 KIGALI Africa SWAHILI 1000-1100 15275 KIGALI Africa SWAHILI 1000-1100 15700 KIGALI Africa SWAHILI 1500-1557 09810 KIGALI Africa SWAHILI 1500-1557 12025 KIGALI Africa SWAHILI 1500-1557 12070 KIGALI Africa SWAHILI 1500-1600 15275 KIGALI Africa URDU 1430-1500 15215 DHABAYYA PakistanIndia URDU 1430-1457 15275 KIGALI PakistanIndia URDU 1430-1500 15595 KRANJI PakistanIndia URDU 1430-1457 17860 [missing] (via Abid Hussain Sajid, Pakistan, March 13, dxldyg via DXLD) ** GREECE. 11645, 11/Mar 0318, Voice of Greece in Greek. Greek music. At 0319 OM talk. // 9420 and 7475. On 7475 modulation is very low. Very weak signal, but audible in my QTH (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. 13362-USB, March 8 at 1325 after no signal on AFN nite frequency 5765-USB, checked day frequency, and here it is with much better signal than we usually get on 5765. PSAs about women veterans` health care; `Around the Air Force` report by a Senior Air[wo]man, first about effects of sequestration on schools. Still on 13362 and in at 1437 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5765-USB, AFN Barrigada, 0853 chat about "since 1775 ... the navy... Capt. John Paul Jones..." 12 March (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D, Icom 746 Pro, Drake R8, Drake R7, dxsf, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. 15550, March 8 at 1329, Vietnamese mentioning Singapore and a hotmail address, off at 1330*. Aoki shows it`s KTWR from 1245, which on Saturdays only gets another quarter hour until 1345, but this was Friday. 11675, March 11 at 1420, sermon in English about JC, with a strange accent, so my curiosity about source overcomes my aversion to program content; ends at 1422, then closing announcements for TWR India, saying they have been on 15225 and will return tomorrow at 1500! KTWR ID and off at 1423:30*. Wow, are they upmixed. Aoki shows 11675 scheduled only at 1330-1400 in Hui weekends, Cantonese weekdays. HFCC agrees on time but thinx it`s only in Yue, every day. Hui = Yue? How about Dewey and Louie? And what of 15225, the frequency they imagine they are on? Aoki shows: 15225 KTWR GUAM 1400-1523 .23.56. English 100 285 Agana GUM b12 15225 KTWR GUAM 1400-1535 1..4..7 English 100 285 Agana GUM b12 Well, the 1423 sign-off heard certainly matches the odd nominal 1523 closing on Mondays. Is someone confused about DST? Not me! And there is no DST in Guam or India. Could this thing be remote-controlled from inside North America, the only continent where DST starts so unreasonably early? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) KTWR TX Site Developments 2010 to present. Lots to look at; from txers, antennas, baluns to concrete slab pours http://ktwrdrm.blogspot.com (Ian Baxter, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) ** GUIANA FRENCH. [tentative] 9490, Radio Republica S=9+15dB, excellent signal via Montsinery-GUF?, at 0120 UT phone-in program in Spanish, broadcast brokered by RMI via Babcock (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 12) 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, dxldyg via DXLD) ?? Nothing tentative about GUF being the site for 9490, duly registered, obvious here with the spurs I have investigated (gh, DXLD) 9504, Radio República spur, 0154, 0201, 3/5/13, in Spanish. Man with animated talk, rooster crow at one point. // 9490 intentional signal. Off with main signal at 0157. Spur fair (Mark Taylor, Madison WI, Microtelecom Perseus, WinRadio g313e, Eton E1, Grundig G5 & Satellit 800; EWE, Flextenna, 40 meters dipole, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) Nice to see someone else reporting this (gh) ** HONG KONG. VRC - 16804.5 kHz - HONG KONG MRCC - Cape D'Aguilar QSL Recibida e-QSL en 11 días por la captación de una llamada selectiva digital dirigida al buque EAGLE CORONA/S6CG en 16804.5 kHz. Me responde WC Woo, Senior Technical Officer, Cape D'Aguilar Radio Station. Esta estación de comunicaciones es operada hoy en día por la compañía PCCW. Envié mi informe a hkmrcc @ mardep.gov.hk Mauricio Molano http://moladx.blogspot.it (via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** INDIA. AIR Special broadcasts heard last night --- The following stations from Andhra Pradesh state was noted with the special broadcast for Sivaratri festival last night 10 Mar 13 from around 1740 (1110 pm IST). The same program in Telugu was relayed by all stations 738, 4800 - AIR Hyderabad 837 - AIR Vijaywada 900 - AIR Kadapa 927 - AIR Visakhaptnam 1485 - AIR Adilabad 100.1 - Unid 103.5 - AIR Warangal Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India Mobile: +91 94416 96043, http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos March 10, dx_india yg via DXLD) ** INDIA. 5050, AIR-Aizwal, Mar 08 1334-1342, 23332 Hindi, Music, ID at 1334, QRM from BBR on c/c (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX and ANT, IC- R75+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-525+RD-9830+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-515+35m Long Wire, NRD-345+35m Long Wire, Satellite 750+30m Long Wire, DE- 1130, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 9690, March 14 at 1330 after nondescript music and no IS, AIR GOS opening, but transmitter keeps dumping off several times for one or two sex, impeding comprehension of the sign-on and even the news (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11670, AIR General Overseas Service in English via Bengaluru in well with `Incredible India` travel show promoting things like river rafting & "Yak Safaris" (OK--I gotta go on a Yak safari as one of my 'bucket list' things to do!) presented by an OM. Into a programme `Mixed Bag` featuring film music which I gather is a euphemism for cat strangling. ID into news at ToH with the US budget 'sequester' being the lead item, followed by an Indian official visit to Bangladesh, and gas and other fuel prices in India. 454+44 & // 13695 also from Bengaluru was weaker 34443. 1830-1903 2/Mar (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Port Hope MI, MARE Tipsheet 8 March via DXLD ** INDIA [and non]. QRDRM from AIR Nepali to ARGENTINA: q.v. ** INDIA [non]. 07 enero 2013, Athmik Yatra Radio, QSL. 15285 kHz. Es una emisora religiosa hindú relacionada con la conocida Gospel for Asia. Me han verificado en pocas horas con una eQSL. Según los esquemas salen al aire desde Nauen (Alemania) aunque en la QSL indican que es vía Trincomalee (Sri Lanka). Publicado por jaarranzs en http://jaarranzs.blogspot.it/ (J Arranz S, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) Hindu? Hardly! It`s certainly Christian. Perhaps he is using the term ``hindú`` in the sense of ``Indian`` even tho preceded by the word ``religiosa``. This is a major defect of Spanish terminology, since there are countless religions in India besides Hindu. I guess the SS avoid applying ``Indio`` to those Asians for local reasons, which doesn`t stop us North Americans. Perhaps we all need to adopt a new term like Bharatian (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 3325, RRI Palangkaraya, 1423, March 12. Especially good with item about the “Indonesia Expo”; 1430 series of local IDs; only very light QRM from Korea on 3320. (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 4749.96, RRI Makassar, 1237, Tuesday, March 12. In Bahasa Indonesia with introduction to the KGI (Kang Guru Indonesia) program and mention of the Indonesia Australia Language Foundation; then into English lesson; China QRM. Bangladesh has now been off the air on 4750 for over two weeks as of March 12. I miss them! (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4750-, Tuesday March 12 at 1249, deliberate talk, spelling, think it`s the `Kang Guru Indonesia` weekly Australian English lesson from RRI Makassar. Also songs at 1250 and 1259-1301 which could have passed for S Asian = Bangladesh, but this one is slightly on the low side; 1301 announcement. Ron Howard has reported KGI around this time on Tuesdays. 4750-, March 14 at 1303, fair signal with songs, 1306 YL Indonesian announcement from RRI Makassar (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 4789.94, RRI Fak Fak, 1301-1338, March 10. YL DJ in Bahasa Indonesia with many phone calls and playing pop songs; IDs. Very nice to hear this one again, as had been off since May, 2012. Heavy CODAR QRM. https://www.box.com/s/e8cod14p1mzqppxvuu5p RRI Fak Fak with CODAR QRM and QRN. One problem with my listening at the beach is I have strong CODAR (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4789.966 wandered to x.970 at 1435 UT March 10, phone-in call program by Indonesian female locutora, noted on remote unit in Tokyo. At that time NO CODAR interference so far. 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) RRI Fak Fak on 4789.94 not heard March 11 when checking after 1230. Atsunori indicates 1200*; a much earlier sign off than yesterday. (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4789.98v, RRI Fak Fak, random listening from 1130 to 1405, March 12. Per Atsunori 1419*; interesting to note he heard the KGI program here at 1100 (Tue.). Reception would have been fair, except for the strong CODAR QRM; audio seemed a little mushy, but hard to determine audio quality with the heavy QRM. Seemed to have a slight drift in frequency; again hard to tie down with the QRM. Played a lot of hit songs (Elton John, Celine Dion, etc.) and many phone calls (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4790-, March 12 at 1303, Indonesian talk, rough modulation, louder than 4750. This 4790 signal was not there a few minutes earlier before 1300. 1303 music, 1305 beeps like a protracted timesignal mixed with other audio; all vs CODAR QRM. 1306 music, overmodulated with some distortion; 1314 announcement in Indonesian, 1325 fading down. This is RRI Fak Fak, which just reactivated after almost 10 months, a very pleasant surprise, as caught by Ron Howard {who measured it on 4789.94, and Wolfgang Büschel found it wandered to 4789.966} and Atsunori Ishida, whose http://rri.jpn.org/ shows: ``4790 kHz RRI-Fak Fak Opening Sound file ( MP3 ) Closing Sound file ( MP3 ) Local news Sound file ( MP3 ) KGI Sound file ( MP3 ) WEB Site FAK FAK PAPUA BARAT, Sekali Di Udara Tetap Di Udara http://www.rrifakfak.co.id/ [rather rudimentary but streaming linx] 1000-1500*: *2000v-2130-: Mar 10 -1000-1459* LA. JN at 1200. Since May 25, 2012. *2014 Koran. Mar 11 -1000-1200* JN at 1159. *2016 Pops. Mar 12 -1000-.... KGI at 1100. JN at 1200.`` {It`s great to have another RRI back; with them, never say never!} 4790-, March 14 at 1303, no signal from reactivated RRI Fak2. Checking Ishida later, that`s because it went off at 1252* today, tho other days has stayed on as late as 1459 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 6125.08, 0905-0922* with Koran recitation, announcement in Indonesian, then local vocal by YL. Suddenly off at 0922. Weak signal but free from QRM. No ID, but probably RRI Nabire. March 14 (Satoshi Wakisaka, Osaka, Japan, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9525.90, V. of Indonesia, Mar 07 1437-1456, 34443, Indonesian, Music, ID at 1437 and 1455. 9525.90, V. of Indonesia. Mar 08 1410-1424. 35443 Indonesian, News, ID at 1415 and 1418 and 1419 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX and ANT, IC-R75+115m Sloper Wire, NRD- 525+RD-9830+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-515+35m Long Wire, NRD-345+35m Long Wire, Satellite 750+30m Long Wire, DE-1130, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9525.946, 1350-, Voice of Indonesia, Mar 9. Fair reception with their English broadcast, but suffering from major splatter from VOA Tinang in Mandarin/Chinese jamming on 9530 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9526-, March 10 at 1357, VOI with song, modulation sounds OK today, but still too much ACI from China/US radio war on 9530. 1400 now in the clear, with VOI jingle, English ID, still falsely claiming to be on ``15150, 9525 and 11785 for English programs``, plus streaming from website; e-mail, street and PO Box addresses, facebook, twitter. 1402 into Indonesian language, with new(?) theme music, but some same familiar jingles. As they open warta berita (news), they keep pronouncing ``Voice of Indonesia`` as in English. And, NO IADs heard at all during these 5+ minutes! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9526, 10/Mar 2022-2034, Voice of Indonesia in French. YL presents newscast. The modulation is slightly lower compared to the carrier signal. Undoubtedly the best signal I got here from my QTH of VOI. At 2031 ID by YL. 35433 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes! Am listening now at 2140 and easily the best afternoon reception yet. Sounds like Japanese. I wonder how reception is in other parts of North America? I'm in Massachusetts (Bruce Fisher (Palstar R30CC, longwire antenna, ibid.) 9525.88, Voice of Indonesia. Again heard with good signal strength during their hour in English on March 11; noted at 1305 with the news, but as also noted in the past, had poor to very poor reception due to heavy non-stop adjacent QRM till 1357; fair to good after that; 1402 into Indonesian. MP3 audio of full ID at https://www.box.com/s/9rchlspfc12mezgjgoze (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9525.907, 1425-, Voice of Indonesia, Mar 11. Excellent reception this morning of their Indonesian program. Best I've heard them on this visit (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9525.9, Voice of Indonesia, 1435, March 12. Very strong and no QRM; beautiful signal and audio! (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL. 8933-USB, CanJet 912 (from Montreal to Cuba) working NY Radio, both sides heard well. The most interesting flight I've heard in a dog's age. The pilot asked NY R for a phone patch to the Halifax CanJet maintenance facility because the "L1" (lower left) windscreen had shattered! They informed they were off the coast of Florida & wanted instructions -- wanted to know if they should continue & under what conditions. After a failed call and much confusion on the phone (the NY controller and the pilot were both remarkably calm & professional -- I would have bricks in my pants!) they finally got someone from maintenance, but he seemed like he was WAY out of his league with this issue, and sort of choked and wanted to 'call them back'. The pilot calmly & politely informed him they were not on a phone but using a phone patch via New York Air Reg, but the guy on the phone wasn't going to give them an answer without checking with someone who knew what to do (wise I suppose!). They eventually gave NY Radio their Sel-Call (DHBG) and arranged for further contact either on this channel or 11342, but up to 2352 there was no action from this plane on either channel. According to FlightAware, this flight landed in Juan Gualberto Gómez International AP [Varadero, Cuba] at 0156, so I assume all went OK. At one point they mentioned that the 'cabin pressure is holding' and that were carrying "7400 kilos" (I assume of fuel). The pilot did 'dead pan' at one point "our final destination is Cuba – the US is not gonna want us to land". VERY interesting 6 minutes! Both sides in well, 2320-2326 2/Mar. This is what makes this more fun than the Interweb, if you ask me! (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Port Hope MI, MARE Tipsheet 8 March via DXLD) These things crop up once in a blue moon, but can be great stuff. Don Sobicek caught a hijacked plane working Cleveland Center many years ago. I happened to be listening to Tenerife when the two 747's collided (Harold Frodge, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM [non?]. Hackers del espacio (documental) La esencia de la radio, DX, radioaficion, carrera espacial, riesgos, dramatismo. Una historia de casi una hora que vale la pena ver con una cerveza artesanal en la mano. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y1iEIUYMdw que lo disfruten (Alejandro D Alvarez, LU8YD, March 9, condiglista yg via DXLD) Viz.: ``Hackers del Espacio (Español de España) Uploaded on Jan 16, 2012 - Documental sobre la historia de los hermanos Achille y Giambattista Judica Cordiglia en el año 1957, que escucharon antes que nadie las transmisiones de los primeros satélites y las primeras misiones espaciales.`` The original is in English, but I don`t find a match for that on YouTube searching ``Space Hackers`` (gh, DXLD) Más allá de si son auténticas o falsas las escuchas de los Judica Cordilla, es un muy buen material. Se describe una época donde la radio tenía una importancia y una presencia que hoy no tiene. Creo que el final del documental lo explica mejor que yo. Personalmente, no creo que sean reales esas escuchas. Acá hay algunas supuestas evidencias de la falsedad: http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/trackind/Torre/TorreB.html 73 de (LW3ESH, Federico Tomasczik, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL WATERS [and non]. The pirate radio broadcasting REM- Island was built in 1964 outside territorial waters in order to avoid Dutch legislation. Constructed completely out of steel, the 262-foot- high structure rests on 6 columns. It housed radio and TV broadcast stations, but it only lasted four months before federal police took over the island, dismantled it and brought it back to the shore. Nowadays, the historic tower has been renovated into a cool building that stands on stilts over the water and offers amazing 360-degree views over the NDSM Wharf and the center of Amsterdam. REM-Island houses a restaurant on two floors, office space and a large open terrace situated on a former helicopter platform. Access to the platform is provided via a steel footbridge on the shore that guides visitors through the enormous construction. To ensure the island retained its original atmosphere, Concrete Architects preserved and renovated original features including footbridges; signal lights, railings, and they even included a lifeboat. [with slideshow of 8:] http://inhabitat.com/rem-island-1964-pirate-radio-on-a-sea-platform-turned-into-cool-restaurant-in-amsterdam/rem-island-concrete-architects/?extend=1 (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ** IRAN. 12015, 1432-, VOIRI, Mar 12. Looking for Mongolia, I'm instead hearing Iran, in listed Azeri at good level, with a weaker cochannel (presumably Mongolia) underneath. 15260, 0422-, VOIRI, Sirjan, Mar 9. Almost as strong as the Saudi transmitter, also in listed Swahili at excellent level. Clean strong signal (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15525, 1553-, VOIRI, Mar 11. English program at very good level, with discussion of the death of Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez. American / Zionist conspiracy of infecting him with a 'cancer virus' (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [and non]. 13750, March 12 at 1349, IRIB Arabic from Kamalabad is now in the clear, no longer colliding with VOA Spanish which has made its usual DST move one UT hour earlier for both morning and evening transmissions, even tho HFCC claims there is no such move effective March 10, staying at 13-14 UT. Altho VOA Spanish is supposedly for Latin America in general, this timeshift is convenient only for Cuban lapdogs also going to UT-4 on the same date as the gusanos in Miami. 12025, March 14 at 0510, fair signal in Russian about Iran, with flutter, vs CODAR, so VIRI as scheduled 0500-0530, 500 kW, 358 degrees from Kamalabad (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ISRAEL. Morse coder 4XZ Haifa, Israel noted very strong on 6606 at 0100 with VVV de 4XZ followed by five letter groups (Karl Zuk, NY, UT March 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ISRAEL. 2 March, 15850, Galei Zahal with audio content!! S5, 45544 // 6885 of 151x1, S2 (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, not reported until 12 March, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15850, Galei Zahal, Mar 08 1442-1506, 35333-25332, Hebrew, Talk and music, SJ at 1459 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX and ANT, IC-R75+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-525+RD-9830+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-515+35m Long Wire, NRD-345+35m Long Wire, Satellite 750+30m Long Wire, DE-1130, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY. PIRATES: ItalCable: 10000, Italian Pirate Time Station poor- -about equal to BPM and under WWV which was good over PPE or WWVH heard. They played Rite of Spring during minute 1! 2358-0003 23-24/Feb (Ken Zichi, Brighton MI DX-pedition, MARE Tipsheet 1 March via DXLD) ** ITALY [and non]. A MAN, A BROADCASTER AND A GLOBAL MISSION by Davide Moro Little did Alfredo Cotroneo realize back then that his childhood passion would one day blossom into a global shortwave relay service, Nexus-International Broadcasting Association, aiding those in need of information. . . Read the "Radio World" story here : http://www.rwonline.com/article/a-man-a-broadcaster-and-a-global-mission/218188 (via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, DXLD) Will this story finally reveal where IRRS transmits from? No! Just: ``Nexus-IBA currently provides its global shortwave relay services through a network of shortwave facilities, from 50 to 500 kW with directional antennas to effectively target any region in the world on any frequency, at any time.`` Caption to a nice photo: ``The transmitter room houses four Continental 300 kW units.`` Does anyone recognize which transmitter room looks like this, or where there might be 4 x 300 kW Continentals? Romania comes to mind. BTW, only half an hour a week for ``MILANO`` in HFCC is at 300 kW, the rest 150 kW (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. 6135, March 8 at 1346, Shiokaze is reactivated here, as Ron Howard reported yesterday ex-5910, and in English on Friday, YL about North Korea (what else?), but poor signal, as we are getting into the semiyear of poor to no propagation on 49m this far east of the ever- westerning terminator (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN [non]. 9770, March 12 at 0528, NHK concluding English semihour with ``Voices from Tohoku``, very good signal, second only to 11740 via Guiana French, which will be abolished at monthend. 9770 is the 500 kW, 155 degree beam from Issoudun, FRANCE, which in A-13 will move to 11970 and probably be our main source for this transmission, no longer intended for North America at all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KALININGRAD. Bolshakovo was originally a Russian skywave shortwave jamming site at 70, 83, and 118 degrees, hidden in the forest, erected in the 50ties. Aimed at European Russia, Moscow, Omsk, Volga, and even eastern Ukraine and Caucasus ARM/AZE/GEO area. Radio Moscow foreign service MW 1385 kHz (135/150kW Hungarian TX type), started in about 1953/1954 from Kaliningrad suburb, not from Bolshakovo. RM 1385 kHz moved from Kaliningrad to newly erected MW Bolshakovo facility in approx. 1974/1975. Bolshakovo have got LW 171 and MW 1385 kHz then, also small 1116 kHz later. After communist collapse also used 1215 kHz instead of 1386 kHz, latter which requested by Sitkunai-Lithuania according to ITU Geneva registration plan (of 1978) in 1992y. I never understood why even a THIRD 180 degree "SV 4+4mast sidefire" antenna was erected there; additional to the sidefire antennas on the 250 + 275 degrees direction antennas at Bolshakovo. 180 degrees direction meant for Radio Moscow Polish and Czech-Slovak, Hungarian services? at western BLR, UKR, eastern Poland and CSR/Slovak Rep Kaschau, eastern Hungary area. 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, mwmasts yg via DXLD) ** KASHMIR [non]. CLANDESTINE, 4870, V. of Kashmir, Mar 07 *1430-1436, 35332 Kashmiri, 1430 sign on with opening music, Opening announce, Koran (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX and ANT, IC-R75+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-525+RD-9830+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-515+35m Long Wire, NRD-345+35m Long Wire, Satellite 750+30m Long Wire, DE-1130, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. I can never receive PBS via Voice of Korea from Feb 1. It might be canceled. [schedule was:] 0300-0350 9730 9345 7220 3250 621 0700-0750 9345 7220 0900-0950 15245 13760 11735 9975 1200-1250 9345 7220 1300-1350 9325 6170 3250 621 Jamming from South Korea against Echo of Unification seemed to be canceled from March 6 and can receive it well in LSB mode. However, a beacon of the Japanese Marine Self Defense Force interferes in the USB side. 0400-0600, 1200-1400 and 2200-2300 UT 6250 kHz (Sei-ichi Hasegawa, Japan, March 11, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH. 6101.6, March 14 at 1317, something off-frequency making big het with a 6100.0, louder than the talk modulation, also some hum. 1322 into typical Juche choral music. Wolfgang Büschel has been reporting this as KCBS Pyongyang, varying the last few days on 6101.21, 6101.275, 6101.331, 6101.38, so one of their creaky old transmitters still in use (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re: Wolfy's KRE - KCBS on 6101.21 kHz. Hi Wolfy, March 9 heard 6101.21 (KCBS Pyongyang) with a hum at 1316; in Korean and // 9665 (no hum). Both with good reception here in California (Ron Howard, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. IMPROVED VERSION of March 12. Dear Sirs, this is the NEW latest version of all my Korean KRE/KOR monitoring, 'refined' in past three days. Use only this following version of my observations. 73 wolfy re KOREAS in February [...] My guess is a mainpower net failure at Pyongyang around 14-15 UT, noted very ODD frequency of KCBS in Korean at S=9+5dB level in Nagoya of 6101.275 kHz, likely NOT Kanggye, but rather from Pyongyang TX site. All other Kanggye outlets in various meter bands were rather even or nearby exact frequencies today. (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 27) On March 10th, around 0535-0620 UT heard in Tokyo-JPN, now 50 Hertz higher. 6101.331 kHz on March 10th, 6101.380 kHz on March 11th, very odd KCBS Pyongyang program, played martial army chorus and brass band music around 0535-0555 UT. \\ 6400.0 9665.0 11680.0 kHz. Scratching jamming type heard on 6003.0 6015.0 6060.0 6348.0 6360.0 6480.0 kHz. KRE - Voice of Korea Kujang, Main power / frequency accuracy seems improved during Korean night at least, many exact even xxx.000 kHz settings now. Is my strong guess, according to three day extensive monitoring, that D.P.R.'s Kim Jong-Un government bought new BBEF Chinese transmitters equipment from Beijing China, and installed/connected at Kujang transmission center site in past 5 weeks since Feb 1st ? All these also according to some V of Korea changes mentioned, contributed by Sei-ichi Hasegawa in Japan, detected since Feb 1st. 0300 Chinese 13649.996 15100.000 SoEaAS 0300 French 11735.000 13760.003 15180.000* ALS WeCAN CeAM SoAM * only strong S=9+25dB carrier on Nagoya-JPN unit at 0340 UT. Domestic KCBS Pyongyang Kanggye 9665.000 and 11780.000 in Korean. Ceased from Febr 1, 2013: 0300 Korean (PBS) 7220.0-OFF 9345.0-OFF 9730.0-OFF NoEaAS - out of service 0400 English 7220.000& 9345.000 9730.000& NoEaAS 0400 English 11735.000 13760.004% 15180.000# ALS WeCAN CeAM SoAM 0400 French 13649.996* 15100.000* SoEaAS * mixed French ahead, but underneath also English sce program and scratchy noise jammer audio co-channel - intermodulation. # only S=9+25dB carrier - in Nagoya-JPN, and underneath some French program and scratchy noise jammer audio co-channel - intermodulation. & underneath scratchy noise jammer audio co-channel - intermodulation. % mixed English ahead, but underneath also French sce program and scratchy noise jammer audio co-channel - intermodulation. 0500 Chinese 7220.000& 9345.000 9730.000& NoEaCHN 0500 English 13649.996* 15100.000* SoEaAS 0500 Spanish 11735.000 13760.003% 15180.000# ALS WeCAN CeAM SoAM * mixed English ahead, but underneath also Chinese service and scratchy noise jammer audio co-channel - intermodulation. # only S=9+25dB carrier - in Nagoya-JPN, and underneath some English program and scratchy noise jammer audio co-channel - intermodulation. & underneath scratchy noise jammer audio co-channel - intermodulation. % mixed Spanish ahead, but underneath also English service program and scratchy noise jammer audio co-channel - intermodulation. 0600 Chinese 13649.996* 15100.000* SoEaAS 0600 English 7220.000& 9345.000 9730.000& NoEaAS 0600 French 11735.000 13760.004% 15180.000# CeAM, SoAM * mixed Chinese ahead, but underneath also English service and scratchy noise jammer audio co-channel - intermodulation. # only S=9+25dB carrier - in Nagoya-JPN, and underneath some Chinese program and scratchy noise jammer audio co-channel - intermodulation. & underneath scratchy noise jammer audio co-channel - intermodulation. % mixed French ahead, but underneath also Chinese service program and scratchy noise jammer audio co-channel - intermodulation. 0700 Japanese 621 no trace?3250.000? 7580.000 9650.003 JPN 0700 Korean (PBS) 7220.0-OFF 9345.0-OFF NE CHN 0700 Russian 9975.003 11735.000 FE 0700 Russian 13760.007 15244.995 EUR 0800 Chinese 7220.000 9345.000 NoEaCHN 0800 Japanese 621 3250.000 7580.000 9650.003 JPN 0800 Russian 9975.000 11735.000 FE 0800 Russian 13760.006 15244.998 EUR Unstable services in 09-10 UT slot, many transmission breaks, probably main power failures? 0900 Japanese 621 3250.000 7580.000 9650.003 JPN 0900 Korean (KCBS) 7220.000 9345.000 NoEaCHN But totally OFF at 0900-0957 UT, ceased from Febr 1, 2013: 0900 Korean (PBS) 9975.000 11735.000 FE 0900 Korean (PBS) 13760.006 15244.998 EUR Domestic Korean \\ 2850.0 3219.930 KCBS Pyongyang, not \\ 7220/9345 kHz. PBS Pyongyang? 3320.0 kHz. 621.027 Voice of Korea's Japanese service 27 Hertz odd frequency at 1025 UT March 10. Via KRE - Chongjin-Nanam Foreign Service 621 kHz 500 kW at 41 45 33.53 N 129 42 21.18 E 1000 English 6170.0-OFF 9335.000 ALS NoWeAM CeAM SoAm 1000 English 6185.000 9850.000 SoEaAS 1000 Japanese 621.027= 6069.989 7580.000 9650.006 JPN 1000 Korean (PBS) 7220.0-OFF 9345.000-OFF NoEaCHN 1100 Chinese 7220.000# 9345.000 NoEaCHN 1100 French 6185.000 9850.000+ SoEaAS 1100 French 6170.000 9335.000& ALS NoWeAM CeAM SoAm 1100 Japanese 621.027= 6070.000 7580.000 9650.000* JPN # much hit by terrible co-channel V of Vietnam Son Tay broadcast in Russian on odd 7220.013 kHz. & program feed broken, at 1135 UT only S-9 carrier from Kujang heard in remote net in Tokyo-JPN. + hit heavily by RHC 9850 kHz co-channel in Spanish, monitored in Tokyo-JPN. 1200 Japanese 621.027= 6070.000 7580.000 9650.000* JPN 1200 Korean (KCBS) 6185.000 9850.000 SoEaAS 1200 Korean (KCBS) 6170.000 9335.000 ALS NoWeAM CeAM SoAm Ceased from Febr 1, 2013: 1200 Korean (PBS) 7220.0-OFF 9345.0-OFF NoEaCHN * much broadband spurious signals like a garden fence noted in Tokyo, with heavy peaks on 9587 and 9713 kHz, in ranges 9573-9594 and 9704- 9716 kHz. = checked on March 12th again, and KRE - Chongjin-Nanam Foreign Service 621 kHz 500 kW was right on EVEN 621.000 kHz frequency. 1300 Chinese 6185.000 9850.000 SoEaAS 1300 English 9335.000 11710.000 NoAM ALS NoWeCAN 1300 English 7570.004 12015.000 WeEUR Ceased from Feb 1, 2013: 1300 Korean (PBS) 6170.000 9325.000 EUR 1400 French 9335.000 11710.000 NoAM ALS NoWeCAN 1400 French 7570.000 12015.000 WeEUR 1400 Korean (KCBS) 6185.000 9850.000 SoEaAS 1400 Russian 6170.000 9325.000 EUR 1500 Arabic 9990.000 11545.002 NE/ME, NoAF 1500 English 9335.000 11710.000 NoAM ALS NoWeCAN 1500 English 7570.000* 12015.000 WeEUR 1500 Russian 6170.000 9324.997 EUR * in background heard Arabic audio feed co-channel intermodulation too. 1600 English 9990.000 11545.000 NE/ME, NoAF 1600 French 9335.000 11710.000 NoAM ALS NoWeCAN 1600 French 7570.000 12015.000 WeEUR 1600 German 6170.000 9325.000 EUR 1700 Arabic 9990.000 11545.000 NE/ME, NoAF 1700 Korean (KCBS) 9335.000 11710.000 NoAM ALS NoWeCAN 1700 Korean (KCBS) 7570.000 12015.000 WeEUR 1700 Russian 6170.000 9325.000 EUR 1800 German 6170.000 9325.000 WeEUR 1800 English 7570.000* 12015.000 WeEUR 1800 French 7210.000 11910.000 SoAF 1800 French 9975.000 11535.000 NE/ME, NoAF * mixed English ahead, but underneath also French service audio co- channel intermodulation. 1900 German 6170.000 9325.000 WeEUR 1900 English 7210.000 11910.000 SoAF 1900 English 9975.000 11535.000 NE/ME, NoAF 1900 Spanish 7570.000* 12015.000 WeEUR * mixed Spanish ahead, but underneath also English service and noise jammer audio co-channel - intermodulation. 2000 French 7570.000* 12015.000% WeEUR 2000 Korean (KCBS) 6170.000 9325.000 WeEUR 2000 Korean (KCBS) 7210.000 11910.000& SoAF 2000 Korean (KCBS) 9975.000# 11535.000 NE/ME, NoAF * mixed French ahead, but underneath also Korean service and scratchy noise jammer audio co-channel - intermodulation. # mixed Korean and scratchy noise jammer audio co-channel in background co-channel intermodulation. % mixed French[also & !] ahead, but underneath also Korean service and scratchy noise jammer audio co-channel - intermodulation. See CROSSTALK problem below, described by Olle Alm-SWE recently. 2100 Chinese 7235.000 9345.000 NoEaCHN 2100 Chinese 9975.000 11535.000 CHN 2100 English 7570.000 12015.000 WeEUR 2100 Japanese 621.016 3250.000 7580.000 9650.000 JPN 2200 Chinese 7235.000 9345.000 NoEaCHN 2200 Chinese 9975.000 11535.000 CHN 2200 Japanese 621.016 3250.000 7580.000 9650.000 JPN 2200 Spanish 7570.000 12014.997 WeEUR 2300 Japanese 621.016 3250.000 7580.000 9650.000 JPN 2300 Korean (KCBS) 7235.000 9345.000 NoEaCHN 2300 Korean (KCBS) 7570.000 12014.997 WeEUR 2300 Korean (KCBS) 9975.000 11535.000 CHN (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 10/11, WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH KOREA. 15180, 0426-, Voice of Korea, Mar 9. Also exceptionally strong transmission with typical Stalinist-style martial music. Interesting, but an echo is heard, about a second or so afterwards. Wonder what the cause of that could be? Parallel 13760 also very strong. Sounds like there's someone cochannel weakly as well, or is it another program bleeding into the English audio? (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Korea is coming in very well in N. America today 9335 at 1300. Heard well at my qth in Missouri and 10-20 over S9 on US west coast (Token-Mojave desert perseus). They were inaudible at the same time/frequency 24 hours ago (Dave Hughes, March 10, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. PALAU, 9965, 1557-, Nippon no Kaze, Mar 12. Exceptionally strong reception in Korean. Painfully repeated their website several times in phonetic English, 'http://www....'. WHRI ID at 1559. Transmitter off at exactly 1600 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non] Frequency change of Shiokaze Sea Breeze in various languages: 1330-1430 NF 6135 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE, ex 5910 Japanese Mon/Wed/Thu; Chinese/Korean Tue; English Fri; Korean/Japanese Sat and Japanese/Korean Sun (DX RE MIX NEWS #771 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov. March 11, 2013, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH KOREA. 972, 1529-, HLCA, Mar 12. Absolutely armchair copy from this super power station (listed at 750/1500 kW). In Korean. Hints to a bit of a post-dawn enhancement. 1566, 1603-, HLAZ, Mar 12. Continues at very nice level two [hours?] after LSR. VOA Thailand in Bangla also very well heard on 1575 at he same time (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. KBS finally heard with good signal at *1300 on 15575 in English, later check at 1350 noted signal strength improved, and it showed when Korean was checked at 1405 (Joe Hanlon, Took my Grundig G5 with a Sony 23-ft. rollup antenna to hear these stations at Freedom Park in Medford, NJ, Monday March 4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15575, March 8 at 1342, unlike yesterday, KBSWR in English direct to South America is very poor, unusable. Potluck what it will be like 24 hours later during `Worldwide Friendship` mailbag and DX program. This is despite lots of Firedrake and Bangladesh [qq.vv.] propagating well. 15575, March 9 at 1412, KBSWR in Korean is very poor, so did not miss anything by not awakening in time for the Saturday English broadcast until 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. BULGARIA. Gestern hatten die Herren von Spaceline in Kostinbrod Sofia auch Schwierigkeiten einen sauberen Programm Uebertragungsgfluss des Kurdenprogramms auf 11510 kHz hinzubringen, jede zweite Sekunde war die Leitung unterbrochen. Eine Zumutung fuer die Bergvoelker bei Erbil/Arbil (Wolfgang Büschel, March 11, wwdxc BC- DX TopNews March 12 via DXLD) ** KURDISTAN. Radio Voice of Iranian Kurdistan in Kurdish and part in Farsi observed on several days in 2013, last time on Feb 22 and 26 with one in advanced pre-recorded program aired as follows: On 3960v s/on at 0224 UT IS, 0229 UT Singing Kurdish Anthem, 0232 UT ID "Eira dengi Kurdistana Iran", prayer and ID echo-sounded etc. Close down at 0424 UT already on moved 3968 kHz. On 4870 kHz s/on usually with 2-5 minutes later but with same procedure and same program as on 3960 kHz, respectively with later s/off on around 4876 kHz. Close down at 0424 UT for 3968 kHz and 0432 UT for 4861 kHz approx. There is an evening transmission with s/on at our early afternoon. Only Iranian jammers are heard now on V of Kurdistan's 3930 kHz at 1505-1550v UT (on some days 1525-1625 UT). About VOIK - it reminds me of "Our Radio" [Bizim Radyo] in 70s when one and same program in Turkish was aired with delay from transmitter in Saftica, Romania than those in Koenigswusterhausen in East Germany. (Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, March 3, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 12 via DXLD) Radio Voice of Iranian Kurdistan observed at 0245-0255 UT March 13: carrier only on 3960.004 kHz, bubble jamming on 3960.065 kHz in wideband range 3955.8 to 3964.5 kHz. The other program with HQ prayer around 0240 UT on 4859.764 kHz, main bubble unit on 4860.096 kHz, in wideband range 4855.8 to 4862.8 kHz (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 13 via DXLD) ** KUWAIT. 21540, March 11 at 1445, R. Kuwait Qur`an VG signal but marred by ``bubble pulsing`` at the rate of 80 per minute. Right on this frequency and suspected a Kabd transmitter defect rather than a local device; it`s clear at 1513 recheck during Arabic talk mixed with Western classical music. 15540, March 13 at 1836, R. Kuwait is fairly audible, with news in English, nothing about the pending pope, so back to Vatican on 13765. Spring is here, as the mostly inaudible during winter 18-21 transmission is coming back. Even better March 14 at 2005 check during rock music, maybe would even hold up to 2100. 17550, March 14 at 2014, this is the *only* AM signal detectable on 16m, very poor with BFO engaged, no doubt Kuwait also starting to show during the 20-24 UT Arabic to W North America. Otherwise on 17 MHz, nothing but the BRB TDP DRM from MSY GUF on 17870-17880 and beyond (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KYRGYZSTAN. 5130, ???ShortWave Relay Service??? Bishkek, 1750 8 Mar, mx rel, low mod carrier 22222 (Mauro - Giroletti, -Swl 1510- -IK2GFT- -JRC525Nrd - Lowe HF150- Filter PAR Electronics - BCST-LPF + BCST-HPF- DSP 9 -Eavesdropper SWL Sloper 11mt to 120mt Band- Loop ALA 100 M -Lat. 45 25'0" N Long. 9 7'0" E -Locator grid. Jn 45 Nk-, playdx yg via DXLD) ** LAOS. 6130, R Nationale Lao, Vientiane. Thanks to Rajeesh, I learned that Laos had issued a new, beautiful QSL-card before I visited Malaysia in November last year. The station is not propagating well to Denmark, so I listened to their English broadcast from my hotel in Kuala Lumpur and sent a reception report after my return back home. After 83 days arrived the QSL-card signed by Sipha Nonglath, Director General. The QSL described their current frequencies and their web site: http://www.laonationalradio.com which has live broadcasts in Lao from one of their FM-channels, but unfortunately not from 6130 with international languages (Anker Petersen, Skovlunde, Denmark, DSWCI DX Window March 6 via DXLD) ** LIBYA. 1126.4, 4/3 2108, Radio Libya al Hurrà (presumed), Arabic talks mentioning Libya, songs, fair, in USB to avoid Spain (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Qualche ascolto fatto in Toscana, a Pescia (Pistoia) con l'Elad FDM-S1 e l'antenna Windom lunga 60 metri (by A. Capra) Immagini sul blog: http://radiodxsw.blogspot.it/ playdx yg via DXLD) ** LIBYA. 11600, 4/3 2039, Radio Libya, Sabrata, phone talks, Arabic, good (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Qualche ascolto fatto in Toscana, a Pescia (Pistoia) con l'Elad FDM-S1 e l'antenna Windom lunga 60 metri (by A. Capra) Immagini sul blog: http://radiodxsw.blogspot.it/ playdx yg via DXLD) ** LUXEMBOURG. 1440, Lutherische Stunde back on RTL Marnach, now Wednesdays at 1825-1830 UT winter, 1725-1730 UT summer. Da die Reichweite der Mittelwelle Oranienburg 693 kHz als nicht ausreichend betrachtet wurde, ist die Lutherische Stunde Postfach 1162 27363 Sottrum, Germany von der Stimme Russlands zum frueheren Sendepartner RTL Radio zurueckgekehrt. Man sendet hier mittwochs 1925-1930 Uhr Ortszeit MEZ/MESZ (CET/CEST) auf 1440 kHz und Internet (Dr. Hansjoerg Biener-ntt, Nico Scheer, Engineer Radio & TV Transmitters, BCE - Broadcasting Center Europe, MW Transmitter Station, L-9763 Marnach, Luxembourg via Peter Vaegler-D, A-DX March 12 via BC-DX via DXLD) "Nicht ausreichend" ist eine zarte Umschreibung dieser MW Kleinfunzel, nach dem weitgehenden Rueckzug der Stimme Russlands von Radio Moskau aus dem deutschen Mittelwellenraum (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) The Lutheran ``Hour`` is only 5 minutes broadcasting to the land of Luther?? Ha! (gh, DXLD) ** MADAGASCAR. 6135.00, R Madagasikara, 1614:30, March 11 [sic], presumed the one here surfacing after co-channel BBC had left. Malagasy (? didn't sound like French) male &female alternating, in the clear until BBC reappeared 1628:03. Then alone again 1659:32 when BBC had closed. Noted with talk &western pop songs to 1734 /1735, unfortunately missed exact s/off time as I had briefly tuned away. Again noted today, March 12, 1614:30 in between BBC off and back on again. Quite a nice signal despite annoying splatter from Xizang PBS 6130. MDG usually closes here 1500v, can anyone else confirm? (Martien Groot, Schoorl, Netherlands, TenTec RX340, 1643 ut March 12, probably also date of log not March 11, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)) Hi Martien, In Jo'burg, nothing at all heard on 6135 at 1720 on March 12. Regards, (Bill Bingham, RSA, ibid.) Hallo Bill, Presumed R Madagasikara still poorly audible under co- channel BBC 1655 but must have left a few minutes later as 6135 was empty at 1659:29 when BBC closed. 73, (Martien Groot, ibid.) 6135.00, R Madagasikara, 0312:53, March 13, French? in the clear as soon as R Santa Cruz 6134.81 had left causing conspicuous het. Weak, no definite ID, noted to 0402 tune-out. Later on same day at 1618 presumed Malagasy found in the clear at tune-in, better than on previous two days. Ousted by BBC 1628:03, unfortunately MDG had already closed again when BBC went off 1659:29 leaving a clear channel (Martien Groot, Schoorl, Netherlands, TenTec RX340, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6135.00, R Madagasikara, 1659:30, March 14, Malagasy still on, in the clear to 1700:11 off, presumed (Martien Groot, Schoorl, Netherlands, TenTec RX340, ibid.) Hi Martien, Thanks for your recent observations! March 14 finally had a chance to check out their new extended schedule running well past their former 1500 sign off time; today heard with no jamming of Shiokaze that often runs past 1430; heavy adjacent QRM, but certainly no mistake, was the correct language for Radio Madagasikara. Noted from 1447 to 1535. Checked to see if anything special was going on in Madagascar. Found that Cyclone Haruna had crossed the southern part of the country in late February. Perhaps why the extended schedule? http://reliefweb.int/report/madagascar/tropical-cyclone-haruna-situation-report-no-4-7-march-2013 (Ron Howard, California, ibid.) ** MADAGASCAR. 17670, March 8 at 1350, Vietnamese with nice bits of western classical music, mentions some P O boxes until 1356.5*. Poor signal here but another example of what a great relay site MGLOB Talata-Vololondry is, aiming 60 degrees with AWR at 13-14 per Aoki, which compacts it to ``Volondry``. No siren jamming audible here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALAYSIA. 2 March, 11665, RTM is // 9835 (synched) at 1629 with ‘strong’ signal of S5. Best on 11664 kHz or LSB. A ballad rock song. First time hearing them so strong on this frequency. Also 9835 at 2155 with S3. Again 3/3 11665 at 1622 and S5!! (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, not reported until 12 March, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7295, 4/3 2153, Traxx FM, songs, English news on the hour, good after 2200 no more QRM from 7290 (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Qualche ascolto fatto in Toscana, a Pescia (Pistoia) con l'Elad FDM-S1 e l'antenna Windom lunga 60 metri (by A. Capra) Immagini sul blog: http://radiodxsw.blogspot.it/ playdx yg via DXLD) Traxx FM (Malasia), QSL --- 7295 kHz, Kajang (Malasia). Esta emisora fue oída en diciembre 2007 y se intentó verificar sin éxito. Recientemente han puesto todos los transmisores de onda corta a cargo de la Technical Section y verifican los informes. En pocas horas me contestó Zulkifli bin Ab Rahim, Technical Network Section. Además me comunica que envía mi QSL por correo postal y me adjunta un par de pdf con la tarjeta tal como la pone en el correo. Informe enviado a zulrahim @ rtm.gov.my Thank you, Sir. Y Malasia es el radiopaís nº 145 que verifica mis informes. Publicado por jaarranzs en http://jaarranzs.blogspot.it/ (J Arranz S, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** MALDIVES. I have been trying Voice of Maldives heard on 1449 MW, for more than 15 years to get a verification. Perhaps due to lack of QSL card they were reluctant to reply. No QSLs were seen reported from Maldives since 2000. Mr. Stig Hartvig Nielsen from Denmark was on Maldives for just one night. He asked me to e-mail the report and went directly to the station and obtained station stamp and signature of the official on the reception report itself and mailed back. I am delighted to receive it. Perhaps my QSL of the decade! (T. R. Rajeesh, Thrissur, Kerala, India, Feb 27, DSWCI DX Window via DXLD) ** MALI. I've been trying to hear CRI from Mali. There seems to be few entries in the WRTH so maybe a look elsewhere would be more productive. 7295 is listed for Hausa at 0800-0900 and 11640 at 1800- 1830 but I haven't heard them. Signals from this site have always been poor at my location though. This in connection with the recent troubles of course (Noel Green, NW England, March 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALI. VOA ADDS FM TRANSMITTER IN MALI'S CAPITAL --- BAMAKO, MALI - Residents in Mali's capital city, Bamako, can now listen to the Voice of America 24 hours a day, seven days a week, on 102 [sic] FM, a new transmitter that was officially inaugurated this week. VOA Director David Ensor, in Mali to take part in the launch ceremony, hailed the addition of the new frequency. "This new FM transmitter and the Bambara language program we debuted Monday build on the innovative efforts VOA has made to provide the people of Mali with reliable and objective news and information during a very uncertain time," Ensor said. The new FM transmitter will carry the latest regional and international developments from VOA's French to Africa Service and a network of local reporters around the country. It will also air popular VOA African music programs. During his visit, Ensor also took part in a town hall style meeting at the University of Mali and met with Malian officials and media representatives, including the managers of the VOA affiliate station Radio Kledu. Monday, VOA introduced a new half-hour news program in Bambara, a local language that is widely spoken in Mali. One local reporter in Bamako said the initial program was "a real hit" because it had a segment on power outages, which happened to air during an actual power outage. In February, VOA began broadcasting on mobile phones in the Songhai language, which is common in the north of Mali, where Islamic extremists continue to resist efforts to oust them from their strongholds. VOA's French to Africa Service has also added a new 15-minute French- language program called Sahel Plus that focuses on the vast region of Africa stretching from Mauritania in the West, to Sudan and Djibouti in the East. All of the programs provide analysis of the growing threat of violent extremism in the region, and offer opportunities for listeners to share their stories. VOA's Mali 1 mobile service was added last year to take advantage of the large and growing number of mobile phone users, and as a way to get news to regions where extremists have shut down independent media. In addition to mobile, VOA programs are broadcast on shortwave, medium wave and the Internet. For more information about this release, contact Kyle King at the VOA Public Relations office in Washington at (202) 203-4959, or write kking @ voanews.com For more information about VOA, visit the Public Relations website at http://www.insidevoa.com or the main news site at http://www.voanews.com (VOA PR via DXLD) ** MEXICO. 850, March 12 at 0625 UT in KOA null, promo for some show L-V a las 20 horas por Milenio Noticias, then discussing Venezuela, Vatican. So it`s XEM in Chihuahua city (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1150, March 12 at 0604 UT, choral Mexican NA is playing, NE/SW or so DF; fortunately this is close to the null of KSL IBOC peaking 1147 kHz. 0605 segué to Coahuila state anthem by soprano. By 0608 finally singing ID but unreadable now, losing out to `C2CAM` presumably KSAL. The only Coahuilan on 1150 is per Cantú: 1150 XEBF Radio Extremo Torreón, Coah. (desde San Pedro) 2,500 1,000 IRCA Log agrees except for powers as 1000/250 watts. WRTH goes with Cantú`s figures (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See UNID 1160 ** MEXICO [and non]. 6010.0, March 8 at 0732, several Radio Mil IDs, so XEOI is back on the air! Music show with IDs between songs, ``vívalos en Mil, 24 horas, 365 días del año``; 0733 ranchera song with guitar; 0737 IDs and more music. If HJDH is on now, it`s only a very weak het. XEOI seems to be spot-on frequency now, registering S9+15, while the other HJDH on 5910 manages only S9+10. RHC nominally blox 6010 from 05 to 07 [not 01-07 as I miswrote originally; obstacle earlier is Iran in Spanish at 0030- 0330], but several times lately RHC has been off after 0600 and I have not noticed R. Mil then, so suspect it just came back. Or only turned on after 0700? Surely not. After too little sleep, turn on again at 1307, and R. Mil is still audible, but very poor, Spanish, fast SAH with something, all talk now in presumed morning news magazine. My last log of it was 14 months ago, and followed by several reports last year of it missing: ``MEXICO. 6010, Jan 9 [2012] at 1315, very poor signal in Spanish news, so R. Mil, XEOI. Difficult here and now, but maybe not if I were ever monitoring around 08-10 when it`s regularly reported even from Spain by Manuel Méndez. Lower bands have spring-like atmosferix from storms over north Texas`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6010, further chex for reactivated after more than a year, XEOI, Radio Mil: March 9 at 0056, LAH (low audible heterodyne), and a fast SAH (subaudible heterodyne), which I assume are three Spanish stations: Iran as scheduled 0030-0330; XEOI; and HJDH being the one further off- frequency with the LAH. But none of them are readable. Recheck around 0630, RHC English is on tonight, totally blocking anything else, but XEOI will presumably emerge again after 0700. On UT Sunday RHC supposedly stays on 6010 till 0730 with Esperanto, but not always. I informed Julián Santiago Díez de Bonilla, who used to do a DX program on R. Mil with Héctor García Bojorge, and on March 8, Julián replied: ``Efectivamente Glenn: ayer por la tarde volvió al aire XEOI 6010 kHz. Saludos, Julián`` And then he posted to the DX world: ``Desde ayer 7 de marzo se encuentra nuevamente en el aire XEOI Radio Mil onda corta en los 6010 kHz las 24 hrs. Saludos, Julián Santiago Díez de Bonilla`` 6010v, March 10 at 0012 check, XEOI may be back on, but useless vs heap of QRM and hets, presumably LV de tu Conciencia, Colombia, and R. Inconfidência, Brasil [much better here again on 15191.5v], as Iran doesn`t pile on until 0030. Another Aoki listee, R. Parinacota in Chile, hasn`t been reported in a long time even from S America. In our mornings pre-sunrise, the major obstacle to Mil (which is not only 1000 kHz on MW, but also only 1000 watts on SW) should be CNR11 Tibetan service from Baoji. 6010, Sunday March 10 at 0701, RHC quits modulation after false start of weekly Esperanto, so during open carrier the underhets are clearer; 0702:50* RHC turns off uncovering at least two much weaker stations making LAH, first hearing some flute music atop, soon La Voz de tu Conciencia ID [COLOMBIA], praise music. 0705 `La Bamba` music mixes, presumed R. Mil, DF, and 0709 yes, ID for that amid heavy QRM. Back to the old collision situation before XEOI took 14 months off (but on the first night I heard it back, March 8, it was in the clear, so keep trying). Recheck at 1304, ``Viva México`` song and no CCI from China audible, and just far enough from the N Korean noise jammers on 6003 and 6015. See also CUBA! RHC honors R. Mil despite blocking it 6010, March 13 at 0104, pileup of probably four stations, Brasil, Colombia, Radio Mil XEOI, and --- VRIIrán is probably the one on top of the rumble, Spanish talking to someone ``en línea`` --- I know VIRI does a lot of phone interviews in English, anyway, especially any American who can be induced to criticise US policy. Henceforth one must rule Iran in or out on 6010 by comparing to // 7420. At least we can anticipate the departure of Iran from 6010 in A-13 for a higher band. 6010, March 14 at 0059, yay, R. Mil ID is (barely) atop the rumbling mess of QRM from Brasil, Colombia and Iran at least (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. TOMAN RADIOEMISORAS EN OAXACA [as in taking them over] by gruporadioescuchaargentino Integrantes de la Coordinadora de Estudiantes Normalistas (CENEO) tomaron 10 estaciones de radio y televisión en esta capital, a fin de presionar al gobierno de Gabino Cué a instalar mesas de trabajo para “concretar acuerdos” en torno de sus demandas. Además, los estudiantes retuvieron alrededor de 20 autobuses de transporte urbano y tomaron la caseta de cobro de Huitzo. Sólo dejaron libre el paso en la carretera Oaxaca-México. Minutos después de la toma de las estaciones del Grupo Radio México, Radio Fórmula y de la Corporación Radiofónica de Radio y Televisión del gobierno estatal, así como las filiales de Televisa y TV-Azteca, el gobierno estatal emitió un comunicado para condena los hechos. El gobierno de Gabino Cué hizo un llamado “enérgico” a la dirigencia y miembros de la CENEO para “deponer actos de presión y no afectar la operación de las empresas de comunicación radiofónicas y televisivas de la ciudad de Oaxaca”. Asimismo, destacó que con las instancias gubernamentales se mantiene una interlocución permanente para atender en la medida de lo posible, y de acuerdo con las facultades legales, las demandas de los normalistas. “A partir de que fueron tomadas las instalaciones de algunos medios de comunicación de esta ciudad, el gobierno del estado instruyó la integración de cinco equipos interinstitucionales con personal del Instituto Estatal de Educación Pública de Oaxaca (IEEPO), la Secretaría General de Gobierno y la Secretaría de Seguridad Pública (SSP)”. Estos funcionarios, precisó, “tienen la instrucción de establecer inmediatamente comunicación con los grupos inconformes, buscando concretar acuerdos que posibiliten la distensión del conflicto, así como el desalojo de las empresas de comunicación y la atención a las demandas de la CENEO”. De acuerdo con el texto, “el gobierno del estado manifiesta hasta el momento que se han atendido de manera puntual las demandas de los normalistas, por lo que resultan injustificados este tipo de actos de presión y movilizaciones que afectan no sólo el libre tránsito, sino la importante actividad que realizan los medios de comunicación del estado”. Los inconformes tomaron las estaciones de radio desde las 10:00 horas, para exigir espacios al aire y difundir su postura respecto del rechazo a las reformas laboral y educativa, pero sobre todo para exigir les asignen de manera automática 920 plazas de docentes. En algunas estaciones el comportamiento de los normalistas fue pacífico, pero en otros lugares se impidió la entrada y salida del personal. Ante tales acciones, grupos de ciudadanos instalaron mesas para recabar firmas como parte de la campaña “Quiero mi ciudad sin bloqueos”. La iniciativa, encabezada por el presidente municipal Luis Ugartechea, tiene como objetivo garantizar el derecho al libre tránsito, la paz y tranquilidad social de los ciudadanos (tomada de Proceso via GRA blog via DXLD) ** MEXICO. EXTIENDE COFETEL PLAZOS PARA DIGITALIZACIÓN EN REGIONES DEL PAÍS [notably Tijuana; about supplying DTV converters to the public] El pleno de la Comisión Federal de Telecomunicaciones (Cofetel) autorizó seis días adicionales a Teletec de México para que concluya con la instalación de decodificadores y/o antenas digitales en la ciudad de Tijuana, Baja California, con lo que la empresa tendrá hasta el próximo 12 de marzo para terminar con la digitalización de alrededor 180 mil telehogares. A través de un comunicado, el regulador explicó que la fecha inicial para que la empresa concluyera con la instalación era el seis de marzo de 2013, pero “derivado de fuertes lluvias que impidieron la realización de los trabajos por algunos días, la empresa solicitó una ampliación del plazo”. A partir del día de hoy y hasta el martes de la siguiente semana Teletec de México tendrá que instalar cerca de 20 mil decodificadores digitales para cumplir con los plazos establecidos. De acuerdo con la Cofetel, Teletec de México reportó haber alcanzado un total de 160 mil 085 instalaciones de decodificadores y/o antenas digitales al 3 de marzo del presente año. Con base en los datos de la Encuesta sobre la Penetración de la Televisión Abierta en los Hogares (ENPETAH) levantada en Tijuana en abril de 2012, se espera que el número de instalaciones en esta ciudad sea cercano a de 180 mil. “Luego de analizar y acreditar la información presentada por Teletec, la Cofetel resolvió otorgar dicha prórroga por seis días, por lo que será el próximo 12 de marzo cuando dicha empresa deba concluir con los servicios de instalación y visitas en Tijuana”, dijo el regulador. La Cofetel determinó - bajo Acuerdo P/060313/115, la procedencia de la solicitud de modificación de diversas características técnicas a las estaciones de televisión digital XHAJ-TDT, Canal 49 y XHCLV-TDT, Canal 45, de Televimex con operaciones en Jalapa, Veracruz, lo cual “continúa mejorando las condiciones de operación de la TDT en dicho Estado”. Por otro lado, la Cofetel aprobó emitir una opinión favorable a la solicitud presentada por Axtel para que se le otorgue una concesión para usar, en forma experimental, los segmentos de la banda de frecuencias de 3.600 – 3.615 GHz y 3.675 – 3.690 GHz, con el fin de concluir las pruebas de las tecnologías de acceso inalámbrico fijo WiMAX y pre- WiMAX en la zona metropolitana del Valle de México y en algunos municipios de la zona metropolitana de la ciudad de Monterrey. En la sesión plenaria, también se aprobó el otorgamiento de 19 permisos para instalar y operar estaciones de radio en la banda de FM a favor del gobierno del Estado de Oaxaca, la mayoría de estas señales se destinan a cubrir localidades alejadas (Excelsior via GRA blog via DXLD) ** MOLDOVA. MW transmitter usage (maximum power 3000 kW at 1800-1900). Tx 1 (500 kW) on 999 kHz to Moldova & Ukraine: 0300-0500 Mon-Fri D (R) 1300-1900 & 2100-2300 R 1900-2100 W (B, V, R) Tx 2 (500 kW) on 999 kHz to SE Europe: 1500-1900 & 2100-2300 R Tx 3 (500 kW) on 1548 kHz to S Europe: 1500-1800 S, S, I 2000-2130 S 2130-2230 I Tx 4 (500 kW) on 1413 kHz to Moldova & Ukraine & Tx 5 (500 kW) on 1413 kHz to Balkans 1800-2000 R Tx 3 (500 kW) + Tx6 (500 kW) = 1000 kW on 1548 kHz to Balkans: 1800- 2000 W (Balkans) Tx7 (150 kW) 0400-0700 on 621 kHz Mon-Fri D (R,V,O) (Rumen Pankov. Abbreviations - see list under Armenia), March BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** MONGOLIA. 12085, Voice of Mongolia; 0900 UT - English - Station signature tune followed by OM with station ID in Mongolian and YL with station ID in English. I didn’t understood most part of the program due to interference and weak signal, at 0926 ID and program announcement into Mongolian instrumental music; 33333 – bad; 1030 UT timing was much better; -- Recording: https://soundcloud.com/dxinginfo/12085-khz-mongolia-0901-utc-11 (Partha Sarathi Goswami, Siliguri, Darjeeling, WB, India, March 11, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MOROCCO. 9579.152, 0446-, Medi 1, Mar 9. Good reception with Arabic vocal music. In the clear, with good modulation (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. 7375, March 10 at 0001, The Mighty KBC is not late this week, but already on, playing ``Falling in Love Again``. Good signal from Nauen; should be no problem getting the radiograms thru later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7375, The Mighty KBC with a great signal at 0000 UT on 7375 with old school AM-style music and announcements. It reminded me of Radio Luxembourg back in the 80's. I responded to the DJ's request to send an e-mail about reception, and he responded personally a few minutes later. 10 March (Ken Walters - Palm Beach FL, Sangean ATS 909X, via Robert Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) GERMANY, 7375, 0108-, The Mighty KBC, Mar 10. Very good reception, S9+10 reception, mentioning digital modes later on, from Kim Andrew Elliot. Sooo much better than in Victoria! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Monday morning 0900-1100 UT, The Mighty KBC is testing on 5955 kHz from Nauen with The Giant Jukebox. We are also on the air at the same time on 6095 kHz with Transport Radio from Wertachtal. Please mail us your reports for both frequencies. On Tuesday we are testing again with Transport Radio on both frequencies Please spread the word. Mail your reports to themightykbc @ gmail.com and / or to info @ transportradio.nl (Mighty KBC 1701 UT March 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) On FB: KBC-tests on Monday March, 11: The Mighty KBC is testing on: Monday 11.03.2013 on 5955 kHz 0900-1100 UT from Nauen with 125 kW, HR 2/2/0.5 antenna 240 degrees. Tuesday 12.03.2013 on 5955 kHz 0900-1100 UT from Nauen with 100 kW, HR 2/4/0.5 antenna 240 degrees. 73 (Alokesh Gupta, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Germany, KBC test program via Nauen on 5955 kHz, March 11, 2013 at 0907 UT, fair to poor signal with deep fading and noise, ID heard at 0910, then rock-n-roll is playing, SINPO 35222. Quite surprised that reception was so bad at such time. Much better on 6095 via Wertachtal in Saturday and Sunday. RX: Degen-1121 and ANT.: Degen-31MS, My kindest regards, (Ihor Karivets', Lviv, Western part of Ukraine, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See U S A [non] for reports of VOA Radiogram tests via KBC (gh) ** NEW ZEALAND. Radio New Zealand, 10th March 2013, 1104-1206 UT on 15720. Good reception today when compared to the day before and also clearer than the last few times I have tried early morning UK time on 11725. SINO 3533 (variable). Reception report to be sent (Dave Harries, Bristol, England, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7285, 1603-, RNZI, Mar 11. Looking for the DRM transmission. They only came on at 1602 today, rather than the scheduled 1551 UT (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NICARAGUA. 8989-USB, 9/3 2310, El Buen Pescador - ??? EE SS no predica??? Talk su Policia Nacional ??? suff. Si tratta di un "folle" che trasmette da un peschereccio al largo della costa del Nicaragua (Roberto Pavanello, Italy, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** NIGERIA. 15120, March 12 at 0502, VON in English news, fair signal with fading, but a ripple on the modulation as the AM carrier wobbles. Gone - off or faded out by 0518, when 15580 VOA Botswana is still in with fair signal. Haven`t heard this 0440-0700 UT VON transmission in months; a `benefit` of DST, forcing my prime DX monitoring times one UT hour earlier including this bedtime session, now typically from 0500 or so instead of 0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. Voz de Nigeria en 15120 con algunos cortes en la transmisión pero llega bastante bien, UT 1530 (Ernesto Paulero, Argentina, March 12, condiglist yg via DXLD) ** NIGERIA [non]. GERMANY, More changes of Media Broadcast: Hamada Radio International, 0530-0600 on 7350 NAU 100 kW / 180 deg to WeAf Hausa Mon-Fri, cancelled (DX RE MIX NEWS #771 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov. March 11, 2013, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [as first reported in DXLD] ** NORTH AMERICA. UNID, 6935, 0159-, Radio True North, Mar 9. Very powerful North American pirate blasting in at S9 + 30 dB. I can see them splattering all the way down to 6910 kHz up to 6950 kHz! I'm going to guess this is Blue Ocean Radio, or the Northern Relay Service. No IDs noted so far! Frequency suddenly jumped up to 6940 in AM. Good, ID'd as Radio True North at 0204 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNID, 6950, 0208-, Radio Station XFM? Mar 9. Yet another AM pirate on 6950 at fair to good level, suffering minor splatter from Radio True North on 6940 kHz. Pretty sure they ID'd at 0209:30 as 'Radio Station XFM, please stand by' (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNID, 6957.408, 0105-, Pirate, Mar 9. Fair to good reception at tune- in with pop music. British sounding announcer at 0106, then into another pop song. No ID heard, but we're still about 2 hours from LSS. North American relay of a Europirate? Continues on at 0145 recheck (I was outside laying out my NW BOG antenna). Radio Caroline (North?) mentioned at 0146. At same time a much more powerful pirate came on with OC on 6935 in AM, and into music at about 0146. Switching back and forth now between the two. Frequency now measuring 6957.380. 'This is the Mailbag Show' announced at 0151. Cut suddenly in mid-sentence for about 20 seconds or so at 0157:30, and then back again (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. A TCS Shortwave Relay Network station is on the air right now, on 6930 kHz USB, playing the "TCS Rock 'n Roll Art Show" Getting a nice S-7 to S-9 signal in Lansing, MI. Thought I'd let some folks know, hope you can catch it! -- (John Poet, The Crystal Ship via TCS Shortwave Relay Network, 0158 UT March 10, DXLD) The crystal ship pirate 6930 USB, 0200 UT: Started a while ago but I just tuned in to an awesome signal. Really nice sound. Moody Blues, King Crimson & Yes played. This is about the best sounding USB pirate I've ever heard (Dave Hughes, KC, MO, 0219 UT March 10, ibid.) Fair to good signal in Montreal at 0239 UT, 6930 USB (Gilles Letourneau, UT March 10, ibid.) ** NORTH AMERICA. Propagação Aberta 40M --- Ontem 10/03/2013, por volta das 23:00h (Brasília [0200 UT March 11]), a propagação "escancarou`` na faixa dos 40 metros, vários radioamadores "norte americanos" chegavam muito forte. Me apressei, e corrí para os 6925, frequência em que concentram o maior número de "Rádios Piratas" dos EUA. Ouví muitas delas em USB, mas sem identificação. Tomara que continue assim (Cássio Santos - Goiânia-Goiás, Receptores usados: Drake R8B e Grundig Sat 800; Antenas: Delta Loop+Balun 4.1 e Plano Terra 5/8, radioescutas yg via DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. PIRATE, 6925, 0251-, Mar 10. Fair to good reception with Gordon Lightfoot's ``The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald`` to 0251:30, then directly into another 80s song. Reported later on-line to be Red Mercury Labs (at) yahoo.com (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 780, March 10 at 0258 UT on caradio, big rippling SAH caused by daytimer KSPI Stillwater 250-watt carrier still on the air by groundwave, still tearing up WBBM by skywave (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 960, March 10 at 0600-0605 UT, KGWA Enid resumes a Fox-hole after filling it a couple nights, but nothing unusual heard, just ABC News always assumed to emanate from KMA Shenandoah IA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 960, March 13 at 0459 UT, a standard canned ID frequently played: ``since 1950, well over 10 million people in Oklahoma have listened to KGWA, Enid``. How in the world do they come up with that, and how would they prove it? Considering the present population of OK is only 3.8+ million, the most ever, due to very slow growth, that`s quite a claim. Wikipedia shows census: 1950 2,233,351 -4.4% 1960 2,328,284 4.3% 1970 2,559,229 9.9% 1980 3,025,290 18.2% 1990 3,145,585 4.0% 2000 3,450,654 9.7% 2010 3,751,351 8.7% Est. 2012 3,814,820 1.7% Or course that would assume in any given year, roughly one of three Okies has listened to KGWA, but its 1 kW day & nite coverage area is nowhere near the whole state. It does get to OKC, where they could craftily include everyone who analog-tuned back and forth between WKY 930 and KTOK 1000, unavoidably hitting KGWA on the way! So they`ve `listened` to it for a split second. Count `em in! Another ID mentions the 5 or 6 counties it really covers. Maybe KGWA is adding up all their ratings figures for 62 years, which have to include *duplications* of individuals, over and over? Since DST started, it so happened that the Fox-hole had been filled by Fox ``news`` at local midnite, which is now 0500 UT instead of 0600. But tonight the Hole is back, and during the hummy KGWA open carrier, it`s the #1 filler that we hear, ABC News, no doubt from KMA in Iowa (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1020, March 13 at 0504 UT, KOKP Perry is off the air again, good news for KDKA et al., but no SS audible filling the gap. This could be related to the fact that KOKP is also off the air in the daytime, at 1430 UT check. What`s wrong? (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1120, March 9 at 2011 UT amid powerline noise and lightning crashes on the caradio, bits of weak music, must be KEOR Catoosa/Sperry/Tulsa back on the air after a few weeks` silence, so still only 2 kW daytimer? Yes, Bruce Winkelman in Tulsa wrote me earlier today: ``KEOR 1120 call letter ID in Spanish 1445Z 09MAR13 into SS religious vocal music`` --- so maybe they are back with a new format; music was not religious before, and they were *never* heard to ID, let alone announce anything during previous several months of testing (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1120, KEOR reactivated in daytime but not noted at night vs KMOX; perhaps this incarnation they will be playing by rules? (Glenn Hauser, OK, March 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1120, March 11 at 2005 UT on the caradio, no signal from KEOR, gone again, since it had shown up March 9 even with an ID (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1390, March 14 at 0555 UT check, our other local, KCRC is vying with KGWA in the dead-air sweepstakes; I dare to turn up the volume and null the strong carrier as best I can for a few minutes, but can only hear traces of understations. Its dead-air schedule is nowhere as reliable as KGWA`s (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1650, March 12 at 0104 UT check, promo for Dial Global Sports, as an ``upcoming show preview on the Big AM 16-50, KYHN, Fort Smith, Arkansas``. So they are *still* stunting, really from offices in Sallisaw OK, and transmitter on this side of the AR border (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. Wide RF range on SW, March 10 at 0035.5 UT, my nearest streetlight fires and then gradually glows more and more as the RF noise of the starter recedes. Probably a bit earlier than nominal due to clouds in the west which made a gorgeous sunset, but obscured the comet (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. Public Notice: On Jan 28, 2013, Family Stations, Inc., filed an application for the renewal of FM Translator license K202BY serving Enid, OK. The station operates on ch 202 at a power of .455 watts [sic] and rebroadcasts station KEAR-FM, Sacramento, CA on Ch 201. The transmitter site is located at Route 132, 3.4 km North of Intersection with USH 60 (route 15), 12 km WNW of Enid, OK. You are invited to advise the FCC in Washington, DC, 20554, of any facts relating to K202BY`s renewal application or whether this station has operated in the public interest (legal notice published in the Enid News & Eagle, February 9, 2013 (96), via DXLD) Are you kidding? This station had Harold Camping proclaiming the end of the world was nigh on specific date(s). Such lies are not in the public interest. Of course, this applies to all FR stations. Next to this in the Eagle, there was another notice, for K266FX, of KYLV, ERP 0.25 kW, expiring June 1, 2013; deadline for comments on public interest to the FCC is May 1, 2013. Refers to KLVR, Santa Rosa California address for more info on FCC license renewal process. I`m heading right out there to get it (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 105.3 Oklahoma City Goes Pro radioinsight.com › Headlines 9 hours ago – 105.3 THE MARTINI PRO CBS SPORTS KINB OKLAHOMA CITY SPORTS ANIMAL THE LAST BASTION STATION TRUST HAS FLIPPED STANDARDS 105.3 Oklahoma City Goes Pro --- March 13, 2013 By Lance Venta http://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/81200/105-3-oklahoma-city-goes-pro/ The Last Bastion Station Trust has flipped Standards “105.3 The Martini” KINB Kingfisher/Oklahoma City to Sports “105.3 The Pro“. The station is currently running the CBS Sports Radio national feed around the clock. Oklahoma City is one of the few markets where the Cumulus owned Sports station did not pickup CBS Sports Radio when the network launched in January. Its “640 ESPN” KWPN and “98.1 The Sports Animal” WWLS-FM remained with ESPN Radio. The Last Bastion Trust currently holds six stations that at one point were required to be spun off by then Citadel Broadcasting to get under the ownership limit. Of the six stations remaining in the trust, there are applications to bring two of them back into the Cumulus fold (via Artie Bigley, DXLD) This is the 930-watt station that only covers the NW part of OKC. It was also formerly ``The Spy`` which has now taken over much of KOSU 91.7 (gh, DXLD) ** OMAN. 15560, R. Sultanate of Oman, Mar 08 1424-1442, 23322-25332- 35433 English, Music, Gongs at 1429, ID at 1430, Theme music, News, Talk (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX and ANT, IC-R75+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-525+RD-9830+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-515+35m Long Wire, NRD-345+35m Long Wire, Satellite 750+30m Long Wire, DE-1130, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAKISTAN. Venerdì 8 marzo 2013, 1048 - 17700 R. PAKISTAN, Modulazione terribile. MB-BN (Luca Botto Fiora, QTH G.C. 09E13 - 44N21, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) Complete silence from R. Pakistan FM [frequency management] section. The two 250 kW are still on air, although I have noted services missing occasionally. 15725 & 17700 are on now as I type at 1015 with the usual distorted signals. A shame, when two new transmitters are installed at Karachi but without an antenna to broadcast. 73 from (Noel Green, NW England, March 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15490, R. Pakistan, Mar 07 0050-0107, 35333, Urdu, Koran and song and news, ID at 0105. 15490, R. Pakistan, Mar 08 0057-0107, 35333 Urdu, Song and news, ID at 0059 and 0104 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX and ANT, IC-R75+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-525+RD-9830+115m Sloper Wire, NRD- 515+35m Long Wire, NRD-345+35m Long Wire, Satellite 750+30m Long Wire, DE-1130, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAKISTAN. 15490, 09/Mar 1858, UNID. OM seems to speak in Arabic. Looks like a national anthem at the end. At 1900 end of the transmission. Fair signal. Listening in SDR from Twente. The recording of listening attached 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brasil, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yup, Pakistan, the language is not Arabic. All the best (Tarek Zeidan, Cairo, Egypt, ibid.) That's Radio Pakistan (Dave, Interval Signals Online, Kernick, ibid.) Usual Urdu language til 19 UT. 15490 kHz is the Asia MORNING frequency tomorrow at 0045-0215 UT Urdu to zones 49-51,54 ISLAMABAD. The engineer was a little bit speedy, - or too lazy? 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) Thank you Tarek and Dave. Yes, is not Arabic, Urdu probably. 73 (Jorge Freitas, ibid.) Opening to Asia this morning resulted in the presents [sic] of the following: 15425, 1450-1531* Mar. 11. Noted with a traditional music program, interspersed with announcements in Urdu; to TOH, three time notes, then newscast in Urdu by female speaker. Commentary followed to 1522, then filler musical program to 1529 closing announcements followed with National Anthem to 1531 sign-off. This is the first time Radio Pakistan has been able to be heard at this hour and frequency (Edward Kusalik, Alberta, ODXA yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DXLD) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3204.9, Radio Sandaun, West Sepik, 1140 to 1145 beautiful choral music, very good signal, some talk by OM 9 March (XM, Cedar Key, South Florida, NRD 525D, R8A, E-5, via Robert Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3205, March 12 at 1246, music on very poor signal, but the only 90m PNG frequency with anything (except 3325 probably Indonesia instead). Have all the others signed off by now? 3205 is presumably NBC Sandaun West Sepik, Vanimo. Ron Howard reported this one reactivated Feb 28 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3345.00, NBC Northern, the Voice of Oro. An entertaining marathon session from 1217 to 1444, March 8; extremely rare to find an NBC station going past 1404 (usually their latest sign off time). Today on exact frequency; ex-.03. 1217-1304: Many on air phone calls and playing both pop Pacific songs and western hit pop songs (“Hungry Eyes” Eric Carmen, “No Sacrifice” Elton John, etc.). 1304-1308: Bird call; NBC National News Roundup in English. 1308: Relay of and IDs for “NBC National Radio”. 1328: Usual advertisement for “BSP” (Bank of South Pacific). 1330: “From 1973 to 2013, NBC National Radio marks forty years of service to the people of Papua New Guinea - 90.7 FM”. Continued on playing both pop Pacific songs and western hit pop songs. Still faintly heard as late as 1503. Going for 24 hours? The strongest NBC station heard today! (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3905, NBC New Ireland, 1334, March 12. Back again after being briefly off for about a week; ham QRM; not as strong as heard in the past. NBC stations are erratic! (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 7324.95, Wantok Radio Light, 1408-1420, March 12. Tuned away from Fak Fak to check on this; yes, still heard during their half an hour window of QRM-free reception; religious music and songs; 1417 one brief ID (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 3329.5, Perú, Ondas del Huallaga, Huánuco, 1000 sign on 7 March (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D, Icom 746 Pro, Drake R8, Drake R7, dxsf, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4789, Perú, Radio Visión, Chiclayo, 0825 off the air; speculation that they operate 24 hours a day may be incorrect. ~ 0900 noted. 12 March (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D, Icom 746 Pro, Drake R8, Drake R7, dxsf, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4810, Perú, Radio Logos, Chazuta, Tarapoto, 0925 to 1117, beautiful flauta Andina with incredibly strong signal from 1045 to 1105 drowning out CODAR totally -555- then quickly into fade out flutter by 1117. 12 March (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D, Icom 746 Pro, Drake R8, Drake R7, dxsf, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4826.5, Perú, Radio Sicuani, Sicuani, Cusco, 0840 noted as the first Peruvian on in the local morning. 12 March (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D, Icom 746 Pro, Drake R8, Drake R7, dxsf, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4835, Perú, Ondas del Suroriente, Quillabamba, 0000 to 0035 en español 10 March (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D, Icom 746 Pro, Drake R8, Drake R7, and XM, Cedar Key, South Florida, NRD 525D, R8A, E-5, via Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4939.9, Perú, Radio San Antonio de Atalaya, 0953 to 0959 on 7 March; 0948 locatura y locutor en español y música, 1000 lost to China 12 March (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D, Icom 746 Pro, Drake R8, Drake R7, dxsf, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4974.92, Perú, Radio Pacífico, Lima, noted from time to time, from 0907 to 1000 on 12 March; and other days recently (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D, Icom 746 Pro, Drake R8, Drake R7, and XM, Cedar Key, South Florida, NRD 525D, R8A, E-5, via Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5039.22, Perú, Radio Libertad de Junín, Junín noted on at 1000, OM español, good signal 12 March (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D, Icom 746 Pro, Drake R8, Drake R7, dxsf, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5460, Perú, Radio Bolívar, Cd. Bolívar, 0000 to 0020 with music 4 March (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D, Icom 746 Pro, Drake R8, Drake R7, and XM, Cedar Key, South Florida, NRD 525D, R8A, E-5, via Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU [and non]. 5980, UT March 8 at 0100, carrier under noise mainly from 5990 CRI Cuba again on a minute late. Then R. Chaski with usual format including music, 0102.5 muffled talk, 0104 sounder with the devotional spot, 0106 guitar music, and tonight`s cutoff timed at 0107:53* just as I expected, five seconds later than last night. 5980, March 9 at 0100, after weeks of regular reception, no Radio Chaski: monitoring from 0059, there was a JBA carrier which could be it or CNR1 jammer, but went off circa 0100 along with the splash from 5990 Cuba. Kept trying to detect at least a carrier on 5980, but no go past 0108 when per 5-seconds-later-each night, R. Chaski would have signed off anyway. Could be they finally reset their timer to cut off closer to 0100. Now I`ll have to check if that resume the +5-second pattern. 5980, March 9 at 2357, I start checking this an hour earlier than usual for R. Chaski, but only hear nonsensical DentroCuban pulse jamming against no R. Martí which doesn`t start 5980 until 0700. Fortunately this jamming is not on every night. By 0011 March 10, however, with BFO can detect a JBA carrier under the jamnoise; is it Chaski? ChiCom CNR1 jamming against VOA Tibetan via Sri Lanka is no doubt still in effect during this hour altho the Sun is rising earlier in Tibet and SL, setting later and later here. At 0032, the JBA carrier has improved to BA; at 0037 now it does sound like Chinese vs DentroCuban Jamming Command. Unfortunately, tonight I will not be able to check for Chaski at 0100-0108*, which was missing last night, but there`s something even better from Perú: Hank Fincken is playing Pizarro at Enid`s Winter Chautauqua starting at 0100. Here`s a story about that: http://www.swoknews.com/styles-new/entertainment/item/5420-pizarro-comes-alive-at-enids-winter-chautauqua And here`s Hank`s YouTube sample of that performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eey2vKkn7o He also presented two excellent workshops earlier in the day about the Incas and Peru. Search on his name for more about his characters. 5980, March 11 at 0057, now is my first chance to check whether R. Chaski, Urubamba has reset their turn-off timer, once it almost reached 8 minutes past the hour: at first I am hearing hymn with fading, which can`t be the CNR1 jammer, no longer propagating this late into the Asian dayside, and no timesignal at 0100; music continues until cut off the air at 0100:29*! I bet this resumes precessing 5 sex later each night, soon to be confirmed. Fortunately, I got a couple of recordings of the longer window as previously linked, but now it may be listenable for a while before 0100, the DentroCuban Jamming Command permitting, which was not on tonight, but still with splash from 5990 CRI/Habana until 0100v (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5980.00, Radio Chaski, Urubamba, tentative, 0030-0045 March 12. Can hear a male in Spanish language comments here. Very weak signal with splatter interfering with the reception. Signal was threshold. 0044-0100, A second check produced a better signal as a male and female were conversing in Spanish here. Flute music at 0047 for less than a minute. This followed with a female giving the news with mentions of "Lima" here and there. At 0053 the splatter increases as the band gets more acceptable to interference covering Chaski almost completely (Chuck Bolland, Clewiston FL, 26N 081W, NRD545, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5980, March 12 at 0053, presumed R. Chaski audible with music, very poor, not much CCI, but splash from CRI/Cuba 5990 2ACI. At 0059 both are still going with instrumental hymn on 5980, and 5990 goes off shortly before 5980 does, at 0100:32* --- but that`s only 3 sex later than last nite! So not only have they reset their turnoff-timer, but also the amount by which it changes during a 24-hour period, no doubt to be followed further as time goes on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5980.02, 2250-2300 12.03, R. Chaski, Urubamba (presumed), Spanish talk, 25131. From *2300 QRM from BBC World Service in English (Anker Petersen, Denmark, while the snow again is falling here in Skovlunde, I send you a few tips heard on my Bonito RadioJet 1102S and AOR AR7030PLUS both with 28 metre antennas, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) 5980, March 13 at 0059, hymn music and maybe something else mixing, after 0100 watching my watch expecting R. Chaski to cut off a few sex after 0100:32, the time last night. But it keeps going, and going; finally off around 0101:55* but I was on AM trying to copy the content rather than BFO for exact timing. What will they do next?? 5980.0, March 14 before 0100, totally blocked by CRI/Cuba 5990 splash, except for carrier detectable with BFO, but 5990 is off by 0100 allowing me to hear the same sounders as always from R. Chaski/Red Radio Integridad, and a bit of Spanish before chops off its own carrier at 0100:44*. Since the reset, so far the exact time has been quite variable rather than progressively 5 sex later from night to night (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5980, R. Chaski: I received a nice QSL letter from Bruce Maddux, Administrator and Broadcast Engineer for a Jan 28 reception at 2230- 2259 via Perseus site in the UK. The letter had other interesting info and is quoted below: ”... We began transmissions in Nov 2012. The station was originally on the air in the mid-1990s with a tube-based transmitter and had not been on the air for many years, but with a new solid-state rig, we began transmissions once again. Most of the programming is in Spanish, but we do have live programming in Quechua from 0900 to 1400 UT with the "voice" of Radio Chaski -- Pastor Valentín Quispe, who is a native speaker of Quechua and Spanish. The studios are in Urubamba and the transmitter site is on Cerro Sacro about a 25-minute drive up from Urubamba....” (Bruce Churchill in DXplorer, Feb 25 via DSWCI DX Window March 6, via DXLD) ** PHILIPPINES. 11650, R. Teos, Mar 07 *1500-1516, 35433-34433, Russian, 1500 sign on with ID, Address announce, Talk. 11650, R. Teos, Mar 08 *1500-1507, 45444-44444, Russian, 1500 sign on with ID, Address announce, talk (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX and ANT, IC-R75+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-525+RD-9830+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-515+35m Long Wire, NRD- 345+35m Long Wire, Satellite 750+30m Long Wire, DE-1130, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. 15600, March 10 at 0029, very poor signal with S Asian song. Aoki shows it must be FEBC Bocaue, going from Burmese to Chin Mro (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES [and non]. RADIO VERITAS ASIA A-13 Effective Sunday, 31 March 2013 Bengali 0030–0057 15265 1400–1427 11870 Myanmar [or, alfabetically, Burmese] 2330–2357 9720 1130–1157 15450 [Chin – see below Vietnamese, why?] Filipino 2300-2327 15355 1500-1553 15320 CVA SMG 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 15460 1330–1400 9520 Tamil 0030–0057 11855 1400–1427 9520 Telugu 0100–0127 15530 1430–1500 11750 Urdu 0100–0127 15280 0100–0127 17860 1430-1457 15330 CVA SMG Vietnamese 2330–2357 9670 0130–0230 15530 1030–1127 11850 1300–1327 11850 Chin 0130–0157 15255 1430-1500 11870 [CVA SMG = relay by Vatican Radio] From RVA Technical Dept. 73 from (Ashik Eqbal Tokon, Rajshahi, Bangladesh, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) ** PHILIPPINES. 15190, 1804-, Radio Pilipinas, Mar 10. Radio Pilipinas in English at very good level. Hets noted from 15190.130, and also 15191.175, and 15189.893 kHz. The 15191.175 carrier the loudest. Sad to see such an empty band. Nothing at all until 15275 (DW Kigali) (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PUERTO RICO. 580, San Juan, WKAQ, 1027 IDs 4 March; 0028 announcing event for five the next morning into Big Band Music, 10 March. 680, San Juan, WAPA, 1024 "en Puerto Rico la capital, Cadena WAPA, buenos días", 4 March (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D, Icom 746 Pro, Drake R8, Drake R7, dxsf, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. 7305, 0409-, Radio Romania International, Mar 9. Romania continues to be by far the best and strongest broadcaster from Europe. Exceptionally strong and clean modulation. An example for all broadcasters of what is possible still on the shortwaves! English broadcast with sports news. Band scanning, I also heard them at 0425 on 15220 at good level. A little too high a frequency to guarantee good propagation, at least to the WCNA. 9655, 1555-, Radio Romania International, Mar 10. KNLS must be off the air today. Instead of KNLS, I'm hearing RRI at excellent levels in Arabic, with some cochannel NHK IS. 9680 which should be in Russian, instead has Radio Japan in Japanese, with Chinese cochannel. Yesterday, I could hear only a single transmitter (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. UVB-76 --- Ayer y hoy estuve monitoreando en el receptor web-SDR holandés la misteriosa estación rusa conocida como UVB-76 y noté que al igual que en otras oportunidades la emisión aparece en varias frecuencias además de la tradicional de 4625 kHz. Me pregunto si serán "frecuencias adicionales" (lo cual creo que nunca pasó), una falla en el transmisor, o sobrecarga en el receptor holandés (lo cual de ser así no se nota con otras emisiones potentes) Otro misterio de la UVB-76 --- Adjunto copia de pantalla de hoy donde se ven las varias "copias" de la transmisión. 73 (Moisés Knochen, Montevideo, Uruguay, March 11, condiglist yg via DXLD) Hola Moisés, Hace algunos días a través de la lista UDXF señalan que cada tanto aparecen esta emisiones "parasitas`` de la UVB-76 +- 4583.5, 4666.5, 4708, 4789 kHz. Según dicen, estas últimas aparecieron desde el 25 de febrero. Hay gente que la está monitoreando 24 horas a la caza de algún mensaje (Rafael Rodríguez R., Bogotá D.C. - Colombia, ibid.) Gracias, Rafael, por los comentarios. Me había olvidado totalmente de la lista UDXF, hacía tal vez años que no entraba a pesar de estar suscrito. Consultando allí veo que las frecuencias supuestamente espurias son las mismas que yo encontré, sólo que el reporte indica el mismo receptor web-SDR. Sería interesante si alguien la hubiera escuchado con otro tipo de receptor. 73 (Moisés, ibid.) En este momento al aire en 4625 kHz CW, la primera vez en mi vida que la capté, 0127 UT March 12 (Ernesto Paulero, Argentina, ibid.) Estacion UVB 76 --- claramente en 4625 en usb se escucha muy bien, UT 2229 (Paulero, March 12, ibid.) ** RUSSIA. 153, 1442-, Radio Rossii, Mar 10. Much better reception this morning vs yesterday morning, with 153 (fair/good), 189 (fair), and 279 (very good) all in with a religious discussion program. 648, 1432-, Voice of Russia, Mar 9. 1000 kW sure gets out well with VORWS in English at good level. // to 7260 shortwave. 810, 1426-, Radio Rossii, Mar 12. Another interesting morning. Strong signal, overpowering the weak domestic hear with Russian broadcast. Not heard so well on the other days. Rechecked at 1455, and instead, I'm hearing a very strong KTBI from Ephrata, WA with 'Hope for Today' program. ID'd at 1456 with affiliates (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Armavir/Tbiliskaye (Krasnodar) site, 3 transmitters at 1200 kW (max usage 3600 kW 1500-2000): Tx 1 on 1170 kHz 1400-2200 T, T, RRR.R Tx 2 on 1089 kHz 1500-2000 K, ARR..A Tx 3 on 171 kHz 0500-0600 & 1200-1300 C; 1300-2000 R (Observations by Rumen Pankov Feb. Abbreviations - see list under Armenia), March BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. Best VOR frequency at 1300 is 12075 for English, heard with news (Joe Hanlon, Took my Grundig G5 with a Sony 23-ft. rollup antenna to hear these stations at Freedom Park in Medford, NJ, Monday March 4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 7260, 1357-, VORWS, Mar 9. Very good reception of some of the few VOR transmissions still available in English. 500 kW listed here [Vladivostok]. Does have some cochannel likely from Mongolia. 9560 from Novosibirsk also well heard, while 12075 Dushanbe only poorly heard. 12075, 1407-, VORWS, Mar 9. Fair reception for VOR at this hour in English [TAJIKISTAN]. Parallel frequencies heard: 9560 at good level with interview (also Novosibirsk), 7260 at very good level (Vladivostok). Indian woman being interviewed about her impressions of Russia. Still hearing the cochannel Mongolian transmission weakly in background. 648 MW at poor/fair level from Ussuriysk at 500 kW (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) The Voice of Russia is a station sadly slipping from view in the shortwave world – no analogue shortwave is directed to either Europe or North America, however 7290 kHz from 0000 to 0400 UT provides reasonable signals in Europe and I believe North America. One programme which is a real treasure is VoR Treasure Store. On Sunday 24 February at 0230 UT, VoR Treasure Store featured a short story called “The Dream of a Ridiculous Fellow” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. A man (the narrator) is disillusioned with life and shoots himself. After being buried, he finds himself on an alternative Earth – an idyllic place inhabited by innocent and happy people. But his presence causes the introduction of suffering, criminality, and slavery. Then he awakes! .. and decides that he must preach to warn people that everyone should love one another. It was a good story and well read. There are dozens of past episodes available on-line at http://english.ruvr.ru/radio_broadcast/2248881/ and VoR Treasure Store is scheduled on 7290 after the news on Mondays at 0000 UT and on Sundays and Mondays at 0230 (Listening Post with Alan Roe, March BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. Moskva FM & Moscow FM --- On 1 Feb 2013 FM station Govorit Moskva [Moscow Calling] was rebranded as 'Moskva FM' on 92.0 MHz in the capital. Not to be confused with the English-language station launched in November last year, Moscow FM (105.2 MHz), though both are owned by the Moscow municipality (David Kernick, March 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA [and non]. QSL POLICY OF RELIGIOUS RADIO STATIONS. From our own observations and messages of the mailing list from “deneb-radio-dx” --- QSL policy of the religious radio stations broadcasting in Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian languages: 1. Transmirovoe radio (TWR-Europe): The reports confirms the Kalman Dobos, address: kdobos @ twr.org Posts need to working in the English language. The reports sent by e-mail E-QSL. 2. KNLS. Alaska. Address for reports in the Russian language: questions @ knls.net Confirm relatively new QSL (released in the end of 2011) and cards with winter and the summer overlooking the station. 3. Radio Vatican. The different editions have their e-mail. Accordingly, each edition sends QSL-cards. Address of the Russian editorial office: rus @ vatiradio.va Address the Ukrainian editorial Board: ukr @ vatiradio.va address of the Belarusian follows: bela @ vatiradio.va Radio Vatican frequently updates its QSL-cards. 4. Missionswerk Friedensstimme. Respond to reports about the reception of QSL-card. Address for reports: Missionswerk Friedensstimme, Postfach 100638, 51606 Gummersbach, Deutschland. The report can be both in English and in Russian. 5. Bible Voice Broadcasting. Address for reports: mail @ biblevoice.org The report need to be working on English language. Address for the paper reports: BVB P O Box 425, Station E Toronto, Ontario Canada M6H 4E3 6. The radio station HLAZ from South Korea. The radio station belongs to FEBC and maintain religious transfer to and including the Russian language. Reports about the reception are confirmed by the QSL-cards. Address for ???????: febcadm @ febc.net Cards mainly of two types with a photo of the building HLAZ and building FEBC in Korea. 7. FEBC. The Philippines. Broadcast "Radio TEOS". While no data on the received QSL as from FEBC, and on the Radio "Teos". 8. AWR. Station confirms the reports about the reception of QSL-cards. Address for reports only in English: wavescan @ awr.org You can get QSL from Tula, address: golosnadezhdi @ gmail.com 9. Herald of Christian science. Religious radio programme is published in the Russian language. Address for reports: csradio.D @ gmx.de In recent times is not confirmed. 10. WWCR. The radio station from the United States leads religious broadcasts in the Russian language: Reports about the reception are confirmed by the QSL-cards. Postal address: WWCR Shortwave 1300 WWCR Avenue Nashville, TN 37218 USA There are and e-mail address: rickwwcr @ hotmail.com Received from them QSL for the reports sent E-mail. 11. Radio Eli - "????????? family radio". Reports confirm, but you need to pay for the answer. Postal address: Radio Eli, and/I 1282 Narva 20501, Estonia. E-mail: am1035 @ bk.ru Recently received from the Radio Eli e-QSL. 12. WYFR - "Family radio". Reports confirm the reception via the "Radio Center" on the 1503 kHz. Address Russian Department: russian @ familyradio.com General address: international @ familyradio.org 13. "The Voice Of Orthodoxy". No longer broadcasts on short-wave. Address: voix.orthodoxie @ wanadoo.fr 14. The Voice Of The Andes". Reports about the reception of Russian programs are confirmed by the QSL-cards from Voronezh. In this city is located Studio "Revelation", which prepares part of programmes for the "Voice of the Andes". Address for reports: eacc @ hcjb.ru and hcjbrussia @ gmail.com 15. WHRI --- Religious radio station from the U.S. broadcasts in Russian on Saturdays. Reports in English you can send the site radio stations, filling out the form: http://www.whr.org/Reception-Report.cfm There is information about the received QSL for the reports sent by regular mail. Address: World Harvest Radio, 61300, Ironwood Rd, South Bend, IN 46614, USA (Dmitry Kutuzov, Ryazan, Russia / “deneb-radio-dx” via RusDX March 10 via DXLD) ** RWANDA. 6055, 0305-0405+ Mar 5. Afro vocals, occasional ID; into talk segment at 0332, sounding like news or actualities; mentions of Rwanda, Kenya, Pakistan, etc.; more of the same after 0400. Good signal; still fair at 0430 recheck but slowly fading away (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge, Colorado. Drake R-8, 100-foot RW, dxingwithcumbre yg via DXLD) i.e. RRR, not DW (gh) 6055, 0331-, Radio Rwanda, Mar 9. Presumed logging, at poor/fair level in French. 6055, 0316-, Radio Rwanda, Mar 11. Once again, very nice reception with entertaining vocal music. I'm able to test 2 ALA 100 antenna variants. The original ALA 100, and the new ALA LN variant. Very interesting results. For whatever reason, both 49 and 41 meter reception is noisier and weaker on the new LN variant, compared to the old original ALA 100. On 31, 19, and 25 meters, the new LN variant is better. 6055, 0328-, Radio Rwanda, Mar 10. Almost positive that this is Radio Rwanda. Drums just before 0332. Seems mostly vernacular. Surprisingly good reception. Mentions of Rwanda several times at 0334 UT. Likely the best I've ever heard Radio Rwanda at this time of the night! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SARAWAK [non]. 15360, R. Free Kenyalang, via Palau, Mar 08 0901- 0918, 45444 Iban, Opening music, Opening announce, Talk, ID at 0902 and 0906 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX and ANT, IC-R75+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-525+RD-9830+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-515+35m Long Wire, NRD-345+35m Long Wire, Satellite 750+30m Long Wire, DE-1130, WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SARAWAK [non]. Site unknown, 11600, R. Free Sarawak, Mar 07 1146- 1206 35343 Iban, Talk, ID at 1205. 11600, R. Free Sarawak, Mar 08 1136-1146, 35433, Iban Talk, ID at 1137 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX and ANT, IC-R75+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-525+RD-9830+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-515+35m Long Wire, NRD-345+35m Long Wire, Satellite 750+30m Long Wire, DE-1130, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11600, Radio Free Sarawak via Sri Lanka (per Ivo Ivanov), 1205, March 11. Continuing to provide detailed updated info on the military conflict in Sabah. March 10 with 1257*. March 6 at 1213 with nice ID and mentions of “Fighter jets” and “General Zulkifeli Mohammad Zin”. MP3 audio at https://www.box.com/s/oa1zoyrpzwr5vh16gfqh (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11600, March 12 at 1255, presumed R. Free Sarawak, good signal with flutter, presumed Iban about to close 2-hour broadcast; site still not confirmed, but pinned on Trincomalee, Sri Lanka, by Ivo Ivanov (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Free Sarawak from MBR schedule: 11600 1100-1258 54 1610200 105 217 1234567 100213 300313 TRM 125 WRN (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, March 12, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) So site is now confirmed, not veiled (gh, DXLD) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 15285, 0421-, BSKSA, Riyadh Mar 9. Exceptionally strong, but distorted audio in listed Swahili. Too bad, as they would have otherwise been one of the strongest on the band tonight. Doesn't anyone monitor technical issues? Does anyone care? (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SEYCHELLES [non]. I heard this as well with actual quite good signals. 9440, Deutsche Welle, Pashto to Asia / Afghanistan via Yerevan Transmitter. *1400-1429* noted this morning. Short musical opening melody, clear ID for Deutsche Welle by female host, followed with a news summary with interspersed musical notes and ID's. Noted to 1429 sign-off cut in mid-sentence. This frequency has CRI prior to 1357* Also, beware at the end of this broadcast, on some days you will hear at 1429, the Interval signature melody 'What a Friend in Jesus we have' (FEBA Radio). But there is no listing of FEBA Radio being on this frequency which I now suspect a error punch-up at the Yerevan site, if the transmitter doesn't go off the air, and is relayed via an audio feed (Edward Kusalik still at the radio days and waiting for that thing called 'spring` to arrive? (still about 10 inches of snow on the ground here!), March 11, ODXA yg via DXLD) ** SIKKIM. 4837.00, AIR Gangtok (presumed), 1321, March 13. With the absence of ABC Alice Springs (which had been heard an hour earlier) was able to hear what I believe was AIR being off frequency and just hovering above threshold level; nothing at all on 4835.00 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOMALILAND. 7120, R. Hargeisa, Mar 07 1850-1900*, 35333, Somali, Talk, ID at 1858 and 1859 and 1900,1900 Closing music, 1900 sign off (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX and ANT, IC-R75+115m Sloper Wire, NRD- 525+RD-9830+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-515+35m Long Wire, NRD-345+35m Long Wire, Satellite 750+30m Long Wire, DE-1130, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7120, 1515-, Radio Hargeisa, Mar 12. Good reception with a long monologue to 1515:45, and into Qur`anic sounding chants. Likely grayline enhancement going on here. 7120, 0338-, Radio Hargeisa, Mar 9. Fair reception with talk in presumed Somali. No ham interference noted (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) SOMALIA, 7120, Hargeisa QSL. I thought people would be interested in seeing this good looking QSL shown on the cover of the JSWC e- bulletin, March 2013. It was received by club member Yasuharu Tanabe from the German address in 13 days for an English report on 7120 kHz. This is a different design from the one that has been issued for some time from Germany (Jerry Berg-MA-USA, DXplorer March 5 via BCDX March 13 via DXLD) Pensioner Baldur Drobnica DJ6SI visited Somaliland in Oct 2009. On top image, he is dressed with red shirt. Left above, is the older Marconi transmitter plate, which was replaced in 2012 by BBEF Beijing Made in China of the 50 kW unit on 7120 kHz. Right below - seemingly - some of the main power stored accumulators. Baldur Drobnica visited Hargeysa Somaliland area on 21 Oct 2009. Homepage of Baldur, click left column on R Hargeisa 2009 tag. of 1994 Somaliland radio 73 wolfy df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, March 5, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews 13 March via DXLD) ** SOUTH AFRICA [and non]. Looks like the BBC WS has already embarked on its miserly A13 schedule. I noticed the evening 3255 transmission from Meyerton to Southern Africa has been AWOL for the past two nights, and it is still AWOL this morning. The daytime 6190 transmission also ended abruptly this morning at 0400* and has not returned as of 0505. BBC WS relay, 3255, Meyerton. Mar 9, 2013, Saturday. 0355-0505. AWOL. BBC WS relay, 6190, Meyerton. Mar 9, 2013, Saturday. 0355-0400*. ID at 0400* “BBC World Service”. Fair. Jo'burg sunrise 0406. Regards, (Bill Bingham, RSA, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The A13 schedule still lists: 3255 0300 0500 52SE,53SW,57N MEY 100 0 0 1234567 English BBC BAB ENAFE 3255 0500 0600 52SE,53SW,57N MEY 100 0 0 1234567 English BBC BAB ENAFE 3255 1600 2000 52SE,53SW,57N MEY 100 0 0 1234567 English BBC BAB ENAFE 6190 0300 0500 52SE,53SW,57N MEY 100 15 0 1234567 English BBC BAB ENAFE 6190 1500 1600 52SE,53SW,57N MEY 100 0 0 1234567 English BBC BAB ENAFE 6190 1600 2000 52SE,53SW,57N MEY 100 15 0 1234567 English BBC BAB ENAFE So perhaps just a mistake at Meyerton (Stephen Cooper, ibid.) Maybe, but 6190 is listed through to 2000, and it still hasn't come back as of 0920. No carrier either. Simultaneous mistakes on two frequencies? Even for Sentech that's pushing it (but not impossible!) Will continue monitoring both frequencies (Bill Bingham, ibid.) Hi all, Can anyone make out what is happening on 12095? Listed as BBC World Service via Meyerton, but I have serious doubts about that. South Africa?? (very doubtful), BBC WS relay?? (Also doubtful), 12095 Meyerton?? (as listed, EiBi, HFCC, but doesn't seem to be). Mar 9, 2013 Saturday. 1315-1340. Listed as English from Meyerton (EiBi, HFCC), but this sounds French. At 1319, YL singing “Ode to Joy”, also sounds French. Followed by another French song; this does NOT sound like the BBC. At 1327 sounded like an OM with announcements in Mandarin or similar, also some brief Chinesey music. Definitely no BBC ID or BOH news. Poor, barely readable, but language still sounds far- eastern. I am convinced BBC WS Meyerton 12095 is now off-air as well, at least as of 1315-1340 (it was on earlier today). Could this be FEBC Manila? o'burg sunset 1630. Regards, (Bill Bingham, ibid.) BBC Meyerton 12095 back on air as of 1407. Presume it came back at 1400. // 17640 and 21470. 6190 still missing (Bill, ibid.) Bill, sorry I wasn't checking at 1340. Saw your message at 1445 and still listening. World Service English. At 1459 transmitter off and 10 seconds later World Service returned slightly weaker. Listed as Seychelles from 1500. Meyerton was having power outages and some services carried by them were rescheduled. Maybe you heard another station while they were off the air. Can check it, will take a little time though (Victor Goonetilleke, Sri Lanka, ibid.) In some remote radios I just heard Radio Polonia, not BBC. At 1500 BBC began from Oman, listening im SDR from Twente. 9490, 09/Mar 1519, SOUTH AFRICA (Relay). No signal BBC from Meyerton in many remote radios. No signal in my QTH (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brasil, ibid.) Thanks to everyone who responded to my query. Power outages are a common problem in South Africa, especially in Gauteng province (Jo'burg, Pretoria, Meyerton, etc.), but it has never stopped Meyerton so far as I know. Must be really serious. Thanks, guys. Regards, (Bill Bingham, ibid.) Meyerton, listening in SDR from Twente: At 1550, no signal from BBC on 6190 and 9490 No signal from VOA on 6080 At 1555 RFI on 15360 in air with good signal. At 1609 Seems there is no signal of 9650 from R Sonder Grense. Strong QRM of R Romania on 9655. 12080 09/Mar 1617 SOUTH AFRICA (Relay) VOA in Kinyarwanda/Kirundi. It seems that Yl interview Om. // 15460. Fair signal. 9870, 1701 RFI in Portuguese with good signal. 11925, 1708 No signal from AWR 17640, 1710 BBC, fair signal. 6190, 1714 BBC still no signal 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thanks, Jorge. 6190 appeared at about 1800 - can't say whether it actually started then, but I suddenly became aware of it. Very poor reception, almost inaudible, nowhere near as good as 3255 when it is on air at this time (but still AWOL). 6190 is // 12095 (good), 17640 (fair) and possibly 15400 (very poor). Nothing from AWR on 11925. Regards, (Bill Bingham, RSA, ibid.) Hi Bill, Some other transmissions beyond the BBC were affected, VOA and AWR. Now at 1910 no signal from Meyerton of AWR on 15240 and 15480, but signal on 11690, 9535, 11860. It seems that Radio Sonder Grense, on 3320, is not in the air. Nothing in SDR from Twente and others in Europe. Nor is heard by colleagues in South America but can be low propagation. 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 0119 UT March 10, ibid.) I noticed last night that they weren't on the air. But for several weeks prior to that, their signal was much better than it had been, as if there had been a transmitter or antenna upgrade. So hopefully the absence is just temporary (Art Delibert, N. Bethesda, MD, March 10, HCDX via DXLD) En la noche de ayer en Montevideo, no se escuchaba nada ni por 3320 ni por 7285. 73 desde Montevideo (Rodolfo Tizzi, Uruguay, March 10, condiglista yg via DXLD) 11690, 10/Mar 0359, SOUTH AFRICA (Relay), R Okapi in French. Interval signal. At 0400 ID by YL, jingle ID. At 0401 OM with newscast. Moderate QRM from RHC on 11680. 43443 (Jorge Freitas-B) 15480, 10/Mar 0408, SOUTH AFRICA (Relay), AWR in Arabic. YL talk. Weak signal in SDR from Twente and no signal in my QTH. (Jorge Freitas-B) 12015, 10/Mar 0411, SOUTH AFRICA (Relay), BBC in English. OM talk, mention of Nelson Mandela. Good signal in SDR from Twente and no signal in my QTH. 6190, 10/Mar 2050, SOUTH AFRICA (Relay), BBC in English. OM and YL talk. Weak signal e strong QRM from BBC on 6195. Listening in SDR from Twente. JBA only in my QTH. (Jorge Freitas-B) 15480, 10/Mar 2038, SOUTH AFRICA (Relay), AWR in Arabic. Gospel Arabic music. At 2040 ID by OM. Back today, the signal is almost local. 44444 11755, 10/Mar 2041, SOUTH AFRICA (Relay), AWR in Yoruba. Gospel Yoruba music. At 2045 OM talk. 44433 (Jorge Freitas-B) About the Radio Sonder Grense, no signal at 2103 on 3320 in SDR from Twente. 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, ibid.) 6155, 11/Mar 0333, SOUTH AFRICA, Channel Africa in English. OM talk, seems an interview or Om presents newscast some external comments. 25332. No signal on 3345 in my QTH and SDR, Twente. 6190, 11/Mar 0337, SOUTH AFRICA (Relay), BBC in English. OM and YL presents newscast. 35433. In // 6140 with very good signal. 3320, 11/Mar 0343. No signal from Sonder Grense on 3320 in my QTH and SDR, Twente (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, ibid.) Hi everyone, Thanks to Jorge Freitas for keeping an eye on Meyerton transmissions in general, whilst I have been concentrating on the two main BBC WS Southern African frequencies of 3255 and 6190. Some dxldyg members have suggested that these discrepancies have been caused by power cuts at Meyerton, and this is indeed a very common problem in Gauteng province. 3255 has been missing since March 9, and possibly earlier. It re- appeared this morning, March 11, between 0257 and 0259, its usual start time. And signed off at 0559*, its usual stop time. Hopefully it will return for its normal evening transmission. During a similar period, 6190 has been missing in its usual morning and daytime slots, only putting in an appearance for its usual late afternoon / evening transmissions. The morning transmission re- appeared this morning, March 11, and is still on air as of 0710. Hopefully until its currently listed shut-down of 2200, although I note from the BBC schedule posted by Stephen Cooper that in A13 the 6190 transmission will be cut by 12 hours a day (see below). LOG 3255, South Africa. BBC WS relay, 3255 Meyerton. Mar 9, 2013 Saturday. 1800-1830 AWOL. Jo'burg sunset 1630. Mar 10, 2013 Saturday. 0448-0510 AWOL. Mar 10, 2013 Sunday. 0650-0710 AWOL (but normally off-air by now). Mar 10, 2013 Sunday. 1559-1608 AWOL. Mar 10, 2013 Sunday. 1559-1608, and 1720-2200 AWOL. Mar 11, 2013 Monday. 0259-0559* Already on by 0259 (but not by 0257) with TOH time pips, IDs and news. At 0306 “Newsday”. Good. Also // overnight relay on 1485 Radio Today in Jo'burg until 0400. LOG 6190, South Africa. BBC WS relay, 6190 Meyerton. Mar 9, 2013 Saturday. 1800-1830 ID and news then talk. News and ID at BOH. Poor, barely readable. Mar 10, 2013 Sunday. 0448-0510 AWOL. Mar 10, 2013 Sunday. 0650-0710 AWOL. Mar 10, 2013 Sunday. *1559-1608 On with time pips, ID and news. At 1606, “Sportsworld Sunday”. Good. Mar 10, 2013 Sunday. 1720-2200* Change of transmitter at 1759 gave a distinct and profound change of quality, leaving a much weaker and more noisy / fadey signal. But it didn't matter, because it was just in time for “Sportsworld”, my cue to switch off. Suddenly changed from good to poor and fadey after a few seconds break. Mar 11, 2013 Monday. *0259-0710 and still on air. On with TOH time pips, IDs and news. At 0306 “Newsday”. Good for the first hour, running about one second behind // 3255. Transmitter change at 0359; left a weak and almost unreadable signal in synchronised // with 3255. This slowly improved to good after sunrise. Another transmitter change at 0559, still a good signal (Bill Bingham, RSA, 0721 UT March 11, ibid.) Radio Sonder Grense: en el aire en 3320, muy buena señal, sin sintonizador de antena, directo con el dipolo de 15 metros por lado, 0110 UT (Ernesto Paulero, UT March 12, condiglist yg via DXLD) Aqui às 0122 o sinal está muito fraco e eu ainda tenho que lutar contra os ruídos elétricos. Mas obrigado pela informação, Ernesto. 73 (Jorge Freitas, UT March 12, condiga yg via DXLD) Hi all, Updating yesterday`s post on the BBC WS transmssions from Meyerton. All now seems to be back to normal. The 3255 evening transmission appeared at its usual time, and went on to local midnight. The 6190 transmission also ran all day and through to local midnight. And both were back this morning as usual. Good to have them both back, if only for the last few days of B12, as both suffer cuts in A13; 6190 savagely so. BBC WS relay, 3255, Meyerton. Mar 11, 2013 Monday. *1600-2200*. Signed on a fraction too late for the time pips, straight into the ID and TOH news. Nevertheless, this is its usual start time for the evening transmission. Glad everything is back to normal, at least for the time being. Good. Jo'burg sunset 1628. BBC WS relay, 6190, Meyerton. Mar 11, 2013 Monday. *0259-2200*. On with TOH time pips, IDs and news. At 0306 “Newsday”. Good for the first hour, running about one second behind // 3255. Transmitter change at 0359; left a weak and almost unreadable signal in synchronised // with 3255. This slowly improved to good after sunrise. Another transmitter change at 0559, still a good signal. Not continuously monitored, I just dipped in and out during the day and evening. Jo'burg sunrise 0407. Regards, (Bill Bingham, 0632 March 12, dxldyg, summarized on WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7285, March 14 at 0522, fair signal in Afrikaans which I am confident is Sonder Grense from Meyerton; had been missing and also night frequency 3320, March 9-10 or so along with many other relays, notably BBC, say Bill Bingham, Jorge Freitas and others; apparently due to power outages (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9930, no signal from WTWW-2 at 2050 March 11 and later chex; seems to be more active on weekends. When on, it`s not Brother Scare any more who was apparently filling time as an experiment earlier. Overcomer Ministry homepage SW schedule, as usual a big mess, has no recognizable WTWW frequencies, and still has WRMI on the wrong one, 9995 instead of 9955. The FTP link to shortwave stations, which never matches the homepage, still shows 9990 but not what station, altho we know it was the original WTWW-2 daytime frequency, since moved to 9905 and now to 9930 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN [non]. 5965, March 8 at 0739, REE COSTA RICA is still on with VG signal, contrary to it going off circa 0700 a few nights ago; scheduled until 0800 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [non non]. 6125, REE English broadcast to Europe with a REALLY down- beat mailbag show including gems like "If and when we ever get new QSL cards printed" and much implication that the foreign service of REE is not long for this world. Nothing actually SAID like that, but it didn't take much to read between the lines. Letters from USA, Russia, Bangladesh, into music and a talk about Benedict's retirement. etc. Time pips over talk at BoH into a programme of classical music for about a half hour. S/off with ID and mention of sked for Europe and abruptly off in the middle of the schedule. 44+3+53+ HF Het -- not the usual sock-knocking signal. 2205-2256* 2/Mar (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Port Hope MI, MARE Tipsheet 8 March via DXLD) ** SRI LANKA. CEYLON, 7189.795, SLBC Ekala at S=6-7 level, in otherwise free channel, Hindi program at 0200 UT. 9770.203, SLBC English comment on income and Unions, S=8-9 at 0202 UT, audio was NOT CLEAN, bad final tube circuit? 11904.993, Nice subcontinental music in Hindi program at 0210 UT March 12, S=9+15dB here in Germany. And surprise, surprise, 15 MHz made it into Europe on this DEEP night, 15744.991 kHz, English at S=6 level, at least above threshold level, so understand the language (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non]. UAE, 13720, Sudan R. Service via UAE, Mar 07 0510- 0522, 25332 Arabic, Sudan pop, ID at 0515. 13799.95, R. Dabanga via UAE, Mar 07 0522-0533, 35333 Arabic, Talk, ID at 0528 and 0529, IS and SJ and ID at 0530 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX and ANT, IC-R75+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-525+RD-9830+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-515+35m Long Wire, NRD-345+35m Long Wire, Satellite 750+30m Long Wire, DE-1130, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN. 9505, 0447-, Voice of Sudan, Mar 9. Good reception with HOA music. I recall hearing this station at very good levels in the Cook Islands in December, so pleased to be able to hear this one here in Masset at decent levels (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9505, March 12 at 0532, poor signal with HOAish music, i.e. Khartoum / Omdurman, no match for Miraya on 9940 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: ** SUDAN SOUTH [non]. 9940, March 12 at 0525, good signal in African English, interview about livestock in South Sudan, 0530 pause for ID as ``Miraya Breakfast Show``, call-in 091-206-2439, guest being the Commissioner of Juba County; hilife music break, ``the pulse of the new nation``, and Miraya FM jingle. I didn`t realize they had this much English, or maybe I was just lucky as the 03-06 trihour is listed as a mix with Arabic. Site? Don`t you believe the disinformation BRB puts in HFCC as the imaginary ``Simferopol, Ukraine``. EiBi is noncommittal, site as /XUU which means unidentified in EiBi parlance. Aoki probably has it right: 50 kW, 195 degrees from Kostinbrod(Sofia), BULGARIA, but reception is so good here I would have suspected something even better (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SURINAME. 4990, Radio Apintie, Paramaribo, 0000 to 0035 with Dutch 10 March; 0846 to 0959; OM into sound effects, YL and OM together, occasional ute on top, Tnx Mark Coady log, 12 March (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D, Icom 746 Pro, Drake R8, Drake R7, dxsf, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWAZILAND. 9500, 0500-, TWR Manzini, Mar 9. Very good reception in English with American accented. Program named, 'Stories Jesus told'. Noticed them coming on listening to Omdurman on 9505 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN. 9773.98, Fu Hsing BS, Kuanyin, 0845-0852, Feb 20, popular song, theme song and ID in Chinese at 0849, strong signal of CNR (China) on 9775 started at *0852. Then a new sound (around 1020 Hz) was produced by two waves of different frequencies, 35333 (Tomoaki Wagai, Wakayama, Japan, DSWCI DX Window March 6 via DXLD) ** TAJIKISTAN. 7245, I was too early, noted only carrier from Yangi Yul site near Dushanbe, 0148 to 0200 UT S=9+25 proper signal, but accompanied by 4 BUZZ peaks on +/- 300 and 600 Hertz each. Scheduled from 0200 UT. (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 12) 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, dxldyg via DXLD) ** TATARSTAN [non]. RUSSIA, 11895, 0407-, Tatarstan Wave, Mar 10. Usual very powerful OC, preceding the 0410 sign-on. Seems like a particularly good evening for many SW stations. Usual crash start at 0410 exactly, but with low modulation. The signal is very strong. That's different than the many other times I have heard them! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Samara site ** TIBET. 6200, 1600-, Holy Tibet, Mar 10. Best reception on this frequency with IDs as, 'This is Holy Tibet'. The fellow is much easier to understand compared to the usual woman. Fair to good reception only. 6110 is poor/fair, 4920 fair, 4905 fair/good (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. Increased broadcasting time on 702 kHz Istanbul studio, observed 20-27 February. Sign-on now 0400-2000v daily. Caries own program in Turkish except some news from TRT Radio Haber. Also heard 0400-0800 local programs on 927 Studio Izmir, 954 Radio Trabzon with super strong signal, Radio Antalya on 891. On 1062 (s/on 0400-0530R 1430-1521 s/off) TRT TSR Radyo 6 in Kurdish and on 27 Feb at 1900 news in Arabic of TRT Arabiya (approx ID) on 630 kHz (Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, 3 Mar, March BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** TURKEY. 9655, 0443-, Voice of Turkey, Emirler, Mar 9. Very strong clean signal, with very enjoyable and lively Turkish music. Listed in English at this time. Sure wish that reception in my urban home would be as good as here at my cottage! I'd be spending a lot more time at the dials! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 9655, March 9 at 1425, VOT IS, good signal atop something much weaker [CRI via Kunming in Amoy --- Aoki]; 1427 still on, interspersing between each three iterations an ID like ``Türkiye ---- Radyosu`` so is it Turkish language or something related? 1430 timesignal and opening mentions Kazakh, which is indeed the only language scheduled to start at 1430 --- but on 9785, not 9655! Nor is it an overrun from something in the previous hour which failed to QSY: no, 9655 is a totally wrong frequency, which is supposedly only on the air for English to N America at 0400! Per latest B12 TRT sked in DXLD 13-07, the only VOT broadcasts ending at 1425 are English on 12035, Uyghur on 13685. Recheck at 1458, no more Turkey, but unlike most services, Kazakh is only for 25 minutes, so might have stayed here for entire misbroadcast. At *1458 RRI comes on with usual good signal off the back from Galbeni, 140 degrees in Arabic, rather than KNLS off its back (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UGANDA. 4976, 0334-, Radio Uganda, Mar 10. Poor, just above threshold. Still, this is an extremely rare station on the west coast, so I'm pleased with anything! With Africa coming in reasonably well, I'm surprised to hear nothing from Angola on 4950. Signal appears to be slowly deteriorating after 0330. Still at fair level, with somewhat muddy audio at 0350. Inspirational music before 0400 and continuing after the TOH, without any ID (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. Brain of Britain row --- BBC DEFENDS 'EGGHEAD' AFTER COMPLAINTS THAT PROFESSIONAL QUIZZER MADE IT TO FINAL OF RADIO 4 SHOW Barry Simmons reaches final of radio quiz Brain of Britain Listeners complain that 64-year-old should have been banned from entering 'Professional quizzer' is paid to appear on BBC Two show Eggheads Father-of-two also won £64,000 on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire By Emily Andrews PUBLISHED: 13:24 EST, 10 March 2013 | UPDATED: 07:08 EST, 11 March 2013 Comments (223) It is the genteel radio quiz show that pits amateur brainboxes against each other. But the final of Radio 4’s Brain of Britain has been thrown into controversy after the inclusion of a ‘professional quizzer’. The BBC has received a number of complaints after Barry Simmons qualified for next week’s final. The 64-year-old has appeared in dozens of TV and radio quiz shows, including the BBC series Eggheads for which he makes regular, paid appearances. . . http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2291170/BBC-defends-Egghead-complaints-professional-quizzer-final-Radio-4-show.html (via Brock Whaley, Afghanistan, DXLD) ** U K [and non]. 15150, March 11 at 1438, African language mentioning ``Premier League``, Liverpool, clips of play-by-play in English, crowd roaring, good signal. It`s BBCWS Somali service via SEYCHELLES this hour only. Well, part of it used to be British Somaliland, so apparently this silly ballgame is still a big draw over there, an unfortunately colonial legacy; or better than being into piracy (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also SOUTH AFRICA {and non] CYPRUS, 12035, 0439-, BBCWS, Limassol, Mar 9. Another excellent BBCWS frequency in English. Slight echo effect, suggesting short/long path reception. Parallel 12015 listed as both Ascension and Meyerton, at good level (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3955, 0507-, BBCWS Woofferton, Mar 9. Trying to decode the DRM transmission, but far too weak to be able to, but visible on my Perseus waterfall. Otherwise, RNZI is heard now at excellent level in DRM on 13730 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. Masts at the Woofferton transmitting station in Shropshire, in the news this month as Woofferton is in the process of taking over SW transmissions from Skelton and will soon be the UK’s only shortwave broadcast site for BBCWS and relays of other stations. Woofferton Transmitting Station pylon along the Richards Castle to Woofferton Lane © Copyright Peter Evans http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1752511 (March BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** U K [and non]. BBC A13 vs B12 A13: Site Hours SNG 54.25 NAK 50.75 SLA 47 ASC 43.51666667 MEY 24.96666667 SEY 24.5 WOF 20 DHA 15 ERV 3 TAC 2.5 MOS 2 KCH 1 KIG 1 MDC 0.5 Language Hours English 174 Somali 13.5 Dari 12.5 Pashto 12 Farsi 11 Arabic 10 Hausa 9.1 Bengali 8.5 French 8.4 Hindi 8 Urdu 7.75 Burmese 6.75 Krwanda/Kr 3.983333333 Tamil 1.5 Sinhala 1.5 Uzbek 1.5 B12: Site Hours CYP 98.5 SNG 69.75 NAK 64.25 ASC 54.5 SLA 52 MEY 37.5 SEY 31.5 WOF 24.01666667 SKN 16.48333333 DHA 8.5 MOS 2 KIM 2 TAC 1 Language Hours English 297.5 Arabic 57 Pashto 13 Farsi 12.5 Dari 12 Somali 10.5 Hausa 10.1 Bengali 8.5 Hindi 8.5 French 8.4 Urdu 7.75 Burmese 5.25 Krwanda/Kr 4.5 Tamil 2 Sinhala 1.5 Uzbek 1.5 (Stephen Cooper, March 13, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Where's the schedule itself? Will be interesting to see the remains in detail. What is already clear is that a few slots at Grigoriopol, Gavar and Kigali will substitute for Zygi where necessary. Moosbrunn will presumably still be DRM, provided the BBC continues this pilot project (Kai Ludwig, ibid.) Interesting statistics! To confirm: these are frequency hours per day, e.g. Uzbek is on SW for 30 minutes a day on three frequencies, giving a total of 1.5 hours. The figures are averaged out over a week, so the numbers for Hausa and Somali are boosted by the Saturday afternoon sports broadcasts. Note that Somali transmissions will actually be increasing in A13. The main casualties are English and, especially, Arabic (Chris Greenway, UK, ibid.) ** U S A. 5000, March 14 at 0518, WWV propagation semi-minute is outdated! Solar flux 123, A-index 4, but K-index as of 21 UT March 13 was 1. This should have been updated twice by now, normally every three hours, citing K reading as of 03 UT March 14. Next check at 1318 March 14, now it`s current with K of 2 at 12 and with storms at G1 level pending (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15016/USB, Andrews AFB with OM reading code repeated at least twice: "QVNIVIUMRKWMFY3OXTXKZ47BGWOD -- Andrews Out." This translates to something like 'don't forget to put the gun in the toilet' I'm sure. :) Weak but clear, 244, 1804-1905 2/Mar (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Port Hope MI, MARE Tipsheet 8 March via DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. Digital text this weekend via analog shortwave broadcasters Digital text and images this weekend on The Mighty KBC: http://voaradiogram.net/post/44708560327/digital-text-and-images-this-weekend-on-the-mighty-kbc Digital text IDs this weekend on WRMI, starting tonight midnight EST: http://voaradiogram.net/post/44870574351/digital-text-ids-this-weekend-on-wrmi VOA Radiogram may launch on 16 March, if we can get all the technical ducks in a row. It will feature the PSK modes: BPSK, QPSK, and PSKR. (Kim http://www.kimandrewelliott.com Andrew Elliott, (active again after a hiatus) March 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) With the new 7375 kHz frequency of The Mighty KBC providing a good signal into North America, we will try some faster text modes during the broadcast UTC Sunday 10 March at 0000 to 0200 (7 to 9 pm Saturday EST). At about 0130 UTC, MFSK64 will be centered on 1000 Hertz, and PSKR250 on 2000 hertz. At just before 0200 UTC, MFSK32 images will be centered on 800, 1500 and 2300 Hz. Decode using Fldigi from http://www.w1hkj.com/ http://www.kbcradio.eu/index.php?dir=news/detail&id=275 (via mIke Terry, March 9, dxldyg via DXLD) Very nice signal into Missouri. The S meter my bedside Grundig Satellit 750 is pinned to S+60 most of the time. I missed last week, this is the first I've heard of the new frequency. Much better (Dave Hughes, 0035 UT March 10, ibid.) Is it my imagination, or does the pitch seem a bit high? As in a somewhat fast playback? Sometimes a sampling rate conflict can do this. Eric just e-mailed me that the Optimod settings at Nauen might be different. We'll see how it affects the text transmissions (Kim Elliott, 0038 UT, ibid.) I will go out on a limb and predict that tonight's KBC broadcast will end at about 0155 UT. 44100 Hz sampling rate of recording ___________________________________ 48000 Hz sampling rate of Nauen playback equals .92. 60 minutes x .92 = 55.2 minutes (Kim, 0122 UT, ibid.) Well, so much for my predictions. It seemed like Eric and I were breathing helium. But the broadcast ended right at 0200Z (Kim, 0201 UT, ibid.) KBC International March 10, 2013 --- KBC International a.k.a. The Mighty KBC, March 10, 2013 0000-0200 UT 7375 kHz via Nauen, Germany. SIO 454. WHRI on 7385 kHz causing no problems. R. Martí on 7365 kHz causing no problems. Had to press a backup 12 foot vertical antenna into service as the post supporting my regular antennas was damaged during Wednesday's wet and heavy snow. Digital text mode results. [sic to show errors, except gh condensed] **************************************************** 2013-3-10 0131 UTC MSFK64 centered on 1000 Hz Hello Eric and KBC listeners, With the big signal on 7375 kHz, we're trying the MFSK64 mode -- 240 words per minute. Coming soon from the Voice of America is my new VOA Radiogram program. On the microphone, I explain the various digital text modes, then we transmit those modes for you to decode from your radio or from your recording. The start date is yet to be determined, but it could be next weekend. VOA Radiogram will be transmitted from the Edward R. Murrow Transmitting Station in North Carolina. For more information: http://voaradiogram.net http://voaradiogram.net Thanks to The Mighty KBC. **************************************************** 2013-3-10 0131 UTC PSKR250 centered on 2000 Hz Hello Eric and KBC listeners, With the big signal on I#l Sq re trying the PSKR250 mode -- 220 words per minute. to ! ,ryatrom the Voice of America is my new ntinaMiszneram. On the microphone, I explain the various digital´didhIvÍoe n we transmit those modes for you to decode from your radio or from your recording. The start date is yet to be determiT but it could be next weekend. _x` VcÐ vn/am will be transmitted fr k no Muerrow TmdSeu,oMt%oon in North Carolina. For more information: http://voaradiogram.net http://voaradiogram.net Thanks to The Mighty KB **************************************************** 2013-3-10 0159 UTC MSFK32 centered on 800 Hz Sending Pic:187x79C; (black K-PO logo on white background on top half, purple background on bottom half) see image here http://misc.kg4lac.com\2013-3-10-MightyKBC-0159UTC-MSFK32-centered-on-800Hz.jpg **************************************************** 2013-3-10 0159 UTC MSFK32 centered on 1500 Hz Sending Pic:330x40; (black text "We Want What You Want" on white background see image here http://misc.kg4lac.com\2013-3-10-MightyKBC-0159UTC-MSFK32-centered-on-1500Hz.jpg **************************************************** 2013-3-10 0159 UTC MSFK32 centered on 2300 Hz Sending Pic:135x79C; with white KBC letters on blue background see image here http://misc.kg4lac.com\2013-3-10-MightyKBC-0159UTC-MSFK32-centered-on-2300Hz.jpg 73, (Kraig, KG4LAC, Manassas, Virginia, United States of America, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) The new VOA service Radiogramm will be air on Mar. 16/17, updated 0230-0300 on 5745 GB 080 kW / 190 deg to Cuba Radiogramm Sat/Sun 1300-1330 on 6095 GB 080 kW / 190 deg to Cuba Radiogramm Sat/Sun 1600-1630 on 17860 GB 080 kW / 045 deg to WeEu Radiogramm Sat/Sun 1930-2000 on 15670 GB 080 kW / 045 deg to WeEu Radiogramm Sat/Sun (DX RE MIX NEWS #771 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov. March 11, 2013, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) As first reported in DXLD, but final final schedule from Kim shows none both Sat AND Sun, but 1600 Sat, 0230, 1300 & 1930 Sun (gh, DXLD): VOA Radiogram will "soft launch" this weekend. The half-hour program will be transmitted four times during the weekend via Greenville. Saturday 1600-1630 17860 kHz Sunday 0230-0300 5745 kHz (Saturday evening in North America) Sunday 1300-1330 6095 kHz Sunday 1930-2000 15670 kHz More details here: http://voaradiogram.net/post/45287954494/soft-launch-of-voa-radiogram-this-weekend The weekend's program will include multiple modes transmitted simultaneously. After the "hard launch" (probably March 23), only one mode will be transmitted at a time (Kim Elliott, March 14, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. 15205, March 10 at 0027, hi-pitched tone test; 0030 music and talk, but very poor signal, seems English? Yes, must be, in fact Special, per Aoki VOA via Tinang, PHILIPPINES at 0030- 0100. 13670, March 11 at 2048, big open carrier with tone, no doubt Greenville-B tuning up for the new M-F 2130-2200 VOA Bambara service for Mali, which as of today still is not mentioned at http://www.kimandrewelliott.com tho he is starting to get caught up with more important news. 9690 & 9760, March 12 at 0528 I notice same C&W music, and then IDs as Denge Amerika, so it`s VOA Kurdish. At 0535 I find that 9760 is running about 1 second behind 9690. HFCC shows 0500-0600: 9690 is 100 kW, 108 degrees from Lampertheim 9760 is 100 kW, 105 degrees from Nauen, both GERMANY. 9760 is slightly stronger here. 11965, March 13 at 1400, VOA Cambodian with mid-hour break featuring IADs, from Tinang, PHILIPPINES. This was uncovered when Firedrake went off 11970 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15195-15255, March 14 at 2012, VOA French from 15225 Greenville is extremely strong and splattering plus/minus 30 kHz; worst on 15205- 15245 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 2000-USB, March 11 at 0103 quick check, New York Radio VOLMET, WSY70 is still here, weakly audible as in the first third of each hour. Has anybody found out if this is deliberately authorized? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) New York Radio VOLMET very strong and clear on 2000 Tuesday night as you have reported (Karl Zuk, NY, UT March 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 2000-USB, NEW YORK, New York Radio. 0207-0220* March 14, 2013. Male voiced (compu-voiced?) aviation weather conditions, “This is New York Radio” ID 0210. This as previously reported by several others as having appeared on this mutant frequency. FCC dB has two Lockheed Martin, Onondaga, NY (upstate, between Rochester and Utica) experimental licenses registered here (WE2XAP and WF2XPV) but presumably just coincidental. “This is New York Radio, out” and off (Terry L Krueger, FL, WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 2660, March 12 at 1242 UT, very poor signal with gospel music, so KGLD Tyler TX is still harmonicizing from 1330, tho not always even a carrier audible any more (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 26110/NBFM, KOVR TV studio relay audio feeder mentioning 'national pet treat day. In for a couple minutes, fading from 4+54 to 252 from 1604-1608 and then gone back at 1638-1639 with 55444 reception then gone again & back from 1707-1715 at 55554+. Their signal must be just a little wider than the NBFM bandwidth of the Icom as they sounded a bit muddy. Mentioned Pet Treat Photos, and played a call in game 'what is this picture' that sounded interesting (it was a close up of a sunspot they were showing) 23/Feb (Ken Zichi, Brighton MI DX-pedition, MARE Tipsheet 1 March via DXLD) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1659 monitoring: Mark Sills via George Thurman confirms that the Thu March 7 2200 airing on WTWW was on 5830 instead of 9479. March 8 at 1405 check, 9479 has come up today. I confirm the next airing, UT Friday 0433 on WWRB, 3195 and not 5050, as first monitored on webcast. This time preceded by `Words of Life Broadcast`` from Tullahoma TN, and a second episode started to play at 0430 before Dave cut it off at 0432 saying stand by for World of Radio. After a minute or so of dead air/hum, WOR starts circa 0433. BTW, I noticed a skipping-glitch at 28:15 into the show on the WWRB playback, so eventually replaced it with a repaired file for other stations yet to air WOR 1659. Next: UT Saturday 0230v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; Saturday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB low power in Europe; Saturday 1600 on WRMI 9955; Saturday 1830 on WRN via SiriusXM 120; UT Sunday 0500 on WTWW 5830; Sunday 1000 [with DST just starting] on KFKB 1490, Forks WA. WORLD OF RADIO 1659 monitoring: confirmed on Area 51 via WBCQ webcast, UT Saturday March 9 starting at 0249 after expanded live `Allan Weiner Worldwide`; also on 5110v-CUSB at 0317 check. Next: UT Sunday 0500 on WTWW 5830. WORLD OF RADIO 1659 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW, 5830, UT Sunday March 10 at 0500-0530. Reminder that due to the imposition of DST, effective immediately, all further airings of WOR from US stations and most webcasts will be one UT hour earlier. WOR website schedule, and also DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS will be updated ASAP. WORLD OF RADIO 1660 monitoring: confirmed first airing Thursday March 14 at 2100:30 on WTWW-1 9479; with DST now in effect, US SW airings are all one UT hour earlier: then UT Friday 0330v on WWRB 3195 (and 5050 if it ever resume; last week started 3 minutes late); UT Saturday 0130v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB (last week started 19 minutes late); Saturday 1500 on WRMI 9955; Saturday 1730 on WRN via SiriusXM 120; UT Sunday 0400 on WTWW 5830. Ivo Ivanov says Hamburger Lokalradio was missing from 7265-CUSB last Saturday and Wednesday including when WOR would have aired at 0630 and 1430; back this week?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5830, March 8 at 0740, WTWW Lebanon TN SFAW retains VG signal while the two WWCRs in nearby Nashville are only fair at best, 5890 BS and 5935 DGS, also with `hollow` sound. 5935 is weaker than the Russians on each side. 9930, March 9 at 2355, WTWW-2 is on here again, this time with some preacher other than BS rather than a Ted Randall show, extremely strong signal and excessive modulation, also putting a whine out to about +/- 17 kHz on the DX-398, and at 2358 I find some spur peaks around 9917 and 9943 = +/- 13 kHz. At 2359 canned ID talking over preacher, and also QSY announcement to 5085, which came up at *0000:11 March 10, same sermon continuing. Once off 9930, nothing else was audible on that frequency. At 0037 with BFO I noticed that the 5085 carrier was wobbling a bit, and still so when I disconnected the external antenna. Checked before 2400, the other two WTWWs were also on, 9479 with SFAW, and 12105 with Bible in French. 9930, March 10 at 2133, WTWW-2 new frequency is on again this Sunday, playing `Lara`s Theme`, and some crosstalk audible in a pause; 2135 canned ID. Whenever there`s a new frequency, it seems spurs pop up which have to be suppressed. Now I am hearing buzz circa 9905, presumably matched 25 kHz above by 9955, but there it`s buried under the wall-of-noise jamming against WRMI, which certainly doesn`t need any additional QRM! WTWW spur peak at approx. 9917.7, = 12.3 kHz down from fundamental, as this transmitter has previously provided from other spots; could not detect one on the hi side, however, 9942.3. BTW, WTWW-2 is no longer heard carrying Brother Scare at all; either music tests or other preachers (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. New B-12 of WTWW We Transmit World Wide from March 10: WTWW-1 0000-1300 5830 TWW 100 kW / 050 deg NEAm English, ex 0000-1400 1300-2400 9479 TWW 100 kW / 050 deg NEAm English, ex 1400-2400 WTWW-2 1900-2300 9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg SoAm English, ex 2000-2400 2300-0400 5085 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg SoAm English, ex 0000-0500 WTWW-3 1300-1400 12105 TWW 100 kW / 040 deg WeEu Russian Fri-Tue ex 1400-1500 1400-2000 12105 TWW 100 kW / 040 deg WeEu Arabic Fri-Tue ex 1500-2100 2000-2300 12105 TWW 100 kW / 040 deg WeEu French Fri-Tue ex 2100-2400 2300-0200 12105 TWW 100 kW / 040 deg WeEu Spanish Sat-Wed ex 0000-0300 0200-0400 12105 TWW 100 kW / 040 deg WeEu Portug. Sat-Wed ex 0300-0500 (DX RE MIX NEWS #771 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov. March 11, 2013, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) WTTW-2 is still quite irregular, off the air more than on; and to some extent also WTWW-3 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5830, WTWW English religious program at 0132 UT March 12, fluttery but S=9+20dB, male prayer. Suffered by co-channel ute wideband digital station on 5825.5 to 5834.5 kHz range! (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 12) 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, dxldyg via DXLD) Tsk, but WTWW so strong here that such QRM never audible (gh, OK, DXLD) ** U S A. 7490, UT Sunday March 10 at 0002, WBCQ with Rod Hembree preaching about the Antichrist about to surprise the Jewish people (?), instead of `I Sing` which continues to be shown as the only Saturday-UT Sunday program on the 7490 program schedule. Sounds like the same stuff we get on 9330v-CUSB, and indeed it is, except 7490 is 5 seconds behind 9330, so once again WBCQ is running the two (almost) // for some reason. And so much for the separate secular programming which was supposedly returning to 7490 on Saturday evenings. I also check the `anomaly` page on the WBCQ website and do find some earlier news about program changes we might have overlooked: ``Pirate Joe’s Extravaganzo [sic] comes to WBCQ --- Starting on Tuesday, February 26, 2013, at 3:00 p.m. US eastern time [2000 UT, but henceforth 1900 UT], WBCQ presents the Pirate Joe Extravaganzo live from WHVW on WBCQ 7.490 MHz. Pirate Joe presents a unique music show exploring the best in country, blues and Americana. 22 February 2013 by cosmikdebris Categories: Programming | Tags: 7490, pirate-joe, schedule, whvw | Comments Off`` and : ``Weekly Jewish News starts January 3 on 7490 --- Rabbi Spivak is back. World Jewish News with Rabbi Yaakov Spivak starts this Thursday, January 3, 2013, at 7 p.m. US eastern time (0000 UT Friday [but henceforth with DST, 2300 UT Thursday]) on WBCQ 7.490 MHz. 29 December 2012 by cosmikdebris Categories: Programming | Tags: rabbi-spivak, schedule | Comments Off`` 7490, Sunday March 10 at 2138, WBCQ with the unmistakable voice of Marion Webster, but her `Attic` show is now too poor to be listenable, having been pushed an hour into the daytime, even as the sunsets are also getting earlier and earlier with equinox almost upon us. There must be something wrong with this frequency-usage model. 9330 WBCQ reception is better but subnormal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9329.984, at 0115 UT March 12, Aoki list show WBCQ Monticello in H3E mode, more upper side band signal with carrier (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 12) 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, dxldyg via DXLD) As always New B-12 schedule of WBCQ The Planet from March 10: WBCQ-1 1900-0400 7490 BCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to NEAm English USB+C Tue/Sat 2000-0400 7490 BCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to NEAm English USB+C Mon/Wed-Fri 2100-0400 7490 BCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to NEAm English USB+C Sun WBCQ-2 0000-2400 9330 BCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to NEAm English USB+C WBCQ-3 1400-2100 15420 BCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to NEAm English USB+C Sat 1700-2100 15420 BCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to NEAm English USB+C Sun-Fri WBCQ-4 0000-0300 5110 BCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to NEAm English USB+C Fri-Sun 2300-2400 5110 BCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to NEAm English USB+C Sat/Sun (DX RE MIX NEWS #771 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov. March 11, 2013, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7490 is NOT USB+Carrier, as I have pointed out over and over. It is the one WBCQ frequency which is full AM. This is easily confirmed not only by ear, but by switching between LSB and USB on a receiver so capable and hearing equal audio either way, with full carrier level. And I have never seen WBCQ itself number the transmitters like this. I have suspected the 15420 and 5110 broadcasts are from the same transmitter, since both are never on at the same time (tho changing frequencies must be inconvenient, and otherwise avoided). In effect, 7490 and more so 5110 do target NE America, but the higher frequencies skip over most of it and cover somewhat beyond as intended. FCC registrations show targets on all four frequencies are CIRAF 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, i.e. eastern Canada, Mexico, Central America, Caribbean, but NOT the 48 USA in between, a neat trick with an azimuth of 245 degrees on all frequencies, i.e. Louisville-Memphis- Shreveport-Laredo. Just complying with the FCC fixion that US SW stations may not target domestic audiences, yeah sure (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. New updated B-12 schedule of WINB effective from March 10: 1130-1630 13570 INB 050 kW / 242 deg to CeAm English Sun 1630-1800 13570 INB 050 kW / 242 deg to CeAm English Sat/Sun 1800-2100 13570 INB 050 kW / 242 deg to CeAm English 2100-0200 9265 INB 050 kW / 242 deg to CeAm English Mon/Thu 2100-0300 9265 INB 050 kW / 242 deg to CeAm English Tue/Wed/Fri-Sun (DX RE MIX NEWS #771 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov. March 11, 2013, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) When you indicate days of week after a transmission spanning 0000, do your days refer to the start or end of broadcast? Ambiguous (gh, DXLD) 9264.959, WINB S=9+15dB signal in Stuttgart, machine gun pastor prayer - oooh my God -, at 0108 UT March 12, S=9+15dB and fluttery. (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 12) 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A. 11715, KJES Vado NM with creepy robo-kids repeating after an older couple reading Bible verses. ID by a VERY young robo-kid in English, then in Spanish at :57 into an uncharacteristically well-done Spanish Bible bumping song (it must have been a recording rather than something they do live as is usually the case) into a Gringo trying to preach/read the Bible in Spanish. It finally occurred to me. If you heard a kid doing this for 3-5 minutes, it would be 'cute' but hours of this stuff day after day, week after week, month after month & for so long that the kids voices start to change is just creepy to the point of cult-like. Shudder. 1550-1605 2/Mar (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Port Hope MI, MARE Tipsheet 8 March via DXLD) 11715, March 10 at 1357, KJES is already on and inbooming with kids attempting to sing with guitar, i.e. lost no time in making the DST shift for morning transmission, now 13-16 UT instead of 14-17 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) New B-12 schedule of KJES from March 10: 0100-0200 on 7555 JES 050 kW / 335 deg to NWAm English, ex 0200-0300 0200-0230 on 7555 JES 050 kW / 020 deg to NEAm English, ex 0300-0330 1300-1400 on 11715 JES 050 kW / 070 deg to NEAm English, ex 1400-1500 1400-1500 on 11715 JES 050 kW / 350 deg to NWAm English, ex 1500-1600 1500-1600 on 11715 JES 050 kW / 150 deg to CeAm Spanish, ex 1600-1700 1800-1900 on 15385 JES 050 kW / 270 deg to AUS English, ex 1900-2000 1900-2000 on 15385 JES 050 kW / 100 deg to SoAm Spanish, ex 2000-2100 (DX RE MIX NEWS #771 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov. March 11, 2013, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) The 15385 transmissions have not been on the air for months. Have you axually heard it now?? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15550/USB, WJHR [Milton FL] (listed as 50 kW) in well with a strident Bible bumper calling to his flock like an announcer calling a horse-race, including such gems as the fact that Jesus was hung on the cross 'bare naked' and that he was like a female sheep in that he didn't fight the Romans when they crucified him. Off for about 30 seconds at 2121 but then back into traditional religious music and back to the same preacher in a less strident mood, mentioning he was from a Baptist Church in Florida. There were NO station breaks, IDs or other indication that this was on a radio until the very end of the transmission when an announcer came on and said "This concludes a Broadcast day on WJHR" and gave the email address. An AWFUL long wait just to keep this from being a (p) in the log! In well, 3+5454 at first, improving to 454+54 in the 2100 hour and back to S3 by s/off. 2055-2202* 2/Mar (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Port Hope MI, MARE Tipsheet 8 March via DXLD) [and non]. 15550-USB, March 8 at 1414, WJHR`s sole preacher is getting Firedraked! It`s amazing how seldom this happens, as V. of Tibet shifts around the area attracting the jamming; now there is a het on hi side which is its real target. The FD provides a much-needed carrier for WJHR, but not quite enough to sound like normal AM, so must still switch on BFO. FD and VOT gone by 1431 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9490, Sunday March 10 at 2137, no more DXing with Cumbre from WHRI, but some gospel huxter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Updated B-12 of World Wide Christian Radio from March 10: WWCR-1 0100-0900 on 3215 WCR 100 kW / 046 deg to WeEu English 0900-2100 on 15825 WCR 100 kW / 046 deg to WeEu English 2100-0100 on 6875 WCR 100 kW / 046 deg to WeEu English WWCR-2 0000-1200 on 5935 WCR 100 kW / 085 deg to CeAf English 1200-1500 on 7490 WCR 100 kW / 085 deg to CeAf English 1500-2100 on 12160 WCR 100 kW / 085 deg to CeAf English 2100-2400 on 9350 WCR 100 kW / 085 deg to CeAf English WWCR-3 0000-1200 on 4840 WCR 100 kW / 040 deg to NoAm English 1200-2400 on 13845 WCR 100 kW / 040 deg to NoAm English WWCR-4 0000-0200 on 7520 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to CeAm English 0200-1200 on 5890 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to CeAm English 1200-2400 on 9980 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to CeAm English (DX RE MIX NEWS #771 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov. March 11, 2013, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Overlooked are Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Latin segments on WWCR-1. Especially with WWCR-4, the 24-hour transmitter schedule does not necessarily mean it is on the air continuously. Consult the program schedule for gaps (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4840, March 12 at 0049, WWCR-3 is already on, with DST; now starting at 0000 UT instead of 0100, and plans to keep switching from 13845 at 0000 thru the entire A-13 season. Despite 2.5 hours variation in sunset times at this latitude from winter to summer, WWCR makes this change *earlier* in the summer than in winter. Figure that out; maybe it makes sense to their frequency manager without a feel for SW propagation basix. So much for our Sikkim/Perú 4835 monitoring around 0100, but compensated by 4840 also going up to 13845 one hour earlier in the mornings at 1200 from now thru October, good for ABC on 4835 7520, March 14 at 0519, Brother Scare is here on unlisted frequency with very strong signal, 3 sex ahead of WWRB 3185 --- and since he`s missing from normal overnight frequency 5890 WWCR-4, that must be the source of 7520, which normally runs 00-02 UT. Could not get or forgot to change frequency? Experiment? We`ll find out tonight. Many others were wondering where this was coming from, Bulgaria or WHRI, which is also registered part time on 7520? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7506.427, 0406-, WRNO, New Orleans LA, Mar 9. Excellent reception with ID and 7505 frequency announced. Asked for reports via email or snail mail. Into religious program (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Re 13-10, KHJ-930: Los Angeles AM matters Glenn. Your correspondent who said: "As you may recall, KYPA-1230 tried di-plexing from this same site a few years ago but abandoned the idea after discovering that they did not get out as well as they did from their downtown location." Is wrong. KYPA has operated diplexed into the 1580 antenna for quite some time, on an STA basis. So adding 930 to the site will make it a triplexed array. No tower will have more than two frequencies simultaneously, however (Ben Dawson, March 12, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. KAAY full power and day pattern --- If you haven't heard them before, they are playing music (Kevin Redding, Crump, TN, 0454 UT March 8, ABDX via DXLD) Source for this info? Has been 5 kW non-direxional. I don`t see anything about this in the MW-only groups, nor in next several days, and still sounds like 5 kW ND circa 0530 March 12 with Brother Scare (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** U S A. Members, Thanks to Glenn - DXLD 13-10 for this interesting twist. His contributors in Texas (Blaine Thompson [sic --- he is in Indiana] and Steve Ponder) were unhappy that the Houston KCOH has "moved" from a 1430 with 5 kW (Day) and 1 kW (Night) to the "graveyard`` frequency of 1230 with 1 kW (Day) and 0.41 kW (Night). I then was intrigued to check the FCC records. Good news for us is that there was (as I suspected) a change in transmitter location. The new 1230 shares with KLTN (FM) at 29 45 26N, 95 20 19W. The old site at 29 45 21N, 95 16 38W has 3 masts of varying heights and will be now recorded as an Inactive set of masts. At least records of the old directional array will be preserved and not lost within the "graveyard`` stations. I am pleased that KCOH will survive this change as far as mwmasts is concerned! 73's and 88's (Dan Goldfarb, mwmasts yg via DXLD) Hi Dan, Let me suggest a different way of looking at this. What really happened in Houston, at least as far as the FCC is concerned, was merely a pair of callsign (and programming) changes at two existing stations. The former KCOH at 29 45 21N, 95 16 38W is officially known to the FCC as "facility ID 33737," and remains very much licensed and active from that three-tower site under the new callsign KSHJ, with a Spanish-language Catholic religious format. The "new" KCOH at 29 45 26N, 95 20 19W is really a long-existing station formerly known as KQUE, or "facility ID 65309," if you're the FCC. Callsigns and formats can and do change frequently. Facility ID numbers never do, which is why the FCC now uses those as the primary internal identifiers for stations. Hope that helps... s (Scott Fybush, ibid.) See 1430 item below! ** U S A. WGL - 1250 kHz - "1250 The River" - Fort Wayne, IN - QSL WGL fue la primera emisora de la ciudad de Fort Wayne (Indiana). Salió al aire en 1921 como WCWK. En 1928 fue vendida a WOWO (la segunda emisora de la ciudad) cuyos dueños le cambiaron el indicativo al que mantiene hasta la actualidad: WGL. En la mañana del 18 de enero, me apareció por sorpresa a las 0600Z. Pude grabar parte de su identificación legal durante las señales horarias en la emisoras portuguesas de 1251 kHz. Hoy, al segundo intento, he recibido respuesta de JJ Fabini, Co-General Manager / Operations, Summit City Radio. Thanks! jj @ summitcityradio.com Mauricio Molano http://moladx.blogspot.it (via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** U S A. DX TEST ALERT!! STATION: WKBI-AM 1400 Saint Marys, PA (and 250 W/364 ft translator W233BS 94.5 Saint Marys, PA) DATE: Sunday March 31 – 0000-0300 EDT [0400-0700 UT]. (Saturday Night INTO Sunday Morning) The test will be 60 seconds at the top of hour only right after ABC NEWS. The 60 seconds will consist of morse code and sweep tones. The station identifies itself as "Classy 1400 & 94.5" and runs an Adult Standards / Soft Oldies format. The DX test will be also broadcast over translator W233BS 94.5 Saint Marys PA with 250 Watts at 364 feet from an elevation of about 2200 feet. QSL requests will be accepted for WKBI-AM 1400 as well as W233BS 94.5 if you happen by some miracle/chance to hear 94.5 FM. RECEPTION REPORTS: NO EMAILS ACCEPTED. Reports should be sent by regular postal mail only, accompanied by an SASE. Audio clips welcome on CD or mp3/wav files on USB/thumb/jump drive. Please do not send cassette tapes. Reports must include written or printed information with the listener's location, equipment used, and details about content heard. Please note that CD's will not be returned, but if you include sufficent postage, a USB/Thumb Drive will be returned. Send reports to: Paul Walker C/O WKBI 1400 DX TEST PO BOX O Ridgway,PA 15853 (Via Kevin Redding on ABDX, via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A. THE NEW 1430 AM --- « on: March 11, 2013, 10:36:41 PM » Listening to it, it sounds like they are going to be a affiliate of EWTN Radio. THE PROGRAMMING SEEMS TO BE IN ENGLISH. Can't remember the legal call letters even tho I heard them (OLD CHICAGO, March 11, radio-info.com forum via Artie Bigley, DXLD) KSHJ 1430 AM. It's on the air barely for now. Sat dish install and some needed repairs are ongoing. Will get better (rad10, ibid.) Glad to hear them sign on and hear Catholic radio for the first time in almost 10 years. I was wondering when they will get on the air. Right after I read the post, I tuned in to KSHJ (broke programming just now for TOH ID) and noticed the coverage of the election. I tuned into EWTN TV and found they are simulcasting the live TV coverage on the radio. I guess they rushed to get on the air for the conclave coverage. Which license are they operating under? KCOH, KQUE, or a new license? I think the KCOH license was transferred to 1230 and either KQUE or a new license is being used for the KSHJ calls (KTNCorp, ibid.) From the FCC's POV, all that happened was a pair of call letter changes. The former KQUE license on 1230 (facility ID #65309) changed calls to KCOH and the former KCOH license on 1430 (facility ID #33737) was sold and changed calls to KSHJ. The FCC doesn't regulate programming, so it's of no concern to them that the programming that used to be on 1430 is now on 1230 (Scott Fybush, ibid.) When I checked earlier this evening, the KSHJ programming was identical to that being carried on EWTN's international shortwave station, WEWN, although the KSHJ audio was about 10 seconds behind WEWN. EWTN also runs a 24 hour Spanish language radio service (also available on shortwave.) Wonder if La Promesa might go after a second Houston AM for Spanish language Catholic programming. The La Promesa/Guadalupe Radio Network website mentions that 100,000 dollars of repairs needs to be done in order to bring the 1430 signal back up to the full 5 kW. Sounds like the old KCOH ownership left things in a bit of a mess (mediafrog+, ibid.) $100,000? Sounds like they need a new transmitter or something is very wrong with the tower/ground system (Occupation:Movie Theatre Owner, ibid., all via Artie Bigley, DXLD) ** U S A. From Saul Chernos via MWDX - DX Test Update 1480 KBXD TX Dallas Sunday March 17 – 0000-0200 CDT (Saturday night into Sunday morning) KBXD is testing its brand new full 50-KW six-tower day pattern – see online at: http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=KBXD&service=AM&status=C&hours=D The original plan was for a full two-hour test with Morse code, sweep tones, special music and other easily identifiable content. The test is still scheduled to go ahead, but because they have acquired programming that won't allow for the full test as planned, KBXD will instead run a two-minute test at the top and bottom of each hour, keeping the same time frame. We thank KBXD for doing what it can given the changed circumstances. No e-mail reports accepted. Reports should be sent by regular postal mail. KBXD is graciously covering the cost of mailing out QSLs, so No need to send a SASE. Reports must include written or printed information with the listener's location, equipment used, and details about content heard. Please note that audio materials will not be returned. Please send reports to: Jerry Kiefer KBXD 8035 East R.L. Thornton Freeway Dallas, TX 75228 Arranged by Paul Walker [WORLD OF RADIO 1660] ***** 1490 WVBG MS Vicksburg Monday March 18 – 2032-2100 CDT [0132-0200 UT Tue March 19] No need to be a Night Owl for this one! WVBG plans to test with its regular full-time 1,000-watt non-directional power and pattern right around local sunset. Test will include a mix of eclectic music, Morse code IDs, tones and sound effects. Reports sent by postal mail should include a SASE if possible, and audio clips may be sent on cassette tape, CD and USB stick. Reports sent by e-mail should include an MP3 audio file. Reports must include written or printed information with the listener's location, equipment used, and details about content heard. Please note that audio materials will not be returned. Please send reports to: Dailon Huskey Operations Manager WVBG 1490 Vicksburg, MS P.O. Box 46 39181 dailon @ vicksburgv105.com DXers wishing to call the station during or *immediately* following the test can call 601-883-0848. Test arranged by Saul Chernos with thanks to station owner Mark Jones and operations manager Dailon Huskey. [WORLD OF RADIO 1660] ***** 1230 KSEY TX Seymour Sunday March 24 – 0000-0200 CDT (Saturday night into Sunday morning) [0500-0700 UT Sunday March 24] Testing with its regular full-time 1,000-watt non-directional power and pattern. Morse code, sweep tones, sound effects, odd music and other easily identifiable content. KSEY's format is western swing and classic country. KSEY is located 50 miles southwest of Wichita Falls TX, 75 miles north-northeast of Abilene and 140 miles northwest of Fort Worth. Arranged by Paul Walker QSL: Info TBA END (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A. More on St Louis` New Classical Station --- Another item in a recent Post: The new classical station in St. Louis is planning on coming on-air April 8th. The analog FM is K297BI on 107.3 MHz. Coverage area is within a 20 mile radius of the intersection of Hanley and Manchester. (That's just a bit south of the WU campus.) The HD transmission is to be on KIHT-HD2 (96.3 MHz). Coverage is within a 50 mile radius of Shrewsbury. (That's a South County area bordering the city limits.) Both of those should give me a decent signal at my house. 73, (Will Martin, March 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Arts Foundation has start date for new classical music station ... http://www.stltoday.com › Entertainment › Arts & Books › Culture Club 4 days ago - The Radio Arts Foundation finally has approval from the Federal Communications Commission for its new classical music station, and ... St. Louis Post-Dispatch ... http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/culture-club/radio-arts-foundation-has-start-date-for-new-classical-music/article_37b82e45-0630-56e9-8ff1-c1d493801622.html (via Artie Bigley, DXLD) ** U S A. RADIO'S SMERCONISH JUMPING TO SATELLITE By DAVID BAUDER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- Michael Smerconish is jumping from traditional talk radio to satellite, saying the media form he has loved essentially left him. The Philadelphia-based radio talk show host is syndicated in more than 80 markets nationally. Smerconish said Wednesday he will move his three-hour program to SiriusXM on April 15, airing weekdays at 9 a.m. ET with a repeat at 6 p.m. ET. Smerconish changed his voter registration from Republican to independent three years ago, and believes the rigid ideology of many hosts is a dead end for radio. He's been gaining in popularity, moving to No. 9 on Talkers magazine's list of the "Heavy Hundred" political talk hosts from No. 19 last year. "It gives me the opportunity to move away from an environment that, quite frankly, is not conducive to the type of program I'm offering," he said. "I don't do ideologically-driven talk, I do content-driven talk. I'm not on the air to carry anybody's water on a day-to-day basis." Most of the conservative talk show hosts bash President Barack Obama for four hours a day, whether the president deserves it or not, Smerconish said. Talk radio is a place where incivility is the norm, and program directors haven't responded to his warning that their audiences are getting "too white, too male, too angry and too old" to promote future growth. He said he believes that talk radio contributes to gridlock in Washington. Smerconish, who also appears on MSNBC, said independents are the fastest-growing segment of the population and rarely hear their views reflected on the radio. "The only people that I meet for whom the issues are hard left or hard right, the only people who see the world through ideological glasses, are those who have a microphone in front of them," he said. Still, the desire to do a show where the opinions aren't predictable puts Smerconish at a disadvantage on terrestrial radio, said Michael Harrison, publisher of Talkers. "Although he really is a conservative, he has broken away from the mold and is truly independent," Harrison said. "He's not afraid to judge issues on an issue-by-issue basis. He's one of the few conservative hosts, if any, that Barack Obama has granted interviews to." SiriusXM currently has 24 million subscribers. Smerconish's show will appear on the service's P.O.T.U.S. political channel (via Mike COoper, DXLD) ** VATICAN. What a compelling reason for any international broadcaster to keep using AM. Now see the comments from RAFAEL MARTINEZ via ALAN ROE: “In the mailbox programme aired on January 3rd by the Vatican Radio Esperanto service (from July 2012 available only on the internet) it included a report about the mailbag received during the past year. In 2012 the Esperanto service received 162 letters from 15 countries, with Czech Republic (67) and Germany (18) at the top; the number of electronic messages was 113; it makes a total 275. An important part of the letters comes from a handful of active correspondents - an example for all of us. Regarding these mailbag numbers, two questions arise: 1. What Government will fund an external radio service which, apparently with the mailbag figures at hand, just a few people listen to? 2. From where are posted the “millions of letters” that China Radio International claim to receive every year? (March BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) 3/3, 9904, spur of // 9850 at 0750 with orthodox liturgy, 0812 with prayer. As per Eibi is R Vatican in Ukrainian (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, March 12, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Sundays only, SMG site (gh) [and non]. MADAGASCAR, 11625, 0326-, Vatican Radio, Mar 10. Very good reception tonight with English programming to Africa. Parallel direct from Vatican on 9660 also very good, but not quite as strong. 15460 just barely audible from the Philippines. MADAGASCAR, 13765, 0435-, Vatican Radio, Mar 9. French programming at fair/good level, but suffering from Voice of Korea splatter on 13760 PHILIPPINES, 15460, 0313-, Vatican Radio, Mar 11. Good reception tonight with English program. Parallels 11625 via Madagascar, exceptionally strong, and 9660 direct only slightly less powerful. A good evening, it seems! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 21700, Repeated music and announcement in German by a female announcer around 1000 UT on March 13. Fair to good singal - any idea? [later:] *1030-1045* in English; announcement as "Vatican Radio Special Broadcast" at 1045* (Satoshi Wakisaka, Osaka, Japan, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I listened for a couple of minutes to the Vatican Radio live colour- commentary-style coverage in English of the Vatican conclave on 21700 this morning, 1030-1035 UTC. Here in St John's, Newfoundland, it came in very clear at home on my ICF-2010 with its whip antenna. When I checked from work at 1100 UT (on the Grundig YB400 there, with a string of wire wrapped around my office window) I could hear nothing (Philip Hiscock, ibid.) Vatican Radio - special broadcasts 13 March 2013 Special broadcasts covering the Conclave at 05.30 pm (I assume this is CET - Mike) Live broadcasts awaiting the results of afternoon ballot Live Broadcast from 05.30 p.m. - in English for Eastern Africa on kHz 13.765 - in French for Africa in case of papal election on kHz 15.570 - in Portuguese for Africa on kHz 11.625 SW, for the Rome area on kHz 1.260 MW - in Italian for the Rome area on kHz 585 MW, MHz 105,0 FM (plus many internet and satellite feeds) http://en.radiovaticana.va/trasm_spec.asp (Mike Terry, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Since decades, all these times on RV website are usually Italian Standard Time (CET, UT + 1 hr winter) or Italian Summer Time (CEST, UT + 2 hrs summer) 11.30 a.m. CET, entspricht 10.30 UTC. 01.00 p.m. CET, entspricht 12.00 UTC. 05.30 p.m. CET, entspricht 16.30 UTC. also Italian http://it.radiovaticana.va/trasm_spec.asp also German http://de.radiovaticana.va/trasm_spec.asp 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) White smoke at 1810! (Mike Terry, UK, ibi.) This page has no info! Not helpful http://www.radiovaticana.org/en3/trasm_spec.asp So we can only check known VR frequencies, or scan around. Pope the latest is supposedly to be announced circa 1840 UT. 13765 is audible here at 1833 in English. WEWN 15610 is of course covering this, but separate from VR. American accented anchor on WEWN, British on VR. The other special page does have info: http://en.radiovaticana.va/trasm_spec.asp Time UT+1! Special broadcasts covering the Conclave at 05.30 pm Live broadcasts awaiting the results of afternoon ballot Live Broadcast from 05.30 p.m. - in English for Eastern Africa on kHz 13.765 SW, for the Rome area on MHz 93,3 FM and via Internet on Channel 1 - in French for Africa in case of papal election on kHz 15.570 SW and via Internet on Channel 2 - in English in case of papal election via Internet on Channel 3 - in Portuguese for Africa on kHz 11.625 SW, for the Rome area on kHz 1.260 MW and via Internet on Channel 4 - in Italian for the Rome area on kHz 585 MW, MHz 105,0 FM and via Internet on Channel 5 - in Spanish usual programs / Commentary in Spanish in case of papal election via Internet on Channel 6 - in French via Internet on Channel 7 - International Sound in case of papal election via Internet on Channel 8 - in English via Internet on Channel 9 - in German in case of papal election via Internet on Channel 10 (Glenn Hauser, dxldyg via DXLD) Here it is: http://de.radiovaticana.va/trasm_spec.asp Shortwave only to Africa, Hotbird satellite in use for Italian exclusively, anything else for Europe online exclusively. A very clear indication of the changing media environment. I still remember how also here in Germany Radio Vatican has been recognized primarily with its MW/SW transmissions ("Say, wasn't it 7250?") around the death of Karol Wojtyla and the election of Joseph Ratzinger. Not so anymore (Kai Ludwig, ibid.) Page for special transmissions. Italian http://it.radiovaticana.va/trasm_spec.asp quick check at 1900 UT: nothing heard on 3975, 6075, 7250 kHz. But heard on Perseus net: local Rome 585 kHz with Upper Sideband signal portion ... Italian language S=9+45 dB locally MW 1260 in Portuguese, heavily interfered by Rhodos Greece 1259.845 very odd 11625 Portuguese 13765 English 15570 French 9755 kHz Tigrinya, from SMG, but VOA program. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) Heard Radio Vatican special broadcast with excellent signal in Montreal on 15570 [French] ended at 2000 UT with the last 20 minutes having only classical music. 73 (Gilles Letourneau, Montreal, Canada, ibid.) I'm also 98% sure that I heard Vatican Radio's English translation live on Sean Hannity's radio show (Thomas Horton, LA, ibid.) 13765, March 13 at 1833, found VR in English here with fair signal, since all the TV networks were reporting white smoke, so VR must have some Special Broadcast going. Their S.B. page for today shows it started at 1630 UT, the only English frequency on SW, for Africa, in keeping with VR`s abandonment of much of the world. Site presumably SMG as on an ordinary day from 1630 to 2115, in various Eurolangs with English restricted to 1730-1800; earlier in the day, 13765 is via Madagascar. YL anchor with British accent awaiting revelation. WEWN 15610 also covering this in English, but with American accent, separately. Finally at 1913 UT ``habemus papam``, etc., etc. 11625, March 14 at 0532, VR in Portuguese Portuguese to Africa, saying Francisco is the first-non-European pope in history! Many other reports have said he`s the first one in a millennium. So which is it? Whence was the other one, north African? SW Asian? And exactly when? Same kind of contradixion, confusion arose about how long since a pope previously resigned/abdicated. The RCC should get its history act together (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM. 675, 1517-, Voice of Vietnam 1st Program, Mar 11. Not heard terribly often this year, but heard at very good level this morning in Vietnamese with mentions of Hanoi (an ad). Quite a lively program. Some splatter from the Alaskan NPR station on 670 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM. VOV noted in English at 1330 on 9840 with fair signal. 12020 had RTTY splatter on the low side (Joe Hanlon, Took my Grundig G5 with a Sony 23-ft. rollup antenna to hear these stations at Freedom Park in Medford, NJ, Monday March 4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM [and non]. Siren like jamming --- Yes, Vietnam uses it to Jam RFA Vietnamese. They seem to be located close to Hanoi as remote receivers in Hanoi pick up the jamming breaking through other stations too in the background (Victor Goonetilleke, Sri Lanka, March 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15310, March 8 at 1407, siren jamming vs Vietnamese, i.e. R. Free Asia via TINIAN at 14-15. 15170, March 9 at 2356 siren jamming and weak Vietnamese with flutter, short/long path echo. It`s RFA at 2330-0030, 205 kW, 279 degrees from TINIAN per Aoki, which does not register Vietnamese jamming, that appears to be on the increase (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM [and non]. PALAU, 9930, Que Me via Palau, Mar 08 *1200-1210 45444-43443 Vietnamese, 1200 sign on with opening music, Opening announce, Talk, QRM from jamming (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX and ANT, IC-R75+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-525+RD-9830+115m Sloper Wire, NRD-515+35m Long Wire, NRD-345+35m Long Wire, Satellite 750+30m Long Wire, DE- 1130, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. 1550, 4/3 2100, National Radio of RASD, Algeria, talks in Arabic, fair in USB to avoid QRM (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Qualche ascolto fatto in Toscana, a Pescia (Pistoia) con l'Elad FDM-S1 e l'antenna Windom lunga 60 metri (by A. Capra) Immagini sul blog: http://radiodxsw.blogspot.it/ playdx yg via DXLD) ** YEMEN. 6135, Rep. of Yemen R, San’a: Heard Feb 15-27, *0500-0800* and *1300 or earlier till 1500*, Arabic, the latter // 9780, which was covered by REE, Spain in DRM 0500-0900! (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria, DSWCI DX Window via DXLD) ** ZANZIBAR. 11735, 4/3 2025, Zanzibar Broadcasting Co., Tanzania, songs, very good (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Qualche ascolto fatto in Toscana, a Pescia (Pistoia) con l'Elad FDM-S1 e l'antenna Windom lunga 60 metri (by A. Capra) Immagini sul blog: http://radiodxsw.blogspot.it/ playdx yg via DXLD) 11735, March 14 at 2006, not even a carrier from ZBC; suspect on this occasion missing or off much earlier than 2100v* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZIMBABWE [non]. VOA PROVIDES CRITICAL INFORMATION ON ZIMBABWE REFERENDUM WASHINGTON, D.C. - As Zimbabwe prepares for Saturday's planned constitutional referendum, VOA's Studio 7 is broadcasting crucial information about key elements of the charter, which calls for limits on the powers of the president and the elimination of the prime minister post. VOA's Studio 7, one of the leading international broadcasters in Zimbabwe, has published the full text of the draft constitution on its website (here) and has been providing in-depth coverage of constitutional issues online and on its 90-minute evening radio broadcast. A 30-minute call-in program, LiveTalk, which follows the regular Monday through Friday broadcast, has hosted guests from all parties in the national unity government, activists and academics, as well as experts from the U.S. and around the world. Audience feedback has been positive. "Thank you to Studio 7 for all of your Referendum news!", one person wrote. Another said, "Thank you to Studio 7 for bringing us the truth of these matters." In addition to broadcasting key provisions of the proposed constitution, VOA is providing extensive coverage of both 'yes' and 'no' supporters. The shows include segments on citizenship, the powers of the president and gender equality. Additional programs on constitutional issues are planned. The referendum is expected to be followed by national elections and Studio 7 will offer interviews from candidates in all the parties and their plans to address specific issues. Studio 7 also has a new media presence online, on Facebook, and mobile sites with links to audio downloads and top stories. With more than 11,000 SMS subscribers, Studio 7 offers news alerts and other information for mobile phone users. Studio 7 broadcasts in three languages: English, Shona, and Ndebele. Research shows that VOA is well known among Zimbabweans. Studio 7's overall reach is driven primarily by radio, with 13.5% of Zimbabwean adults tuning in every week, according to the most recent audience survey. Domestic media in Zimbabwe remains tightly controlled and the government has recently begun confiscating shortwave radios which are commonly used to listen to the Voice of America (VOA PR March 13 via DXLD) ** ZIMBABWE [non]. [Re 13-10:] Interesting and upsetting article are the situation at this station. Hopeful the situation changes and the station can continue with its broadcasts. 12105, Radio Dialogue e-mail reports: Interesting and maybe the reason that have not responded to any e-mails or correspondences. Myself have sent several e-mails to: rad.ned @ moov.mg and tovo @ rnw.mg C/o Mr. Toyo Razananaivo, Frequency Manager MGLOB (MGB) (Edward Kusalik, Alberta, March 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Is it TOVO or TOYO? (gh, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 612.580, 1529-, Mar 9. Tuning the MW this morning was not particularly interesting. I wonder who is on this channel, QRMing 612 itself. Any ideas? (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1020, March 12 0555 UT, what luck, my semi-local KOKP Perry OK is not only not modulating but not carriering! It`s totally off, so what can I hear with KDKA nulled? Tropical music in Spanish. At first I suspect Cuba, but DFing this, it` more like N/S. There are six Mexicans on 1020, and four of them in the eastern part, any of which would be welcome. Of course fadedown for ID at 0600, but it`s by a SHVA (super-hype voice actor) which certainly rules out Cuba so it has to be Mexican --- or Unitedstatesian. Oh oh, I bet it`s just KMMQ in Nebraska, which I normally hear when on 50 kW daypower around sunrise, but which does run 1400 watts at night, and the direxion fits. Furthermore, it did not play the Mexican NA at midnite CST. Better luck on 1150: see MEXICO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1160, March 12 at 0611 UT Mexican music in KSL null, making slow 48/minute or 0.8 Hz SAH; unfortunately not in the null of KFAQ 1157 IBOC. 0612 adstring, but losing out to KSL with Jim Bohannon. Of the 5 XEs on 1160 in IRCA Log, four have nite powers of 100 or 250 watts. WRTH agrees only on two of them being 100 watts. We should be able to look up which one is 0.8 Hz from KSL! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 3380.87, 1020 to 1040, not Radio Centro 12 March (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D, Icom 746 Pro, Drake R8, Drake R7, dxsf, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 4700, March 12 at 0101, two JBA carriers, maybe a bit of modulation from one. Checking this out again upon inquiry from Thomas Nilsson, Sweden. Around 0300 he was hearing something, the audio clip of which sounds to me like HoA music, i.e. new frequency from V of the Broad Masses of Eritrea as per many other logs, but not a time when I monitor much, and VOBME would not be on at 0100; so my theory remains that one of them I hear is Bolivia, and the other maybe a 5 x 940 harmonic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 4825, one of the better 60m LA signals here March 13 at 0057, music sounds religious, vs CODAR, 0058 Spanish announcement, 0106 something about the Vatican. Probably LV de la Selva, Iquitos, Perú but I should have measured the frequency since that one is on 4824.5; pretty sure it was not as far up as 4826.5, i.e. R. Sicuani (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 4834.68, 0000 to 0100, some weak audio with narrow filter LSB, 10 March and same time 11 March (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, NRD 535D, Icom 746 Pro, Drake R8, Drake R7, and XM, Cedar Key, South Florida, NRD 525D, R8A, E-5, via Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 4915, March 9 at 0056 in quick 60m bandscan noted music here with fair signal, presumed one of the Brazilians, but after Chaski check, retune at 0108 to hear nothing but CODAR. Must have signed off around 0100. Since Rdif. de Macapá I had recently heard around 0700, perhaps more likely, but would it be closing this early? Or the other one, R. Daqui, Goiânia? The two Brazilian surveys by Giuseppe Cysneiros and Harold Frodge don`t indicate real sign-off/on times, nominally 24 hours for both? WRTH 2013 shows 24 hours for Macapá but no times for Daqui (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 4985, March 10 at 0006, some music is detectable under RTTY and carrier seems to be right on 4985.0, so unlikely Voz Cristiana, Perú, which is reported well to the lo side, e.g. 4984.14 by Dave Valko the morning of Feb 19. So that leaves R. Brasil Central, if it be active. Not much else making it from S America here this early on 60m. And later on, the RTTY is even worse by comparison. BTW, Aoki does not list Voz Cristiana at all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Jorge Freitas confirms RBC is active on 4985 (gh) UNIDENTIFIED. 5010.0, March 13 at 0056, weak signal with YL talking, could be French. Expected a leapfrog from RHC 5040 over Rebelde 5025, but the French on 5040 seems like a different voice (I have only one receiver, the DX-398 on the porch, at hand). Maybe Madagascar? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6900.5-LSB, March 13 at 0108, Spanish QSO mentioning contacting Europe, antennas, and a contactee says ``QSL` in the sense of ``I received what you said``. 6933.5-LSB, March 13 at 0111 a similar QSO in Brazilian. I assume these are non-11-meter freebanders, non-licensed ham-like things, using ham rigs, since they even use LSB like inside 40m above 7 MHz, instead of USB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 9795, March 8 at 0728-0730+ open carrier with hum typical of the Guiana French relay, and this log could be a duplicate of one last Nov 24, 2012: ``UNIDENTIFIED. 9795, Nov 24 at 0725, open carrier with hum, so what will develop at 0730? Nothing, just continues. Suspect it`s GUIANA FRENCH, known for humming carriers far beyond scheduled times, which on 9795 would be 0930-1000, NHK in Spanish``. I expect all these anomalies will vanish when GUF is closed down in two sesquiweeks (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Venerdì 8 marzo 2013, 1112 - 13375-USB, Numbers EE YL- PC. SF-IN (Luca Botto Fiora, QTH G.C. 09E13 - 44N21, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) Haven`t heard English numbers in ages (gh, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. I have been receiving a broadcast or ???? on 27070 for the past couple of hours today and I don't know the language and a clip can be heard here http://band1tvdx.blogspot.co.uk/ Cheers (David Hamilton, Scotland, March 8 vhfskip, via Tim Bucknall, harmonics yg via DXLD) Interesting, the music makes me think of Radio Farda/Sawa. Anything on 13535? (WRTH says not) (Bucknall, ibid.) Sorry, 13535 out of regular ISWBC band. But I assume, my guess, could be for example coming from Wertachtal 250/500 kW powerhouse? Farda 13680 WER, formula 13680 x 2 = 27360 minus 13820 WER YFR Beng = 13540 kHz. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) David, It would help a lot if you gave us the specific time you were hearing this, rather than ``past couple hours``, and the time of post on the blog 14:48, what zone is that? Clip also shows the mode as FM, which would certainly not be the case if a mixing product from the SWBC bands. It doesn`t work out as a likely simple harmonic of any SWBC frequency. Otherwise if really in AM it could possibly be the sum of two SW frequencies at the same site. You could search out all the Farda frequencies in use at the proper time and see if any of them add up. However, R. Farda would not be playing constant music for two hours. It doesn`t take them long for a break, ID, switch between Persian and western music, etc. Did you get anything further from this? 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Hi David, I bet it's the Greece Pirate! (John Märsylä, Delfzijl, Holland. 8 March 2013 15:24, Hamilton`s blog via DXLD) It`s also been suggested it could be from Ukraine. Cheers (David Hamilton, ibid.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1660: Enjoy! (Thomas Horton, with a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com) Excellent reception here for the show on 9479. No issues with your audio, and you're welcome for the contribution. However, the Scriptures for America announcement afterward that "what you just heard was another message with timeless truth from Pastor Peters' pulpit" isn't quite right (Thomas Horton, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, Recently returned to the SWL hobby I need a little advise relating to antennas mainly your setup such as length and if you are using coax as lead in to the receiver and last question are you using an antenna tuner? Thought about the Wellbrook but pricy. Am fighting the battle of man made noise as we all are. Enjoy your WORLD OF RADIO and your logs on HARD CORE DX. Keep up the great job you are doing for the hobby!!! Take care and great DX, (Louis P. Bernard, Atlanta, GA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) "With about 250 members in 33 countries worldwide, the DSWCI is the most international DX club in the world." http://www.dswci.org/ (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) DSWCI is indeed a global club. I have enjoyed many years of membership. Their DX-Window, a bi-weekly electronic newsletter, provides worldwide coverage of what is being heard on SW. But then again, dxldyg information is more current and up-to-date, plus is free!! (Ron Howard, California, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Ron: I agree that DXLD is better than any club newsletter because GH is the owner and a very good friend of the community! 73's, (Noble West, NSW Music And Media, TN, via DXLD) Who else has a fulltime dedicated life for DX and media news. Luckily we enjoy the involvement and DX friendship of a good number of DXers all over the globe. But GH's work is outstanding. For years a passionated man with a fine objective: to provide timely radio & DX news. Cngrts OM. De (Horacio Nigro, Uruguay) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ SHORTWAVE NUMBERS MYSTERY This was aired as part of the Kitchen Sisters' Lost and Found Sound series on NPR's All Things Considered. http://soundcloud.com/shortwaveology/the-shortwave-numbers-mystery (Mike Terry, March 12, dxldyg via DXLD) THE CONET PROJECT: RECORDINGS OF SHORTWAVE NUMBERS STATIONS From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations" is a four-CD set of recordings of numbers stations, mysterious shortwave radio stations of uncertain origin believed to be operated by government agencies to communicate with spies "in the field". The collection was released by England's Irdial-Discs record label in 1997, based on the work of numbers station enthusiast Akin Fernandez. The Conet Project has since become somewhat of a cult sensation and counts many musicians and filmmakers among its fans, including Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy, Melvins collaborator David Scott Stone, Boards of Canada, Manu Chao The Besnard Lakes, Devendra Banhart, former Faith No More vocalist Mike Patton, and director Cameron Crowe. Samples from the collection have been used in numerous films and albums, including Crowe's film Vanilla Sky, Porcupine Tree's Stupid Dream album, We Were Promised Jetpacks' These Four Walls album, and Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot album, the last of which was an issue of legal dispute; Jeff Tweedy did not seek permission to use the Conet sample and Irdial sued for copyright infringement. The incident sparked debate about who exactly owns copyright concerning recordings of numbers station transmissions, but Tweedy ultimately decided to avoid taking the matter to court, agreeing to pay Irdial royalties and reimburse its legal fees. The Besnard Lakes have also used recordings from numbers stations throughout their album, The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse and frontman Jace Lasek is said to be a fan of The Conet Project. Kronos Quartet incorporated live reception of the Conet numbers into "4Cast Unpredictable", a performed sound sculpture in collaboration with Trimpin. Ten years in the making, the piece was performed once only, at Montclair State University Performing Arts Center, New Jersey, in 2007. In keeping with its 'Free Music Philosophy', the Irdial-Discs label has made the entire collection available for download in MP3 form (along with a PDF version of the included booklet) on its website completely free of charge and encourages fans to freely distribute it on file sharing networks. The project's name comes from a mishearing of the Czech word konec, or "end," which marks the end of transmissions on the Czech numbers station. Links to free download and more here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conet_Project (via Mike Terry, ibid.) DX-PEDITIONS ++++++++++++ MASSET LOGGINGS 8 TO 12 MARCH 2013 [ex- Queen Charlotte Is., BC] Made a quick trip up to my DX cottage in Masset, Haida Gwaii. I've read what little others were hearing to the south. In Masset, conditions were not too bad at all. On SW, some nice loggings for sure. Highlights include: KNLS back to a single transmitter again. Radio Symban heard weakly again this morning. Bangladesh well heard, though distorted on 15505. Radio Rwanda well heard in our local evenings on 6055. And, plenty of pirates on Saturday night local. As for trans-Pacific MW reception, Sunday morning was best. Saturday was worst. The other mornings were in-between. Strictly Asia. I barely heard Hawaii, and nothing from India or Bangladesh. The "usual" mix of Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Chinese stations, with an appearance from Vietnam on 675, and of course, rock solid 1575 VOA Thailand reception (not a hint of cochannel AFN Japanese, or Radio Farda often also heard here). Despite checking nightly, not a hint of any trans- Atlantic (more correctly trans-Polar) European MW or LW reception. A disappointment, for sure, as that's one of my favourite aspects of the hobby. Here's a summary of what I heard (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Most of his logs filed individually above; full report in one DXLDyg post (gh, DXLD) LANGUAGE LESSONS ++++++++++++++++ BUENOS AIRES Has thru no fault of its own become a frequently cited name in the news lately, grossly mispronounced too much of the time. Ignorant Gringos and Brits may manage to say ``BWAY-nohss`` instead of ``BEW- nozz`` (except in Buena Vista, Colorado), but the next word really floors them. The want to make Aires into an English word like a Zodiac symbol, just can`t grasp that it`s ``EYE-rehss``, to use one inadequate fonetik rendition. Even Scott Pelley, CBS Evening [Afternoon] News anchor. Did he never learn the least bit of Spanish? As a correspondent, did he never go to Bs As and notice how the natives pronounce it? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See MEXICO ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See ARGENTINA; CUBA; ETHIOPIA; GERMANY; ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ GUAM; INDIA; KUWAIT; NEW ZEALAND; UK; YEMEN; RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ CommRadio CR-1 SDR receiver For those that haven't heard about this radio (and it's really tiny!), the CR1 is a self contained HF/VHF/UHF receiver with SDR technology built in - no separate PC is needed. You can find out about this here: http://www.commradio.com/ Now there have been MANY bug reports, and even at least 1 firmware update, that has been issued to address the bugs. This is being EXTENSIVELY discussed in the Software Defined Radio forum at RadioReference: http://forums.radioreference.com/software-defined-radio/256366-new-sdr-commradio-cr-1-a.html Joining RadioReference is free (it only costs you if you wish to use the databases); those that are interested in reading about the progress being made on the CR1 are encouraged to attend (Mike, ka3jzz, March 9, NASWA yg via DXLD) Here is a short video introducing this new radio http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HsTfgIM091Y (March CIDX Messenger via DXLD) NEW BONITO RADIOJET 1102S RECEIVER VS. AOR AR7030PLUS During the past two months I have had the possibility as an experienced Hard-core DX-er without much technical insight to compare the new RadioJet 1102S from the German producer Bonito, web: http://www.bonito.net/radiojet/ with my AOR AR7030Plus, used with success for many years particularly on listening to broadcasting to the tropical shortwave bands. I purchased my software-defined receiver directly from Bonito. It consists of a very small hardwarebox, which has an USB cable connection to my PC (which provides its power) and an antenna connector. A CD-ROM with the software was loaded within a few minutes and after connecting an antenna, I was ready to go! The RadioJet (RJ) then provided an icon on my PC. I can now switch from ordinary computer use to radio use in less than ten seconds at any time! The RJ is a high performance IF-receiver which covers from 40 kHz till 30 MHz continuously. But in contrast to the wellknown wideband Perseus receiver, the RJ concentrates on a 24 kHz spectrum at any time. It has no Automatic Gain Control, but two digital output channels (RX-Channel and DX-Channel) with different signal levels. It is built to computers using Windows Vista, XP or 7 with a PC mouse with two buttons and a scroll wheel. The price, according to WRTH 2013 page 17, is US$679, £599 or €499 plus 19% German VAT and transport. By that, it is more than $300 cheaper than the Perseus. I paid about the double for my AOR back some years ago. How to operate At first glance, the RJ looks very complicated to work with for the DX-er! But after having studied the manual on the software, the main functions are very simple to use. (By the way, only the main part of the manual is in English. The more technical details are not translated from German.) Here I will comment on the main functions: On the PC screen you cannot turn the knobs, like on an ordinary communications receiver. Instead you just point with the mouse on the knob and turn its wheel up or down. Very simple! The big ”Tuning” knob in the top is a good example. But it contains many extra possibilities: You can select between 17 different frequency jumps for each tuning from 1 Hz to 500 kHz. On shortwave I normally choose the 5 kHz jump in order to scan through the meterband. On mediumwave I select 9 kHz, if I scan for European stations, but select 10 kHz for American stations. If you want to listen to a specific frequency, you just type it on your computer keyboard and press ”Enter” and the receiver is on that frequency right away! Other tuning features are to click on the frequency letters on top of the screen or to click on a neighbouring signal. It then jumps to the center of the spectrum. At the same time at the bottom of the screen is shown a huge frequency list with all current broadcasts on that frequency. It is updated regularly free of charge via an integrated online update function [source? beware GIGO - -- gh] The RJ has five wellknown listening modes: LSB, USB, CW, AM and FM. But in addition is DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale) which also works perfectly well on this receiver! I will test this later in this article. The volume can be controlled by various knobs like the Main gain control (IGC = IF Gain Control), IF Gain and AF Gain. In lack of AGC, the IGC has 15 different possibilities to choose between. The noise reduction is also very advanced. When you switch on the NR (Noise reduction) there are no less than 30 positions to choose between. Furthermore you can select NB (Noise Blanker) where additional 15 positions can be selected. Finally the ATT (Attenuator) can tone down severe noise disturbances. The RX-Channel is excellent for strong signals with good reception, whereas the DX-Channel has unique possibilities with the features just mentioned to get a weak signal made audible. Furthermore the ”Filter Shift” can remove disturbing interference. An example is RTBF in Wavre, Belgium, on 621.1 kHz. It is often disturbed by a whistling tone on 622.2 kHz here in Denmark. By using the Filter Shift knob, this QRM can be totally avoided! The RJ also includes a recording device, so that you can send the radio station a recording or a screen shot of its signal. Furthermore a clock is provided showing correct UTC-time. Comparison of RJ with AOR receiver I compared the RJ with my AOR by checking the SINPO for 44 stations on longwave, mediumwave and shortwave (75 – 16 mb) by using the same 28 metres outdoor longwire in two metres altitude for all stations. The RJ had the best SINPO in 25 cases (57%), the SINPO was the same in 8 cases (18%), whereas the AOR performed best in 11 cases (25%), particularly in the higher short wave bands (25-16 mb). I will send you a copy of my test loggings upon request. DRM reception I tried on the RJ most of the very few available stations which broadcast in DRM on shortwave. I heard 17 broadcasts at various times from eight European stations and one overseas (All India Radio). Regrettably only eight broadcasts (47%) had signal strength enough to be audible more than 90% of the time. But when audible in DRM, the quality was perfect! I used the same antenna as mentioned above. Conclusion The Bonito RadioJet 1102S is a unique DX-receiver with many new features which take time to learn. Its sensitivity and selectivity is excellent and when selecting the DX-Channel, one can really dig out a weak station from the disturbances. In many cases it performed better that my well tested AOR AR7030Plus. I can highly recommend this state- of-the-art receiver to DX-ers, and you can get it for a reasonable price! (Anker Petersen, Skovlunde, Denmark, DSWCI DX Window March 6 via DXLD) AM & FM TO BE ELIMINATED FROM DASH [or not?] "AM and FM are being eliminated from the dash of two car companies within two years and will be eliminated from the dash of all cars within five years." http://www.radioink.com/Article.asp?id=2626719 (via Benn Kobb, March 11, dxldyg via DXLD) If it were only young people that bought cars, then maybe this provocative statement might have some credibility. Furthermore, the writer assumes the NAB, perhaps the most powerful non-defense related lobby in DC, will just roll over and play dead. Finally, the vast majority of listening still is done from the AM/FM platform. Therefore, I think these are just the words of a competing aspirational platform just trying to make a splash. Multiplatform radio is here to stay for the foreseeable future, IMHO (John Figliozzi, NY, ibid.) I agree with you. If this happens in the next two years, the car companies which do this will lose a lot of sales to more "traditional" buyers. If I thought this would be true, I'd invest in the Crutchfield company, a national seller of third party auto stereos. (I have no connection to them.) A LOT of buyers will still want AM/FM radios in their cars. Since these autos would almost certainly have a "sound system", the incremental cost of adding AM/FM reception capability would be very moderate. Those saying this will happen (successfully) in the next two years ignore a plethora of obstacles to its success (Curt Phillips, W4CP, Raleigh, NC USA, ibid.) EXCERPTS from article: "The moment I am referring to was during our Radio Ink Convergence conference, held earlier this week." "...suddenly, this statement was heard: "'AM and FM are being eliminated from the dash of two car companies within two years and will be eliminated from the dash of all cars within five years.' "The panelists went on to say that young people don't use radio anymore, and automakers see no need to continue to put radios in the car. The kids want Pandora, Spotify, and other audio services, and if they want radio, they can get it on TuneIn or iHeart or a similar service." "Now that I'd established that GM doesn't believe that youth listen to radio, I wanted to probe the statement that two car companies are pulling AM and FM radios, looking for specifics. I was told that is proprietary information, and that which two companies won't have in- dash AM and FM couldn't be shared. All they would say is that it was decided a year ago, and it will be happening within two years. The change is already in the works. This wasn't a prediction that this might happen.It was stated as a fact by a top industry researcher. And it seems GM's Chevrolet could be one of those automakers. "Before the conference I'd heard a rumor that Ford and Toyota both believe AM/FM should be left out of new cars, " LINK TO ARTICLE: http://www.radioink.com/Article.asp?id=2626719 (Curt Phillips, W4CP, dxldyg via DXLD) I listen a lot to streaming media myself. There is one disadvantage to streaming media: Sometimes there are things that happen to the stream where you try to listen but you can't get the signal in. A working stream you can use on the Internet as a DXing tool in a way that sometimes you can't spinning across the dial. This is especially true on some FM stations all the way across the country or around the world that you want to sample that you can't get otherwise. A good example is an FM station out of Vineland, NJ that I listen to the stream sitting here in Forest, Mississippi where I live. I would not be able to hear this station except to stream the station off Tunein.com. The same thing applies to a station or two I streamed one day out of Alaska. I streamed a station or two in Western Alaska on Tunein that I could not get on AM at night or day. The point I am trying to make is that a stream is useful in some ways but in some cases I wouldn't throw away the car radio just yet because unless you have an internet connection installed in your car or close to a wi-fi setup or close to a cell phone tower you will still need your car radio (Richard Lewis, ibid.) GM and Ford say they're still committed to AM/FM bands... "Your March 8 article “A Cold, Harsh Reality For Radio” came as a surprise to me and the Global Connected Consumer team at General Motors...." more here: http://www.radioink.com/Article.asp?id=2627785&spid=30800 (Bill Mead, Harrisburg, PA, dxldyg via DXLD) The guy who started all this later retracted it (gh, DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ SOLAR WIND ENERGY SOURCE DISCOVERED 08 marzo 2013 Andrea Lawendel http://radiolawendel.blogspot.it/ March 8, 2013: Using data from an aging NASA spacecraft, researchers have found signs of an energy source in the solar wind that has caught the attention of fusion researchers. NASA will be able to test the theory later this decade when it sends a new probe into the sun for a closer look. The discovery was made by a group of astronomers trying to solve a decades-old mystery: What heats and accelerates the solar wind? The solar wind is a hot and fast flow of magnetized gas that streams away from the sun's upper atmosphere. It is made of hydrogen and helium ions with a sprinkling of heavier elements. Researchers liken it to the steam from a pot of water boiling on a stove; the sun is literally boiling itself away. "But," says Adam Szabo of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, "solar wind does something that steam in your kitchen never does. As steam rises from a pot, it slows and cools. As solar wind leaves the sun, it accelerates, tripling in speed as it passes through the corona. Furthermore, something inside the solar wind continues to add heat even as it blows into the cold of space." Finding that "something`` has been a goal of researchers for decades. In the 1970s and 80s, observations by two German/US Helios spacecraft set the stage for early theories, which usually included some mixture of plasma instabilities, magnetohydrodynamic waves, and turbulent heating. Narrowing down the possibilities was a challenge. The answer, it turns out, has been hiding in a dataset from one of NASA's oldest active spacecraft, a solar probe named Wind. Launched in 1994, Wind is so old that it uses magnetic tapes similar to old-fashioned 8-track tapes to record and play back its data. Equipped with heavy shielding and double-redundant systems to safeguard against failure, the spacecraft was built to last; at least one researcher at NASA calls it the "Battlestar Gallactica" of the heliophysics fleet. Wind has survived almost two complete solar cycles and innumerable solar flares. "After all these years, Wind is still sending us excellent data," says Szabo, the mission' s project scientist, "and it still has 60 years' worth of fuel left in its tanks." Using Wind to unravel the mystery was, to Justin Kasper of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, a "no brainer." He and his team processed the spacecraft`s entire 19-year record of solar wind temperatures, magnetic field and energy readings "I think we found it," he says. "The source of the heating in the solar wind is ion cyclotron waves." Ion cyclotron waves are made of protons that circle in wavelike- rhythms around the sun's magnetic field. According to a theory developed by Phil Isenberg (University of New Hampshire) and expanded by Vitaly Galinsky and Valentin Shevchenko (UC San Diego), ion cyclotron waves emanate from the sun; coursing through the solar wind, they heat the gas to millions of degrees and accelerate its flow to millions of miles per hour. Kasper's findings confirm that ion cyclotron waves are indeed active, at least in the vicinity of Earth where the Wind probe operates. Ion cyclotron waves can do much more than heat and accelerate the solar wind, notes Kasper. "They also account for some of the wind's very strange properties." The solar wind is not like wind on Earth. Here on Earth, atmospheric winds carry nitrogen, oxygen, water vapor along together; all species move with the same speed and they have the same temperature. The solar wind, however, is much stranger. Chemical elements of the solar wind such as hydrogen, helium, and heavier ions, blow at different speeds; they have different temperatures; and, strangest of all, the temperatures change with direction. "We have long wondered why heavier elements in the solar wind move faster and have higher temperatures than the lighter elements," says Kasper. "This is completely counterintuitive. " The ion cyclotron theory explains it: Heavy ions resonate well with ion cyclotron waves. Compared to their lighter counterparts, they gain more energy and heat as they surf. An artist's concept of Solar Probe Plus approaching the sun where it can test the ion cyclotron theory. More [caption] The behavior of heavy ions in the solar wind is what intrigues fusion researchers. Kasper explains: "When you look at fusion reactors on Earth, one of the big challenges is contamination. Heavy ions that sputter off the metal walls of the fusion chamber get into the plasma where the fusion takes place. Heavy ions radiate heat. This can cool the plasma so much that it shuts down the fusion reaction." Ion cyclotron waves of the type Kasper has found in the solar wind might provide a way to reverse this process. Theoretically, they could be used to heat and/or remove the heavy ions, restoring thermal balance to the fusing plasma. "I have been invited to several fusion conferences to talk about our work with the solar wind," he says. The next step, agree Kasper and Szabo, is to find out if ion cyclotron waves work the same way deep inside the sun's atmosphere where the solar wind begins its journey. To find out, NASA is planning to send a spacecraft into the sun itself. Solar Probe Plus, scheduled for launch in 2018, will plunge so far into the sun's atmosphere that the sun will appear as much as 23 times wider than it does in the skies of Earth. At closest approach, about 7 million km from the sun's surface, Solar Probe Plus must withstand temperatures greater than 1400 deg. C and survive blasts of radiation at levels not experienced by any previous spacecraft. The mission' s goal is to sample the sun's plasma and magnetic field at the very source of the solar wind. "With Solar Probe Plus we'll be able to conduct specific tests of the ion cyclotron theory using sensors far more advanced than the ones on the Wind spacecraft," says Kasper. "This should give us a much deeper understanding of the solar wind's energy source." The research described in this story was published in the Physical Review Letters on February 28, 2013: "Sensitive Test for Ion-Cyclotron Resonant Heating in the Solar Wind" by Justin Kasper et al. Author: Dr. Tony Phillips | Production editor: Dr. Tony Phillips | Credit: Science@NASA (via Andrea Lawendel via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) Geomagnetic field activity was at predominately quiet levels with an isolated unsettled period observed at 05/0000 - 0300 UTC. Solar wind speed, as measured at the ACE spacecraft, ranged from a high of about 500 km/s early on 04 March and exhibited a slow, steady decay in speed through the week, ending the period near 340 km/s. Total field measurements ranged from 1 nT to 9 nT while interplanetary magnetic field Bz ranged between +/- 5 nT. The Phi angle began the period in a mostly negative (towards) orientation through about 06/0800 UTC. Through the remainder of the period, field orientation was variable, shifting from negative to positive (away). FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 11 MARCH - 06 APRIL 2013 Solar activity is likely to be low through the period. A slight chance for M-class activity exists through 16 March while Region 1689 remains on the disk, and again from 21 March - 03 April with the return of old Region 1686 (S12, L=263). No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at normal to moderate levels through 28 March. Moderate to high levels are possible from 29 March - 04 April with the return of a recurrent coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS). Normal to moderate levels are expected for the remainder of the period. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be predominately quiet to unsettled. Active periods are possible on 28 March due to CH HSS effects. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2013 Mar 11 0413 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 2013-03-11 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2013 Mar 11 120 5 2 2013 Mar 12 120 5 2 2013 Mar 13 120 5 2 2013 Mar 14 120 5 2 2013 Mar 15 120 5 2 2013 Mar 16 115 5 2 2013 Mar 17 115 5 2 2013 Mar 18 110 5 2 2013 Mar 19 105 5 2 2013 Mar 20 100 5 2 2013 Mar 21 100 8 3 2013 Mar 22 95 5 2 2013 Mar 23 95 5 2 2013 Mar 24 95 5 2 2013 Mar 25 100 5 2 2013 Mar 26 100 5 2 2013 Mar 27 105 5 2 2013 Mar 28 110 18 4 2013 Mar 29 110 10 3 2013 Mar 30 110 5 2 2013 Mar 31 110 5 2 2013 Apr 01 115 5 2 2013 Apr 02 115 5 2 2013 Apr 03 115 5 2 2013 Apr 04 120 5 2 2013 Apr 05 120 5 2 2013 Apr 06 120 5 2 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1660, DXLD) ###