DX LISTENING DIGEST 13-17, April 24, 2013
Incorporating REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING
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SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1666, April 25-May 1, 2013
Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [confirmed on webcast]
Thu 2100 WTWW 9479 [confirmed]
Fri 0328v WWRB 3195 [confirmed]
Sat 0130v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 [POSTPONED this week to: Sun 0200]
Sat 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio
Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio
Sat 1500 WRMI 9955
Sat 2330v WTWW 9930
Sun 0200v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 [this week only]
Sun 0400 WTWW 5830
Sun 2330v WTWW 9930
Tue 1100 WRMI 9955
Wed 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio
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Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or maybe 1667 if ready in time]
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** ABKHAZIA. Radio Abkhazia (Apsua Radio):
0700-0800 on 9535 SUK 005 kW / non-dir to CeAs Abkhaz Mon/Wed/Fri
0800-0830von 9535 SUK 005 kW / non-dir to CeAs Russian Mon/Wed/Fri
But much to my surprise there was no broadcast on April 10, 17 & 22
(DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013
via DXLD)
** ALBANIA. 9850, 23/Apr 2303, R Tirana, OM speaks emphatically,
interviews recorded. Modulation very low compared to the signal
strength in my QTH. 45332. 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia,
12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ALGERIA [non]. 7295, April 24 at 0519, Issoudun, FRANCE does it
again! Mixture, double audio feed of RTA Qur`an service and Arabish
talking on the other at equal levels. 9535 is // with Qur`an only
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ARGENTINA. The identification announcement for Radio America /
Melody on 1629.83 (heard in NZ last year – ed Briain Clark) is “Desde
la cuna de la colonización entrerriana, transmite Radio Melody LRM991,
San José, Entre Ríos, Argentina”. LRM991 is the call sign of Radio
Melody, the FM station operating on 105.3 MHz. The AM station on 1630
is called “AM AMérica” but they fill many hours rebroadcasting Melody
and Melody relaying Cadena 3 at night (M. Molano & H. Klemetz via Real
DX Yahoo Group via April NZ DX Times via DXLD)
** ARGENTINA. 15344.96, R. Nacional, 0123, April 22. The usual Monday
(UT) radio play/drama; 0231 list of actors and people involved in the
production; singing “Radio Nacional” jingle and several “Radio
Nacional” IDs; mostly fair (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón
E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
RAE with interval signal and multilingual ID on 11710.70 heard with
better than usual signal into Montreal at 0158 UT. English program
starting at 0202. Modulation is a little low, but I can get most of
the broadcast. Seems to have some white noise interference with the
signal. 73 (Gilles Letourneau, Montreal, Canada, UT April 23, dxldyg
via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. Australia 1988, ACT/NSW AM, Retro Radio Dial
Radio Heritage Foundation http://www.radioheritage.com April 22 2013
____________________
A fascinating look back 25 years ago to 1988 and radio stations that
could be heard in ACT/NSW Australia just been released by the Radio
Heritage Foundation at www.radioheritage.com.
As well as a complete list of AM stations along the dial, the new
feature includes the name of the radio station owners of that era,
nearly all of which were local corporations and individuals in the
days before mergers and acquisitions led to big changes in what
Australians could listen to.
Retro Radio Dial ACT/NSW Australia 1988-2013 is the latest of a new
series exploring all Australian & US states in the coming months, as
well as other parts of the world.
The feature includes the Top 20 music Hits of 1988, popular movies and
books and other aspects of popular culture that add to the flavor of
the AM & FM radio dials of the past 25-50 years.
The Retro Radio Dial series includes features exploring radio as early
as 1928 in California, Japan and Shanghai in 1941, Hawaii in 1961,
Idaho and Texas in 1963 and many new titles are currently in
preparation.
The Radio Heritage Foundation is an independent non-profit
organization with no connections to the broadcasting industry or any
government agency, and is supported by people worldwide who think
it's important to protect radio memories for the future. Content at
www.radioheritage.com is free.
Come along and visit the ACT/NSW Australia AM radio dials in 1988
with us. There's even a place for you to share your own radio
memories of those times.
Radio Heritage Foundation www.radioheritage.com
The Global Radio Memories Project
'where today's people connect with yesterdays radio'
(David Ricquish, RHF, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 5940//5995//9475//9580//12065, April 19 at 1430, very
good signals from Shepparton on multiple frequencies from R.
Australia. A friendly voice to start the day.
Australia. 5940//6150//9580//12065, April 22 at 1315, very good
signals from Shepparton on multiple frequencies from R. Australia.
Excellent start to the day with my morning coffee (David Williams,
Sacramento, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hi David, Here on the central coast of California also with good
reception. 2325 // 2485 // 4835 all doing well today just after my
sunrise, so went to check out Radio Symban on 2368.48 kHz. Yes, heard
EZL songs about 1333 (faint!), clearly non-Greek! (Ron Howard, while
listening at Asilomar State Beach, April 22, ibid.)
Desperately seeking Symban --- Have you ever had a striper on the hook
and had it almost to the boat when it tail dances and throws the hook,
yet you are so excited to ALMOST catch a striper? Yeah, me either.
Such was the case in my ongoing quest to ID Symban. I do however have
some observations to possibly help other DXers in the quest for this
elusive catch.
Out of habit I begin my DXing using a LSB filter. I go through a bunch
of frequencies I have in memories. One of them is (was) 2368.48 LSB.
At 1035 I noticed a carrier a bit lower in frequency. It turned out to
be a utility peaking on 2368.09. It was stronger than the Symban
carrier. So I believe to catch Symban, you need to be using an USB
setting on your rig.
The Aussie domestic services on 2325 and 2485 were booming in this
morning. This always gives me hope for catching Symban. Bah. At 1140
it was peaking, and there was enough coherence to tell the music was
EL instrumental, and not Greek music, as reported by Ron Howard
yesterday. By 1200, when I had hoped to ID, it had faded away. It
might be too late in the season for me to catch this one (Mike
Gilchrist, Toledo IA, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, ibid.)
Just completed recording my DX report for next Monday's airing of
Mailbox on Radio NZ International, which contains my latest
observations on these stations.
Regarding 2368.5. In recent weeks I have been hearing broadcasts in
Samoan on this frequency, with plenty of Pacific Island melodies, as
monitored during our local evening ie 0800 to 1030 UT.
Haven't been able to check later or in our early morning, but I had
the impression around 2000 UT that the format at that time might be
Greek - reception almost at 'imagination level'.
The broadcasts in Samoan have modulation problems which doesn`t help
in tryng to pick out any programme name or title. I have some
enquiries out to the Samoan community in Australia to see if I can
track the origin of these broadcasts (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai, New
Zealand, AOR7030+ and EWEs to the Americas, April 24, dxldyg via WORLD
OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
2368.48, Radio Symban, 1224-1335, April 24. Extraordinary reception!
In a Pacific vernacular with distinctive Pacific region singing;
certainly the strongest I have ever heard them. A most pleasant hour
of listening! My local sunrise at 1321.
https://www.box.com/s/oinnce5jmdp930lpqgwl contains MP3 audio (Ron
Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO
1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 9475, RA, 19 April at 1554 with talks and
songs, S3 QRM by DRM on 9480 S7 (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki,
Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
?? HFCC and Aoki have nothing in DRM on 9480, altho RA itself could be
after 1700 on 9475, but not really (gh, DXLD)
21725, April 24 at 0518, RA, poor signal, but // inbooming 15515. OSOB
at this very late hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Collision with SPAIN: q.v.
Having received - during a period of 50 years - several hundred proper
verification cards from Radio Australia, it is a gesture of good will
to fulfill a collector’s special request to take care and give
complete and correct details on the verification.
(After) polite reminders to verify the last frequencies used by
Darwin, it did not make me happy to receive a note saying ‘If you have
not received these QSLs then they are not coming’. So I had no other
choice but to use another way of getting the following verifications
now: Radio Australia via Darwin (11865 and 11980), Shepparton (11945)
and via Palau (9890 kHz). Thank you very much indeed, John Westland
(Günter Jacob in Passau, Germany, April NZ DX Times via DXLD)
Well, Günter, having been in the situation of issuing QSL’s, it does
take time and money, even for a major international broadcaster. As
funding decreases, the focus surely must go to programming and
transmission. Our DX interest becomes a sideline, unfortunately (Theo
Donnelly, ed., ibid.) Chutzpah
** AZERBAIJAN. Voice of Justice:
0600-0630 on 9677.5vSPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Azeri Wed/Sat
1400-1430 on 9677.5vSPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Azeri Tue/Fri
(DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013
via DXLD)
** AZERBAIJAN. Voice of Talyshistan:
0900-1000 on 9677.5vSPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Talysh
1200-1300 on 9677.5vSPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Talysh
1500-1600 on 9677.5vSPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Talysh
(DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013
via DXLD)
9677, V Talisitan, 19 April at 1514 with music, overloaded with bad
modulation and S7 (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** BAHRAIN. 9745, R. Bahrain. From 2238 nonstop Arabic music. Nice
peak at 2253. Could hear audio better in USB, although it was audible
in AM mode as well. But the Perseus showed it was plainly lacking the
LSB. M announcer very briefly over beginning of next Arabic Pop song
at 2259. 0011:55 very short M ID announcement "?? point 4 Shabab".
Peaking 0018. 0020:05 M again with ID "98.4 Shabab". Still getting
Arabic music at 0121 check. Better on the Welbrook. (11-12 April)
(Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and
153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD)
** BANGLADESH. Radio Bangladesh or Bangladesh Betar monitored schedule
Here is the monitored sked of Radio Bangladesh till 1815 hours. The
1815 and 1900 transmissions could not be monitored.
1230-1300 English 15105 kHz to South & SE Asia
1315-1345 Nepali 7250 kHz to South Asia
1400-1430 Urdu 15505 kHz to South Asia
1515-1545 Hindi 15505 kHz to South Asia
1600-1630 Arabic 7250 kHz to Middle East
1630-1730 Bengali 7250 kHz to Middle East
1745-1815 V. of Islam (English) 7250 kHz to Europe
1815-1900 English 7250 kHz to Europe (tent)
1915-2000 Bengali 7250 kHz to Europe (tent)
(Alok Dasgupta, India, Apr 13, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 19 via DXLD)
** BANGLADESH. 15105, Bangladesh Betar; *1230-1300*, 17-Apr; IS on at
1257:11; English s/on 11 seconds early after pips/tone. News to 1237
"Comment" on Pakistan. 1242:50 ID into program about Bangladesh
history. Close with ID & e-mail; off at 1259:45. SIO=332+ in AM; LSB
helps with Chinese on 15110, SIO=243. Just barely audible the previous
day (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)
15505, April 18 I tune in early at 1352 to find when BB may come on:
*1353:30 carrier on and immediately also hum plus tone test; 1357:30
change to hum plus Bangladesh Betar interval signal; hum plus
timesignal ending 17 seconds early at 1359:43, then hum and usual
theme and opening Urdu service; hum and a bit of music circa 1410,
more hum and talk; after 1415 hum and mostly music; 1429:30 hum and
announcement; 1430 hum and parasitic noise circa plus/minus 4.4 kHz
stop at the same time, so they come from the modulation input, while
now clean carrier stays on a few sex longer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
15505, Bangladesh Betar. On April 18 at *1357 test tone went off and
started IS; pips; ID; briefly with subcontinent music and into the
news in Urdu; strong signal. As Glenn has been reporting, the very
strong hum makes for unpleasant listening here (Ron Howard, Asilomar
State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hello, Here, in France, very good signal from Radio Bangladesh Betar
on 15505 today at 1515-1544. Opening music, ID, news in Hindi (?),
beautiful music and songs, SINPO 44444 (Nicolas Delaunoy, Location 20
km south east of Paris (France), RX Kenwood R600, Antenna long wire 10
meter, April 18, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
15505, April 20 I am waiting earlier for BB carrier to come on, but
today not until *1359:00, adding hum and IS about 10 sex later,
timesignal fast again ending at 1359:46, usual theme and Urdu opening;
fair.
15505, April 21 from *1356:25 carrier; 1356:50 add hum and tone test;
1357:16 switch to Bangladesh Betar interval signal; 1359:42 end of
``1400`` timesignal; very poor signal today.
15505, another check for BB April 22: nothing on until *1357:26
carrier, soon applying hum and interval signal; timesignal ending at
1359:39 and opening Urdu, poor signal.
15505, April 23 at *1356:19, BB carrier on and quickly adding hum and
tone; 1357:12 switch to IS which we get to hear longer than usual
today for 2+ minutes; mis-timesignal ends at 1359:47.5, opening Urdu.
Poor with heavy flutter.
15505, April 24 at *1358:15, BB carrier on, very poor with IS and hum,
timesignal ending at 1359:42. At least manages to propagate a bit
transpolar despite degraded conditions (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** BELARUS. 11730, Radio Belarus; 2050-2200+, 16-Apr; Presume them in
English at 2000 s/on, but too buried to copy much--slightly better at
time noted. Lite pop music to English close at 2157+ with ID and sked.
Brief IS & continued in presume listed Russian. SIO=2+52, SSB helps.
Nothing on listed // 7255 (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)
11730, R. Belarus. Poor for first 25 minutes of English broadcast,
then suddenly picked up from 2025 to 2033 "Made in Belarus Project"
program with M host ending with program outro and ID "...stay tuned to
R. Belarus". Instrumental music bridge, 2040:20 ID by M and into next
feature. 2040-2050 feature "Belarus Economic Opportunities" by
different M presenter. 2054-2056 short talk by W over lively
instrumental music seemingly on a Belarus city. 2056-2059 pop/dance
song by a regional W vocal artist. 2100 English ID/promo by M "You're
listening to Radio station Belarus...". (17 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo,
PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical
triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD)
11730, R. BELARUS (150 kW, Minsk-Kalodzicy), 2141 UT. English
programme, announced by a woman. Close of English programme at 2157.
Very low audio, probably modulation problem. SINPO: 44343 (Eduardo
PEÑAILILLO, Receiver: Brigmton BT-360; Antenna: wire antenna, 7 meter
(approx.) QTH: North zone of Santiago, residential area, Chile, April
22, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
[and non]. 11930, April 18 at 0523, BR 1 music is underneath pulse
jamming from the stupid Cubans when R. Martí is never on this
frequency, Commies vs pseudo-Commies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** BOLIVIA. Onda Corta, en cambio, estaba imposible. En 60 metros
quise chequear las dos frecuencias supuestamente reactivadas desde
Bolivia, pero la banda estaba cerrada como con un candado. Desde hace
dias la madrugada en las frecuencias bajas está totalmente mustia,
ignoro por qué. He estado leyendo algo sobre esa mancha magnética que
hay sobre Sudamérica, pero no sé si achacarle la culpa a eso. 73 desde
Montevideo (Rodolfo Tizzi http://cx2abp.blogspot.com/ condiglista yg
via DXLD)
** BOLIVIA. 4699.96, R. San Miguel, Riberalta, 31/03 2345-0046,
22222+, px religioso trasmisión de la Santa Misa, mx religiosa,
continúan con mx religiosa, avisos parroquiales. Durante todo ese
tiempo de escucha, no dieron el ID (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, Perú,
Chasqui DX Abril, en compañía de mi sabueso Icom IC R72 acompañado del
Mizuho KX-3, una antena de hilo largo de 20 metros y una antena loop,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BOLIVIA. 4717.15 approx., April 24 at 0059, Andeanish vocal music
with shouted interjexions, right thru hourtop past 0103, as Radio
Yatun Ayllu Yura, Yura is on the hi side of 4717 instead of usual
considerably to the lo side. Also best signal from them in some time,
even tho our sunsets are latening, now 0113 UT, but it`s already some
three hours after sunset in Bolivia. 0106 M&M about ``la virgen``,
must be secs-talk show, or ??? 0108 sounds like a produced exhortative
commercial. I am now avoiding the x-word, even in abbreviating
seconds, since I suspect that triggers yahoomail rejexions. If so,
grow up! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
En 4716.85, LLega muy bien por Buenos Aires, 0048 UT (Ernesto Paulero,
UT April 25, condiglista yg via DXLD)
** BOLIVIA. 5952.52, R. Pio XII, Siglo XX, 4/04 1125-1205, 44444. Como
siempre, lo mantenemos informado a través del px El Noticiero, Bolivia
al día, news, ID "Por Pio XII”, advs en español y quechua, ID “La
mejor programación de mi pueblo Pio XII.. Pio XII”; px en quechua
(Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, Perú, Chasqui DX Abril, en compañía de mi
sabueso Icom IC R72 acompañado del Mizuho KX-3, una antena de hilo
largo de 20 metros y una antena loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
[non log]. 5952.43v, Radio Pio Doce. April 22 audio off early by 0225
(normally 0230*), but prominent open carrier noted till past 0258 (Ron
Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** BOLIVIA. 6024.94, R. Patria Nueva, La Paz, 14/04 2225-2245, 44444+,
advs El Banco Nacional le ayuda con su ahorro, El gobierno con la
central obrera boliviana con el Misterio de Salud y Deporte; px Radio
Deporte, news deportivas, ID “Lo mejor del deporte con Radio Patria
que la sintoniza”, advs Casa Real, partido de Bolívar con la Paz
fútbol (3 a 1), transmisiones de primera para football de primera,
slogan “La radio que quiere escuchar Patria Nueva” (Pedro F.
Arrunátegui, Lima, Perú, Chasqui DX Abril, en compañía de mi sabueso
Icom IC R72 acompañado del Mizuho KX-3, una antena de hilo largo de 20
metros y una antena loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BOLIVIA. 6134.90, R. Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, 14/04 2253-2315,
44444+, mx tropical cumbia (ojitos de agua), mx en forma continua, ID
“960 kHz Onda Media, 6135 kHz Onda Corta, 92.3 FM, trasmite Radio
Santa Cruz, desde Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia”, advs Cruz Roja
boliviana con el apoyo de Radio Santa Cruz (Pedro F. Arrunátegui,
Lima, Perú, Chasqui DX Abril, en compañía de mi sabueso Icom IC R72
acompañado del Mizuho KX-3, una antena de hilo largo de 20 metros y
una antena loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BONAIRE. Trans World Radio inaugurated a 500 kW Continental medium
wave transmitter on 15 May 1964. On 13 August of that year they
inaugurated SW transmissions using two Continental transmitters, one
with 50 kW and the other with 260 kW (not 250). There was an agreement
to relay some Radio Nederland transmissions on the 260 kW SW and 500
kW MW transmitters, using 800, 9590 and 15220 kHz until the RNW
station was inaugurated on 4 March 1968 (Colin Miller, VE3CMT,
shortwavesites yg via DXLD)
** BRAZIL. 4785.00, BRASIL, R. Caiari, Porto Velho, 2/04 1044-1156,
22222 ++, advs, mx tropical, ID “6 y 42 en Radio Caiari”, mx y advs
“Radio Caiari”, de un momento a otro la señal queda cubierta por
Radio Oriental. (ver 4781.70) (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, Perú,
Chasqui DX Abril, en compañía de mi sabueso Icom IC R72 acompañado del
Mizuho KX-3, una antena de hilo largo de 20 metros y una antena loop,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
4785, R. Caiari, 0925-0925 "And I Love Her" by W vocalist, 0927 quick
ID jingle by M with stutter effect. 0927-0930 ZY ballad by W. 0930 two
canned announcements both by M. 0931 short announcement by live studio
M announcer, then ad/promo block including mention of Bom Dia and a
program promo, and ending with nice jingle ID. 0933-0937 back to ZY
contemporary pop song with M vocalist. 0937-0940 another remake. 0940
same ID jingle with stuttering "Caiari". 0940-0942 a short ZY Pop
song. 0942 possible promo with bom dia and Amazonas, then nice ID with
frequency by M over soft instrumental music. 0943-1000 some sort of
feature with long talk by M but couldn't decipher the subject.
Possibly religious/inspirational. Did hear mentions of Brasil. 1000
soft instrumental music and feature outro by M with ID and mention of
Marie, then ad/promo block including a full ID by W with frequency.
over music and ID jingle by M. CODAR QRM. Thunderstorm static crashes.
Fading of course. (20 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR,
Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre
DX via DXLD)
** BRAZIL. 4805, R. Difusoras [sic] do Amazonas, 0931-0932 promo
mentioning Amazonas, another with one frequency and mention of Manaus,
then full ID by W as Difusoras do Amazonas, and ID/promo by M
mentioning Difusoras and ending in jingle before going back to music.
(14 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook
ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via
DXLD)
** BRAZIL. 4885.01, R. Difusora Acreana, 0914 definite choral music
weakly underneath 4885.02 Clube do Pará. Would be virtually impossible
to ID with Pará at this time. 0926 getting stronger and starting to
compete with Pará. Noted pop-like music. W announcer at 0929. There's
also a 3rd station there on 4884.994. 0948 this had taken over
completely and could easily recognize Portuguese talk by M. 0959 M
finally finished, then instrumental music with clear ID by M 0959:40,
followed by full canned ID announcement 1000, and another canned ID.
Makes sense that this would be Acreana as Rio Branco is due north of
La Paz and still in darkness while Belém and Anápolis are in daylight
at 0948. (14 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR,
Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre
DX via DXLD)
** BRAZIL [and non]. 4825.24 [sic, should be 4925.24], R. Educação
Rural. Could see the signal from MND Radio [Korea South] on 4924.98 at
0955 but couldn't detect any audio. R. Educação Rural came on 4925.24
at 0956 with low power followed by a sudden power increase at 0957,
and then the audio on at 0958 with the full canned ID announcement. (8
April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+,
and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD)
** BRAZIL. Recomento ouvirem o programa "Encontro DX" tradicional
programa dedicado aos Radioescutas, Dexistas e amantes do radio em
geral. Produção e apresentação do Cassiano Alves Macedo e José Moura.
O Programa "Encontro DX" É transmitido aos Sábados das 22h às 23h UT
Pela Rádio Aparecida Nas seguintes freqüências:
5035 kHz - 60 metros
6135 kHz - 49 metros
9630 kHz - 31 metros
11855 kHz - 25 metros
QRV (Ulysses Galletti, April 24, radioescutas yg via DXLD)
** BRAZIL. 6010, R. INCONFIDENCIA (5 kW, Belo Horizonte), 0013 UT.
Beautiful selection of orchestral music. Close to 0030, some
announcements in Portuguese. SINPO: 34333 (Eduardo PEÑAILILLO,
Receiver: Brigmton BT-360; Antenna: wire antenna, 7 meter (approx.)
QTH: North zone of Santiago, residential area, Chile, April 23, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) Usually classical music this hour on 15190v (gh)
** BRAZIL. 11815, Rádio Brasil Central, 0234-0311, Apr 20. Brasilian
pop music program hosted by a male announcer with Portuguese talks,
ID, jingles, etc. Woman announcer with news at 0256. Fair. Checked
4985 which was covered by some sort of noise pollution (Rich D'Angelo,
2216 Burkey Drive, Wyomissing PA 19610, Ten-Tec RX-340, Drake R-8B,
Eton E1, Eton E5, Alpha Delta DX Sloper, RF Systems Mini-Windom,
Datong FL3, JPS ANC-4, NASWA Flashsheet April 21 via DXLD)
** BRAZIL. 11925a, 0527, Rádio Bandeirantes, getting close to nominal
frequency, now 11925.04 with Portuguese commercial program, fair //
9645.39, very good level 10/3. But drifted back on 11925.2 when
checked at 0000 on 3 April (Bryan Clark, MANGAWHAI BROADCAST TRAIL,
NZ, with AOR7030+ and EWE antennas to North, Central & South America,
April NZ DX Times via DXLD)
** BRAZIL. 15191.26, R. Inconfidência, 2326:50 jingle then M with list
of 36 network stations!! (17 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA,
Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta
Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD)
15191.263, Rádio Inconfidência. This night on UPPER side around 2145
UT, was last week lower than 15190 kHz even (Wolfgang Büschel, April
21, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
15190.26, R. Inconfidência, Belo Horizonte MG, 0140-0208, April 22. In
Portuguese; older pop hit songs in English (Elton John, Joe Cocker,
Rick Astley, etc.); between songs said “Inconfidência”; poor (Ron
Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** BULGARIA. Re 13-16: ``Summer A-13 of Brother Stair from Kostinbrod
1800-1900 on 11685 SOF 070 kW / 306 deg to WeEu English
1900-2100 on 7400 SOF 100 kW / 306 deg to WeEu English
All other transmissions from Kostinbrod are cancelled!!``
Brother Scare from Kostinbrod now cancelled as well? No signals here
tonight on 11685 and later on 7400 (Kai Ludwig, Germany, April 24,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Yes Kai, Brother Stair from Kostinbrod was been cancelled from April
22 (Ivo Ivanov, April 24, ibid.) See also SOUTH CAROLINA [non]
** BURMA [non]. Democratic Voice of Burma:
1430-1530 on 11560 DB 100 kW / 125 deg to SEAs Burmese
2330-0030 on 11595 DB 100 kW / 125 deg to SEAs Burmese (DX RE MIX
NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD)
** CAMBODIA [non]. Khmer Post Radio:
1200-1300 on 9960 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg to SEAs Khmer (DX RE MIX NEWS
#777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD)
** CAMEROON [non]. Lutheran World Federation, Voice of Gospel (Sawtu
Linjilia), 1830-1900 on 15315 WER 500 kW / 180 deg to WCAf Fulfulde
(DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013
via DXLD) Not really clandestine but gets inlumped (gh)
** CANADA. Mystery 690 Canada (new) --- 690, C??? Montreal QC between
~9:00 PM ~ 9:40 PM [EDT?] battle for the channel trading with another
carrying ESPN. Taking turns owning the channel. Mystery Montreal catch
kept mentioning Montreal and TSN network. This could possibly be CKGM
as during the session ~9:25 PM EDT I matched up bits and pieces to the
CKGM webstream. However, what is making this difficult is radio-
locator has 3 different stations listed for this channel, all in
Montreal! Add in Murphy`s law, every time I tried to catch calls it
would jump to the ESPN station so fast you didn't know it switched! I
also cannot rule out a third station that may have popped in once
during this; however the two dominates were the ESPN UNID and the TSN
from Montreal. A low power 10 watt local pest occupied 690 making DX
on this channel difficult was absent. 4/19/2013 (starship20012001,
Heard on Grundig S350DL, Warwick R.I., ABDX via DXLD)
The TSN station IS CKGM. They moved down to 690 from 990 a LONNNNG
time ago. http://topazdesigns.com/ambc shows CKGM as the ONLY 690 on
the air in Montreal, so I have no idea why radio-locator.com would
show otherwise. As for the unID, the only ESPN station on 690 that I
see is in Colorado, but I highly doubt that's a reasonable catch from
Rhode Island, so my hunch would be that someone on 690 has made a
recent format switch. 73, (Rick Dau, South Omaha, Nebraska, ibid.)
Radio-Locator should never be relied on for Canada - according to
Radio-Locator, 1410 CIGO is still on the air, even though CIGO flipped
to 101.5 FM 13 years ago! Radio-Locator may be quite useful for USA
stations, but for Canada it is a joke.
I think it was back in early fall 2012 that CKGM took over 690 and my
dreams of DXing CBU out in Vancouver BC was dashed. 940 will be going
back to Montreal too, so my days of DXing 940 CJGX Yorkton SK will be
numbered and I really should record some audio sometime. 1410 Montreal
is on the air I believe and beating up on WPOP in Hartford CT. Lack of
FM frequencies is forcing AM to come back to life in Montreal (Phil
rafuse, VY2PR, Stratford PE Canada, ibid.)
Time for my semi-annual "Radio- Locator and Canada" post:
All of the technical data that appears on radio-locator comes straight
from a single source: the FCC's Consolidated Database System (CDBS).
It's important to understand what the purpose of CDBS is. It's a
strictly US-based system designed specifically to serve US broadcast
licensees and applicants.
For stations licensed within the US, CDBS is - and must be - a very
reliable primary source as to what facilities are licensed to
broadcast. That's why radio-locator uses it, and why just about any
other reliable directory of US broadcast stations also depends on
CDBS-based data. (That's where we got the technical information from
in my days with 100000watts. com, for instance.)
But CDBS was never designed to be a reliable primary source as to
what's on the air outside the US. The only reason non-US facilities
appear in CDBS is because US-based licensees have to protect those
non-US facilities. And here's the key point:
*The facilities US licensees have to protect are not necessarily the
actual facilities on the air in Canada or elsewhere.*
Canada, in particular, continues to "notify" the US of Canadian AM
facilities long after those AM facilities have gone off the air. As
long as Canada keeps notifying them, they must continue to be listed
in CDBS, because they must continue to be protected by US licensees as
though they were really on the air. (That's a matter of international
treaty.)
The people behind Radio-Locator are smart people. They know, I'm sure,
that the data they're using for Canadian facilities are not meant to
reflect actual on-air Canadian operations. I do not know why they
persist in presenting that data in a way that makes it look otherwise.
(I also don't know why they persist in linking their underlying data
to callsigns and not purging format/contact info when a callsign moves
to a different facility, but that's another story.)
In any event, the point I'm really trying to make here is this:
THERE ARE BETTER SOURCES FOR CANADIAN DATA.
Industry Canada is the Canadian regulator that deals with the
technical side of broadcasting, and it maintains its own database of
Canadian broadcast facilities.
Barry McLarnon' s list at http://topazdesigns.com/ambc/ draws on
Industry Canada data and the work of DXers to present a much more
accurate picture of what's really on the air. Same thing for the NRC's
AM Log.
And while the Industry Canada data is difficult to work with directly,
RECNet downloads that data weekly and offers a search function that
provides free access to that Industry Canada data. It's at
http://cdbs.recnet.net:8080/fmq.php?
Radio-Locator is a useful site for many things. I refer to it many
times a day and would find it hard to replace if it went away. But
it's run essentially as an automated service - and that creates some
serious limitations that must be understood before one treats the
information there as gospel. s (Scott Fybush, ABDX via DXLD)
** CANADA. 6159.978, CKZU, Vancouver, April 22, at 1111, while
listening to the R Australia feed familiar here mornings, in Aussie,
talking about the recent earthquake in China, a second audio feed came
on line with a Buick ad, and then into a second feed different from
the primary one, but louder. This continued until 1113:30. Strange
(Mike Gilchrist in rural EC Iowa, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Mike, indeed strange, since the CBC does not air commercials. Perhaps
it was the program, "The Age of Persuasion" which deals with this
subject? 73, (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, ibid.)
Walt, Good call. I went searching, and found this on:
http://www.cbc.ca/ageofpersuasion/
``Saturday March 9, 2013 -- The Age Of Persuasion ends, and the era of
Influence begins. For AOP fans: The Age of Persuasion radio series has
been retired, and replaced with a new show called Under The Influence.
The latest, Advertisers as Censors, seems to contain the Buick ad I
heard. It did sound like old time radio, by the way. The story
explains the relationship between sponsorship and censorship.``
I was scrambling to figure out what was going on and did not tape this
short segment, but there appears to be a logical explanation (Mike
Gilchrist in Iowa, ibid.)
** CHAD. 6165, R. NATIONALE TCHADIENNE (250 kW, N'Djamena), 2138 UT.
Programme announced by a man, in French, with some songs of Africa-
style. At 2152 the announcer mentioned N'Djamena, Chad's capital city.
SINPO: 43333 (Eduardo PEÑAILILLO, Receiver: Brigmton BT-360; Antenna:
wire antenna, 7 meter (approx.) QTH: North zone of Santiago,
residential area, Chile, April 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Hi Glenn, Among the usual Firedrake fare this morning [April
18] was 18180 fair-good at 1259-1300 s/off at which time possible SOH
underneath (Steve Handler, IL, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Firedrake April 18, before 1330:
11500, good at 1329; none lower
12670, very good at 1326
12870, very good at 1326
13795, poor at 1326
13920, fair at 1326
14700, very good at 1324
14750, very good at 1324
15565, poor at 1322, het on hi side, also propeller noise
15605, poor at 1322 with het on hi side, RTTY on lo side
15970, very good at 1324; none in the 16s
That makes a dizaine at once (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
April 18: 6970, Firedrake 2150 against SOH???? First time heard them
in this band!!!! (Zacharias Liangas, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Firedrake April 19 circa 0130:
16160, very poor at 0131. Unusual time; no others found 11-19 MHz in
complete scan until 0136
Firedrake April 19 before 1300, much more productive:
17450, very poor at 1242
17080, poor at 1242
16920, fair at 1243
16360, very poor at 1243
16160, very good at 1243
16100, very good at 1243
15900, very good at 1243
14700, good at 1247
13850, good at 1247
13820, poor at 1247 under R. Martí open carrier
13795, poor at 1247
12500, poor at 1247
11500, very poor at 11247; none in the 10s
That`s a total of 13 transmitters at once.
Firedrake April 19 after 1300:
15565, fair at 1319 - no further search as paying attention to events
in Boston, OKC bombing commemoration (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
13740, CHINA Firedrake music jammer. Apr 20, 1030. Check for //s
showed some other CNR broadcasts, no crash-bang music. Oddly, this
sounds like CNR1 on what are usually the Firedrake frequencies.
14750, CHINA, CNR1, Apr 20, 1030. M in Chinese, very strong, with //s
14700, 13920, 13850, 13530. 73 and best wishes for Good Listening!
(Rick Barton, El Mirage, AZ, Hammarlund HQ-120X, Drake R-8, Slinky and
random wire, ABDX via DXLD)
Firedrake April 20 before 1300: NOT: instead, all the usual OOB FD
frequencies are on the air with CNR1 program jamming instead, why?
Compared to usual inband CNR1 jammer on 11785. The Hong Kong Firedrake
orchestra is getting a well-deserved night off!
12230, fair at 1233
12670, good at 1233 with flutter
12870, poor at 1253
13530, fair at 1251 with CODAR
14700, fair-good at 1249
13750, poor at 1249
15560, poor at 1241, het on hi side
15800, fair at 1241
15870, good at 1241
15900, good at 1241
16100, very good at 1245
16360, poor-fair at 1245
16920, good at 1245
16980, poor at 1245 with ute
17300, good at 1247
18180, poor at 1247
That`s 16 at once, and I am not including many more usual inband CNR1
jammers, just mostly OOB frequencies where Firedrake normally appears.
Firedrake [non] April 20 after 1300, still CNR1 audio instead:
14700, fair at 1326; none in the 13s or 12s
14750, very poor at 1326, not synch with 18970 either
15565, very poor at 1321; het on hi side
16100, fair at 1319
16160, very poor at 1319
16360, very por at 1319
17250, poor at 1322
18180, very poor at 1323, an echo apart from:
18970, very good at 1323! Unusual way up here, tho I must admit I
don`t always tune all the way up to 19 MHz searching for FD. Now I
tune all the way up to 21 MHz, but no others. I also usually don`t
take the trouble to compare any non-synchrony among Firedrake
frequencies, but I do note now that 18970 CNR1 is a few sex behind,
e.g. 14700. 18970 still going at 1354-1400* off after timesignal, but
not back before or after 1500 by 1517 quit.
Note: in no case was there any trace of Sound of Hope, so I hope that
no one reports any of these CNR1s as SOH. See also INDIA
Again today April 21 before 1300, most but not all `Firedrake`
frequencies are carrying CNR1 modulation instead, u.o.s.:
11500, poor at 1253; none in the 10s
12230, poor at 1237
12670, very poor at 1237
13130, very good at 1236
13430, very poor at 1235 with CODAR QRM
13795, poor at 1232, FD mixed with algo: RFA Tibetan via Kuwait
13830, very good at 1231
13920, good at 1231
13970, very good at 1231
14700, poor at 1238 with het
15560, very poor at 1240, het on hi side
16160, very poor at 1240; none in the 17s
16360, poor at 1240
18970, very poor at 1244
11825, good at 1251: echo CNR1 mixed with FD
After 1300:
15610, fair at 1308, CNR1 plus propeller noise under WEWN
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Firedrake Logs from Shanghai, China, April 21, 2013 --- I brought
along my Sony SW77 on this trip to Shanghai, China and I was able to
log the following Firedrake signals from my hotel. I did not really
realize how many Firedrake signals are present at one time until I
started to log them all!
I just let the SW77 scan up the dial and quickly noted the frequency
which was Chinese and had CNR programming (so some of these may be
"legit" frequencies mixed in with intended jammers). All frequencies
had Chinese talk or music except the ones noted with buzz jamming.
1050-1100 UT, April 21, 2013 (above 12 MHz logs):
12230, strong
12370, weak
13605, weak
13620, moderate
13680, moderate
13740, multiple signals, moderate
13805, weak
13850, weak
13920, weak
13970, strong
14400, strong
14700, weak
15160, strong
15250, strong
15400, strong
15435, moderate
15440, moderate
15480, weak
15900, weak
16100, strong
16160, strong
16850, weak
17250, weak
17300, weak
1100-1130 UT, April 21, 2013 (all bands):
5840, buzz jamming
5925, strong
6005, buzz jamming
6015, buzz jamming
6030, strong
6055, moderate
6110, moderate
6115, moderate
6125, moderate
6135, moderate
6155, moderate
6165, moderate
6175, moderate
6185, moderate
6220, moderate
6240, moderate
6270, buzz jamming
6275, buzz jamming
6345, weak
6350, buzz jamming
6360, buzz jamming
6400, strong
6480, buzz jamming
6520, buzz jamming
6600, buzz jamming
7230, strong
7280. moderate
7345, strong
7385, moderate
7390, strong
7435, strong
9280, moderate
9325, moderate
9410, strong
9420, moderate
9430, moderate
9445, strong
9500, strong
9515, strong
9540, strong
9550, strong
9620, strong
9645, moderate
9660, moderate
9680, strong
9830, strong
9845, strong
9910, strong
11640, weak
11680, strong
11735, strong
11720, weak
11750, strong
11760, strong
11775, moderate
11785, weak
11800, strong
11825, strong
11835, moderate
11875, weak
11945, strong
12055, weak
12105, strong
12120, strong
13580, weak
13610, weak
13920, weak
13970, strong
14700, weak
15195, weak
15250, strong
15400, strong
15440, moderate
15900, weak
16100, strong
16160, strong
16360, strong
16920, strong
16850, weak
17250, weak
17300, weak
(Harry Smith, Shanghai, China, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
6005, buzz jamming, it's 6003 kHz in fact, against Echo of Hope from
South Korea
6015, buzz jamming, against KBS Hanminjok Bangsong 1, but there's a
Chinese station on 6015 kHz too. It's PBS Xinjiang.
6350, buzz jamming, against God knows what (if a jammer at all, I
suppose it may be a utility station of a STANAG 4285 or Link-11 type)
6360, buzz jamming, against MND Radio, but it's 24/7 250kW (MND Radio
is not)
6480, buzz jamming, against MND Radio, but it's 24/7 250kW (MND Radio
is not)
6520, buzz jamming, it's 6518kHz in fact, against Voice of the People
from South Korea
6600, buzz jamming, against Voice of the People from South Korea
There is Pyongyang Broadcasting Station on 6400kHz, but you have heard
a Chinese station, right? (Georgi Bancov, Bulgaria, ibid.)
Checked 6400 kHz at 1320 and the station is in fact in Korean at this
time (though modulation was cutting in and out). Still strong. Thanks
for the correction (Harry Smith, Shanghai, China, ibid.)
Harry, Quite a list. The term ``Firedrake`` applies only to the
raucous instrumental music modulation, not to CNR1 programming. But
apparently you did not note which frequency had which?
Just yesterday and today a lot of the traditional Firedrake
frequencies have been occupied by CNR1 modulation instead, to confuse
matters further. No doubt the same transmitters/sites, just different
modulation input (Glenn Hauser, ibid.)
** CHINA. Firedrake changing habits or reduced use?
"Token" , in the Mojave Desert, posted this earlier today to the
shortwave-radio yahoo group and mentioned it also in the "#swl"
chatroom on StarChat (Dan Ferguson, April 21, NASWA yg via DXLD) viz.:
Hello all, Over the last couple of days I have noticed that many time
slots and frequencies that are normally the Firedrake Jammer have
switched audio to CNR 1. For example, at 1340 UT today (April 21,
2013) the frequencies of 14700, 15115, 16160, and 16920 all had CNR 1
audio on them, but normally they have Firedrake in this time slot.
Not only is the CNR 1 audio being used on these frequencies instead of
Firedrake, but the way they came online to cover the stations they
were jamming is the same way Firedrake does it.
For those not familiar, Firedrake has 2 basic modes of operation, "on
at the top of the hour" and "on later". In the "on at the top of the
hour" mode Firedrake typically comes on like any other SW station at
the top of the hour or slightly before. In the "on later" mode
Firedrake comes on sometime after the station to be jammed starts,
typically Firedrake audio starts anything from 5 to 40 minutes after
the hour, with about 10 to 20 minutes after the top of the hour being
average.
For the last few days I have seen the CNR 1 audio start displaying the
"on later" habits of Firedrake and on frequencies that Firedrake has
normally hit. In the last 12 hours I have found NO Firedrakes active,
and normally I find them at will.
In the 1400 UTC time slot only two CNR 1 audio jammers appear to be
active at this time (1445 UTC), on 12230 and 12370 kHz, both regular
Firedrake targets. All other outlets of Sound of Hope and other
regular Firedrake targets are in the clear and have been for the
entire hour.
Could the Chinese, in response to the recently publicized jamming
articles and complaints, have reduced usage of Firedrake? I suppose
they could be having technical issues.
T! Mojave Desert, California, USA
(via Dan Ferguson, NASWA yg via DXLD)
Hi Dan, As I have written in the past, Firedrake and CNR-1 appear to
have the same point of control as well as some commonality in
transmitter sites and transmitter feed sourcing. It has not been
uncommon for CNR-1 and Firedrake, on different days, or even on the
same day at different times, to be targeting the same frequency.
I did not monitor Firedrake Saturday or Sunday due to other
commitments. However, I did monitor them on Monday through Friday last
week and Firedrake was heard on over a dozen frequencies with nothing
that I would consider to be a major deviation. During my listening
times of 1130-1530 GMT daily, Firedrake was heard primarily targeting
the Sound of Hope, and secondarily targeting the Voice of Tibet, and
to a much smaller degree, Radio Free Asia.
Again, it is not usual that CNR-1 and Firedrake change off day to day,
and sometimes even hour to hour against specific frequencies.
Also be aware that CNR-1 and Firedrake are NOT the only Chinese
jammers. There are other "systems" in use, including, but not limited
to the propeller jammer (so named because it sounds like an airplane
propeller).
Also be aware, that for what I assume are "high value" target
broadcasts, the Chinese sometimes "double team" a frequency, using
more than one jammer on the same frequency at the same time. For
example using both Firedrake and CNR-1 or both Firedrake and
Propeller.
Please understand that I am not saying that there hasn't been a
change. What I am saying is that a few days, does not a trend make. A
lengthy study, perhaps a month or two would need to be done. At least
one such study is in progress. The results of a lengthy study should
allow perhaps five hundred or more jamming intercepts to be made and
compared to prior Firedrake/CNR frequency usage. That should provide
an answer, with some degree of certainty, as to whether the Chinese
have made an actual strategy change or whether it is simply part of
the normal Chinese rotation of their various jammers (Steve Handler,
ibid.)
We don`t need 500 intercepts to conclude that there has been a drastic
reduxion/replacement of FD audio by CNR1 audio. This is probably less
significant than it may seem, perhaps even ad-hoc punching in a
different audio circuit at master control on a whim, and could easily
shift back to FD audio any day now. We prefer FD because it`s so easy
to spot in bandscanning, and has to be for jamming, rather than CNR1
which on some frequencies is legit (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO
1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
[and non]. At 2145-2230 UT Apr 21, on the Iceland remote post: 15290,
RFA Tinian + Chinese Firedrake jamming S=9+15Db. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang
Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hi Glenn, Here is today's Chinese Jamming Report for April 22, 2013
Covering 1220-1300 GMT. The following frequencies were heard in use by
China National Radio One (CNR-1) on April 22, 2013. Each of these
frequencies has recently been used by Firedrake until April 21, 2013
when CNR-1 began broadcasting in an apparent attempt to jam the Sound
of Hope in Mandarin which also uses each of these frequencies.
12370 Good signal 1139
12500 Good signal 1224 and fair to good signal at 1256
12670 Fair signal 1140
13970 Fair signal 1226 and 1255
14400 Poor signal 1141
16160 Poor signal 1228
16360 Fair signal 1229 and a good signal at 1256
17170 Good signal at 1257
17300 Good signal at 1257 with sign off at ToH 1300
The following frequencies were heard in use by China National Radio
One (CNR-1) on April 22, 2013. Each of these frequencies has recently
been used by Firedrake until April 21, 2013 when CNR-1 began
broadcasting in an apparent attempt to jam the Voice of Tibet which
also uses adjacent frequencies.
15565 Fair signal 1255
15610 Fair signal 1228
The following frequencies were heard in use by China National Radio
One (CNR-1) on April 22, 2013. Each of these frequencies has recently
been used by both CNR-1 and Firedrake, depending on the day, in an
apparent attempt to jam Radio Free Asia which uses this frequency.
13830 Fair signal 1258
(Steve Handler, IL, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake, April 22:
11825, poor at 1253 in heavy mix with CNR1 jamming and VOA Chinese via
Philippines. All off after 1300.
NO OTHER Firedrake heard on traditional FD frequencies, but instead
CNR1 program audio as jamming, as has been the case also the past two
days. As before, I am not including mostly inband frequencies which
were already occupied by CNR1 jamming,
Before 1300:
16360, very poor at 1243, initial catch confirmed by // 11785 CNR1
jamming, but not in synch with it. Note that propagation is below par
this morning, and local line noise level is above par!
16250, very poor at 1243; none in the 17s, 18s, 15s, 14s
13970, fair at 1249
13830, poor at 1249
12500, fair at 1249
12370, very poor at 1249
Before 1400, still CNR1 rather than FD, not a full search:
15970, very poor at 1357
16160, very poor at 1358
After 1400:
13850, fair at 1423; none in the 12s
15525, fair at 1420; none in the 14s
15570, fair at 1420
15870, good at 1420
15900, very good at 1420
16160, good at 1421
17370, good at 1422 with utebeeps; none in the 18s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
14980, CHINA, CNR 1, Apr 23, 1045. VG with programming in Chinese.
Noted equally good //s on 14750, 14700, 13970, 13740, 11640, 9500,
11965. Noted that 13740 // was only fair, with Firedrake music
over/under. That one was only one with FD music present. Heard by
first sweeping band from 8.4 to 18.2 MHz with the HQ-120X, then
filling in the blanks. 73 and best wishes for Good Listening! (Rick
Barton, El Mirage, AZ, Hammarlund HQ-120X, Drake R-8, Slinky and
random wire, ABDX via DXLD)
Firedrake, April 23 circa 1330, except there is no Firedrake jamming
heard on its traditional mostly OOB frequencies but instead still CNR1
modulation:
13920, very good at 1328; none in the 12s
14700, poor at 1330 with flutter
14980, very good at 1330
15195, fair at 1335: vs RFA Tibetan via Tajikistan at 11-14
15610, poor at 1333 under WEWN, plus propeller noise
15800, good at 1332
16100, very good at 1335, reverb apart from 14980
16160, fair at 1335, no reverb vs 14980
16920, good at 1337, reverb apart from 14980
17250, JBA at 1338; none in the 18s, 10s
17450, fair at 1337
After 1400, not a complete search, more CNR1 jamming:
15525, fair at 1422
15570, good at 1422 with flutter
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
With propagation so poor today, don`t expect much in the way of
Firedrake (non), and I just find CNR1 jammers, none higher than:
12500, very poor at 1343
12870, very poor at 1343
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 11954, Firedrake Jammers. There was already an OC on 11954
at 1120. At 1123:17 another carrier showed up on 11962 and immediately
both it and 11954 went in parallel with Firedrake jamming traditional
Chinese music. 11962 was stronger than 11954. At 1125:27, CRIs OC came
on 11955 with the program starting at 1130. Now why on earth would
there be 2 jammers flanking CRI?? Could there have been a V. of Tibet
or R. Taiwan International on 11955 underneath CRI?? Strange. (9
April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+,
and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD)
Obviously the 8-kHz-multiple spur transmitter we have also been
hearing centered on 11760 after 1300. In this case probably
originating on 11970 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
11768 & 11744, April 18 at 1331, weak Chinese audible, // 11785 CNR1
jammer fundamental, but the fundamental for these 8-kHz-separated
spurs is 11760, under Habana; also detectable as hets or JBA carriers
on 11728, 11736, 11744, 11752, 11776, 11784, 11792.
8-kHz spur observations April 20 at 1256: detectable hets or JBA
carriers on 11744, 11752, 11768, 11776, i.e. emanating from 11760
fundamental; at 1407 also on 11744, 11752, 11768, 11776. Normally
before 1300 the fundamental is 11720, but today must have already
switched to 11760 at 1256, as 11720 source would not normally reach up
to 11776.
8-kHz spur field check, April 21 at 1252 out of 11760 or 11720: none
found. But at 1303, now I have hets or JBA carriers on 11736, 11744,
11752, 11768, 11776 so out of 11760. Maybe there`s a different
fundamental now before 1300?
11736, 11744, 11752, 11768, 11776, 11784, April 22 at 1304, JBA
carriers/hets are back here, 8-kHz-multiple spurs out of CNR1 jammer
on 11760 under Cuba.
These were not audible before 1300, nor anywhere else on the 25m band.
I was checking 11954 and 11962, where Dave Valko heard Firedrake
carriers April 9 from 1120, but unknown why: to me, that means the 8-
kHz-spur-producer was on 11970 at that time, and there probably would
have been more of them also on the hi side.
11760, April 24 at 1341, heavy CCI to RHC, presumably the China radio
war, CNR1 vs SOH, but no sign of the 8-kHz spur constellation around
it, maybe due to degraded propagation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CHINA. 6020, April 18 at 1122, Korean, 1127 music, poor signal, per
Aoki the CNR8 service this hour, 100 kW, 63 degrees from Beijing 491
site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
6020, CNR8. After 1200 have recently been occasionally hearing IDs in
ENGLISH; “China National Radio Mongolian Service”, given by a native
speaker of English; very pleased to find this and hope to shortly have
a recording of it to post. April 22.
6020, CNR8 – Mongolian Service. April 24 finally recorded a decent
copy of their ID in English; “This is China National Radio, Mongolian
Service, Beijing” and also in English “w-w-w dot mongol c-n-r dot c-n”
( http://www.mongolcnr.cn/ ). Very nice to find these occasional IDs
after 1200; fair to good till Shiokaze (broadcasting from Japan to
North Korea) signs on at 1330; light QRM from assume Voice of Vietnam
4 underneath. MP3 recording at
https://www.box.com/s/uyjb257duch9mxzc00p4 (Ron Howard, Asilomar
State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
CNR 8 Mongolian is reported on 9615 kHz 1200-1400, ex 7445 kHz 1300-
1400 (WRTH National Radio Update 22 April via DXLD)
** CHINA. 6060, Sichuan PBS-2, minority service via Chengdu. For over
a year now we have been enduring the non-stop jamming here from North
Korea targeting VOA. April 20 at 1302 was very pleased to again hear
Sichuan in the clear! No jamming! Nice to also find them still on the
air April 21 at 1251, as they had a strong earthquake in Sichuan
province yesterday; // 7225 (poor/QRM from VOA). They broadcast in
Tibetan (Khams), Tibetan (Amdo dialect), Yui [this must be the Yi
language] and Chinese, per Aoki.
Schedule and station info at their website (cut & paste into Google
translate), but their schedule has not changed any over the years, so
must be outdated by now. Note audio streaming.
http://www.iloveradio.me/diantai4709.html?wodaole
Years ago this station use to carry a nice program ID in English for
“This is the Voice of Golden Bridge” (per attached audio), but imagine
they have long since dropped it (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA,
Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 6117.55, Voice of Strait. Thanks to the timely alert on
April 22 from Dave Valko (PA), which I received just before heading
off to the beach to listen, was also able to catch them off frequency;
first time I recall this happening; nothing on ex-6115; heard just as
Mike Gilchrist (Iowa) and Robin Harwood (Tasmania) have reported in
dxldyg (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
6117.553, Voice of Strait // 4940, April 22 at 1139 I was preparing my
logs for this morning when I discovered an email from Ron Howard to be
on the lookout for Strait off frequency; perfect for an anomaly
morning. At 1140 a strong carrier came up on 6115. I checked and it
was a religious broadcaster in English. No ID was heard and it
disappeared entirely at 1145. Strong signal here. 1150 musical
interlude and into news? 1155 child singing interlude, and then man
talking over soft flute music. 1200, as the signal was fading, (It's
been almost 45 minutes since my 1123 sunrise), time pips and what I
assume was an ID. I didn't understand any of it, but did record it.
Another strange one, thanks Ron (Mike Gilchrist in rural EC Iowa,
dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Mike and Ron, I can confirm reception of the station on 6117.5. It
certainly was out of place as it stood out as propagation last night
was lousy. I heard it later around 1220 and my first thoughts it was
Thai being spoken by a Chinese but when a w/a came on it was
definitely Chinese. Seemed to be a news bulletin with mentions of
Pakistan, ASEAN, and Beijing. I initially thought it was CRI off-
channel (Robin L. Harwood VK7RH/VK7OO2SWL, Norwood, Tasmania 7250,
April 23, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 9820, Beibu Bay R., 1100 time ticks, M with English time
announcement and ID, then Coocoo clock SFX, then promo/ID mentioning
"BBR". (17 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook
ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via
DXLD)
** CHINA [and non]. 11990, April 22 at 1254, something new here:
carrier with tones on and off, typical tune-up procedure from
Russia/CIS transmitters, so I stay with it to hear what develop by
1300? 1256, CNR1 jammer comes on making fast SAH. Tones stop circa
1259.5 to music, but can`t copy what, as too much jamming, after 1300
timesignal with ZRGD/CJKT ID.
Nothing in today`s Aoki update to account for this either; however
HFCC as of April 22 shows:
11990 1300 1500 44 NVS 250 120 0 216 1234567 310313 271013 D RUS IBB
GFC 7237
I.e. a US government transmission via Novosibirsk, RUSSIA to CIRAF 44
= the eastern third of China. So it`s probably VOA in Mandarin (as
this timeblock is for VOA not RFA), and not Tibetan.
11990, April 23 at 1257 like yesterday, Russian tune-up tones, prior
to VOA Chinese via Novosibirsk, along with fast SAH, no doubt from
ChiCom jammer about to pounce but no modulation yet. 1300, 5+1
timesignal and add CCCCCCI [Chinese Communist Chinese language co-
channel interference] (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. CNR1 jamming on a strange frequency, April 22: 12000, poor
at 1251, mixing with presumed V. of Vietnam, only thing scheduled
here, going from Russian to Chinese at 1300. Did SOH also show up on
12000, or are the ChiCom also afraid of what fellow Commies in Vietnam
have to say, or mistaking it for a greater enemy? (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
CNR started a National Urgent Radio with an earthquake of Lushan, Ya-
an, Sichuan. National Urgent Radio-Lushan Emergency Radio, 24 hours on
9800 kHz, 12000 kHz and FM 92.7 MHz. Ya-an CNR1 24 hours on 639 kHz
and FM 99.1 MHz. This broadcast is coproduction of CNR, Sichuan TV &
Radio, Ya-an PBS and Lushan TV & Radio (S. Hasegawa, Japan, dxldyg via
WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Noted 9800 and 12000 kHz, 0537 UT April 23 with reports in Chinese on
remote SDR unit in Nagoya Japan, asked by woman announcer and answered
by male reporter, S=7 signal. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.)
12000, April 23 at 1257, mix of Chinese and a song; the Chinese is
CNR1 since it`s // 11825 jammer in the mix. As noted yesterday, V. of
Vietnam is also here alternating Chinese and Russian until 1330, and
it seemed strange that CNR1 jamming was running against VOV in either
language. At 1300, CNR1 programming is atop 12000 with some hum. At
1418 recheck, 12000 poor in Chinese not // 11990 CNR1 jammer. At 1422,
noted the CNR1 jammers on 15525 and 15570 were not // 12000 or maybe
way out of synch with it.
I was also checking 9800 a few minutes before 1300, but could not pull
anything between WHRI 9795 bigsig, and Cuban jamming on 9805. WHRI off
after 1300, and at 1303 all I can get on 9800 is a poor carrier with
no modulation audible; still some jamming on 9805, and 9795 now bears
a much weaker signal in Japanese, i.e. Radio Thailand.
These have already been added to Aoki as of April 23, with my
comments: What is the ID of NUR in Chinese? Or is it just CNR1 as
implied by new Aoki entries:
9800 CNR 1 National emergency broad 0000-2400 1234567 Chinese 100 217
12000 CNR 1 National emergency broad 0000-2400 1234567 Chinese 100 217
[both:] Shijiazhuang 723 CHN 11428E 3804N CNR1 a13 Apr. 22-
And that answers my next question about transmitter site. But why?
CNR1 is already ubiquitous, to say the least, all over China and most
of the world. There is no point in adding these unless there is
special programming on them. Maybe part of the time it`s Lushan
Emergency Radio (and how is that ID in Chinese?), or the other co-
producers, filling the rest with CNR1?
Wolfgang Büschel explains: ``From Shijiazhuang towards Lushan, Ya-an,
Sichuan, distance is 1370 kilometers at 230 degree angle. Azimuth from
Shijiazhuang is real 217 degrees. Propagation distance would fit with
good volume in 31 and 25 mb`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1666,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Listening via Twente SDR from 1730 to 1810 UT, I am hearing presumed
"CNR National Urgent Radio" on 12000 and now that Romania has vacated
9800, it is audible there too. 12000 is super strong 30-40 over S9 &
9800 is good but not quite as strong. Both frequencies have a little
ACI but are well heard (Dave Hughes, KCMO, April 23, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
12000, 23/Apr 2237, CNR 1 National emergency broadcast in Chinese. OM
and YL seem to present news. Reviews, interviews recorded, outside
commentators. 35433. // 9800 with less noise and at 2258 start strong
QRM from CRI in Spanish. During listening the same programming of CNR
1 in other frequencies. 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia,
12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Some frequency of CNR-1 relays "Lushan Emergency Radio-Lushan ying ji
guang bo" for 24 hrs on 5945, 6125, 7230, 7290 and 9710 kHz. de
Hiroshi (S. Hasegawa, April 25, ibid.)
** CHINA. Re Voice of the South China Sea, 1008 kHz: Alan Davies'
Liste zeigte bisher einen 200 kW Sender von CNR in Kunming. 2000-1735
(off air Tues 0600-0850) UT.
SARFT Transmitting Station 501
Pingdingshan
Siyicun
Anning
Kunming area
Yunnan Province
China
Irgendwo bei
24 52 34.50 N 102 29 17.20 E
<http://goo.gl/maps/g68LF>
<http://binged.it/YR0fht>
oder <http://goo.gl/maps/CfIEt> einer der vier 4-Mast Anlagen.
(Wolfgang Büschel, April 12, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Apr 19 via DXLD)
** CHINA [non]. Sound of Hope:
2200-2300 on 6280 TSH 300 kW / 325 deg to EaAs Chinese Fri/Sat
2200-2300 on 7105 TSH 100 kW / 325 deg to EaAs Chinese
2200-2300 on 9635 TSH 100 kW / 325 deg to EaAs Chinese
2300-2400 on 6280 TSH 300 kW / 325 deg to EaAs Chinese Fri/Sat
2300-2400 on 7310 TSH 300 kW / 325 deg to EaAs Chinese
0900-1100 on 9540 TSH 100 kW / 325 deg to EaAs Chinese Sat/Sun
0900-1100 on 11760 TSH 300 kW / 325 deg to EaAs Chinese Sat/Sun
1100-1300 on 7280 TSH 300 kW / 325 deg to EaAs Chinese
1300-1400 on 6030 TSH 100 kW / 325 deg to EaAs Chinese
1300-1400 on 6240 BAO 100 kW / 310 deg to EaAs Chinese
1300-1400 on 7310 TSH 300 kW / 325 deg to EaAs Chinese
1300-1400 on 11760 TSH 300 kW / 325 deg to EaAs Chinese
1400-1500 on 9450 PAO 100 kW / 335 deg to EaAs Chinese
1400-1500 on 11760 TSH 300 kW / 325 deg to EaAs Chinese
1500-1600 on 9450 PAO 100 kW / 335 deg to EaAs Chinese
1600-1700 on 11765 TSH 100 kW / 325 deg to EaAs Chinese (DX RE MIX
NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD)
I.e. from two or three TAIWAN sites; not including numerous low-power
out of band nuisance frequencies to attract jammers. See also TAIWAN
for logs of this (Glenn Hauser, DXLD)
** COLOMBIA. 1000.00, R. Vida, San José de Guaviare, 21/04, 0505-0525,
22222, ID "Radio Vida desde San José de Guaviare”, px La Voz del
Manantial (mensaje religioso), mx con temas religiosos, ID “En el día
y en la noches, escucha Radio Vida…" Escuchado también en USB y LSB
para conformar la frecuencia; px Luis Palao Responde. ID “Radio Vida,
24 horas” (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, Perú, Chasqui DX Abril, en
compañía de mi sabueso Icom IC R72 acompañado del Mizuho KX-3, una
antena de hilo largo de 20 metros y una antena loop, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** COLOMBIA [and non]. 6009.9v, LV de tu Conciencia, 0924 apparent
English / Spanish religious program including W relating a personal
story taking place in a restaurant in Colombia (W dumped a plate of
spaghetti) in English with M translating in Spanish after every
sentence, then more of the same with M in English. Signal suddenly
took off up to 6010.1 at 0930, then came back down and settled almost
exactly on top of R. Mil, then moved back up. M talking about suicide
at 0943. (8 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook
ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via
DXLD)
6010+, April 20 at 0457, Spanish talk about cristianos, 0458 ACI from
RHC sounder on 6000; *0459 RHC carrier on 6010 but the first station
still audible under at first with slight het; 0500 RHC English
modulation on and off and on, putting an end to the competition.
My assumption yesterday before 0500 that the 6010+ station was R. Mil
is apparently wrong. In fact, XEOI must be off the air again, since I
am only hearing one SS station on 6010. As for the frequency
precision, Ron Howard found out from Dave Valko, that LV de tu
Conciencia drifts 0.2 kHz both sides of 6010.0, while Mil is steady on
6009.96. Mike Gilchrist had an unID on 6010.226; Ralph Perry says
that`s also HJDH (all these at other times, however). See also MEXICO
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hi Mike and Glenn, I asked Ralph Perry about UNID on 6010.226. His
response follows (Ron Howard, California, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.:
"Indeed, it's LV Conciencia, the HJ, running much higher split
frequency than in the past. (Usually was stable at a few Hz above
6010, with the XE a few hz below . . .) We've been noticing this new
pattern, most of the week. Cheers, Ralph" (via Ron Howard, DXLD)
Hi, Received this from Dave. Interesting to actually "see" the
drifting of Conciencia (Ron Howard, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.:
- - - from Dave Valko: ``After getting Ron's question, I looked back
and discovered I had made a few screenshots when Conciencia was really
drifting around. I hadn't stitched them together yet because I was in
the process of fixing the computer. So here it is from 0924-0953 on 8
April. R. Mil is the steady signal on 6009.96, and Inconfidência is
the one fading out on 6010.11. Conciencia is the one all over the
place from nearly 6009.8 up to nearly 6010.2. Reminds me of the 9553
R. Ethiopia transmitter.`` (via Ron Howard, ibid.)
With poor band conditions this morning, I decided instead to look for
anomalies. Unknown, 6010vvv, April 22 at 1020, the station variously
identified as HJDH—Conciencia was observed this morning with the
frequency varying widely. The carrier still appears to be centered on
6010.226 and varies either way. I was able to detect audio, and could
tell between speech and music. The carrier appears to be “FMing,” in
that the deviation is most pronounced when music is being played.
Unlike during the evening hours, when two carriers have been present,
this is the only one today, which is well after sunrise in Brazil, and
the Mexican R Mil is still absent.
5909.920, Alcaraván Radio, April 22 at 1038, interestingly, when I
observe very closely, with fine granularity on the SDR waterfall, this
transmitter can be observed with similar “FMing.” The effects are not
nearly as severe as 6010vvv but obvious none-the-less. Strange (Mike
Gilchrist in rural EC Iowa, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CONGO DR. Tan solo un susurro [nothing but a whisper]
Las grandes emisoras internacionales han desaparecido de la onda corta
o están en eso, salvo honrosas excepciones. Eso deja muchas partes del
espectro libres como para que se reciban otras emisoras locales, mas
débiles, o mas exóticas. Una de ellas, que hasta ahora solo estaba en
mis sueños, como dice un amigo alemán en Youtube, es Radio Candip, de
Bunia, en la República Democrática del Congo, no lejos de la frontera
con Ruanda, en el corazón mismo de África. El otro día, en 5066 kHz,
tan solo era un susurro lo que se oía. No se entendía nada. Tan solo
una palabra cada tanto, o una ráfaga de algo que parecía musica
autóctona. Era una nada, o menos que la nada. Un capricho de la
propagación traía la señal en cuentagotas. No me atribuyo "haber
escuchado" a Bunia, pero quienes somos adictos a esta afición
increíble sabemos que tras esa nada, volátil y fugaz que alguna vez
llega hasta nuestros equipos, está "eso" que perseguimos.
http://youtu.be/Kd9Az3tPC0s
(Rodolfo Tizzi http://cx2abp.blogspot.com/ April 23, condiglista yg
via DXLD)
** CONGO DR [non]. Radio Okapi, currently inactive, maybe will be
resumed from May 1:
0400-0500 on 11690 MEY 250 kW / 340 deg to CeAf French/Lingala
(DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013
via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DXLD)
** COSTA RICA [and non]. 5954+, April 21 at 2356, nothing detectable
from R. República, altho there is some Cuban jamming noise around
5955. Since R.R. has had the bigsig on 9490 via GUF and now ISS at 00-
02 daily, there is not much need for this little CR transmitter, and
not reported lately, so had assumed it was out of service.
However, Giampiero Bernardini & Dario Monferini from their coastal
DXpedition in Italy reported it April 9 at 2352 on 5953.9, Spanish
fair signal, low modulation, but any ID? It used to be steady on the
hi side of 5954 circa 5954.3 as heard last year. Maybe I tuned in too
late at 2356, as even if active they would go off by 0000, which is
now more than an hour before sunset here.
Of course, don`t confuse it with Bolivia`s Radio Pio XII nearby on
5952.40v as easily heard here around 0100, and logged by Ron Howard
April 17 until 0230* with the Col. Bogey/River Kwai whistling march
(Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11720 (nf?), Radio Havana Cuba, at 2015 on 4/12. Powerful in
Portuguese. W sounded a little like Sue, Bob's and my favorite at Mars
Restaurant/Resort (Gerry Dexter, Lake Geneva WI, TenTech 340, "Parker"
balanced doublet, NASWA Flashsheet April 21 via DXLD)
?? Another typo by you or them? New frequency for this is 17720, not
11720 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
13820, Cuban pulse jamming, 1139. This frequency is scheduled to be
used by Radio Martí starting at 1300. The jamming appears to be
centered on 13820 kHz. 11 kHz wide from 13814.5 kHz to 13825.5 kHz on
4/15/13 (Steve Handler, Buffalo Grove, Illinois, Icom IC-7200, Tecsun
PL-660, wire antennas, NASWA Flashsheet April 21 via DXLD)
17580, April 18 at 1238, surprised to find RHC in English! plugging
their misnamed ``Real Audio`` webcast starting at 9 pm, EDT
presumably. I then check all other frequencies and find // English on
9850 and 6150 (mixed with Australian English!), while all the others
continue in Spanish: 17730, 15230, 11860, 11760, 11690, 9550, 9540.
1242 on to `Mid-week Mailbag` i.e. Wednesday programming replayed on
Thursday morning, then a cultural report.
1300 back to Spanish? NO, reopens English hour on 17580, but 9850 and
6150 have gone off as scheduled, replaced by 13780 and 11750 which are
now in English. Missed checking whether there was yet more English
after 1400. So what is going on? Wrong playback feed? Experiment?
Permanent change? What do you bet it`s all back to Spanish tomorrow
morning. English in the AM has happened rarely before.
The anomalies today are not over: 15482 approx., April 18 at 1316,
very weak and distorted RHC Spanish spur as I tune by, instantly
recognizing an RHC riff; fades down as I start to check whether it`s
coming from 15340 or 15230, which themselves are an echo apart, so
from different sites. At 1319, 15482 fades in enough to tell it
matches 15340, not 15230. Previously have had such spurs around 15510.
6165, April 19 at 0451, RHC in wrong language, Spanish instead of
English which is only on 6000 at this time. Spanish also on 6060,
5040; neither 6100 nor 6125 is on the air now.
Just as I expected, despite at least two hours of English yesterday
morning on three frequencies, on April 19, RHC is back in correct
language Spanish, at 1230 check news break in Spanish on all: 17730,
17580, 15230, 11860, 11760, 11690, 9850, 9550, 6150=mixing with RA in
English (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
6000, April 20 at 0459, RHC English is still on here, while *0459 open
carrier on 6010, so two separate transmitters, not a 10-kHz shift by
one. I was checking out the Colombia/Mexico situation on 6010, q.v.
0500 RHC modulation cuts on and off and on to stay on 6010; initial
squeal is still audible at 0532 check.
9770-9820, April 20 at 1238, approx. range of pulsing bleeding from
jammers on 9805 against Martí, as the Cubans have no compunxion about
collateral damage.
15340, Sunday April 21 at 1309, RHC is missing, but on at 1411 check
starting the philatelic show in Spanish. Next anomaly:
11760, April 21 at 1411, open carrier/dead air, while nominal on
11690, 11860 et al.
[and non]. 6010, April 22 at 0522, RHC English is severely disrupted,
audible only at distorted modulation peaks, while normal on 5040,
6060, 6125 and 6165. Wiggle that patchcord! Meanwhile, we can enjoy
the big het this makes with presumed COLOMBIA, not MEXICO, q.v.
11860, April 23 at 1301, RHC Spanish is just barely modulated, while
11760 is at normal level, but with squeal. 1417 recheck, now 11860 is
OK. Never a new day without some new anomaly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. Article Discusses Cuban Number Station use by former USA Spy
I read an article on a US cuban spy in the Washington Post online
news site today and I thought some SWLer's would like to read it
since it mentions spy stations.
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/feature/wp/2013/04/18/ana-montes-did-much-harm-spying-for-cuba-chances-are-you-havent-heard-of-her/>
<http://preview.tinyurl.com/c6sva7h>
-- Best Regards, (Keith, http://home.comcast.net/kilowattradio/
April 22, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Quite a story: recommended! And don`t delude yourself that on
shortwave we have any ``friends in Havana`` (Glenn Hauser, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
Does anyone have a list of Cuban spy station frequencies and times.
I'm here in W. Oregon USA so I don't hear them much (Keith, ibid.)
Keith, More info than you could ever need about Cuban and other spy
stations:
check the latest newsletter from:
http://www.numbersoddities.nl/
73, (Glenn Hauser, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
You'll find an accurate schedule for HM01, the Cuban spy station, on
the last page of the most recent enigma newsletter.
http://www.brogers.dsl.pipex.com/enigma2000/newsletters/CEN.pdf
There's a "prediction schedule" of many common number stations also
starting on page 88. DH KCMO (Dave Hughes, Kansas City, ibid.)
Cuban spy interference --- Hello everyone, I am listening to Voice of
Russia, French on 11635 at 1800 UT and noticed that the Cuban spy is
there in the background with usual numbers by lady in Spanish and
digital transmission. It's not strong enough to interfere with Voice
of Russia, but I imagine that depending on propagation conditions, it
can become a problem. 73 (Gilles Letourneau, Montreal, Canada, April
22, http://www.youtube.com/officialswlchannel ibid.)
Later in the afternoon 11635 spynumbers (Españúmeros as I used to call
it) is in the clear (Glenn Hauser, DXLD)
** CUBA [non]. MARTÍ RADIO, TV AND WEB TRANSMISSIONS TO CUBA CONTINUE
AFTER NEWSROOM FIRE
April 22, 2013 --- A firefighter looks at the smoke and fire damage to
OCB headquarters in Miami. [caption]
Miami, FL, April 22, 2013 - U.S. government broadcasts to Cuba
continued Monday after a trashcan fire forced the temporary evacuation
of the headquarters of the Office of Cuba Broadcasting in Miami Sunday
afternoon.
The building housing Radio and Television Martí and the
Martinoticias.com website, on NW 77th Avenue in Miami, sustained
damage due to an accidental fire caused by a lighted cigarette left in
a container in a designated smoking area outside the building. Heat
from the blaze caused windows to break in the Martí newsroom. Smoke
entered the building and automatically set off building sprinklers.
No one was injured.
"We are grateful to the firefighters and other officials who responded
so quickly to the situation," said Carlos García Pérez, Director of
the Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB). "We are also grateful to our
dedicated team of federal employees and contractors, who ensured that
programming continued and who today are working in cramped conditions
on broadcasts for Cuba while the damage is being repaired."
In Miami, representatives of the OCB and the General Services
Administration are working with the building's landlord to mitigate
the fire damage and verify air quality safety. They say it could be a
week or more before employees can return to the central newsroom,
which sustained most of the damage.
The disruption comes at a busy time for Martí journalists. They are
mobilizing for live coverage Tuesday morning from Brussels of the
long-delayed presentation of the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize
for Freedom of Thought to "The Ladies in White," an opposition
movement in Cuba consisting of wives and other female supporters of
jailed dissidents. The Prize was awarded in 2005, but the Cuban
government denied the women the right to receive the award.
Representatives of the group are traveling to Brussels this week, the
first time many have been allowed outside of Cuba.
"In the absence of a free press in Cuba, Radio and TV Martí and
martinoticias.com report on stories Cuban media does not cover,"
García Pérez said. "The Martis' coverage of issues relevant to the
daily lives of Cubans, including human rights, will continue."
Radio Martí is available throughout much of Cuba on 1080 AM and Radio
Caracol on 1260 AM. TV Martí is available in Cuba on Channels 13 and
20 as well as Mega TV through the Direct TV satellite. Aside from the
usual Internet access, Martinoticias is available through proxy sites
and via file sharing on the island (via Dr Hansjoerg Biener, DXLD)
Geez, it`s 1180, not 1080, Letitia! [who sends the BBG PR] (gh, DXLD)
Above that: Isn't "available throughout much of Cuba" a bit
exaggerated? Looking at frequency lists one would assume that the
Marathon signal is essentially everywhere in Cuba blocked, nowhere
being more than a whisper behind Radio Rebelde.
And note that shortwave is no longer mentioned amongst the
distribution platforms at all. I take this as indication that by now
they still keep it merely for political reasons, which means that it
could quickly go away when no longer considered appropriate (Kai
Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [non]. Radio República:
0000-0200 on 9490 ISS 250 kW / 215 deg to Cuba Spanish (DX RE MIX
NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD)
** CYPRUS. Interesting article detailing the author`s history over the
past decades listening to the BBC on SW and Medium Wave in the Middle
East, culminating in the closure of the Cyprus relay station.
http://gulftoday.ae/portal/59d2e473-83ec-487e-b077-d6ef0b52ae1d.aspx
(via Art Preis, Canada, swprograms via DXLD) Viz.:
Michael Jansen: BEEB: SOUND OF SILENCE
April 08, 2013 Exclusive to The Gulf Today
For as long as I can remember the BBC World Service has been a daily
part of life with news broadcasts on medium wave every hour on the
hour throughout the day and late into the night. I became a devotee –
and later an addict – of BBC broadcasts from the Cyprus relay station
while living in Beirut in the early 1960s.
I met my first avid listener in 1961 in Gaza. He was an elderly
Palestinian bedouin shaikh who discussed world affairs with me over
tea while we sat under the grape vine in the tiny garden of his 10x10
metre square cement house in a refugee camp. He listened in both
Arabic and English on a beat-up transistor radio and received a
rounded education while keeping up to date on international affairs.
I thought of him a couple of years ago when I paid a visit to the
Palestinian West Bank village of Walaja, now surrounded by Israel’s
wall and fence complex. The municipal official who took me round,
Sherin al-Araj, spoke excellent English. “Where did you study?” I
asked. “I listen to the BBC,” she replied.
She was not the only one. How many young Arabs are going to miss the
opportunity to have a window open to the world by the BBC because of
penny pinching politicians in London?
The shaikh and Sherin caught the BBC’s medium wave broadcasts from the
relay station in Cyprus. The tool they used was the revolutionary
transistor radio, small, affordable, portable. Short-wave, where
schedules are complicated and weather can hinder reception, is no
replacement. Although the full service can be accessed on computers,
they are beyond the reach of many listeners and potential listeners.
Transistor radios are cheap, effective and handy.
I learnt of the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy on
November 23, 1963, the morning after he was shot in Dallas, Texas.
When I reached the campus of the American University shortly after
hearing the news, I found my Arab friends in tears. “The president is
dead,” Mona, a young Lebanese, whispered. “We wouldn’t have been so
shocked or sad if it had been our president.”
Over the years the BBC reported many deaths: Egypt’s President Gamal
Abdel Nasser in 1970, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984, and
Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nayhan in 2004 were among the many. The BBC
also gave blow by blow, bomb by bomb, accounts of the many wars
inflicted on this region. The first I experienced was Israel’s
aggression against Egypt, Jordan and Syria in 1967. A Lebanese friend
rang up early on June 5 and told my husband and me to turn on the BBC.
Little did we know that Israel had won that war before Egypt had even
fired a shot — by bombing Egypt’s military airfields before dawn.
I was visiting an irrigation project in the town of Zarka in Jordan in
October 1973 when Egypt and Syria launched the sole Arab attack on
Israel. My driver paused at a kiosk to buy some cigarettes and learnt
the news from BBC Arabic relayed from Cyprus.
During 1975-76, we sat in our beautiful house in our 11th-century
mountain village and kept up with daily events in Lebanon’s civil war
by listening to the BBC. Once a week we braved the bombs and bullets
in Beirut and kidnappers on checkpoints so my husband could file his
articles to The Economist in London via the Reuters telex, the sole
surviving connection.
Yasser, my charming rogue driver in Baghdad after George W. Bush’s
2003 war, used to listen to the BBC in English as well as broadcasts
in French on his car radio, because he liked the sound of the
languages although he understood little.
The BBC gave inspiring coverage of Nelson Mandela’s release from
prison in 1990 and his election to the presidency of South Africa in
1994.
The BBC relayed happy, inspiring and cheerful news as well as
programmes on science, business, music, sports and other topics of
general interest.
Last weekend the BBC closed its medium and shortwave transmissions
from its relay station in Cyprus, cutting off transistor listeners to
both English and Arabic broadcasts to the Levant region.
The Arabic services radio audience was ten million strong while I and
my family and friends were among the millions listening to the English
broadcasts. These days Arabic medium wave is continuing to certain
parts of the area while English is being relayed for two hours daily
and two hours in the middle of the night (why then?).
Rural areas in Africa, not served by the Cyprus facility, are also
being reduced by dramatic cuts while the continental European service
and another five foreign language services were shut down two years
ago.
It is ironic that the BBC should shut down shortly after calling
itself the “World’s Radio Station.”
It appears that the decision to make such cuts was taken by Peter
Horrocks, head of global news, who has used a good deal of the World
Service’s £200 million budget to make television programmes which are
gifted to local stations in Africa and India. Horrocks, who made his
career in television rather than radio, justifies this shift by
claiming it reflects “listening trends,” particularly away from
shortwave. However, he admits that more listeners rely on medium wave
and FM radio as well as television. If that is the case, why is he
cutting the medium and FM radio services?
Cost, is the answer. The government set the BBC savings target of £42
million by April 2014. Some £30 million have already been cut, so £12
million is still to be slashed.
The BBC set up its East Mediterranean relay station in 1957, following
the 1956 Suez debacle when London, reviled for joining France and
Israel in a brutal attack on Egypt, thought it should try to promote
its point of view in this region. During the Cold War, BBC broadcasts
served as a corrective to the propaganda put out by Moscow, on the one
hand, and the US, on the other. BBC broadcasts earned a reputation for
“reporting” rather than skewing the news.
BBC World radio has been a far better source of comprehensive coverage
than BBC World television, Al Jazeera English and CNN put together.
The absence of medium wave broadcasts leaves a huge gap. It is
unbelievable that a Conservative government should turn off a service
which gave present-day Britain a greater international profile and
presence and greater influence than anything else the British
government does outside the confines of the British isles. Having lost
its empire long ago, Britannia no longer rules the air waves.
____________________________________________
The author, a well-respected observer of Middle East
affairs, has three books on the Arab-Israeli conflict
(via Preis, swprograms, via DXLD)
This conveniently ignores the fact that BBC Arabic television has
shown rapid growth and has a much higher audience than radio.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2011/12/arab_spring_helps_bbc_arabic_a.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2012/06/new_audience_figures_for_bbc_g.html
(Mike Barraclough, swprograms via DXLD)
** DIEGO GARCIA. 12759-USB, April 23 at 0058, JBA music no doubt from
AFN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ECUADOR. 4781.70, R. Oriental, Napo, 2/04 1056-1123, 33333+, cuando
estaba escuchando R. Caiari de un momento a otro, a las 1059 entró en
las frecuencia Radio Oriental, cubriendo a la estación. Advs Comercial
en Ferretero, Comercial Moscoso, el quintal de fierro, ID “Por Radio
Oriental”; mx San Juanito, estamos con la información con Ecuavisa.
(En AM La puedo escuchar entre 4779.70 a 4785.00) ID “A través de
Oriental”, advs Casa Ramírez. A las 1118, fue necesario escucharla en
USB pues entre R. Tarma y ellos se cruzan las señales en AM (de fondo)
news deportivas. Imposible de escuchar después. (Escuchar grabación
adjunta) (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, Perú, Chasqui DX Abril, en
compañía de mi sabueso Icom IC R72 acompañado del Mizuho KX-3, una
antena de hilo largo de 20 metros y una antena loop, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9720, R Cairo, English YL/OM talks and solicitation of
comments to postal address after news, and into Press Review in
English. After Harold and my berating them last week for their
unintelligibility, they were actually understandable tonight. They
mentioned this was the WCNA service, and it was head and shoulders
better than I've heard in I can't remember how long: 54+554 with just
some splatter and an HF Het. The modulation was not perfect, but
compared to what they were like just a couple days ago; 0225-0230
14/Apr (Kenneth Vito Zichi, MI, MARE Tipsheet via DXLD)
11890, R. Cairo, 2157 outro by M program host in English but couldn't
copy the program name. Instrumental music, then W with next program
intro. ID "R. Cairo presents ??". I didn't think it was possible but
R. Cairo's modulation is more distorted than R. Pakistan's!!! (16
April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+,
and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD)
[and non]. 13850, Einen Hoergenuss der besonderen technischen Art
bietet das Radio Cairo 'El-Bernameg Al-Aam' program in Arabisch,
taeglich 02-07 UT aus Abis. S=9+20dB hier in Stuttgart.
Auch nach dieser sogenannten muslimischen "Revolution" sitzen immer
noch die unfaehigen Techniker auf der Grosssendeanlage und senden
solch ein klaegliches Signal in die Welt hinaus.
A listening experience of the specific technical nature, the Radio
Cairo, "El-Bernameg Al-Aam" program in Arabic, terribel signal every
day from 02-07 UT via Abis site. S=9+20 dB signal strength here in
Stuttgart.
Even after these so-called Muslim "revolution" still sitting
incompetent technicians on the large end resort and send such a
pitiful Signal out to the world.
13850, Radio Cairo in Arabic, "El-Bernameg Al-Aam" program, 02-07 UT,
S=9+20dB at 0520 UT Apr 12. Terrible awful audio quality.
At same time AWR Arabic via Wertachtal 15225 kHz entirely different
kind of very good audio quality at 0545 UT (Wolfgang Buschel, April
12, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Apr 19 via DXLD)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [non]. 15190, April 22 at 1410, gospel huxter in
English, presumed KTWR GUAM as scheduled until 1430 give or take,
which raises the question, is anyone still hearing R. Africa on 15190
at any time?? I have not for some weeks, but better chances here were
around 0600 or 1900 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
The last presumed & preserved log of it in DXLD was by Harold Frodge,
MI, Feb 19 at 1835 (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DXLD)
** ERITREA [non]. 11610, R Sharooqa stopped in this frequency????
Nothing found April 19!! (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece,
WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Presumably during the scheduled 16-17 UT hour M-F, as in Aoki, Arabic
via BULGARIA to Eritrea. Apr 19 was Fri (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) Viz.:
Radio Shorouq/Radio Sunrise:
1600-1700 on 11610 SOF 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Arabic Mon-Fri
(DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013
via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DXLD)
** ERITREA [non]. Radio EYSC - Eritrean Youth Solidarity for Change
1730-1800 on 15310 WER 100 kW / 135 deg to EaAf Tigrigna Tue/Fri
(DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013
via DXLD)
** ERITREA [non]. Voice of Assenna:
1700-1800 on 15245 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Mon/Wed/Fri
Transmissions are jammed by Ethiopia with broadband DRM-like white
noise (DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April
22, 2013 via DXLD)
Is the Ethiopia/Eritrea stuff, as listed in # 777, really still on air
there or is it perhaps indeed CANCEL ALL now? (Kai Ludwig, April 24,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ETHIOPIA [non]. Radio Xoriyo:
1600-1630 on 17630 ISS 500 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Somali Tue/Sat
1600-1630 on 17870 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Somali Mon/Fri
Transmissions are jammed by Ethiopia with broadband DRM-like white
noise (DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April
22, 2013 via DXLD)
** ETHIOPIA [non]. E-SAT Radio:
1700-1800 on 15xxx*SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Amharic 1st/3rd Mon
*15355-15390 different frequencies in different days and different
weeks. All frequencies are jammed by Ethiopia with broadband DRM-like
white noise (DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov,
April 22, 2013 via DXLD)
** ETHIOPIA [non]. Dimtse Radio Erena:
1700-1730 on 11560 SOF 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Afar/Oromo (DX RE MIX
NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD)
** ETHIOPIA [non]. Voice of Oromo Liberation:
1700-1800 on 13810 WER 100 kW / 135 deg to EaAf Oromo/Amharic Sun/Wed
(DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013
via DXLD)
** EUROPE. PIRATE, 6289.96, Mustang R. 2304 live music by Pink Floyd.
"Good Golly Miss Molly" by what sounded like CCR at 2314. 2323
announcements, "good morning", mention of the Eagles, greetings to
listeners, and ID at 2325:50. 2335:50 acknowledged my SINPO. 2343 ID
over "More Than a Feeling" by Boston. (record) Into "Light My Fire" by
The Doors. (13 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR,
Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre
DX via DXLD)
** EUROPE. PIRATE, 6374.04, Black Bandit R. 2304 fairly strong with
music. Audio disappeared for around at 2316. 2326:20 "Hello" and
blowing into the mic!! 2327:30 announcement "...Radio, transmitting...
low power". Then off at 2328:48. "The Man" in Ianns chat said it was
Black Bandit R. Came back on at 2333 and heard music. 2337 C&W. Nice
ID at 2339:40 (record) Into Reggae. "Rock'n Me" by Steve Miller Band
at 2343. 2347 Polka. (13 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus
SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop,
Cumbre DX via DXLD)
** EUROPE. 15810 pirate playing XEDU 860 now at 1840, probably from
Central Europe. Thanks Alpo Heinonen for the tip. 73, (Mauno Ritola,
Finland, April 23, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DGIEST)
Artem's World Music programme audible on 15810 kHz (1920 UT) in
English (with Russian accent) - relay via Radio Spaceshuttle. Before
1900 was carrying a relay of LA station in Spanish. Spaceshuttle IDs
etc at 1930 UT (Alan Pennington, Caversham, UK, AOR 7030+ ALA 1530
loop, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD)
** GABON. Another Nice Surprise: Finally Moyabi {close to Djoutou},
Gabon reveals itself. New Google Earth imagery (dated 29 March 2011,
but just released) now exposes the Moyabi SW site to the public. Lots
of curtain arrays. Yay :-) (Ian Baxter, Australia, April 11, SW TXsite
via BC DX April 19 via DXLD)
Did waiting many years for a sharp image of former TDF Moyabi site.
Only visible at
01 40 33.32 S 13 17 58.29 E when using the time slide function.
At least 18 curtains seen, and probably some quadrant non-dir antennas
close to the TX house. But the image is still too dimly. 73 wb
(Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.)
** GERMANY. HFCC registrations for HCJB Weenermoor according to
http://hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=A13&broadc=HCJ
7365 0000-2400 Weenermoor 145 10 1234567 01-May-2013 27-Oct-2013
3995 2300-2200 Weenermoor 0 10 1234567 31-Mar-2013 27-Oct-2013
(Dr. Hansjörg Biener, April 21, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** GERMANY. European Music Radio Relays
European Music Radio is on this Sunday:
0700 to 0800 UT on 7265 KHz
0800 to 0900 UT on 6005 & 9480 KHz
1500 to 1600 UT on 7265 KHz
All reports to: studio@emr.org.uk Thank you!
EMR's internet broadcasts are at the following times:
0800, 1300, 1800, 1900 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). Good Listening! 73s
(Tom Taylor, Europe, April 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GHANA [non]. 11955, AUSTRIA, AWR at 2101 with a woman mentioning "I
am your presenter" and into a female choral version of "Jacob's
Ladder" and a children's choral version of "He's Got the Whole World
in His Hands", then an "Adventist World Radio Ghana" ID at 2104 - Good
Apr 21 (Mark Coady Selwyn, ON, Alinco DXR8T, Eton E-1 and loaded
inverted vee, compact loaded delta loop, or 60' wire, ODXA Your
Reports via DXLD)
** GREECE. Hi Glenn: I took the A-13 Program Schedule of The Voice of
Greece printed in Greek that Apodimos recently sent to me and put it
through Google Translate into English. From that, I have set up the
below Program Schedule in English. Regards, John Babbis
GREECE: VOICE OF GREECE A-13 PROGRAM SCHEDULE
(Effective March 31 to October 26, 2013)
--Greek unless otherwise specified--
UTC MONDAY PROGRAM (Greece Time +3 Hours)
0500-0503 From Where And Why
0503-0600 The Songs Of The Voice Of Greece
0600-0750 Greek Coffee (Broadcast Media-Greece, Diaspora)
0750-0800 Diaspora News
0800-1400 SILENT
1400-1405 News In Greek
1405-1500 Let Us Go As Before
1500-1505 News In Greek
1505-1600 Interview Of The Week
1600-1605 News In Greek
1605-1700 Culture Praise (Events in Greece, Diaspora)
1700-1705 News In Greek
1705-1800 Sports News
1800-1805 News In Greek
1805-1900 Network Without Borders (Homogeneity With Microphone)
1900-1905 News In Greek
1905-2100 Map (Greek Gastronomy in Greece and Abroad)
2100-2105 News In Greek
2105-2300 Greek Coffee (Broadcast Media-Greece, Diaspora)
2300-2400 Culture Praise (Events in Greece, Diaspora)
0000-0100 Network Without Borders (Homogeneity With Microphone)
0100-0200 The News From The Diaspora
0200-0300 News From Home (Large and Small Occurrences)
0300-0305 News In Greek
0305-0400 Journal Deck (On Marine and Tourism)
0400-0405 News In Greek
0405-0500 Interview Of The Week
UTC TUESDAY PROGRAM (Greece Time +3 Hours)
0500-0503 From Where And Why
0503-0600 Let Us Go As Before
0600-0750 Greek Coffee (Broadcast Media-Greece, Diaspora)
0750-0800 Diaspora News
0800-1200 SILENT
1200-1205 Diaspora News
1205-1300 Journal Deck (On Marine and Tourism)
1300-1305 News In Greek
1305-1400 News From Home (Large and Small Occurrences)
1400-1405 News In Greek
1405-1500 Musical Strutting
1500-1505 News In Greek
1505-1600 Theatrofono (View Greek Theater and Diaspora)
1600-1605 News In Greek
1605-1700 Culture Praise (Events in Greece, Diaspora)
1700-1705 News In Greek
1705-1800 Sports News
1800-1805 News In Greek
1805-1900 Network Without Borders (Homogeneity With Microphone)
1900-1905 News In Greek
1905-2000 Hello Compatriots (Music and Listener Contact)
2000-2100 Invisible Harmony
2100-2105 News In Greek
2105-2300 Greek Coffee (Broadcast Media-Greece, Diaspora)
2300-2400 Culture Praise (Events in Greece, Diaspora)
0000-0100 Network Without Borders (Homogeneity With Microphone)
0100-0200 Faces Of The Diaspora
0200-0300 News From Home (Large and Small Occurrences)
0300-0305 News In Greek
0305-0400 Journal Deck (On Marine and Tourism)
0400-0405 News In Greek
0405-0500 Musical Strutting
UTC WEDNESDAY PROGRAM (Greece Time +3 Hours)
0500-0503 From Where And Why
0503-0600 Hello Countrymen (Music and Listener Contact)
0600-0750 Greek Coffee (Broadcast Media-Greece, Diaspora)
0750-0800 Diaspora News
0800-1200 SILENT
1200-1205 Diaspora News
1205-1300 Journal Deck (On Marine and Tourism)
1300-1305 News In Greek
1305-1400 News From Home (Large and Small Occurrences)
1400-1405 News In Greek
1405-1500 Musical Strutting
1500-1505 News In Greek
1505-1600 Film Diaries
1600-1605 News In Greek
1605-1700 Culture Praise (Events in Greece, Diaspora)
1700-1705 News In Greek
1705-1800 Sports News
1800-1805 News In Greek
1805-1900 Network Without Borders (Homogeneity With Microphone)
1900-1905 News In Greek
1905-2000 Hello Compatriots (Music and Listener Contact)
2000-2100 Invisible Harmony
2100-2105 News In Greek
2105-2300 Greek Coffee (Broadcast Media-Greece, Diaspora)
2300-2400 Culture Praise (Events in Greece, Diaspora)
0000-0100 Network Without Borders (Homogeneity With Microphone)
0100-0200 Invest In Greece
0200-0300 News From Home (Political and Social News)
0300-0305 News In Greek
0305-0400 Journal Deck (On Marine and Tourism)
0400-0405 News In Greek
0405-0500 Musical Strutting
UTC THURSDAY PROGRAM (Greece Time +3 Hours)
0500-0503 From Where And Why
0503-0600 Hello Countrymen (Music and Listener Contact)
0600-0750 Greek Coffee (Broadcast Media-Greece, Diaspora)
0750-0800 Diaspora News
0800-1200 SILENT
1200-1205 Diaspora News
1205-1300 Journal Deck (On Marine and Tourism)
1300-1305 News In Greek
1305-1400 News From Home (Political and Social News)
1400-1405 News In Greek
1405-1500 I'll Tell You In A Song
1500-1505 News In Greek
1505-1600 Byzantine Culture Studies and Research
1600-1605 News In Greek
1605-1700 The Breath Of The Earth
1700-1705 News In Greek
1705-1800 Sports News
1800-1805 News In Greek
1805-1900 Network Without Borders (Homogeneity With Microphone)
1900-1905 News In Greek
1905-2000 Hello Compatriots (Music and Listener Contact)
2000-2100 The Greek Jazzmen Of The Voice Of Greece
2100-2105 News In Greek
2105-2300 Greek Coffee (Broadcast Media-Greece, Diaspora)
2300-2400 The Breath Of The Earth (Interviews)
0000-0100 Network Without Borders (Homogeneity With Microphone)
0100-0200 Postman (Contact with Greeks of the Diaspora)
0200-0300 News From Home (Political and Social News)
0300-0305 News In Greek
0305-0400 Journal Deck (On Marine and Tourism)
0400-0405 News In Greek
0405-0500 I'll Tell You In A Song
UTC FRIDAY PROGRAM (Greece Time +3 Hours)
0500-0503 From Where And Why
0503-0600 Hello Countrymen (Music and Listener Contact)
0600-0750 Greek Coffee (Broadcast Media-Greece, Diaspora)
0750-0800 Diaspora News
0800-1200 SILENT
1200-1205 Diaspora News
1205-1300 Journal Deck (On Marine and Tourism)
1300-1305 News In Greek
1305-1400 News From Home (In the Greek Market)
1400-1405 News In Greek
1405-1500 The Folk Song Of The Voice Of Greece
1500-1505 News In Greek
1505-1600 The Book Of The Voice Of Greece
1600-1605 News In Greek
1605-1700 The Breath Of The Earth
1700-1705 News In Greek
1705-1900 Map (Greek Gastronomy in Greece and Abroad)
1900-1905 News In Greek
1905-2000 Hello Compatriots (Music and Listener Contact)
2000-2100 I'll Tell You My Song
2100-2105 News In Greek
2105-2300 Greek Coffee (Broadcast Media-Greece, Diaspora)
2300-2400 The Breath Of The Earth (Interviews)
0000-0100 Musical Strutting
0100-0200 Cultural Activities Of The Diaspora
0200-0300 News From Home (In the Greek Market)
0300-0305 News In Greek
0305-0400 Journal Deck (On Marine and Tourism)
0400-0405 News In Greek
0405-0500 I'll Tell You In A Song
UTC SATURDAY PROGRAM (Greece Time +3 Hours)
0500-0600 Departures
0600-0605 News In Greek
0605-0608 Diaspora News Bulletin
0608-0630 Ecological Pages
0630-0700 The Songs Of The Voice Of Greece
0700-0800 Story Of A Week
0800-1200 SILENT
1200-1400 Connect With NET
1400-1900 Connect With ERA SPORT
1900-1905 News In Greek
1905-2200 Live Line (With G. Tzouanopoulos)
2200-2300 Hello Compatriots (Music and Listener Contact)
2300-2400 Traveling With Art
0000-0100 Culture Praise (Events in Greece, Diaspora)
0100-0200 Postman
0200-0300 The Book Of The Voice Of Greece
0300-0400 Singing The Tradition
0400-0430 Good Word
0430-0500 Pleasant Psalter
UTC SUNDAY PROGRAM (Greece Time +3 Hours)
0500-0800 Divine Liturgy (Connect with NET)
0800-1200 SILENT
1200-1400 Singing The Tradition
1400-2000 Connect With ERA SPORT
2000-2200 Live Line (With G. Tzouanopoulos)
2200-2300 The Folk Song Of The Voice Of Greece
2300-2400 Metallinou
0000-0100 Musical Strutting
0100-0200 The Greek Jazzmen Of The Voice Of Greece
0200-0300 Interview Of The Week
0300-0305 News In Greek
0305-0400 The Songs Of The Voice Of Greece
0400-0405 News In Greek
0405-0500 The Songs Of The Voice Of Greece
(Compiled by John Babbis, Silver Spring, MD, April 20, WORLD OF RADIO
1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Changes in the ERA A13 program
1) The frequency 15.630 MHz, time UTC 23:00 – 24:00, change 7.475 MHz.
2) The frequency 15.630 MHz, time UTC 03:00 – 04:00, change 7.475 MHz.
Best regards Ch. Charalampopoulos
31/03/13 to 26/10/13 00:00 UTC
VOICE OF GREECE (ERA-5) Shortwave Schedule
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Weekly maintenance every Monday at 0800-1400 UT
Daily maintenance at 0800-1200 UT
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(John Babbis, MD, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUAM. 13362-USB, April 20 at 1251, AFN sufficient on day frequency
at night again instead of 5765-USB: stuff about America`s navy, learn
submarine electronics, computers, more USN promotion; instead of NPR
Weekend Edition Saturday.
5765-USB, April 21 at 1220, item about social media from ``Today on
NBC`` via AFN, commercials replaced by promos for AFN Sunday night
baseball, water, special warfare careers; back on night frequency
instead of 13362-USB 23.5 hours earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUAM. 11580, April 21 at 1306, sermon in English, with consecutive
translation sentence by sentence into Vietnamese. Still seemed
nonsensical to me. KTWR scheduled in Vietnamese, not English (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUAM. 17650, April 21 at 2340, JBA carrier, maybe KSDA. I was
trying to confirm whether AWR Wavescan is on now as allegedly
scheduled at 2330 UT Sundays. Usually more reliable at 2230 on 15320,
unchecked lately.
9880, April 24 at 1218, operatish arias interrupted by Korean
announcement at 1219; still Korean past 1232. HFCC shows it`s merely
KSDA during this hour, so the music must have been Christian-religious
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** HAWAII. 1370, KUPA, Pearl City with rock music 0847 30/3, ident
0856 as “KUPA AM 13-70 and K256AS, 99.1 FM Pearl City Honolulu” then
English news “provided by GMEC”. The Chinese accented format similar
to CRI pointed me to GMEC being a Hong Kong-based electronic content
provider with this stock market identifier. Spanish religious format
under or mixed. Rock music feature resumed after news. New format ex
Sports (Bryan Clark, MANGAWHAI BROADCAST TRAIL, NZ, AOR7030+ and EWE
antennas to North, Central & South America, Apr NZ DX Times via DXLD)
** INDIA [and non] logs. 4660, AIR Leh [KASHMIR] (presumed). Am still
hearing a decent signal with only open carrier; never any audio;
through April 18.
4775, AIR Imphal continues silent through April 18.
4990, AIR Itanagar, 1307-1344, April 18. Strongest AIR heard; the
often enjoyed regional/indigenous chanting/singing from the state of
Arunachal Pradesh; non-stop till BoH A.I.R. IDs; news in Hindi till
1335; nice subcontinent music.
5050, AIR Aizawl, 1306, April 18. A brief check found them mixing with
BBR (China). Still no trace of the low powered Ozy Radio yet (am also
checking 3210 for their expected return)
4850, AIR Kohima, 1325-1358*, April 19. My local sunrise was at 1328
UT; Kohima had a strong signal before my sunrise and then slowly faded
down; 1340 the usual news in Hindi with items about “Nagaland”
(“security forces”, “consumer protection”, “reconstructive surgery”,
etc.); 1350 “This is All India Radio Kohima”; repeated the news in
English; “This news comes to you from All India Radio Kohima”; light
QRM from Xinjiang PBS. Kohima last heard about Feb 18, just before the
Nagaland elections were held. Very nice to hear them again, especially
with such a strong signal (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón
E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. All India Radio, GOS. 6045, Delhi. Apr 19, 2013, Friday.
1703-1714. Presumed Urdu, YL singing light vocal to 1707 then OM
talks, into OM singing at 1709. Poor, too much lightning QRN local to
Joburg. Jo'burg sunset 1548 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, dxldyg
via DX LISTENING DIGEST) no ZIMBABWE, q.v.
** INDIA. 9870 kHz, AIR Bengaluru --- Dear friends, AIR Bengaluru is
interested is reception reports at various timings of their Vividh
Bharati Service on 9870 kHz which uses 500 kW transmitter for coming
few days. The schedule is:
0025-0435 0900-1200 1245-1740
Reports may be addressed to
Mr. T. Rajendiran
Suptg. Engineer
AIR, Super Power Transmitter
Bengaluru
Email ids:
rajendiran37 @ yahoo.com [corrected below]
sptairynk @ rediffmail.com
Watch out on this channel from next week for tests in DRM mode of
their new 500 kW transmitter for this service! Yours sincerely, (Jose
Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India
Mobile: +91 94416 96043, http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos April 18, dx_india
yg via DXLD)
9870, AIR - Vividh Bharati service with sign on at *1240 (April 19)
with EZL instrumental music; in Hindi with ID and SW frequency;
program of subcontinent music; strong signal. Sent off a reception
report via email to “Mr. T. Rajendiran, Suptg. Engineer” at Bengaluru,
who was looking for reports, but no response yet (Ron Howard, Asilomar
State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
[and non]. 9870, April 21 at 0100, timesignal and La Voz de Turquía
opening Spanish hour with schedule, well atop All India Radio Vividh
Bharati Service.
9870, April 21 at 1257, AIR VBS music fair with flutter, no CCI, but
at 1301 recheck now CRI English is atop.
Jose Jacob report that AIR wants reception reports of 9870 which is
scheduled 0025-0435, 0900-1200, 1245-1740 and look out for new DRM
tests this week on this service. That`ll show the colliders!
HFCC currently shows all this competition on 9870 during those hours;
0100-0200 Turkey Spanish
1300-1600 China English
1330-1630 Iran Kurdish
1700-1733 RFI Portuguese via South Africa
Maybe AIR should start with getting rid of those or changing frequency
itself (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
AIR Bengaluru on the road to DRM
MUMBAI: With digital stated to be as the future of radio, most
stations of All India Radio are aiming to rope in Digital Radio
Mondiale (DRM) transmitters to improve its transmission and content
quality. After successfully testing the signals as part of a live in-
car demo, the DRM signals will now be tested in AIR Bengaluru to
monitor the quality of broadcast.
AIR Bengaluru will be testing DRM signals for the entire week
commencing Monday, using a 500 kW transmitter for their Vividh Bharati
Service on 9870 kHz
More at :
http://www.radioandmusic.com/content/editorial/news/air-bengaluru-road-drm
---- (Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, April 23, dx_indiayg via DXLD) Viz.:
ALL INDIA RADIO TESTS DIGITAL SHORTWAVE TRANSMITTER
Text of report by Radioandmusic.com website, maintained by Indian
broadcast industry website Indiantelevision.com, on 22 April
Mumbai: With digital stated to be as the future of radio, most
stations of [public] All India Radio are aiming to rope in Digital
Radio Mondiale (DRM) transmitters to improve its transmission and
content quality. After successfully testing the signals as part of a
live in-car demo, the DRM signals will now be tested in AIR Bengaluru
to monitor the quality of broadcast.
AIR Bengaluru will be testing DRM signals for the entire week
commencing Monday [22 April], using a 500 kW transmitter for their
Vividh Bharati Service on 9870 kHz.
The schedule for broadcast will be in three segments; from 5.55-
10.05a.m., 2.30-5.30 p.m. and 6.15-11.10 p.m. [UT +5.5] The
transmission will be monitored by National Institute of Amateur Radio
Hyderabad assistant director Jose Jacob, who will monitor the
broadcast and send reports to AIR on the same.
Speaking with Radioandmusic.com, Jacob said, "AIR which is now in AM
mode has got a new transmitter to go digital. The testing is going to
commence from next week and since I have been involved in testing and
monitoring procedures before, I will be sending out reports of the
quality to AIR. Being a new transmitter, there may be some hiccups
during broadcast, so our focus will remain on that."
As reported by Radioandmusic.com earlier, All India Radio has around
100 per cent coverage across the country on mediumwave broadcasting
and they use shortwave for external transmissions. But due to
industrialization, the transmission quality is getting deteriorated.
There are a lot of noise issues and listeners are not happy with the
analogue as far as the domestic coverage is concerned, while on the
shortwave the signal is not available frequently.
There are different systems on digital and AIR has adopted the system
known as DRM, which is being used for external broadcast service by
most of the country.
Moreover with AIR Bengaluru having 90 per cent of external broadcast
services, the DRM transmitters will be a move to the positive side for
them. The shortwave DRM transmitter has already been implemented in
Delhi, and Bengaluru seems to be next on the cards.
"Although there are a lot of benefits of DRM transmitters, the
receiver is a problem as we are yet to fully understand it. There are
a lot of things that still need to be looked into, but I am sure that
once this system starts to get in place, the transmitter and receiver
problems will be sorted out too," he added.
The DRM transmitters are stated to bring with it many advantages
including access to more content choice with improved sound quality,
along with access to digital features like text news, sports results
and automatic disaster warning in multiple languages amongst others.
Source: Radioandmusic.com, Mumbai, in English 22 Apr 13 (via BBCM via
DXLD)
``Update: The new 500 kW AM/DRM transmitter from Riz is under final
stage of installation & DRM tests expected by next month. Also the
correct email ID to send reception reports for 9870 kHz AM is:
rajendiran45 at yahoo dot com``
---- (via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, April 23, dx_indiayg via DXLD)
9870, April 24 at 1307, AIR VBS with vocal pop music, over CCI from
CRI for a change, but there should not be any such collision; no
switch to DRM yet. It seems the previous news about DRM this week
jumped the gun. Alokesh Gupta reports April 23 in dx_india yg:
``Update: The new 500 kW AM/DRM transmitter from Riz is under final
stage of installation & DRM tests expected by next month. Also the
correct email ID to send reception reports for 9870 kHz AM is:
rajendiran45 at yahoo dot com`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 9470, AIR National Channel via Aligarh. From 1350 to 1413 on
April 23 with live cricket coverage in English and Hindi of the match
between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Pune Warriors; mostly fair.
(Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA [and non]. 13710, April 20 at 1404, CRI English is mixing
with AIR GOS music // 9690 at 1409 which is poor but at least clear.
Bullies: CRI and domestic CNR treat India as if it doesn`t exist
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. AIR Chennai C has started its DRM test transmission this
week on 793 Khz according to Arun Kumar Narasimhan in facebook
Please see:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151601519252392&set=o.108126332541150&type=1&theater
(Jose Jacob, April 22, dx_india yg via DXLD)
Shouldn`t that be 792 kHz? Of course with DRM there is no conventional
carrier to pinpoint to an accuracy of 1 kHz (Glenn Hauser, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
Update : - Transmission in simulcast mode with analog channel on 783
kHz & DRM channel on 793 kHz (500 watts)
- DRM channel is carrying Vividh Bharati program.
- Tentative test schedule (this is not a fixed schd) : [UT +5.5]
0730-1030 IST
1630-1930 IST
Regards (Alokesh Gupta, April 24, dx_india yg via DXLD)
So with this ``simulcast`` adjacent channel thing, maybe they have to
be 10 kHz apart rather than 9? 783 is a proper channel (Glenn Hauser,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. Latest list of All stations of AIR --- Hello Friends, The
latest list of All stations of All India Radio including frequencies
as on 10 Apr 2013 is now available in the official website as follows:
http://allindiaradio.gov.in/allindiaradio/AIRstationslist.pdf
Total stations: 376
Total Transmitters: 548
Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur
Radio, Hyderabad, India Mobile: +91 94416 96043
http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos April 22, dx_india yg via DXLD
** INDIA [non]. 15390, April 23 at 1344, gospel harmony in unknown
language, 1345 announcement and more; fair signal but declining. Aoki
shows it`s Athmeeya Yatra Radio (Gospel for Asia), 250 kW, 85 degrees
from Nauen, GERMANY, with huge selexion of obscure minority languages
whose speakers are targeted for Christianization, i.e. Tuesdays 1330-
1345 Nockte, 1345-1400 Kokborok. From EiBi`s exhaustive readme list of
langs:
NOC Nocte / Nockte (India - Assam, Arunachal Pr.: 35,000)
KBO Kok Borok/Tripuri: India (0.7m)
Are these unchurched heathens snowed by anyone bothering to broadcast
to them? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA [non]. 12160, April 24 at 1346 good signal with flutter, S
Asian singing, but some crackle on the carrier; 1357 announcements,
1358 mentions TWR India address. Aoki shows this semihour is Hindi
daily, extended earlier and/or later on certain days, 100 kW, 131
degrees from Tashkent, UZBEKISTAN.
I`d much rather hear R. Tashkent with such a signal, but the
Uzbekibekibekis are more interested in foreign exchange, even from
heathen Christians, than propagating their own propaganda (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 3325, RRI Palangkaraya noted off this morning (April 22)
in the 1200-1300 time frame (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge, Colorado,
Drake R-8, 100-foot RW, Dxingwithcumbre yg via DXLD)
3325, RRI Palangkaraya. April 22 anomaly; not heard at 1209 or 1259;
Atsunori Ishida explains: very late sign on at *1320 (Ron Howard,
Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. See UNIDENTIFIED 7275
** INDONESIA [and non]. The voice sends a strong signal to 9525.9 kHz,
but not in the correct languages ?? To specify, 18 UT clock, instead
ran Chinese was Spanish, and now that German would be it, it sounds
more like Japanese language.
I do not understand a word except "Kyoto" and "Indonesia". On the new
relay frequency 3985 kHz I see a carrier with S=3-4, but somehow
missing modulation. Against 3995 kHz Weenermoor rich program (Eike
Bierwirth-D, A-DX Apr 13) google automatc translation.
Michael Grabovski-D reported that on April 10 also.
RRI Jakarta schedule German <http://de.voi.co.id/sendeplan>
English <http://en.voi.co.id/broadcasting-schedule>
Showing the colorful table. Only that sent English LIVE at 13-14 UT.
Everything else is recorded Preserve.
In any case, at present they bring the audio without errors to
Cimanggis TX site, compared to the Muslim world broadcast terrible
signals from Cairo, Dhaka, Islamabad, or remember Damascus with their
devilish signals (Wolfgang Büschel, April 13, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews
April 19 via DXLD)
9525.89, V. of Indonesia, 1057 end of song then canned announcement by
W giving contact info including website and mailing address, and into
more music. Most audio I've heard from this in months. Still very
weak. (13 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook
ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via
DXLD)
9526-, April 18 at 1335, NO signal at all from VOI during scheduled
English hour. Atsunori Ishida shows it was last heard April 16 at
1910, nothing on April 17 or 18.
9526-, April 19 at 1314, VOI carrier is back on after missing a few
days, JBA music modulation. Ishida does not yet have an entry up for
this date as of 1449 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hi Glenn, We were listening at the same time! 1314 end of the news in
English; "Commentary" about Boston bombing and Texas explosion; ID and
info on audio streaming; "Today in History" (Ron Howard, CA, dxldyg
via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
9526-, April 21 at 1256, poor signal with music from VOI, also
undermodulated, end of Japanese hour. Atsunori Ishida shows it was
missing UT April 17 and 18 but back starting April 19 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Voice of Indonesia, 9526, was putting a good signal into British
Columbia this morning, April 21st. Although weak at the beginning of
English at 1300, it quickly rose in strength. Following opening
announcements of ID, frequencies, website, world news began at
1301:45. When this concluded at 1310 a man began "news from across the
country". Unfortunately, his accent hindered intelligibility (Harold
Sellers, Vernon, B.C., dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hi Harold, Also with a decent signal here in California on 9525.90 kHz
and fairly readable with their mailbag program at 1334. Brief audio at
https://www.box.com/s/kp8v7wizrbjpyqn5kfjj
Did the announcer twice say "2014"? (Ron Howard, ibid.)
9525, 21/Apr 1700, Voice of Indonesia in Spanish. ID by OM. OM
presents the day's schedule and starts with the week's news. Good
signal in SDR, Twente. Good modulation. 73 (Jorge Freitas, Brasil,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Jorge, Was it really on 9525 instead of 9526 (9525.9)? That along with
good modulation might imply they were using a different transmitter
than we hear earlier (Glenn Hauser, ibid.)
Foi em 9525.9. Eu não tenho experiência em SDR e não sei como precisar
uma frequência neles, assim informei a frequência das listas. Mas a
modulação estava perfeita, sem distorção e sem zumbidos. Ouvi todo o
programa em espanhol e o sinal em Twente se manteve estável. A escuta
foi toda feita pelo SDR de Twente, como informado no log. Esse SDR de
Twente realmente tem a melhor recepção de todos os rádios remotos que
eu acesso em diversas partes do mundo. Só não é bom nas bandas acima
dos 49 metros, infelizmente. 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana,
Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, ibid.)
** INTERNATIONAL INTERNET. Back on World Radio Network (WRN) :
Radio Damascus :
http://www.wrn.org/listeners/radio-damascus
Radio Cairo :
http://www.wrn.org/listeners/radio-cairo
New on World Radio Network :
Voice of Nigeria :
http://www.wrn.org/listeners/voice-of-nigeria
(Kris Janssen, Belgium, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM [and non]. Awful HF condx 20/4/13 ---
Ionosounder stuck at 25600 kHz for ages this morning; finally at
around 10 UT the MUF briefly reached the CB band and I heard a single
Russian Taxi dispatcher very weakly on 27155 (not the usual Rus
volmet). Local CB'er 26TM426 in Manchester was talking to South Africa
at 0940 but the South African wasn't audible here.
23739.7 ?? unid off at 0955, Harmonic? nothing heard on 11870 but
noise was bad
23790 CYP/TUR Radar 0955
25525 CHN Radar
So I went to another band; hope you'll forgive the slightly OT Satcom
logs. I know a few of you follow these [MHz:]
254.75, IRAN IRIB (presumed) muezzin mix then blank carrier from 1230
UT, deep tropo type qsb
255.55, BRAZIL, Brazilian truckers, 1210
255.80, PAKISTAN, TV Audio, very strong but horribly distorted due to
the narrow bandwidth of Satcoms uplink rx
268.44, PERU R Cajamarca Viva, sign on 1100
269.65, PHILIPPINES I-93.9, Manila (ex Smile FM) 1045 usual soft music
269.75, CHINA TV Audio, film sounded very exciting, lots of train
noises! fade in or sign on 1100, ad mentioned Shanghai 1302 UT
-- (Tim Bucknall, Congleton, UK, RDR54D1 + CLP5130, IC-R9500, 1306 UT
April 20, harmonics yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DXLD)
What`s this about? Old satellite transponder pix up terrestrial
signals in a certain nearby VHF band occupied in some countries by
broadcast station studio-transmitter-linx (or 2-way) and rebroadcasts
them as above. IIRC you don`t need a dish to get this
(Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DXLD)
** IRAN. Voice of Justice on 13650 --- First time I've remembered to
tune in to their new summer frequency 13650. Coming in very well now
S9+10 on Icom R 75. Also heard on // 15470 at S7. DH KCMO (Dave
Hughes, Kansas City MO, UT April 20, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
13650, 20/Apr 0346, Voice of Iran "Voice of Justice" in English. YL
talk. Modulation very low compared to the signal. 45432. // 15470 with
Very weak signal. 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S
38 58´W - Brasil, ibid.)
Heard VOIRI/V. of Justice tonight at sign-on 0330 4/21 on both 15470
and 13650. 15470 the stronger signal, but it again had problems with
the transmitter cutting out; not so 13650 (Chuck Albertson, Seattle,
Wash., Sony ICF-2010 and squalid apartment balcony long-wire, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
21505, V. of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1125 W giving sked and
contact info in English. Surprised this was propagating at this time.
Poor and fady but there. (13 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA,
Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta
Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD)
** IRAN [non]. Radio Payem e-Doost:
0230-0315 on 7460 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Farsi till April 30?
0230-0315 on 11710 TAC 100 kW / 236 deg to WeAs Farsi from May 1
1800-1845 on 5900 DHA 250 kW / 035 deg to WeAs Farsi from May 1
1800-1845 on 7480 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Farsi till April 30?
(DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013
via DXLD)
** IRAN [non]. Radio Ranginkaman/Radio Rainbow:
1600-1630 on 7550 KCH 100 kW / 100 deg to WeAs Farsi Mon/Fri not
1700-1730 (DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov,
April 22, 2013 via DXLD)
** ISRAEL. Galei Zahal noted today after 2130 UT on 15850 with song
and telephone talk with listeners, at 2000 UTC it was not there
(Partha Sarathi Goswami, WB, India, April 21, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
Both transmitters of Galei Zahal are REALLY on air at 2155 UT April
21. Heard both outlets on air in \\ 6884.964 very odd, S=9+20dB in
Iceland SDR remote unit, and 15850.005 kHz weak only S=3-4 just on
threshold in Iceland, but further south at Isle of Wight low noise
remote unit S=8 signal strength. G.Z. noted back on air on both txs
from April 15 onwards, and reported also positively in Austrian
newsgroup A-DX. Sarathi - there is no propagation this night on 19
meterband from ISRAEL to INDIA (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.)
Galei Zahal at 2207 UT Apr 21 heard on 15850 kHz also on three PERSEUS
remote posts in Japan. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dx_india yg via DXLD)
** ITALY. PIRATE (EUROPE), 9999.995, ItalyCable, (time station Pirate)
0010-0300 Usual instrumental MOR music, CW just before the minute,
time ticks, M announcement, and more music. At :00, :15, :30, and :45
had a longer announcement followed by CW that appeared to give a
website as www.associazioniitalycable.it But that didn't work when I
tried it. Sometime peaking at a good level. (15 April) (Dave Valko,
Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical
triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD)
Try spelling it right: http://www.associazioneitalcable.it ---
Acknowledges they are on both 10 and 15 MHz (Glenn Hauser, DXLD)
** JAPAN. QSL: Tokyo VOLMET, 13282, full data form letter in 14 days
for English airmail report and US $2 (returned). Also sent very nice
cover letter. V/s in Japanese and not able to be read by myself (Al
Muick, Whitehall PA USA, April 20, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KIRIBATI. A ham expedition went to Kanton (central Kiribati*) a
couple of years ago, (T31A) which was the site of WXLE 1385, heard by
some DXers in the 1970-era (I had weak carrier a few times then). I
mention this because they had a web site with a good number of
photographs of abandoned buildings, one of which presumptively was the
old 1385 station location. Kanton today has a small resident
indigenous population, none of whom seem willing to resurrect 1385....
*kiribati is pronounced ki-ree-bas which is roughly what comes out
when they try to say "gilberts" ;; the islands used to be the Gilbert
and Ellice island colony. 73 (Bob Foxworth, ABDX via DXLD)
** KOREA NORTH. 11710, V. of Korea, 1051 editorial by W in English in
which she continually called South Korea the "South Korean
Warmongers". (17 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR,
Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre
DX via DXLD)
** KOREA NORTH. Re KOREA D.P.R. 6101.23v, KCBS, Pyongyang, at 1333 UT
on Apr 02, after briefly returning to the exact frequency, they have
again gone off frequency; in Korean with hum \\ 9665.000 kHz (Ron
Howard-CA-USA, dswci DXW Apr 17)
6100.000, Symphonic music, violin concert \\ 9665.000 kHz, exact
frequency, when used the new transmitters at Kujang tx site, where new
Chinese txs made by BBEF company has been erected. Scheduled 1300-
1800, 2000-0835 UT.
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 extensive monitoring during Febr/March
2013 of new 9 to 10 tx units, 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 Febr 1st til March 15 (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews
April 20, dxldyg via DXLD)
Wolfy, Did you happen to see the following story from LAST YEAR?
Engineers from Beijing BBEF Science and Technology were NOT allowed to
go to DPRK to install the new transmitters, but DPRK engineers instead
went to China to train on how to install and operate the transmitters.
BBEF website does not show any new information about their activities
in 2013.
http://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/04/25/dprk-radio-transmitters-a-national-secret/
(Ron Howard, California, ibid.)
Thanks Ron, yes, we reported about various activities of Chinese firm
BBEF Beijing few times in the past. We heard and reported a BBEF item
on 16 Aug 2008, about the new SW txs at Cerrik and Shijak Albania in
November 2004.
BBEF also involved in delivery of MW and SW txs at NAYPYIDAW in
Myanmar, completed in March 2010.
We at wwdxc had reported already on 24 Jan 2012 the BBEF delivery
story to foreign countries like
CUBA/ETHIOPIA/KOREA DPR/MYANMAR/SOMALIA/VENEZUELA/VIETNAM
and new Semi jamming on 1170 kHz just happened to be co-channel with
VOA transmissions to China via Poro-PHL, against VOA Poro as 600 kW MW
transmitter in Jiangxi log before North Korea Tech featured the same
story.
Projects in North Korea - D.P.R.
<http://www.bbef-tech.com/templates/T_Second_EN/index.aspx?nodeid=95&page=ContentPage&contentid=348>
"our company supplies North Korea with 10 kW TV transmitter, 20 / 50 /
100 / 150 kW SW radio transmitters, 600 kW MW radio transmitter,
together with the accessories."
BUT the website in Chinese language brought the MAIN INTERESTING ITEM
of the SECRET behaviour of the North Koreans, belonging erecting new
BBEF hardware {6 - 7 SW units, I guess} at Korean domestic service
Kanggye site in 2011 {and at least 9 - 10 units at foreign and jamming
station Kujang in Febr 2013 now}.
"will be installed is a state secret..." see below.
<http://www.bbef-tech.com/templates/T_Second/index.aspx?nodeid=11&page=ContentPage&contentid=94>
Automatic translation Chinese - English:
"From 1-27 June 2011 a delegation of eight technicians from KPPTC,
North Korea, joined a training programme at the company, centred on
the current SW transmitter contract and the previous MW contract. "Due
to political factors on the North Korean side, the site where the
shortwave transmitter(s) will be installed is a state secret, so the
installation and set-up of the 100 kW shortwave transmitter(s) will
have to be solved entirely by North Korean technicians and it will be
impossible for technicians from our company to visit North Korea to
inspect. Meanwhile the installation of the shortwave transmitter(s) is
taking place in (a) tunnel(s), and there are a huge number of
technical problems to be overcome."
North Korean trainee project.
North Korea SW Project Technical Training was Rounded off [completed?]
<http://www.bbef-tech.com/templates/T_Second_EN/index.aspx?nodeid=93&page=ContentPage&contentid=342>
100 kW SW Project in Vietnam
<http://www.bbef-tech.com/templates/T_Second_EN/index.aspx?nodeid=95&page=ContentPage&contentid=349>
<http://www.bbef-tech.com/templates/T_Second/index.aspx?nodeid>
mentions BBEF 500 / 600 kW in 2009 and 2010, unfortunately Chinese
text is an image, and could not be translated by Google Chinese /
English translator.
Similar training have done also for the Ethiopian engineering staff.
http://www.bbef-en.com/new_show.aspx?type=14&id=130
"The training lasted for one month. And the courses were designed
according to the equipments, including dual-cast transmitter [AM and
digital WHITE NOISE jamming, wb.}, FM transmitter system and relevant
apparatus, which would be exported to Ethiopia. Various teaching
forms, such as lectures, real machine operation and resolving doubts,
were adopted during the training. Ethiopian cadets enriched their
knowledge and made progress through the discussion and interaction
with BBEF technicians." vy73 wolfy (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
re: ``Sometimes this secondary audio can be very strong. So strong, it
interferes with the main program. This is especially noticeable when,
say, the Chinese service ends news and begins broadcasting music while
the English service is still reading the news. It sounds like a
musical bed has been brought up to accompany the news item. Any
theories on why this has started? I seem to recall that it wasn't
there a couple of years ago. Martyn``
I have just been asked if I'm aware of a possible other, clean
frequency for Voice of Korea that is not interfered by another
station.
Concerning the cause of the problem: It appears that at the time the
bad leaking started also the carriers started to be precisely on the
nominal frequency. If so it would be safe to assume that new
transmitters have now also been installed at the Kujang plant, as done
before at transmitter sites near Kanggye and Pyongyang, and that they
messed up the new installation pretty badly (Kai Ludwig, April 24,
ibid.)
On that subject, can anyone tell me more about the Kanggye
transmitters? I've never been able to find anything close to a
shortwave transmitter site on Google Earth, just the occasional likely
local transmitter, and colleagues have also come up with nothing. in
contrast, Kujang is easy to spot and a substantial operation.
Is it possible this doesn't exist, or did exist but has been
dismantled? It's certainly become part of the accepted truth about
Voice of Korea, but I wonder where it first started being reported.
Does VoK claim this in anything published?
Any insight into the Kanggye transmitter would be most welcome.
As for clean VoK frequencies, the best I can suggest is the Thaicom 5
channel, although that is only covering Asia and requires a pretty
substantial dish.
They sometimes use 3250 kHz too, but that seems to be as-required and
doesn't travel far beyond the country. When I was living in Tokyo, it
was always one of the stronger and better frequencies, if in use
(Martyn Williams, CA, ibid.)
Basically this transmitter site information originates from sources in
Japan, as reflected in this article:
http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk00400&num=9974
I never saw it explained how these sources get to know, also in regard
of schedules with exact parameters (power, azimuth). But interestingly
it turned out that Kujang was a correct information.
Frequencies currently associated with Kanggye are 3960, 6070, 6100,
6400 and 11680 kHz, all basically non-directional operations. So I
would not expect large curtain antennas there at all, rather simple
dipoles/HQs/cages, too inconspicuous to spot on the satellite images
available via Google. You could stare around the mediumwave
transmitter there, if it has already been spotted.
The interesting story here are 6070 and 6100 kHz, used alternately.
They appeared out of nowhere during the nineties, with accurate
carrier frequencies plus softer and cleaner audio than the other North
Korean shortwave outlets, and they had been found as obviously not
being co-located with all the other foreign service outlets which
appeared to be concentrated at a single location in some distance from
Pyongyang (as monitoring revealed -- no word about Kujang at this time
yet).
It should be safe to assume that these were the transmitters sold from
Switzerland to North Korea in 1995, two ones each from Beromünster and
Schwarzenburg. I suspect they were part of the same package than the
18 narrow-gauge tram cars from Zürich (Kai Ludwig, ibid.)
I have just arrived back from a few weeks in North Korea and about 10
days ago I drove through Kanggye (twice) [corrected below] and guess
what I made a video as I passed the antenna farm! Also I have gathered
a lot of other content (hours of received off the air domestic radio
audio, photos and video) that may be of interest. I will pass this to
Martyn for use on his DPRK Tech Blog and also will put links to the
content here. I will start sorting through the content on the weekend
as I haven't even unpacked yet.
As for the other conversation here on DXLD in the last few days:
Secondary audio that can be heard behind Voice of Korea programming. I
have many high quality examples of this which I have recorded directly
off the Thaicom 5 Voice of Korea distribution circuits. Sometimes the
bleed through audio is another VOK language program, other times it is
Pyongyang Pangsong and also at times Joson Jang-ang Pangsong.
Basically I can confirm that this unintended secondary audio not only
can be heard on actual shortwave transmissions but also on the
satellite circuits. So just a guess - it may be bleeding in back near
the programming source in the Pyongyang studio and switching?
Cheers, (Mark Fahey, Sydney, Australia, ibid.)
CORRECTION: Please forgive me for my error. I'm tired after 3 days of
travel from Pyongyang to Sydney in the same clothes and without a bed!
The site I traveled past and videoed was near Kujang - not Kanggye.
The antennas I videoed were tall verticals but the site was not this
one on Martyn's blog:
http://www.northkoreatech.org/2011/04/29/kujang-shortwave-transmitter-site/
So for now I am going to shut up, find the video in the next few days
and post it for the antenna experts to examine! Cheers, (Mark Fahey,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH. P5, NORTH KOREA --- PRESS RELEASE (Announcing the P5
Project - IDXC 2013 Convention in Visalia, April 20th, 2013), received
from Paul, N6PSE:
"P5, North Korea is the most wanted DXCC entity world-wide. Today, the
Intrepid-DX Group, in partnership with the World-Wide DX Group, is
announcing our sustained and ongoing effort to activate North Korea.
For the past four years, we have been working with professionals in
the business and tourism industries who are actively doing business in
North Korea. We are leveraging their ideas and contacts towards our
goal of a major Dxpedition over a four week period from within the
DPRK. We are using the same techniques that were successful in opening
up Kurdistan (Northern Iraq) South Sudan and Yemen to Dxpedition
activity.
We have prepared a comprehensive, multi-faceted proposal, and we have
delivered it to the DPRK officials via our Chinese emissary. Several
members of our leadership and advisory team have made multiple visits
to the DPRK and are advising us accordingly. We are making further
plans to visit the DPRK in the coming months to further bolster our
business contacts and to research and assess various venues.
We expect this ongoing project to require a sustained effort. We are
committed to work as hard and as long as it takes to activate this
rare and much needed entity. We will continue negotiating and flying
into and out of the DPRK as needed during this process to lay the
groundwork and to build the trust to ensure that a favorable outcome
can be created. We want the DX community to be aware and to understand
that a sustained effort is being made to activate this rare and
important entity. Thank you, N6PSE AH6HY YT1AD K3LP -- The Intrepid-DX
Group"
ADDED NOTE: The Intrepid-DX Group has set up a Web page which is still
under construction at:
http://www.intrepid-dx.com/p5/index.php
(Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin No. 1109, April 22, 2013, Editor Tedd
Mirgliotta, KB8NW, Provided by BARF80.ORG (Cleveland, Ohio), via Dave
Raycroft, ODXA yg via DXLD)
Tsk2, hams aren`t content with *hearing* broadcasts out of N Korea, of
which there are plenty! But have to go to all this trouble (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. MND Radio:
0400-0455 on 5150 JNG 100 kW / non-dir to KRE Korean
0400-0455 on 6360 CHC 100 kW / non-dir to KRE Korean
0500-0550 on 4925 JNG 100 kW / non-dir to KRE Korean
0500-0550 on 6550 CHC 100 kW / non-dir to KRE Korean
0600-0635 on 6270 JNG 100 kW / non-dir to KRE Korean
0600-0635 on 6480 CHC 100 kW / non-dir to KRE Korean
0700-0735 on 5290 JNG 100 kW / non-dir to KRE Korean
0700-0735 on 6435 CHC 100 kW / non-dir to KRE Korean
1000-1050 on 4925 JNG 100 kW / non-dir to KRE Korean
1000-1050 on 6550 CHC 100 kW / non-dir to KRE Korean
1100-1150 on 6270 JNG 100 kW / non-dir to KRE Korean
1100-1150 on 6480 CHC 100 kW / non-dir to KRE Korean
1200-1255 on 5150 JNG 100 kW / non-dir to KRE Korean
1200-1255 on 6360 CHC 100 kW / non-dir to KRE Korean (DX RE MIX NEWS
#777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. CLANDESTINE: 17650, V. of the Wilderness (via
Germany) 1300 opening with wind blowing SFX and W in Korean. Mixing
with China. Found // 11860 (Sri Lanka) at 1303 with soft W vocal
music. Cuba is supposed to be there and was probably the signal that I
noted going off and on a few times. (13 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA,
USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular
Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD) See sked below
** KOREA NORTH [non]. Voice of Martyrs:
1600-1730 on 7515 TAC 100 kW / 065 deg to KRE Korean
Radio Free Chosun:
1200-1400 on 11540 DB 100 kW / 071 deg to KRE Korean
1200-1400 on 15720 DB 100 kW / 071 deg to KRE Korean
2000-2100 on 7505 DB 100 kW / 071 deg to KRE Korean
Open Radio North Korea:
1230-1430 on 11550 DB 100 kW / 071 deg to KRE Korean
1230-1430 on 15700 DB 100 kW / 071 deg to KRE Korean
2100-2200 on 7480 DB 100 kW / 071 deg to KRE Korean
Voice of Wilderness (BVB):
1300-1330 on 17650 NAU 250 kW / 048 deg to KRE Korean Mon-Sat
1300-1400 on 11860 TRM 250 kW / 045 deg to KRE Korean Mon-Sat
1300-1400 on 17650 NAU 250 kW / 048 deg to KRE Korean Sun
1300-1430 on 11860 TRM 250 kW / 045 deg to KRE Korean Sun
1900-2000 on 7375 DB 100 kW / 071 deg to KRE Korean Mon-Sat
1900-2030 on 7375 DB 100 kW / 071 deg to KRE Korean Sun
Nippon no Kaze:
1300-1330 on 9950 TAI 100 kW / 002 deg to NEAs Korean
1500-1530 on 9975 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg to NEAs Korean
1530-1600 on 9965 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg to NEAs Korean
Furusato no Kaze:
1330-1400 on 9950 TAI 100 kW / 002 deg to NEAs Japanese
1430-1500 on 9960 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg to NEAs Japanese
1600-1630 on 9780 TAI 250 kW / 045 deg to NEAs Japanese
JSR Shiokaze Sea Breeze:
1330-1430 on 6020 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE various Japanese
Mon/Wed/Thu; Chinese/Korean Tue; English Fri; Korean/Japanese Sat and
Japanese/Korean Sun
2000-2100 on 6075 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE various Japanese
Mon/Wed/Thu; Chinese/Korean Tue; English Fri; Korean/Japanese Sat and
Japanese/Korean Sun
North Korea Reform Radio:
1400-1600 on 7590 TAC 200 kW / 070 deg to KRE Korean, ex 1500-1700
Radio Free North Korea:
1430-1630 on 11570 DB 100 kW / 071 deg to KRE Korean, ex 1200-1400
Voice of Martyrs:
1600-1730 on 7515 TAC 100 kW / 065 deg to KRE Korean (DX RE MIX NEWS
#777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD)
** KOREA SOUTH. 15575, April 20 at 1240, KBS open carrier is *not* on
this early for a change prior to 1300 English. {The opening newscast
at 1300, mostly about NK and Boston; signal has degraded quite a bit
by 1355.} I don`t get back to it until 1355, just in time for Kevin
O`Donovan in Farmington NM, this week with SW info on Pakistan,
Indonesia, SWPC propagation outlook, reminder that after April 25,
SiriusXM is removing WRN and along with it KBS; but this 15575
transmission is now heard well some days, other days almost non-
existent. ACI from 15580 *1358 VOA carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
Hello everyone, really good signal out of South Korea KBS World Radio
at 1300 UT is booming in Montreal 15575; my new favorite for morning
listening here. Hope the signal stays good through the summer! 73
(Gilles Letourneau, Montreal, Canada, April 20, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
[non]. 3955, KBS World Radio via Woofferton blasting-in with
excellent signal with English program at new time (to me) of 2100-2130
today 21 April. This transmission doesn't show up on the KBS web site,
but is on HFCC and on EiBi since 15 April (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK,
dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KURDISTAN. IRAQ/IRAN, eQSL Voice of Iranian Kurdistan 4870 kHz. Von
der Voice of Iranian Kurdistan 4870v kHz kam heute nach 23 Tagen eine
undetaillierte e-mail-Bestaetigung via address
<secretariat.pdki @ googlemail.com>
(Patrick Robic, Austria, April 11, A-DX via BC-DX April 19 via DXLD)
CLANDESTINE, 4959.77, V. of Iranian Kurdistan. Signal on the air at
0224:57 on 4959.77, then drifted up rapidly and consistently. Flute IS
started at 0225:30. Just about the best I've heard this yet. The
jammer came on 4960.09 at 0230. At 0236, VOIK suddenly took off for
4870.07 leaving the jammer behind. Jammer followed at 0246 on 4870.09.
Noticed this while reviewing for the 4930 sub-harmonic of WHRI 9860.
(8 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook
ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via
DXLD)
** KURDISTAN [non]. Denge Kurdistan
0300-1500 on 11510 KCH 250 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Kurdish
1500-1900 on 11510 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish
(DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013
via DXLD)
11510, April 24 at 1339, Denge Kurdistan is poor but propagating well
enough to enjoy the wailing rather than talk after 1400. Today`s Aoki
shows site as PRIDNESTROVYE until 1500 with 100 kW, then Bulgaria with
50 kW until 1900. But latest DX Re Mix News, Bulgaria, April 23 shows
a.k.a. KCH with 250 kW until 1500, then Issoudun, France with 250 kW.
Anyhow, I`m never listening after 1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF
RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
I just, at 1705-1710, checked 11510 and have no doubt that it indeed
originates from Issoudun now. Which could be a precedent, with more
and more transmission facilities in former Comecon countries
perishing.
Btw, the transmitters at present used in Pridnestrovye are one 1000 kW
and two 2000 kW units. They may consist of coupled PA stages, but
still I doubt that it makes sense to use them at much below 300 kW. It
would be possible but only result in wasting more power as heat (Kai
Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 15540, Radio Kuwait, 1800-1801, sign on and ID in English.
The beginning of the transmission apparently was still using the HFCC
listed 300 kW transmitter beamed 100 degrees for the Urdu language
program that ends at 1759:59 GMT and you can hear the switch between
1800:58 and 1801:15 GMT to the HFCC listed 500 kW transmitter beaming
310 degrees. At 1845 male with the ID as the "International English
Broadcasting Radio of the State of Kuwait." 4/17/13 (Steve Handler,
Buffalo Grove, Illinois, Icom IC-7200, Tecsun PL-660, wire antennas,
NASWA Flashsheet April 21 via DXLD)
15540, Radio Kuwait heard at 1930 GMT, program entitled "Events that
swayed the course of human events and changed history." 4/17/13 (Bob
Brossell, Pewaukee WI, JRC NRD-545; Eton E1; Sony SW-77, NASWA
Flashsheet April 21 via DXLD)
21580, Radio Kuwait at 1950 on 4/19. Good with W in English
interpreting the Koran for you. Not shown in EiBi at this hour, //
15540. 1955 with M giving broadcast wrap-up with address, phone number
and fax number to use for reception reports. Very modern-sounding
announcer (Gerry Dexter, Lake Geneva WI, TenTech 340, "Parker"
balanced doublet, NASWA Flashsheet April 21 via WORLD OF RADIO 1666,
DXLD)
Suspect transmission mixup, but worth further checking. Wrap up at
1955? I wonder if his times are off as wrapup should be one hour later
(Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Radio Kuwait. 15540, fair in listed Urdu 1724 on 20 April,
subcontinent music alternating with jovial group of men and women.
Anthem 1759, then opening announcement for English service, suddenly
disappeared a minute or two later, came back on after a few secs,
stayed on for a couple of sentences, dropped for a bit, came back for
a few seconds, then off again, this time for quite some time.
Obviously having technical problems. Noted back on at 1820 recheck,
noticeably weaker, though that was likely due to propagation (Bruce
Portzer, Seattle, WA, Winradio Excalibur with K9AY antenna, dxldyg via
DX LISTENING DIGEST) another log at same date and time:
15540, 20/Apr 1759, R Kuwait in Urdu. YL talk. At 1800 start program
in English by OM. At 1800 full ID by OM, then out of the air for a few
seconds. Out of the air again at 1802. At 1804 the only carrier. Until
1810 constant carrier without modulation and soon after goes down. At
1809 back with Om talk. 35433 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana,
Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
See earlier entry above from Handler about presumed switch of
transmitter and antenna circa 1800 (gh)
13650, April 20 at 1828 music, 1829 Arabic announcement, then more
music sounded Christianish, but must not be, as R. Kuwait is here 17-
20 UT.
17550, April 20 after 2000, R. Kuwait`s next frequency is quite poor,
but by 2032 it`s much better at good level, in fact quite stronger
than English on 15540 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LAOS [non]. Suab Xaa Moo Zoo, Voice of Hope:
1130-1200 on 11570 TAI 100 kW / 250 deg to SEAs Hmong
2230-2300 on 7530 TAI 100 kW / 250 deg to SEAs Hmong
(DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013
via DXLD)
** LIBYA. 11600, R Libya with ID before 1642 April 19, S9 (Zacharias
Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
11600, 20/Apr 1830, R Libye in Arabic. OM talk, with pause of
instrumental music. At 1833 ID by OM. Back, with very good signal,
almost local. At 1834 ID by YL. 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana,
Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** LITHUANIA. 9400, Radio Free Asia; 0159-0200:57*, 16-Apr; Just
caught end of program (sked in Uighur); "You have been listening to
Radio Free Asia; the following program is in Uighur", and off. Good
(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) Not much else from this site (gh)
** MALAYSIA. 9835, Sarawak FM. Break between pop songs with studio W
announcer, mention of two websites at 1118:15 and ending with ID
before going back to music. (12 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA,
Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta
Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD)
9835, RTM 19 April at 1544 with traditional dances S4 11665 with a
different program, negaraku at 1600 with S7. That time 9835 is blocked
by 9830 RL ???? of a S20 signal (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki,
Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MALAYSIA. QSL: Voice of Malaysia, 15295, full data email and
promise of printed QSL to be sent in the mail in 608 days for English
airmail report and 2 IRCs, with a follow-up via registered airmail to
their PO box which was never picked up and returned, a further follow-
up via registered airmail with 2 IRCs which was delivered, a follow-up
with the Malaysian Embassy, and finally a follow-up with copies of
everything to Mr. Zulkifli Ab Rahim, Sr. Asst. Director of
Measurements. eQSL and promise of printed QSL arrived 20 days after
email follow-up. V/s Mr. Zulkifli Ab Rahim. The Malaysia QSL was
literally a Labor of Hercules! Mr. Ab Rahim further clarifies what
happened with RTV Malaysia:
"First and foremost please accept our apologies there has been no
response from RTM to your previous letters. Request for QSL
verification were previously handled by our colleagues in the
programme department. Around the year 2008 there was a major revamp
and restructuring of our organisational structure that left many staff
confused of what they were actually supposed to do. So late last year
- 2012, our Deputy Director Generale for technical services decided
replies to QSL request be handled by RTM's Technical Department."
Another QSL that I am extremely grateful for! Now if the Maldives and
Radio Vila Verde in Macao would only come through, but I think those
are write-offs (Al Muick, Whitehall PA USA, April 20, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST) VOM external service no longer exists on SW (gh)
I also received a QSL from Malaysia recently (Last Week)
Which can be seen here
http://www.dxinginfo.com/qsl/miscellaneous-gallery
or directly at following URL
http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/s720x720/17203_10151559623704038_1685845053_n.jpg
(Partha Sarathi Goswami, W.B., ibid.)
** MALI. At 2145-2230 UT Apr 21, on the Iceland remote post:
15505, CRI, Bamako MALI, Chinese, low modulation S=8. 73 wb df5sx
(Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 560, April 23 at 0554 UT after music, ID as ``La
Tremenda``, dominant unless nulled when US stations can be heard, i.e.
XESRD, Santiago Papasquiaro, Durango, 10/1 kW per Cantú.
I was wondering about the derivation of this strange name; no info on
that in Wikipedia, but I do learn it is a town about the same size as
Enid but four times as high; many emigrants from there are in Chicago.
In the news lately for kidnapping. Googling, I don`t find the name
Papasquiaro applying to anyplace or anyone else (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 580, April 23 at 0549 UT, promo for ``Noticias
Rancherita del Aire``, singing ID for same, live DJ with timecheck and
26 degrees; often dominant over opposite WIBW Topeka KS with which it
makes a 2 Hz SAH, i.e. XEMU, Piedras Negras, Coahuila, 5/2.5 kW (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 660, April 23 at 0500 UT the Mexican NA is playing,
followed by dead air, open carrier with background hum surging to
foreground. So we know the big hum being heard here is from a United
States of Mexican rather than United States of American. Next will
have to tune in a few minutes earlier to determine which one.
Apparently they leave on not only the carrier after sign-off, but also
the Optimod which stupidly brings up the hum on the circuit. Tonight
it`s worse than usual, with slow pulsing too. 0548 recheck I think it
is off, but fades back in along with another Spanish station still
modulating.
My hunch is that the hummer is XEFZ in Monterrey NL, which is usually
the dominant Mexican on this frequency; but based solely on the
schedule hours in the 2012 IRCA Mexican Log, which cannot remain
totally accurate after publication: it`s 24 hours as are XEEY
Aguascalientes and XEAR Tampico, while these close at 0600: XEACB
Ciudad Delicias (which I have also heard before), XEWX Durango; while
the others sign off at some other time. However altho presented in UT,
those schedule times probably apply to winter non-DST rather than now.
UNIDENTIFIED. 660, April 24 at 0455 UT tuning in early trying to nail
down the hummer post-0500: dominant is lively Mexican music, but by
0456 an understation is playing choral Mexican NA, and that`s likely
to be the hummer; yes: 0500 NA stops and hum surges. (Every station
signing off with an anthem, anywhere, should be required to insert a
quick legal ID *after* it!)
660, April 24 at 0524 & 0536 UT, IDs in passing for 98.9, La Lupe,
mixing with others, so that`s XEACB, Ciudad Delicias, Chih., not the
hummer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. A longtime mystery here is a station on MW 800 often heard
with extremely distorted modulation. I`m fairly sure it is one of the
two in NE Mexico near you. Wonder in you could hear it on groundwave
in the daytime and get a fix on it or ID? Listed names:
XEDD in Montemorelos NL, La Tremenda
XEZR in Zaragoza, Coahuila, La Traviesa
73, (Glenn to Jerry Ervine, via DXLD)
At 1306 4/23, La Tremenda was announced, and later Montemorelos, NL.
Very clear and readable. It does become a bit raspy around 1355. At
1402, lots of MX and ID of station name, etc, but no clear call, XEDD.
A mix of talk and MX. Hope this helps. 73, (Jerry Ervine, Mission,
RGV, TX, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Bet that`s it, rasp coming & going (gh)
** MEXICO. 1570, April 18 at 1145 UT, Spanish station playing
``Mañanitas`` soulful song customary among Mexicans (and other
Latinos?) to greet the day, especially for those celebrating births.
How closely do stations coördinate this with local sunrise? It so
happens that today`s SR in Tulsa OK is 1146 UT, but I really doubt
that KZLI would be doing this, altho could have just bumped up to day
power.
Strong and steady signal, the only Spanish audible, surely XERF still
skywaving, so when is sunrise there? Gaisma.com lists many smaller
towns, but not Ciudad Acuña! Fortunately it does list Del Rio TX: 1214
UT.
Here are the lyrix of Mañanitas, plus translation, and quite a
different performance than the one I just heard:
http://www.cancionfeliz.com/mananitas.php
You might want to Google up a more traditional version (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 2910, April 18 at 1135 UT, can make out a carrier vs band
noise, presumably still third harmonic of XEVT, 970, Villahermosa,
Tabasco. DXing MW harmonix on the 2 MHz band with their very weak
signals is rather out of the question in the stormy months, but best
chances with least noise before sunrise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 6010-, April 18 at 1118, R. Mil morning news show
with W&M anchors, Obama clip in English as I tune in, voiced-over to
Spanish. A het on hi side, perhaps HJDH Colombia not faded out yet?
Too late for Brasil. Altho they vary somewhat, Thomas Nilsson, SW
Bulletin, Sweden measured these as follows, April 13 at 0230:
Colombia 6009.87
Mexico 6009.96
Brasil 6010.096
Altho the last two were tentative. The het I am hearing is above, not
below Mexico, so maybe something Asian close to 6010.0. Per Aoki, the
only other thing on at this time is 20 kW, ND R. Rossii,
Blagovestchensk/Yakutsk RUSSIA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
6010+, April 19 at 0448-0453+, Spanish discussion about crime,
presumed R. Mil. At this time, no hets from other stations; is
Colombia off? XEOI is usually reported on the lo side of 6010, but
compared to 1010 signals, this is slightly on the hi side. Encroaching
from above is bleed from the 6030 jammer pileup; on the lo side,
splash from incomparably stronger 6000 RHC English. 6010 itself is
about to be creamed directly by RHC English moving there from 0500
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Regarding this post of yours from this morning. Unknown, 6010.226,
Spanish announcer with news of South America. Peaking barely above the
noise on a quiet morning. I don't believe it was the regularly present
Colombian I see on 6010.126. There was another carrier about 100 Hz
lower with no discernible audio, which might have been the Colombian.
Radio Mil, the Mexican station audible here regularly lately on
6009.096v was not present this morning; beginning around 0930 (Mike
Gilchrist, April 19, DXLD)
6010, April 20 at 0457, only one signal in Spanish, and it`s talking
about cristianos, so presumed COLOMBIA, q.v., contrary to my
assumption yesterday that it was XEOI. Radio Mil must be off the air
again, hope not completely; but no signal either at 1158, just open
carrier from CRI English which brings up audio closing Chinese lesson
a few sex before 1200. Before 1157 had been the best shot for XEOI
QRM-free.
6010, yes, XEOI Radio Mil is definitely off the air again. April 22
set alarm to get me up by 1147 to check for any signal, and nothing
there between the Juche jammers. I had discovered it back on the air
March 8, as in DXLD 13-11, and it was gone by April 19. Will it be
away again for another year, or forever? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF
RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MICRONESIA. 4755.52, PMA-The Cross Radio, 1159:15*, April 18; fair;
off after DTMF tones (dual-tone multi-frequency signaling). Back on
Feb 24 had tx automatically off at 1159:40*. So probably a daily
change in their sign off time? (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA,
Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MIDWAY ISLAND. Did anyone ever hear KMTH-AM 900 Midway Island?
Since my parents passed away, I have been hoping to visit Midway
Island. (These days the island is rarely open to visitors, but I keep
making inquiries with the groups who are occasionally allowed to take
people there).
In addition to the obvious DXing potential of a remote and essentially
uninhabited island with long stretches of uncrowded beaches and
presumably very little electrical noise, the island is significant to
our family history. My mom worked as a teacher for the US Navy on
Midway 1959-1960 (can you imagine the DX potential back then?), and my
dad would volunteer to fly the mail runs from the USS Kearsarge on his
WestPac cruise so he could see her. About a year earlier, my wife's
father (one of the original UDT/SEALs) was stationed there briefly to
expand the harbor. Also, one of my wife's cousins who passed away two
years ago at age 89 was a WWII veteran who survived the bloody Battle
of Midway.
In researching (nice word for daydreaming about) this potential future
trip, I see that there used to be an armed forces radio station on
Midway, KMTH, which apparently operated at various times on 900 AM and
94.0(!) FM. Did any of our older members ever log this station?
http://s230.photobucket.com/user/Flaggster/media/Kmthlogo_350.jpg.html#/user/Flaggster/media/Kmthlogo_350.jpg.html?&_suid=1366778860062043766508578563806
73 (Tim Hall, Chula Vista, CA, April 23, ABDX via DXLD)
Both the photo before and the one after are good as well (Dennis
Gibson, ibid.)
I have two connections to Midway. In 1950 when the Korean war began,
my dad (an airline pilot) volunteered to fly supply missions for time-
critical cargo from SFO to Haneda, Tokyo Japan. He made six such round
trips in a DC6 with other crew, stopping in Hawaii, Midway and Wake. I
was 7 then. That whole detail lasted about 2 months, then we all drove
back to the NY area, my parents, 3 small kids all in a 1946 Caddy. (!)
We made that whole trip both ways in maybe 6 days, each way, when
there were no interstates. Newark was his "home" base.
In 1964 I was a student on the Univ. of the 7 seas and part of that
experience was sailing on a 490-foot steamship from Yokohama to HNL
and at one point we went past Midway, in the daytime, and on a "small"
Sony transistor set ("small" was about the size of a brick) I was able
to hear KMTH well enough to copy, maybe s-4, for a short while while
on "break" from shipboard classwork.
At the end of that Fall 64 semester we arrived in SFO and I was able
to meet up with Pete Taylor one evening for a visit and one thing I
remember was hearing ZCO Tonga 1020 from his place, mixed with KDKA
who apparently were semi-regular reception in Ca-li. That is one of my
fondest memories. 73 (Bob Foxworth, ibid.)
There's some further info on KMTH at
http://www.radioheritage.net/Story19.asp
My only connection with Midway Island is that it was my very first DX
contact outside of continental North America back when I was a young
ham (VE6AJC) in high school in Edmonton, Alberta. This was in the
early to mid 60's, and the contact was with KM6CE on 40m CW - what a
thrill! I think I still have the QSL card in a drawer somewhere. I
should scan some of those old cards sometime, just for the memories...
(Barry McLarnon, VE3JF, Ottawa, ON, ibid.)
I did work KM6AX in the late 50's. Midway was fairly easy to work then
as there were a lot of Navy personnel stationed there, and the one I
contacted was at a recreation club station. A number of these places
have become much more difficult to get on the ham bands as these
places were moved from Dept of Defense control, to the dept of the
interior, who placed a lot of red tapein the way of going there, and
this reduction in resident population surely helped lead to the
closure of the broadcast stations such as KMTH, and others such
as WXLG Kwajalein 1220. 73 (Bob Foxworth, ABDX via DXLD)
** MONGOLIA. 12085, V. of Mongolia. English here with news by W in
progress at 0902. ID ending the news at 0908 and into Chinese-like
music. 0928 W returned after song with mention of end of the English
program, ID, said another English broadcast at 1530 on 12015, website,
and final ID, then IS. Weak but there with 12080 Australia QRM. Had to
use USB as usual. (11 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR,
Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre
DX via DXLD)
12085, 0905, VOM, Ulan Bator, vgd 21/3 but over-modulated in English
with news. Quite readable in AM mode and tuned off frequency (Bryan
Clark at Mangawhai (Northland), New Zealand, with Drake SPR4,
AOR7030+, EWEs to North, Central & South America, 100m BOG to NE and
Alpha Delta Sloper antennas, April NZ DX Times via DXLD)
** MYANMAR. 7200.10, Myanmar Radio. April 18 heard with two noticeable
audio feeds at 1142; spurs on 7185.82 (almost as strong as primary
frequency) and faintly on 7214.38. Checked just before 1349* sign off
and 7200.10 still with two audios; strongest being a lecture in
vernacular (distance learning service) and weaker music audio; whereas
the spur on 7185.82 was just the opposite with stronger audio of the
music. Running somewhat pass their normal 1330*
7200.10, Myanmar Radio. April 22 still heard with two noticeable audio
feeds at 1310; spur on 7185.82 heard, but spur on 7214.38 covered by
QRM (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** MYANMAR. 7210.09, R. Myanmar. W announcer with presumed news to
1112, then percussion with short announcement by M, and into pleasant
Asian Pop song. Same W announcer returned at 1116-1120, then another
slower song with M vocal, and W again 1125. Still going at 1136 with W
between songs again amid adjacent ham QRM that started a few minutes
previous. 1137 sounded like two women talking, and again at 1144.
Still going at 1200 with talk by M then W. Odd that this stayed on so
late. Was very slowly drifting down but stabilized before it reached
7210.08. 9730.8 not on. Too bad Thazin is gone. (20 April) (Dave
Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’
vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD)
** MYANMAR. 7345, BURMA, Thazin Radio – Naaypyidaw (Presumed), 1123,
4/20/13, in listed Kayah. Woman, man, second man, woman and 2nd man
continue alternating. Poor (Mark Taylor, Madison WI, Microtelecom
Perseus, WinRadio g313e, Eton e1, Grunding G5 & Satellit 800; EWE,
Flextenna, 40 meters dipole, NASWA Flashsheet April 21 via DXLD)
7345 is listed as Rakhine Broadcasting Station (not Thazin). Thazin
Radio formerly was on 7110 from 0930 to 1500, but that broadcast has
been missing since early this year (probably still off due to tx
problems, per an email from Thazin Radio).
Mark's log seems unusual to me in that he does not mention QRM from
CNR1 (1100-1735). If he did hear Rakhine B.S., I would think it would
have been underneath CNR1, as it's 100KW vs. 50KW. He makes no mention
of that. If he was ONLY hearing one station, then most likely it was
CNR1, which could have been confirmed by checking for //.
I do regularly hear Myanmar here in Calif. on 7345 mixing with CNR1.
Some days Myanmar holds their own against China. Can tell it is them
by their distinctive sign off indigenous instrumental theme music
played just before 1330* (they are very regular with their sign off
time). Hope this helps (Ron Howard, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MYANMAR. 9730.855, R. Myanmar, 1110 definite talk by W, in music at
1111. W returned at 1118:50. Stronger than noted the other day and
actually fairly strong carrier, but audio level barely there. Slightly
stronger on the Wellbrook but also higher noise. Easy-listening M
vocal subcontinental music at 1218. Soft-spoken W at 1222 briefly,
then back to music. W announcer again at 1225. Suddenly off at
1227:45. Severe QRM from 9730 CRI after 1200 but able to notch it out.
Actually both were about equal. Had Myanmar's audio level been up to
100%, it would have been IDable. (8 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA,
USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular
Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. 9895, R. NEDERLAND (250 kW, Cypress Creek,
U.S.A.), 0000 UT. Announcement of WHRI in English, then Spanish ID of
Radio Nederland and beggining of "El Toque". SINPO: 55555 (Eduardo
PEÑAILILLO, Receiver: Brigmton BT-360; Antenna: wire antenna, 7 meter
(approx.) QTH: North zone of Santiago, residential area, Chile, April
23, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. Mighty KBC April 21, 2013 summary
Mighty KBC April 21, 2013 0000-0200 UTC 7375 kHz via Nauen, Germany.
SIO 433 with QRM from utility on 7373 kHz and Radio Marti on 7365 kHz
via Greenville, North Carolina.
Program consisted of the "Giant Jukebox", "Pink Ronny", digital text,
"A Day in History", "Dutch News" and "Hello to Listeners".
Results of digital text.
****************************************************
2013-4-21 0129 UTC THOR22 centered on 1000 Hz
Hello Eric and shortwave listeners,
On The Mighty KBC, we have tried just about every digital text mode.
Soon we must make a decision about which mode is best suited for use
with shortwave broadcasting.
When that mode is selected, it will be time to think about developing
software applications (apps) to simplify decoding of the mode on PCs
and on mobile devices.
Thanks to The Mighty KBC.
****************************************************
2013-4-21 0129 UTC MSFK22 centered on 2000 Hz
Hello Eric and shortwave listeners,
On The Mighty KBC, we have tried just about every digital text mode.
Soon we must make a decision about which mode is best suited for use
with shortwave broadcasting.
When that mode is selected, it will be time to think about developing
software applications (apps) to simplify decoding of the mode on PCs
and on mobile devices.
Thanks to The Mighty KBC.
****************************************************
2013-4-21 0159 UTC MSFK32 centered on 1000 Hz
The Mighty KBC is signing off now, but VOA Radiogram will be on the
air soon, at 0230 UTC, on 5745 kHz, via North Carolina.
On this weekend's VOA Radiogram, the featured mode is THOR, especially
its faster versions. They can be decoded using Fldigi from w1hkj.com.
Here is the VOA Radiogram schedule:
(all days and times UTC)
Sat 1600-1630 17860 kHz
Sun 0230-0300 5745 kHz
Sun 1300-1330 6095 kHz
Sun 1930-2000 15670 kHz
And please visit voaradiogram.net
Thanks to The Mighty KBC
****************************************************
2013-4-21 0159 UTC MSFK32 centered on 2000 Hz
Sending Pic:135x79C;
with white KBC letters on blue background
see image here
http://misc.kg4lac.com\2013-4-21-MightyKBC-7375kHz-0159UTC-MSFK32.jpg
****************************************************
73, (Kraig, KG4LAC, Krist, Manassas, Virginia, United States of
America, April 21, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. VOICE OF NIGERIA, 14.04.2013, 190,0 15120 kHz, E-PARL
OTTIMO, Minuti totali di trasmissione in DRM: 16226 in netto calo. La
stazione che va per la maggiore in questo periodo è Radio Nigeria
ricevibile, secondo i tips sopra trascritti, con segnale ottimo.
(Ascolti DRM di Giovanni Lorenzi – IT9TZZ, QTH: Messina - Italy 38.11
N 15.32 E, Locator JM78SE, Ant: Longwire 25 m / Dipole, Down converter
per DRM: homebrewing
Website: http://www.webalice .it/it9tzz
Ham info: www.qrz.com/ db/it9tzz
bclnews.it yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DXLD)
15120-AM, April 24 at 0516, VON with hum and some distortion, YL
talking about women & girls in technology; S9+10 peaks (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
[and non]. 15120, Ein bisserl audio-technisch besser, wenn auch mit
minus/plus 50 Hertz Toenen verbrummten Traegern hoert sich Voice of
Nigeria aus Ikorodu an. Eine sehr professionelle weibliche Ansagerin
fordert mich auf, bei schoener westafrikanischer Musik zu relaxen.
S=9+5dB nicht sehr starkes Signal fuer Equinox zur Tag-und-Nach-
Gleiche, gehoert um 0536 UT Apr 12.
Im Hintergrund des Kanals muesste AIR Bangalore laengst den Hindi
Dienst beendet haben. Jetzt hoert man im Hintergrund auch CRI Peking
in Englisch. Ein 'unschoener Dreiklang'.
15120, V of Nigera BUZZY signal. One hears on 15120 kHz buzzy audio
technically a little better than R Cairo 13850, but with minus / plus
50 Hz BUZZ tone carriers of Voice of Nigeria from Ikorodu. A very
professional friendly female announcer asks me to relax with nicer
West African music this early morning. S=9+5 dB is not very strong
signal for Equinox Day-and-After-week, same belongs to 0536 UT April
12th.
In the background of the channel would have to have already completed
the AIR Hindi Bangalore service. Now you can hear in the background
even CRI Beijing in English. An 'ugly triad' (Wolfgang Büschel, April
12, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Apr 19 via DXLD)
** NORTH AMERICA. 1710 kHz, The Big Q ***farewell broadcast?*** - 0516
UT 4/14/2013 - Usual good signal but horrible t-storm static. Oldies
and AM nostalgia by "The Midnight Man" but mentioned several times
throughout the broadcast that this season would be the final season
for The Big Q due to "life changing events" taking place. The
announcer also said this might very well be his final broadcast. Sad
news; I really enjoyed catching this one. Thanked several listeners by
name for wading through the fades and staying up late (Tim TROMP, MI,
MARE Tipsheet via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DXLD)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6930, 0705, HOBBY PIRATE, Grizzly Bear Shortwave at
poor-fair level talking about listener in Hawaii, ident and email
address for reports 30/3. Still audible at 0810 recheck (Bryan Clark
at Mangawhai (Northland), New Zealand, with Drake SPR4, AOR7030+, EWEs
to North, Central & South America, 100m BOG to NE and Alpha Delta
Sloper antennas, April NZ DX Times via DXLD) Late hour and making it
so far across Pacific implies west coast QTH? (gh, DXLD)
6930, PIRATE, Grizzly Bear Shortwave 0150 with a song about Grizzly
Bear, I assume this is their signature song, other Blues tunes, “I’m
in the mood for Blues.”, occasional IDs. Strong Apr 20 (Harold
Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening in my car with the Eton
E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna. Editor of World English Survey and
Target Listening, available at http://www.odxa.on.ca dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
6930-AM, April 20 at 0536, very poor signal vs noise level, can tell
there is an AM pirate with music, slightly on lo side compared to MW
930; poor at peaks, seems nostalgic music. Per HF Underground, this
was Grizzly Bear Radio, as IDed during this hour by Harry L Smith,
Springfield OH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. Mike Rohde, Hilliard OH, busted for operating 6925
pirate Radio Ronin: see U S A
** OKLAHOMA. 530, fake callsign ``K530AM``, Vance AFB has been on the
air continuously since first discovered in February {except for that
ice-storm power outage we noted, when they couldn`t even come up with
10 watts of backup battery power}. And there has still never been any
mention of Enid`s newest radio station in Scoop, the weekly base
newspaper published by the Eagle, nor in the Eagle itself. Allegedly
10 watts, on caradio it`s quite good all over Enid in the daytime. The
KTA TIS in southern KS is covered up. At night it`s weak enough to be
nullable for Cuba on the DX-398.
April 22 at 1648-1651 UT, I take three minutes to copy the PSA/ID loop
to see if there have been any changes:
Wireless Amber alerts, Ad Council
Internet risky for kids, ncpc.org USDOJ and Ad Council
Vance AFB Harrison Gate is open 24 hpd; Baker 0630-0900 M-F excluding
federal holidays
Crimestoppers on Vance: call hotline 580-213-7200; or emergency 911
Large commercial vehicles go to Search gate: open M-F 0630-1830; Sat
0630-1430 or call if needed elsewhen
FEMA`s new Guide to Preparedness, fema.gov or 800-480-2520
ID: ``This is K530AM ---`` but cut off for another ID but with
background noise, why? ``K530AM, operated by Vance Air Force Base``
Amber alert, again ---
Previously there were a few other PSAs in rotation which might still
appear at other dayparts (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1120, April 22 at 1447 and 1647 UT, KEOR Catoosa / Sperry
/ Tulsa remains absent, as it has been for a few days now. When it
came back as ``Radio Victoria`` with praise music in Spanish, we
expected it to stay, but no (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1520, April 18 at 0530 UT, KOKC `Redeye Radio`
pauses for one-minute CBS news special report on West TX explosion;
and again with heavy QRM from unknown source Mexican music, making
fast SAH (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1610, April 22 and for weeks now, no trace in Enid of the
TIS at Great Salt Plains State Park, suspect off the air. WQCL720 had
been JBA on caradio at quiet spots in Enid outskirts, and easily
audible a few miles north on US 81/60/64, but lastly with nothing but
hum, previously with NWS relay, and before that with axual info about
the area, including selenite crystal-digging. Must check for sure next
time I head northward.
1610, April 22 at 1921 UT at a quiet location with caradio inside
Enid, I can still hear a weak hum, no doubt from WQCL720 at Great Salt
Plains State Park, contrary to yesterday`s assumption that they had
finally turned it off. What a waste (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** OMAN. 13600, 0306, Radio Sultanate of Oman, Muscat, good 2 April
with English news headlines, short anthem and into Breakfast Show. Now
heard regularly with pops, headlines from Muscat newspapers, listener
competitions till closing abruptly around 0400 (Bryan Clark at
Mangawhai (Northland), New Zealand, with Drake SPR4, AOR7030+, EWEs to
North, Central & South America, 100m BOG to NE and Alpha Delta Sloper
antennas, April NZ DX Times via DXLD)
15595, Radio Sultanate of Oman, Thumryat (presumed), 2055-2105. Talk
in Arabic by a man followed by music. Possible few bars of music at
2100, then talk in Arabic by a man, probably news. Very weak,
threshold level signal with lots of noise and some fading. Audible
about 50% of the time on an afternoon with enhanced Middle Eastern
reception. 4/15/2013 (Jim Evans Germantown TN, Perseus, IC-R75, RX-
340, ALA100M Loop, Eavesdropper Dipole, Random Wire (90'), NASWA
Flashsheet April 21 via DXLD)
** PAKISTAN. 15265, R. Pakistan. Carrier was already on along with VOA
at 1633. IS start at 1655:48 over top of VOA!! 1659 M vocal very
briefly, M with short announcement followed by another M with ID in
pres. Urdu. Deadair, fanfare, 3 time ticks, then W with ID and giving
her name at 1700, news headlines and in detail to 1710 and ending with
website. M announcer with ID in English "R. Pakistan External Service"
and frequency given, then into presumed Urdu. (8 April) (Dave Valko,
Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical
triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD)
15265, 20/Apr 1742, R Pakistan in Urdu. Local pop music. At 1749 Om
quick talk and more music. Very weak signal, much fading, better when
music 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W -
Brasil, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
15730, April 19 at 1244, distorted music and announcements fading out
and in. Can`t recognize the language, but HFCC, Aoki and EiBi all
agree it can only be R. Pakistan, Chinese service at 1200-1300, 250
kW, 70 degrees from API-6 Islamabad (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
WELCOME TO THE 21ST CENTURY: RADIO PAKISTAN CONTINUES DRIVE INTO
DIGITAL AGE --- Express Tribune April 23, 2013 Islamabad
Radio Pakistan, which has embraced web technology over the past five
years, made not one but three new technological leaps on Monday.
Radio Pakistan Director-General Murtaza Solangi inaugurated three
projects which would allow the country’s national radio service to
report better from outdoor locations, broadcast its world services via
the web, and interactively update the public on the upcoming
elections.
The projects — a satellite communication system, internet streaming of
the radio’s International Services and a dedicated elections website —
were launched at the National Broadcasting House in Islamabad.
The satellite communication system includes an earth station located
inside the Radio Pakistan building and a digital satellite news
gathering (DSNG) mobile van, capable of bidirectional communication
and editing.
Ghulam Mujaddid, technical adviser to the director-general, said the
DSNG van will improve Radio Pakistan’s reporting from outlying areas.
“Before this, we used to use standard telephony for outdoor
communications,” Mujaddid said. “Satellite communication will improve
the quality of signals received from the field.”
The DSNG is also capable of sending audio and video feeds from the
field directly to a control room in the radio’s headquarters, he said.
Earlier, the international services, which include broadcasts in 11
world languages and an Urdu World Service, were only available on
shortwave radio.
Now, thanks to satellite transmission, people in 38 countries from
South Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe can use receivers to
tune in to these services. The services are also available on the
internet, where listeners can stream and listen, just like radio
stations in the West.
Solangi said the satellite communication system would help Radio
Pakistan save Rs7 million of its costs of running generators for
shortwave communications and of leasing broadcast media from the
Pakistan Television.
Radio Pakistan’s dedicated elections website will provide interactive
constituency maps, election-related news, code of conducts and
elections results among other things, Solangi said.
“The elections web portal will serve as a resource for journalists and
researchers reporting on and monitoring the elections,” he said.
During his address, Solangi also listed the achievements of the radio
service. digitised old radio archives and established a web presence
through its website.
“Today, we have listeners of Radio Pakistan, readers who visit our
website and even viewers who watch our online video content,” Solangi
said. “We are not traditional radio anymore, now we are emerging as a
multimedia company.”
http://tribune.com.pk/story/539047/welcome-to-the-21st-century-radio-pakistan-continues-drive-into-digital-age/
Published in The Express Tribune, April 23rd, 2013 (via Jaisakthivel,
ADXC, Tirunelveli, India, and via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD)
So the implication is that satellite will replace shortwave with its
expensive generators? (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DXLD)
Two internet streams for the Radio Pakistan external service are now
available at:
http://www.radio.gov.pk/externalworldservice
"World Service" is the stream which should carry news in English at
0905-0910, 1100-1105 and 1700-1710. This stream confirmed signing on
at 0830 this morning in Urdu with fairly good audio, whereas audio on
the parallel shortwave frequencies 15725 and 17720 was extremely
distorted - almost unintelligible. 73s (Dave Kenny, BDXC-UK yg via
WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DXLD)
** PAPUA NEW GUINEA [and non log]. 3204.96, NBC Sandaun. April 17
noted 1307*; had been silent for a while; another erratic NBC station.
April 18 had much better reception; here for two consecutive days!
3260, NBC Madang. April 18 at 1208 with “NBC National Radio 90.7 FM”
ID; into a quiz for listeners to call in and answer some questions;
went off the air about 1228; later than their normal 1210*.
3915, Radio Fly still silent, along with 5960, as of April 18 (Ron
Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
3204.968, NBC Sandaun, West Sepik, Man in Pidgin // 3384.998 with a
few ms delay between the two. 1127 taking a phone-in call. Peaking at
my sunrise. Weaker carrier, but stronger audio. Stronger modulation
obvious on visible waterfall on SDR with 2 VFOs active. Song with
voice over. Same song as 3385v which did not have the voice over. 1149
fading, but 3385v peaking. Apr 20.
3384.997, April 20 at 1150, NBC R East New Britain, 33233, See
beginning notes on 3205v, other NBC outlet. 1152 local ads and
telephone numbers. 1152 into another song with voice over. 1155 studio
dead air for several seconds. 1156, he takes a phone in from a local
woman. His audio is strong, the caller's not. 1158 Strong peaks, deep
fades, asking callers to call in and giving number. 1158:15 baby
crying sound effect. May be an ad for baby products, "baby, papa" Off
at 1201:20 during start of song and strong peak. 3205v still on but no
audio discernible. As is 3260v, and 3365v, but still no sign of 3905.
My sunrise this morning was 1121 (Mike Gilchrist in rural EC Iowa,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
3260, NBC Madang (presumed), 1150-1208 April 22. Island music, M
announcer in Pidgin, I believe; seemed to switch to English around
1201, with possibly news; mention of "NBC"; brief YL announcement at
1208 and off at 1208:45. Fairly good signal but minimal readability
due to usual high noise level. Other PNG signals noted on 3385 and
3365; 3260 was the "best" of the lot.
3385, R. East New Britain (presumed), 1143-1201* April 21. YL talking;
one or two selections of vocal music; 1200 choral music (anthem?) and
off at 1201. Fair signal but no match for the noise (John Wilkins,
Wheat Ridge, Colorado, Drake R-8, 100-foot RW, Dxingwithcumbre yg via
DXLD)
** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 7324.96, Wantok R. Light. Discovered it was over
the Chinese at 1023 and fairly readable, so stuck with it. End of
religious program. Was shocked to find the Chinese go off at 1030
leaving Wantok totally in the clear!! Local studio M announcer came
with program intro, and into "The Lighthouse Messenger" program with W
host giving English PSA/messages. Unfortunately her audio was a little
muffled. 1040 beautiful ID and outro for "The Lighthouse Messenger".
1040-1043 choral religious music, then nice ID by studio M at 1043 and
continued talk in Tok Pisin. His audio was better than the W
previously. 1044:35 M announcer gave his name. 1048:35 possibly
another ID. 1050 more soft religious music. 1051 M back mention of
tonight, inspiration, and religious talk over ToH. Still no Chinese.
Finally back to music at 1106. 1107 Ad for "Michael & Michael" heavy
machinery including an ID. 1110 W announcer returned but difficult
muffled audio again, then a lively island song. 1114 "The Nightlife
Edition"(??) program and ID at 1115:15. (15 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo,
PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical
triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD)
7324.96, Wantok Radio Light on April 18 at 1202 with information about
the just concluded Ravi Zacharias program; W.R.L. ID; better than
yesterday`s reception (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
7325-, April 18 1109, can`t sleep so might as well try for Wantok
Radio Light, currently unimpeded by the ChiComs since their 7325
transmitter site carrying CRI Japanese at 10-13 is down for
maintenance, as reported by Hiroshi Inoue and Sei-ichi Hasegawa to the
DXLD yg. Now problem is the bigsig on adjacent 7320 from R. Rossii,
Magadan, RUSSIA, 100 kW aimed USward at 45 degrees.
But I can detect the WRL carrier, and as Ron Howard reports it on
7324.96, it is indeed slightly on the lo side, compared to 9325 RFA
Saipan. 1130 it`s a little stronger, as I make out a fanfare perhaps
introducing some program; 1158 some talk past 1200, meanwhile with
timepips from 7320 audible about a dekasecond late. After more music,
at 1230 going into talk, perhaps `Back to the Bible` as Ron has
logged, if it`s on daily. Now the signal has surged to very poor.
BTW, Aoki shows the off-period for the Jinhua-Youbu 831 site of CRI
7325 at 10-13 UT is April 15 to May 25. Meanwhile more 7325 CRI
Japanese from 13 to 14 UT continues from a different site, Xi`an, but
note this: Aoki already shows it will be off from June 17 to July 29.
In mid-summer that will probably be too late for WRL propagation to
here, but helpful further west; the continuous hiatus 1400-1430 is
already way too late for us (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hi Glenn, Yes, it seems "Back to the Bible" is a daily show. April 19
noted 1231 with today's program presented by Woodrow Kroll and Tami
Weissert. Also the Ravi Zacharias program daily seems to end about
1202, followed by singing till the start of the "Back to the Bible"
show (Ron Howard, CA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
7325, April 20 at 1225-1233+ very poor, narration in English with
music bits; not much ACI from 7320 Russia; presumed Wantok Radio
Light.
7325, April 21 at 1213, very poor signal with English talk, 1216
music, presumed Wantok Radio Light. Are they ever in Tok Pisin or
other PNG languages? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
7324.96, Wantok Radio Light, 1210-1245 April 22. Lite vocals,
occasional M announcer; 1229 bird call, flute, and ID; 1230 sounded
like a brokered religious program, beginning with music and followed
by talk in US-accented English; noted YL with 1-800 phone number at
1243. Peaked around 1230 with a fair signal and went downhill after
that. Slight splatter from 7320 but otherwise QRM-free (John Wilkins,
Wheat Ridge, Colorado, Drake R-8, 100-foot RW, Dxingwithcumbre yg via
DXLD)
7325, April 22 at 1217, Wantok Radio Light still very weak but clear
of CRI QRM during its maintenance period; and not much ACI from
Magadan 7320. Vocal music, probably hymn; 1222 announcements, 1225
more music; 1229 announcement with yelping, praise song; 1233 still no
recognizable `Back to the Bible` nominally from 1230, as Ron Howard
says it is scheduled; but at 1235 ``Welcome to Back to the Bible`` ---
the only clear and definite English copy I have had from WRL.
Mike Gilchrist replies to my query about whether they use other
languages: ``Usually in Pidgin before 11 or so. Sometimes TOH and
other times 1115 when English syndicated programs start`` (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
7324.96, Wantok Radio Light. April 22 at 1134 preaching in Tok
Pisin/Pidgin, but Bible verses were in English.
Regarding “Back to the Bible” programs - Was not heard around 1230 on
Sunday (April 21), so apparently only on during weekdays. Start up
times vary, as Glenn noted April 22; started at 1235 with clear ID
“Back to the Bible with Tami Weissert” with show about “Daniel in the
lion's den” (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
7325, April 23 at 1249, not even a carrier from Wantok Radio Light.
While it may be too much to expect something from its 1 kW every day
even with no CCCCI, I still wonder if it`s off the air today (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hi Glenn, April 23 did hear WRL sometime before 1200, but was
certainly off the air sometime after that, just as you noted.
Fortunately was not too serious a problem, as they were again heard
with decent signal at 1417 with organ music, during their half hour
open window for reception (Ron Howard, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Glad that Glenn checked. I had set my timer to pick this one up this
morning, as absolutely nothing here between 1200 and 1300, with the
very strong CRI signing-on just before 1300. 73, (Walt Salmaniw,
Victoria, BC, ibid.)
7325, April 24 at 1200, JBA carrier, presumed Wantok Radio Light. Ron
Howard and Walt Salmaniw confirm it was off the air during this hour
yesterday, but was on earlier and later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 4960, Received the following QSL e-mail from
Father Paul Kote, Director of Radio Maria, a Catholic FM network in
PNG in response to a recording I sent him of the Catholic Radio
Network broadcast on 4960 kHz on Jan 3, 2006 from 1201 to 1331 UT.
[later] "Dear Bruce, Elizta, the audio technician has verified the
recording as from St. Gabriel radio from Vanimo (PNG). This radio
station is now operated by Radio Maria. We are transmitting through
103.5 FM. Many greetings and have blessed day. Thanks Fr. Paul Kote"
WRTH never identified this station as St. Gabriel Radio in its 2006-
2008 editions nor did it have any address for sending reports.
Apparently CRN had some problems and Radio Maria was established in
2006 as a new Catholic broadcasting network in PNG. Both organizations
were headquartered in Boroko while the St. Gabriel Radio transmitter
was in Vanimo as indicated above. Very pleased to get this, especially
from a station no longer operating. This was always a tough catch on
WCNA even though it had as much power as Wantok R. Light and R. Fly
(Bruce W. Churchill, CA, Apr 17, DXplorer via BC-DX April 19 via DXLD)
** PERU. CHASQUI DX PFA – ABRIL 2013 --- CQ, CQ, CQ…Aquí Pedro F.
Arrunátegui para compartir algo con los que disfrutan y aman el DX
latinoamericano, todas las horas son UTC, desde la tierra de los
incas, les informo mediante este Quipus lo siguiente:
3329.54, PERÚ, R. Ondas del Huallaga, Huánuco, 16/04 1055-1115,
33333+, mxf, ID "Yo escucho Ondas del Huallaga", advs Respete la señal
de tránsito y evitemos accidentes de tránsito, fue un mensaje del
Gobierno Regional, Centro San Martin, Ahora en Huánuco, Conduce Perú,
la primera escuela de choferes; mx varias
4774.95, PERÚ, R. Tarma, Tarma, 16/04 1120-1150, 44444+, px Noticiero
El Demoledor, news, ID "Por Radio Tarma Internacional" informan sobre
las explosiones en Boston, advs Choli gas, el mejor distribuidor de
gas en Tarma, ID "Muy buenos días, amigos de Radio Tarma
Internacional, ahora las noticias deportivas en el Año de la Fe"
4955.00, PERÚ, R. Cultural Amauta, Huanta, 8/04 118 [sic]-1145,
44444++, px en quechua, advs iglesia Evangélica Presbiteriana, mxf con
temas religiosos, ID "Radio Cultural Amauta"
4984.20, PERÚ, R. Voz Cristiana, Chilca, Huancayo, 17/05 1110-1140,
44444++, ID "Estamos cumpliendo una gran comisión, trasmite Radio Voz
Cristina para el Perú y el Mundo”. Frecuencia comprobada en LSB y USB;
px Siempre en Conexión con Dios, advs, escuche el magazín de las
mañana todos los jueves y viernes, mxf huayno con temas religiosos. ID
"Radio Voz Cristiana" Nota.- cada 5 minutos aproximadamente están
dando su ID grabado.
5024.98, PERÚ, R. Quillabamba, Quillabamba, 14/04 2155-2220, 44444, px
deportivo, partido de fútbol desde Madadura, Copa Perú Maco Segundo vs
Enaco, ID "Por Radio Quillabamba"
5039.20, PERÚ, R. Libertad, Junín, 2/04 1135-1210, 44444, px medicina
natural cubana en esta ciudad de Junín, Jr. Simón Bolívar en esta
ciudad de Junín; mxf huaylas, advs orquesta Fenomenales de Junín,
Panadería Terrer en esta ciudad de Junin, advs Aplique Ecortizan en su
ganado, jugo Noni para el tratamiento Noni para toda la familia, px
Noticiero Libertad (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, Perú, Chasqui DX
Abril, en compañía de mi sabueso Icom IC R72 acompañado del Mizuho KX-
3, una antena de hilo largo de 20 metros y una antena loop, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980.00, PERÚ, R. Chaski, Juliaca, 7/04 1134-1202, 44444++,
px religioso sobre el Salmo 110. Con la Semántica grabación de R.
Trans Mundial, mx religiosa himnos, ID " Escuche la palabra de Dios en
la región Cusco a través de Radio Chaski, 630 kHz.."
(Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, Perú, Chasqui DX Abril, en compañía de mi
sabueso Icom IC R72 acompañado del Mizuho KX-3, una antena de hilo
largo de 20 metros y una antena loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
5980, April 18 at 0056, despite heavy storm noise from further south
in OK, even tornados (only lite rain here), R. Chaski carrier is still
detectable with BFO; 5990 CRI/Cuba splash is off by 0100, and Chaski
cutoff timed at 0103:44, which is 5.5 sex later than last nite.
5980, April 19 at 0038, carrier from R. Chaski, Urubamba, is
detectable on the FRG-7, so this evening I decide to monitor it on the
main rig, rather than going out to the cold, damp porch with the DX-
398 as usual. Some but not all the household noise sources are off.
Carrier cuts off at 0103:49* which is 5 sex later than last nite
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
From 0030 tune-in the carrier was fairly strong with fairly weak
audio. I am attaching a recording: 5980, R Chaski (presumed), 0030 on
April 20, Within .5 Hz of 5980. Man in Spanish, piano music. Using LSB
and a 3 kHz filter, no splash from 5990 even visible in waterfall.
0050-0055 recording. 0053 musical interlude the female announcer. 0055
Champaign music. 0058- recording, song still playing. 0101:31 song
fades, with man in Spanish over song 0103 carrier off. Left recording
going to show noise level. Friendly Regards, (Mike Gilchrist,
Disruptive Technologist, Advanced Wireless Express, P.O. Box 255,
Toledo, IA 52342, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
5980, April 20 at 0100, I was out at a big-band concert, so had to
miss a nightly Chaski-check. However, I am glad to see some others
reporting this now: Mike Gilchrist in IA, presumed, 0030-0103* April
20 within 0.5 Hz of 5980; Chuck Bolland FL, an hour earlier at 2347-
2359 April 19, tentatively threshold on 5980.048, as I hope his
precise frequency readings are now accurate.
5980, April 21 at 0053, R. Chaski carrier is detectable in hi noise
level (back to the porch at 66 degrees F with the DX-398), and cut off
the air at 0103:59.5* which is 10.5 seconds later than two nites ago
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Glenn, I chased the presumed Chaski signal again tonight. I carefully
calibrated my oscillator and measured the frequency as 5980.004, at
least tonight. The carrier was stronger tonight and could barely make
out some words. I did record it. I believe the signal is
undermodulated.
There is another weaker carrier on 5983.929 which is stronger on a SW
bearing as opposed to the SE bearing for Chaski. I will check again
tomorrow if I am able. I listened from 0030 to 0104 off (Mike
Gilchrist, Toledo, IA 52342, UT April 21, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
5980, April 22 at 0056, R. Chaski carrier is audible in noise level
and splash from CRI/Cuba 5990. As expected, carrier cut at 0104:05*,
which is 5.5 seconds later than last night. Will this precession ever
reach 0105 this cycle before resetting the timer back to 0100+?
5980, April 23 [not 22 as in original report] at 0057, R. Chaski
carrier as usual detectable weakly in the noise level, including
storms in the next county to the north, Grant. At 0100 can tell it`s
Spanish; 0101 music while 5990-CRI Cuba English splash is still
overrunning; 0101:45 the sounder we have heard so many times, then
Spanish talk somewhat muffled; 0102:50 fanfare and presumed devotional
capsule --- but I missed the turnoff, tuning around elsewhere, got
back too late at 0104:40 when it was already off, which should have
occurred at approximately 0104:10.
Our streetlite fires on at 0107, earlier than it would have if the
sunset were clear instead of clouded.
5980, April 24 at 0058, R. Chaski carrier is audible as I bundle up to
brave the 36-degree porch, as we are having record low temps. Definite
abrupt cutoff at 0104:15*. (My previous report also mentioning the
streetlite firing at 0107, had the wrong UT date on it, April 22
instead of 23; sigh) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 9675a, 0357, Radio Pacífico, Lima, being regularly heard late
March, good at this time 1/4 with advts, station promos in Spanish
mentioning Pacífico Radio, voz cristiana and la voz de la amistad.
Clear on measured 9674.85 past 0500 (Bryan Clark at Mangawhai
(Northland), New Zealand, with Drake SPR4, AOR7030+, EWEs to North,
Central & South America, 100m BOG to NE and Alpha Delta Sloper
antennas, April NZ DX Times via DXLD) Also reported last week; so far
unheard here, irregular or limited schedule? (gh, OK, DXLD)
** PHILIPPINES. 11650, R Teos, 19 April at 1515 with OM talking in
Russian and QRM from 11645 many mentions of Christos, ID 1531 with
meter band (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) Via FEBC, Bocaue (gh)
** PHILIPPINES. 11825, VOA relay heard at 1248 GMT, talks in listed
Mandarin. 4/19/13 (Bob Brossell, Pewaukee WI, JRC NRD-545; Eton E1;
Sony SW-77, NASWA Flashsheet April 21 via DXLD)
I always hear a pileup here with CNR1 jamming usually on top,
sometimes also Firedrake. Are you sure you were hearing only VOA?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PORTUGAL. The following R. Renascença transmitters are reported
inactive: Braga 576 kHz, Évora 927 kHz and Valongo & Viseu 1251 kHz
(WRTH National Radio Update 22 April via DXLD)
** PORTUGAL. RDPi - R. Portugal: a question of semantics.
I decided to enquire about the actual fate of our HF site at São
Gabriel, and even before going into details, the RTP official on the
phone explained that - contrary to recent news on the issue, i.e. the
suspension and later suppression of HF broadcasts -, strictly
speaking, there is no suppression... yet.
In a parliamentary inquiry, the RTP administration recently confirmed
the suspension, not suppression, but added "there are no plans to
reactivate RDPi on HF due to a number of reasons."
This means the licence for HF use is still in their hands, and if is
not renewed, than one simply can't expect any private broadcaster here
will eventually fill the gap by being licensed to "replace" the RDPi.
That's sheer utopia.
If such a reply from the administration isn't devious, than I don't
know what is. Like many things in this country, there seems to be a
difference between A and B, only simple mortals can't find it.
Whether it is too soon to speculate on the fate of the HF site,
needless to say the RTP person I spoke with simply couldn't say a word
about it, and I'm sure there would be no premature disclosure to me
about the whole business either, if this official knew something about
it.
So, who knows, maybe, just maybe São Gabriel's waves are heard once
more in the future. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, April 22, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** PRIDNESTROVYE. 9665, UT Sunday April 21 at 2339, Radio PMR is on,
in German, music; 2358 ID, usual het from off-frequency Brazilian:
great frequency choice! Just before 2400, another clear ID for Radio
Pridnestrovye, and seamless transition without any break to V of
Russia, Chariots-of-Fire and opening English to ``Latin`` America.
Ever since someone discovered that Radio PMR had been rescheduled from
21-22 UT in B-12 to 23-24 UT in A-13, allegedly Monday-Friday, I have
been suspecting the TRUE UT days are Sunday-Thursday, following their
previous strange practice of saying ``Monday-Friday`` along with UT
times, except the days of the week apply to local time where it is
after midnite. Thus we may also confidently expect that this will NOT
be on the air UT Friday as well as Saturday. The misassumption that it
is M-F has been widely quoted without comment (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD
OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Strangely enough, this broadcast
is missing completely from EiBi and Aoki (gh, DXLD)
** PUNTLAND. History: Radio Sahan is a public affairs radio station
committed promoting government accountability and strengthen civil
society through programming that focuses on democracy, human rights,
peace building, health and education. The station will serve as a
crucial source of information for Puntland citizens, and will work to
promote active, responsible citizenship through involvement in
advocacy and public policy.
Radio Sahan (RS) serves as a platform to promote information sharing
on various pressing topics for Somali communities, including social
justice, youth empowerment, human rights, good governance, and the
marginalization of women and girls. In particular, the project will
engage marginalized groups such as pastoral nomads, women and youth.
Radio Sahan engages nomadic communities by designing programs that
respond to their specific needs and providing a platform to voice
their vision for Puntland. Radio Sahan provides women and youth with
the space to project their voices and highlight community-related
issues that matter most to them. It engages in a close working
relationship with the Ministry of Women and Family Affairs, the
Ministry of Sports and the Ministry of Education. The station
organizes debates and discussions aimed at raising awareness about the
unique concerns of and challenges for Somali women and youth, as well
as at promoting mutual respect and understanding.
Radio Sahan is committed giving member of, Puntland’s parliament,
ministries and various councils and committees the space to discuss
their responsibilities and the benefits of their work. The station
will also provide citizens with the opportunity to pose questions to
local, regional and national government officials. These dialogues
will enhances Puntland citizens’ understanding of governmental
responsibility and help clarify the constraints often faced by
nascent, democratic institutions and the limited resources with which
they must operate (About-us page from Radio Sahan website, via WORLD
OF RADIO 1666, DXLD)
Re: Puntland --- I've just webtuned to the Univ of Twente web SDR rx a
few minutes ago, before and at 1400. I observed a carrier in the
waterfall, and some tone as modulation, currently showing, but OC
only. I enclose waterfall screenprint:
http://static.dyp.im/SoatQX7rgz/9e21a10937026e6dbace36d2e82ed963.jpg
(Horacio Nigro Geolkiewsky, Montevideo, Uruguay, April 19, via
Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD)
IRAN/SOMALIA. Nothing anymore at 1440 UT, when 13800 kHz channel is
covered by 500 kW powerhouse IRIB Tehran in Russian via Sirjan,
scheduled 1430-1527 UT. Strong S=9+35dB signal here in Stuttgart
Germany. vy73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, April 19, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** PUNTLAND. Log: Radio Puntland, Somalia, 13800 kHz, 1400 UT, Apr 17,
SIO 252. Folgende Information erhielt ich soeben von der Station: Der
Testbetrieb von Radio Puntland auf 13800 kHz lief heute mit nur 50 (!)
Watt, da es Intermodulationsprobleme am Sender gibt. Deswegen wurde
auch die Bandbreite auf 6 kHz begrenzt, was die momentan geringe
Signalstaerke des 25 kW Senders erklaert.
50 Watt AM, einer meiner schoensten Empfaenge der letzten Jahre!
(Christoph Ratzer, Austria, April 17, A-DX via BC-DX April 19 via
WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DXLD)
** PUNTLAND. SOMALIA. R. Puntland is testing on shortwave with
temporary transmitter of 100 W. Variable test schedule: 0300-0700 &
1500-1800 on 6140 kHz, 0700-1500 on 13800 kHz. The main transmitter of
25 kW is planned to start in June with regular programming on the same
frequencies (WRTH National Radio Update 22 April via DXLD)
Re: New SW station in Puntland / Somalia
StarAfrica.com April 24
http://en.starafrica.com/news/puntland-15-4x4s-for-local-police-and-short-wave-radio-station.html
Puntland: 15 4x4s for local police and short-wave radio station
The short-wave radio set up in Garowe has a frequency of 6.16 Mhz
(nighttime) and 13.8 Mhz (daytime) and 200W of power, with regional
coverage that will vary depending on the time of day and weather
conditions (as far as the Middle East and Europe during the night). A
temporary transmitter has been set up in advance of the permanent one,
to be installed within the year, which will have worldwide reach. The
radio will be used to broadcast informative, educational and
entertainment programming and will involve local associations and the
various civil society components of Puntland (via Mike Barraclough,
April 24, dxldydg via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DXLD)
** ROMANIA. Cambio frecuencia --- Estimados amigos, Os informo que,
para no afectar el trafico aéreo, la frecuencia de 11795 de las 1900
UT ha sido reemplazada por la frecuencia de 11985 kHz. Un cordial
saludo, (Victoria Sepciu, RRI, via José Bueno, April 18, DXLD)
Air traffic? Presumably a higher harmonic on VHF of 11795 was the
problem. Is there an airport or glide path close to which transmitter
site? Wait a minute, HFCC as of April 19 does not show any 11985 for
RRI, but 11795 was scheduled in Spanish via Galbeni at 23-24, not
1900. However, the April 15 HFCC did have Tiganeshti in Spanish at 19-
20 on 11795, but it was completely removed later rather than showing a
TDATE, and not (yet?) replaced with 11985 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
Maybe another new frequency 11985 in Spanish 1900-1956, ex 11805, re-
ex 11795. 1900-1956 on 11805 in Spanish, very good reception in Sofia
on April 15 (Ivo Ivanov, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
11805: Yes, noted RRI Bucharest Spanish service when checked on Apr 22
at 1945-1955 UT, signal at S=9+25dB level in western Europe, but a lot
stronger on \\ 9665 kHz S=9+45dB powerhouse, covered totally REE
English co-channel (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 22, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. Fantastic NEW close-up Street View imagery of the Galbeni
SW transmitter site here:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=46+45+06N+%0926+51+20E&hl=en&ll=46.745765,26.854983&spn=0.024173,0.066047&sll=47.589549,19.840321&sspn=0.09563,0.264187&t=h&z=15&layer=c&cbll=46.745765,26.854983&panoid=AANgn64938gHkU4ItxYWtA&cbp=12,347.52,,0,-5.09
(Ian Baxter, SWSites YG via DXLD)
** RUSSIA. Krasnoyarskiy krai. Krasnoyarsk. April 16 took early in the
morning 2340-0000 UT, 6085 khz, SIO = 444, STRC Krasnoyarsk with a
very good signal and an internal broadcast to Krasnoyarska. Kuda can
send a report and someone got confirmation in electronic or paper
versions, thanks in advance (Shukhrat Rakhmatullaev, Tashkent,
Uzbekistan / "deneb-radio-dx" via RusDX April 21 via DXLD)
Recently, a report that's sent to them at this address: newsradio @
kgtrk.ru Received a confirmation letter from them in 1997. Then they
were called Krasnoyarsk radio - "Center of Russia" and broadcast on
the frequency of 5290 kHz.
16.04.2013 from 2335 to 2400 UT took Radio Russia - Krasnoyarsk to
regional broadcasting on frequency 6085 kGts. SINPO: 34333. (Receiver:
Degen 1103. Antenna: Telescopic (Dmitry Kutuzov, Ryazan, Russia /
"deneb-radio-dx", via RusDX April 21 via DXLD)
** RUSSIA [non]. 11530, April 22 at 1252, VOR in English with QRM from
WEWN English 11520 squishy spur circa 11529; in addition to the
perpetual humroar out of this transmitter in TAJIKISTAN. VOR knows how
to pick `em for their legacy service (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 12030, April 24 at 1338, very poor signal mainly exhibiting
big hum; per Aoki, it`s the Vladivostok-Rasdolnoy site of VOR in
English, 500 kW, 230 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [non]. 12060, V. OF RUSSIA (500 kW, Yerevan-Gavar, Armenia),
2245 UT. Programme with informations about sports, economy and
culture, in Portuguese. SINPO: 55555 (Eduardo PEÑAILILLO, Receiver:
Brigmton BT-360; Antenna: wire antenna, 7 meter (approx.) QTH: North
zone of Santiago, residential area, Chile, April 22, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [and non]. Hello everyone, signal from Voice of Russia is
heavily interferenced in Montreal by some station on a lightly lower
frequency, giving a low frequency het. The other station seems on
9664.8 or about, when I tune LSB, and difficult to copy, but seems
like Portuguese. This is heard at 0150 and still going on at 0200 UT.
73 (Gilles Letourneau, Montreal, Canada, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
Surely R. Voz Missionária, Brasil, which you may hear without VOR
later at night, always off-frequency like so many Brazilians (Glenn
Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [and non]. BROADCASTING IN RUSSIAN LANGUAGE
==================================
QSL-policies of radio stations broadcasting in Russian, Belarusian and
Ukrainian languages: From my own observations and sending messages
deneb-radio-dx.
1. The radio station "Belarus":
Reports confirms Larisa Suárez, address: radiostation-belarus@tvr.by
Is not responsible for all the reports.
2. Belarusian radio. First National Channel.
Reports sent by e-mail confirm el.QSL-mail. Meets the chief of the
first channel Vasyukevich AB Address: radio1@tvr.by
3. "The Voice of Vietnam."
Regularly confirm the reports sent to the e-mail address:
golosvietnama@mail.ru. In Russian edition of three types of QSL-cards.
4. Cairo radio.
Address for reports in English: freqmeg@yahoo.com. Confirm the QSL-
cards.
5. All India Radio.
Address Russian edition: air.esdrus @ gmail.com. Reports confirm
irregularly.
6. "Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran."
Address for reports: rusradio@irib.ir. QSL-cards series of 10 prints.
7. International Spanish radio.
The reports should be submitted in English at: ree@rtve.es. Also,
messages can be sent for admission to Svetlana Demidova:
ruso@rtve.es but lately Svetlana asked not to disturb her reports. In
the future plan el.raporty confirm el.QSL. [sic]
8. China Radio International.
The latest series of QSL-cards "People's China" is composed of 56
pieces. Reports can be sent to e-mail: rus@cri.com.cn,
rusnet@cri.com.cn, crirus@mail.ru
9. "Voice of Korea".
Their email: VOK@star-co.net.kp. But while the reports on receipt of
confirmation of the reports sent to that address was not. Reports can
be sent by regular mail to the address: "The Voice of Korea,"
Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic.
10. KBS World Radio.
Reports on admission confirmed QSL-cards. Each quarter of the year
there is a new QSL. Address: russian@kbs.co.kr and
kbsrussian@yahoo.com
11. Radio Pridnestrovie.
Reports sent by e-mail confirm el.QSL. Address: radio1pmr@gmail.com
12. "Voice of Mongolia".
Broadcast through the "Voice of Russia". Reports are readily confirm
homemade QSL-cards. The data confirm the printer and print out kleyut
a postcard. Address for reports: vom.russian @ yahoo.com
13. Polish Radio.
Reports are readily confirm QSL-cards. Address Russian service:
ru@radio.com.pl.
In the Belarusian version of the Polish Radio case with
acknowledgments are worse, here's the address of the Belarusian
service: by@polskieradio.pl
"Modern" addresses the Russian service of Polish Radio:
ru@polskieradio.pl
radioporusski@yandex.ru
14. "Voice of Russia".
The reports confirm the QSL-cards. The series consists of 12 QSL is
devoted to the fiftieth anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight into
space. Address for reports: postru@ruvr.ru
15. Interradio Romania.
Russian edition confirms reports on the admission of a new card every
month. Reports are sent in the first week of the new season confirmed
cards with a special stamp. Address Russian edition: rusa@rri.ro.
Address Ukrainian edition: ucra@rri.ro. Ukrainian Service of RRI does
not support the card with a special stamp.
16. International Radio of Serbia.
Address for reports: radioju@sbb.rs. Confirm irregularly. But if
confirmed, the card with a view of the building of the International
Serbian radio.
17. Radio Damascus.
Reports have confirmed QSL-cards. Now unknown. Shortwave broadcasts
stopped. Address Russian edition: germanlangdpt@rtv.gov.sy
18. International Radio Slovakia.
Confirm the reports sent to the e-mail address:
RSI_russian@slovakradio.sk. Broadcast via WRN at a frequency of 738
kHz and a segment on the waves of Russian life REE.
19. "Radio Liberty".
Reports should be sent by ordinary mail to the address in Prague.
20. International Radio Taiwan.
Address Russian edition: russ@rti.org.tw. Each month there is a new
QSL.
21. "Voice of Turkey".
Address Russian edition: russian@trt.net.tr. QSL updated frequently.
22. Radio France Internationale.
No data on confirmations.
23. Radio Prague.
Each year, releasing a series of 8 cards. Address for reports:
rusky@radio.cz. Broadcast via WRN at a frequency of 738 kHz and a
segment on the waves of Russian life REE.
24. Radio Japan.
Well prove it. Reports are asked to send a form on the website:
https://www.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/russian/contact/index.html
Russian edition of Radio Japan asks to send them messages and reports
through form on their website.
R. Japan always confirms nhkworld@nhk.jp
25. "Voice of Greece" - "Radio of the branch."
Reports should be sent preferably in English: era5@ert.gr. Confirm
regularly.
26. Trans World Radio (TWR-Europe):
Reports confirms Kalman Dobos, address: kdobos@twr.org. Messages must
composes in English. For reports sent by e-mail come E-QSL.
27. KNLS. Alaska.
Address for reports in Russian: questions@knls.net Confirm new QSL
(dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the radio station).
28. Vatican Radio.
Different editions have your email. Accordingly, each edition
send QSL-cards. Address Russian edition: rus@vatiradio.va, address
Ukrainian edition: ukr@vatiradio.va, address Belarusian edition:
bela@vatiradio.va Vatican Radio frequently updates its QSL-cards.
29. Missionswerk Friedensstimme.
Responsible for receiving reports about the QSL-cards. Address for
reports:
Missionswerk Friedensstimme, Postfach 100638, 51606 Gummersbach,
Deutschland. The report can be both in English and in Russian.
Recently received a QSL from Missionswerk Friedensstimme for a report
sent to the e-mail address of the Media Broadcast: QSL-
shortwave@media-broadcast.com,
30. Bible Voice Broadcasting.
Address for reports: mail@biblevoice.org report on the need to create
a compelling cost English. Address for paper reports:
BVB
P O Box 425, Station E
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M6H 4E3
31. Radiostantsiya HLAZ from South Korea.
FEBC radio station is owned and maintained by religious programs
including on Russian language. Reports on admission confirmed QSL-
cards. Address raprtov: febcadm@febc.net
Cards are basically of two types with a photo of the building and the
building HLAZ FEBC in Korea.
32. FEBC. Philippines.
Address for reports: info@febc.org.ph. Confirm irregularly. Reports
should composes in English.
33. AWR.
The station confirmed reports about the reception QSL-cards. Address
for reports, English only:
wavescan@awr.org. You can get a QSL from Tula, address:
golosnadezhdi@gmail.com
34. Herald of Christian Science.
Religious radio program is in Russian. Address for reports:
csradio.D @ gmx.de Lately not confirm this.
35. WWCR.
Radio Station of the United States is religious broadcasts in Russian:
Reports on admission confirmed QSL-cards. Postal address:
WWCR Shortwave
1300 WWCR Avenue
Nashville, TN 37218
USA
There are also e-mail: rickwwcr@hotmail.com
QSL received from them for the reports sent by e-mail.
36. Radio Eli - "Tartu Family Radio."
Reports confirm, but you have to pay back.
Mailing address: Radio Eli, a / I 1282 20501 Narva, Estonia. E-mail:
am1035@bk.ru
Electronic reports confirm el.QSL.
37. WYFR - "Family Radio."
Reports confirm reception of a "Radio Center" on 1503 kHz. Address
Russian Department: russian@familyradio.com, public address:
international@familyradio.org
38. "The Voice of Orthodoxy."
No longer broadcasts on shortwave. Address: voix.orthodoxie @
wanadoo.fr
39. "Voice of the Andes."
Reports about the reception of programs supported by Russian QSL-cards
from Voronezh. This studio is located in "Revelation," which prepares
part of the program for the "Voices of the Andes." Address for
reports: eacc@hcjb.ru and hcjbrussia@gmail.com
40. WHRI
The religious radio station broadcasting from the United States in
Russian on Saturdays. Reports in English can be sent from the site
radio station, filling out the form:
http://www.whr.org/Reception-Report.cfm
There is information about getting QSL cards for reports sent by
regular mail. Location:
World Harvest Radio, 61300, Ironwood Rd, South Bend, IN 46614, USA
(Dmitry Kutuzov, Ryazan, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx", via RusDX April 21
via DXLD)
** RWANDA. Radio Ruanda, 6055 kHz -- Desde hace unos dias llegando muy
fuerte en 6055 kHz. En este video, a las 0257 UT del 20 de abril.
http://youtu.be/1BfjPvmb95M
(Rodolfo Tizzi, Uruguay, http://cx2abp.blogspot.com/ condiglista yg
via DXLD)
6055, 20/Apr 0326, R Rwanda in French. Local pop music. At 0327 quick
talk by OM, then more local pop music. Modulation very bass. 24332 73
(Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SARAWAK [non]. 15430.04, Radio Free Sarawak (site?), 1237-1300*,
April 18. In assume Iban; several IDs; fair to good with strong
signal; a longer than usual program today, as no ID at 1300, but off
in mid-sentence. Frequency seemed slightly higher than heard before
(Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF
RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
15430, April 19 at 1232, R. Free Sarawak presumed, usual exposition in
Iban. Had been on 15420 for about a week, but yesterday Ron Howard
reported it back on 15430, and so it is today, nothing heard on 15420.
Today`s Aoki & EiBi both have it still on 15420: EiBi with site
Taiwan, but Aoki still shows Trinco, Sri Lanka, which has been denied
by Victor Goonetilleke. HFCC has neither for this veiled service, but
shows 15430 would clash with Romania in English at 11-12 to CIRAF 48 =
East Africa from Sudan to Kenya. Is RRI still there? Has made some
other frequency changes. Perhaps it was easier for RFS to change the
frequency on the transmitter than on the website which kept showing
15430, as it does today, and furthermore they have finally changed the
title from long-gone 11600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
Radio Free Sarawak again on 15430 - history of changes:
1100-1300 on 15430 TAI 100 kW / 200 deg to SEAs Iban March 31, April
1/2/3/4/6/18/19
1100-1300 on 15425 TAI 100 kW / 200 deg to SEAs Iban April 5 only
1100-1300 on 15420 TAI 100 kW / 200 deg to SEAs Iban April 7-17, the
best frequency! -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, April 20,
WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Radio Free Sarawak:
1100-1300 on 15420 TAI 100 kW / 200 deg to SEAs Iban till April 17
1100-1300 on 15430 TAI 100 kW / 200 deg to SEAs Iban from April 18 (DX
RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22 via DXLD)
TAIWAN/ROMANIA: 15430.009. Today April 20 at 1100 UT Radio Free
Sarawak ONLY heard on remote SDR units in Far East. In Moscow and
Germany powerhouse RRI Galbeni in English service with backlobe signal
of C&E African service, but still S=9 signal. Weather report and
news from Romania started 1102 UT.
Radio Free Sarawak in Bahasa Malay or tentat Iban(?) language, but not
in English, at 1110 UT Apr 20, S=8-9 signal in Tokyo on back/sidelobe
signal at 47 degrees azimuth towards JPN, see 200 degr item of Ivo
towards MLA.
Usual odd frequency Taiwanese signal, some 9 Hertz higher than even
RRI Galbeni 15430.000 kHz. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via WORLD
OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
15430, 20/Apr 1125, TAIWAN (Relay), R Free Sarawak in Iban. OM
conversation with a man by phone. Quick instrumental music between the
talk. At 1129 new interview by phone. 25432.
R Free Sarawak, sorry about my electrical noise.
https://www.box.com/files/0/f/0/1/f_7623493290
(Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGESTE)
** SARAWAK [non]. Radio Free Kenyalang:
0900-1000 on 15400 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg to SEAs Iban, ex 15360
(DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013
via DXLD)
** SAUDI ARABIA. Hello Glenn, It has been quite awhile since I have
contacted you. I hope all is well with you. I am hearing Arabic on
11820 around 2100 on. It comes in fairly well at times here in the
RGV. Would you please give me a clew? I've been monitoring SW, but
have become a bit slow to report. I hope that I can get it going
again. Thank you for any help (Jerry Ervine, Mission, Texas, April 22,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hi Jerry, Good to hear from you. That would be Saudi Arabia, as in the
HFCC schedule:
11820 1800 2300 27,28,37N RIY 500 320 25 216 1234567 310313 271013 D
ARABIC ARS ARS ARS 2395
You can find links to this and other comprehensive current SW
schedules on my home page; look for A-13. (HFCC requires unzipping,
unlike the others). http://www.worldofradio.com
(Glenn to Jerry, via DXLD)
21505, April 20 at 1411, BSKSA Arabic, poor signal but with big buzz;
can hardly wait till they get their new DRM transmitters going with
nothing but noise! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. new Saudi Radio website
<http://www.sr.sa/Pages/Default.aspx>
Re K-29 transmitting station. "km 29" is the former combined MW and SW
station Jeddah, which has been refurbished and transformed to MW
station since 2010-2012.
Jeddah Bahrah Badawi SW and MW 1512+648 kHz reserve site.
{ 21 22 59.13 N 39 25 21.48 E }
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2rJhKyPbF8>
"Rkib radio antennas Posts sending station as km-29 in Jeddah.
Installation of new antennas for medium wave transmitters kilometer-29
station in Jeddah. To shoot videos by camera engineer - Mohammed
Bably"
The video recording is shot from the south here, so the location of
the mast structure
ARS MW Jeddah mast 21 22 43.06 N 39 25 31.37 E
There the tree line on the street fits from the transmitter building
to the east, but also the boundary wall behind the southeastern MW
antenna / road.
Old shortwave radio antennas from Saudi Radio corporation I did not
expect more in the video, when you compare GE image of 2006-2010 with
the latest picture of 28 January 2012, where appear STILL only 3 MW
antennas.
In minutes you can see at the 1.31min transmitter house in the video.
Die Videoaufnahme ist vom Sueden her geschossen, also vom Mastaufbau
der location
ARS MW Jeddah mast 21 22 43.06 N 39 25 31.37 E her. Dort passt die
Baumreihe vom Senderhaus nach Osten, aber auch die Begrenzungsmauer
hinter der suedoestlichen MW Antenne/Strasse.
Alte Kurzwellenantennen von Saudi Radio im Video erwartete ich nicht
mehr, wenn man das GE image aus 2006-2010 mit dem neuesten Bild vom
28. Jan 2012 vergleicht, wo NUR NOCH lediglich die 3 MW Antennen
aufscheinen.
Bei Minute 1.31min sieht man das Sendergebaeude im Video.
See also video
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFWnm3pkj_k>
Beacon red light in K-29 radio station Jeddah, this video in K-29
radio station in Jeddah to test beacon and warning red led-lights for
mediumwave antenna.
Shortwave installations moved from Jeddah Bahrah Badawi at K-29
transmitting station "km 29" to new SW location Jeddah has been built
up at Jeddah, near Al-Khumra.
New Jeddah Algwizain PC22711, "Al Kurnayash South" SW site,
TX house at 21 14 40.01 N 39 09 43.69 E
and some TCI high-gain antennas around azimuth at 255 and 315 degrees,
as well as cross-dipole non-directional HQ Quadrant antenna.
27 km north of Jeddah Taiba another older three MW masts array
visible, much hilly area. Maybe was a former Maritime Radio station,
which was visible on images taken between Dec 2, 2002 and til Sept
2011.
21 45 58.88 N 39 09 56.96 E
MW masts
21 45 58.99 N 39 10 01.49 E
21 45 56.48 N 39 09 59.24 E
21 45 58.09 N 39 09 50.79 E
After that all, installations are torn from February 2012. 1 MW mast
is now left on left westerly side. To see in addition to the
construction of sports hall yet. And the new image photos show the
founding / establishment of a large sports arena, whether by the
'stadium' is still a hall built over? The photos say called "King
Abdullah Sports City". 280 m wide in diameter (Wolfgang Büschel, April
11, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 19 via DXLD)
** SEYCHELLES. 12035, 0348, BBC, Fair in English, Loop: “There are no
programs on this channel at present. Details of all our services are
at bbcworldservice.com”. Normal program this freq at 0400 from Cyprus
– 24/3 (Kelvin Brayshaw, Levin, New Zealand, DR-31, ATS-909, Tecsun
PL-390 Coax Loop, April NZ DX Times via DXLD) So how do you know site
was Seychelles at 0348? Because SEY in HFCC B-12 at 03-04 (gh, DXLD)
** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5020-, April 18 at 1125, JBA carrier detectable in
sidesplash from Cuba 5025; and it`s slightly on lo side as SIBC is
measured by others. 1158 still the same (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOMALIA [non]. Radio Damal, currently inactive, maybe will be
resumed from May 1:
0400-0700 on 15700 DHA 250 kW / 205 deg to EaAf Somali
1830-1930 on 11980 WOF 300 kW / 122 deg to EaAf Somali
1930-2130 on 11980 DHA 250 kW / 205 deg to EaAf Somali (DX RE MIX NEWS
#777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD)
** SOMALIA [non]. Radio ERGO:
0830-0930 on 13685 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Somali (DX RE MIX NEWS
#777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD)
** SOMALILAND. 7120, Radio Hargaysa on April 20 at 1320 with the start
of the segment in English with their usual theme music; only able to
make out a few words clearly; played some pop songs; “and that’s
today’s English program … this is Radio Hargaysa”; 1339 into assume
Somali language with “Radio Hargaysa” ID and repeat of the theme music
for the English segment; 1357 National Anthem till 1359*.
My local sunrise was at 1326 UT. Was very poor at 1320, but improved
after that; ham QRM (or should I say causing QRM for hams?).
https://www.box.com/s/8evxofkql46b6o0ontlr contains audio of a
portion of today’s reception (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA,
Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Confirmação recebida - Broadcasting
Caros amigos, Seguem os dados da última confirmação recebida:
7120 - Radio Hargeysa - Hargeysa - SOM - Recebido cartão QSL. 120
dias. V/S: Baldur Drobnica (Consultant). Enviado 1 IRC. QTH:
Konsularische Vertretung of the Republic of Somaliland, Zedernweg 6,
D-50127 Bergheim, Alemanha.
Conforme informado no QSL, a emissora está localizada na República da
Somalilândia, território que declarou independência em 1991, mas que é
reconhecido apenas por alguns poucos países (a Alemanha é um deles). A
região goza de uma estabilidade muito superior a do restante do
território da Somália pelo que pude ler no interessante livro "Pé na
África" (Fábio Zanini).
Por conta de não ser um território amplamente reconhecido e por
critérios meramente pessoais considero a escuta como de uma emissora
da Somália mesmo. Independente disso este foi meu 114º país
confirmado.
A imagem da confirmação estará disponível em breve em meu blog. 73
(Ivan Dias Jr. - Sorocaba/SP, April 24, http://ivandias.wordpress.com
radioescutas yg via DXLD
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 11685, 20/Apr 1826, BULGARIA (Relay), The
Overcomer Ministry in English. Religious preaching, with occasional
exaltations. QRM from strong signal CRI on 11695. 33433 73 (Jorge
Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, dxldyg via
DX LISTENING DIGEST) Brother Scare cancelled from: BULGARIA, q.v.
** SPAIN. Re: Radio Euskadi - Euskadi Irratia, last days! - Radio
Vitoria 1602 kHz --- Radio Vitoria, which is run by the same group
that operates Radio Euskadi/Euskadi Irratia, is also closing it MW
1602 kHz (25 kW) transmitter at the end of April according to the EITB
web site. Until recently Radio Vitoria completed dominated 1602 kHz at
night here, but currently (2015 UT on Sunday 21 April) I can hear
Radio Seagull from the Netherlands with quite good reception. It seems
that Radio Vitoria may already have reduced transmitter power on 1602.
73s (Dave Kenny, April 21, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD)
No, I don't think they have already reduced power. Yesterday night at
2300 UT while I was driving around near Strasbourg, I checked 1386 &
1602 kHz. 1386 Euskadi Irratia was very good and 1602 Radio Vitoria
came in like a ton of bricks. So they are definitely on full power.
73s, (Rémy Friess, April 22, ibid.)
Members, Recently the `Vitoria - Estíbaliz` news (from Mauricio Molano
and Dave Kenny) is that 1602 will also close. This means that the
entire triplex serving 819, 1197, and 1602 will fall silent at the end
of this month. I have also established that what I call "Ganguren B"
carrying 756 and 1386 will also become an Inactive site. As previously
stated, in San Sebastian, Biribilondo will reduce from a tetraplex to
a diplex at the end of the month. 73's and 88's (Dan Goldfarb, mwmasts
yg via DXLD)
The following MW transmitters will be closed in the beginning of May:
R. Euskadi: Bilbao 756 kHz, Vitoria 819 kHz, San Sebastián 963 kHz,
Euskadi Irratia: Vitoria 1197 kHz, Bilbao 1386 kHz, San Sebastián 1476
kHz and Radio Vitoria 1602 kHz (WRTH National Radio Update 22 April
via DXLD)
** SPAIN [and non]. 5965, April 18 at 0529, REE COSTA RICA relay is on
correct frequency tonight, unlike 5995 two nights ago; not noted
which, one night ago.
15160, April 19 at 0118, collision about equal level between R.
Australia in English, and REE in Spanish. This has been going on for
years at least in the A-seasons, currently a one-hour overlap with
Spain on until 0200, Australia starting at 0100, per Aoki. Apologists
for easily avoidable interference will say, fine! Two different target
areas, not including where you are, so you have no standing in this
matter.
I say: why use the same frequency when there are dozens of open
frequencies nearby, so each station could be totally in the clear even
in neighboring target areas?? Per Aoki, Australia is at 85 degrees
across México, and Spain is at 242 degrees centered on southern Perú
around Arequipa, but at those distances the signals spread out a lot,
both towards the Americas from opposite direxions. Or they could split
the difference at 0130 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Radio Exterior de España e CW sui 15585 kHz --- Segnalo spettacolare
intensità del segnale per Radio Exterior de España nella mezz'ora del
sabato (15 UT) in lingua Catalana ed in Galiziano e pure ora nei
quindici miniti [sic] che precedono Tablero Deportivo: con tre metri
di filo alla finestra il mio Tecsun pl380 ha toccato dapprima i 92 e
quindi i 98 ! dBµV, in tal caso il segnale si saturava e dovevo
scollegare il filo. Idem col Sangean ATS909X levando un po' di rf
gain. (per la cronaca abito a 15 km da Siziano che mi arriva al
massimo ad 81 dBµV)
Altra cosa, già lo scorso sabato avevo notato che su quella frequenza
si sente del CW ma non sono riuscito a decifrare ne tantomeno capire
di cosa si trattasse, ne sapete qualcosa? Buona domenica (Matteo, 1556
UT April 20, bclnews.it yg via DXLD)
Radio Exterior de España and CW on 15585 --- Stumble spectacular
signal strength for Radio Exterior de Espana in half an hour on
Saturday (15 UT) in Catalan and Galician language and even now in the
fifteen preceding minutes Tablero Deportivo with three feet of wire to
the window my Tecsun PL380 reached first 92 and then 98! dBµV. In this
case the signal was saturated and had to disconnect the wire. Ditto
with the Sangean ATS909X raising a little RF gain. (for the record I
live 15 km from Siziano which arrives at 81 dB microvolts maximum)
[meaning a nearby transmitter site?]
Another thing, last Saturday I had already noticed that you hear on
that frequency CW but I could not decipher it nor understand what it
was, you know something? Good Sunday, Matthew (Matteo, 1556 UT April
20, bclnews.it yg via Google translate improved by gh for DX LISTENING
DIGEST) I.e. confirming the Catalan (not Basque?) and Galician weekly
segment Saturdays at 15 UT (gh)
** SRI LANKA [non]. Voice of the Tigers:
1530-1630 on 11550 TAC 100 kW / 163 deg to CLN Tamil Sat (DX RE MIX
NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD)
** SUDAN [non]. EDC Sudan Radio Service Darfur Program:
0400-0530 on 13720 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to NEAf Arabic
1600-1730 on 17745 WOF 300 kW / 135 deg to NEAf Arabic
(DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013
via DXLD)
** SUDAN [non]. Radio Tamazuj:
0400-0430 on 11650 SMG 200 kW / 145 deg to EaAf Arabic
0400-0430 on 15400 MDC 250 kW / 335 deg to EaAf Arabic
0400-0430 on 15500 DHA 250 kW / 240 deg to EaAf Arabic
1500-1530 on 15150 MDC 250 kW / 335 deg to EaAf Arabic
1500-1530 on 15725 SMG 200 kW / 139 deg to EaAf Arabic
Radio Dabanga:
0430-0600 on 11650 SMG 200 kW / 145 deg to EaAf Arabic
0430-0600 on 15400 MDC 250 kW / 335 deg to EaAf Arabic
0430-0600 on 15500 DHA 250 kW / 240 deg to EaAf Arabic
1530-1630 on 15150 MDC 250 kW / 335 deg to EaAf Arabic
1530-1630 on 15725 SMG 200 kW / 139 deg to EaAf Arabic (DX RE MIX NEWS
#777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD)
15725, OPPOSITION, Radio Dabanga via Santa Maria Galeria, the Vatican,
beamed to the Darfur region of Africa, 1615-1626:56. Sign off in
Arabic with excellent signal on 4/17/13 (Steve Handler, Buffalo Grove,
Illinois, Icom IC-7200, Tecsun PL-660, wire antennas, NASWA Flashsheet
April 21 via DXLD)
** SUDAN SOUTH [non]. Radio Miraya, 11560, fair *0300-0350+ on 21
April, Mix of afro-pop/reggae music alternating with public affairs
type features hosted by woman DJ. Mostly in English except for a
couple of items in Arabic. "Miraya Breakfast Show" was mentioned
several times (Bruce Portzer, Seattle, WA, Winradio Excalibur with
K9AY antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
11560, April 22 at 0510, clip in English as I tune in, soon voiced-
over in Arabish; fair with deep fades, then mentions ``Miraya`` and
``Sudaniya``. Per Aoki, this is the Arabic/English R. Miraya FM
transmission at 0300-0600, 50 kW, 195 degrees from Kostinbrod,
BULGARIA (which we also heard well in B-12 on ex-9940).
However, Ivo Ivanov & Georgi Bancov reported April 16 in DX Re-Mix
News: ``All other transmissions from Kostinbrod are cancelled!!``
except for two Brother Scare broadcasts. So is Miraya now from
somewhere else, or Bulgaria again? Only Ludo Maes knows for sure?
However2, on April 22, DX Re Mix reports Radio Miraya:
0300-0600 on 11560 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf English/Arabic
SCB means ``SecretBrod`` site, as opposed to SOF = Sofia for sure
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
11560, 20/Apr 0312, BULGARIA (Relay), R Miraya FM in Arabic. YL talk,
then pop music. At 0315 YL talk. At 0316 YL says "Radio Miraya". 35433
73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Radio Miraya:
0300-0600 on 11560 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf English/Arabic (DX RE
MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, via DXLD)
** SWAZILAND. Trans World Radio, 5995, Manzini, Apr 20, 2013,
Saturday, 0415-0445*. Chichewa, a programme of Central African music
and song. Didn't sound particularly religious, and no sign of
preaching up to 0430. Then OM started a monologe, begining with a
mention of “Chapter seven”. At 0440, postal (PO Box) addresses in
Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique, then male choir singing. Suddenly off
at 0445* after one cycle of the TWR music box. Carrier off at 0446. To
Malawi, Saturdays and Sundays only (EiBi). Fair despite lightning QRN
local to Jo'burg. Jo'burg sunrise 0426 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg
RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SYRIA. See USA: WBCQ absent from 9330: Now`s our chance to hear
SYRIA?? R. Damascus allegedly scheduled 16-20 UT, one hour each in
Turkish, Russian, German, French; after break, 21-22 English but aimed
eastward unlike the other languages; and 22-23 Spanish reversed toward
the west. But is this still on the air at all, 2+ years into the civil
war? Even so it had been just-barely-modulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN. 9745, Voice of Han, Kuanyin, 0958-1002. Talk in Chinese by
a woman. Slow instrumental music at 0959. Talk by a woman at 1000.
Poor to moderate signal strength with some fading. 4/13/2013 (Jim
Evans, Germantown TN, Perseus, IC-R75, RX-340, ALA100M Loop,
Eavesdropper Dipole, Random Wire (90'), NASWA Flashsheet April 21 via
DXLD)
** TAIWAN. Fu Hsing BC, Kuanyin is reported inactive on 9410 and 15375
kHz, only 9774 kHz is in operation (WRTH National Radio Update 22
April via DXLD)
** TAIWAN [and non]. or FRANCE, 15290, Yuye Taiwan Fisheries Station
or NHK World (via France), 0835 interview of M by M program host.
Sounds like Japanese, so would be NHK then. 0848 W over music. But at
0852, it sounded like the music and M and W talk were separate
indicating both stations were there. (10 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo,
PA, USA, Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical
triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD)
11550, Yuye Taiwan Fisheries Station. Already on with healthy carrier
at 0855 tune-in. 0900 program start with pleasant instrumental music
and W announcer with fairly short voice-over announcement from the
back of the room. Then more music with talk by different W announcer
in Mandarin, and Chinese vocal music at 0903. Back to W announcer at
0906. 0909 instrumental rock music, but then M vocals began at 0911-
0914. 0914 two W talking briefly over music, then another softer pop
ballad by W vocalist 0914-0919. W returned over music at 0919 briefly
and another pop ballad by M 0919-0924. 0924 W again. 0925-0930
pleasant instrumental music on flute. 0928:50 suddenly went off for 20
seconds, and continuation of instrumental song. 0930 instrumental
music and 2 women briefly, then W over flute music (same as at 0900
s/on??). 2 different half hour programs?? 0931-0933 talk by W program
host. 0933-09 M vocal Chinese Pop song. Went off in mid-flute
instrumental music (same as at 0930) at 0958:30. Only fair signal but
best heard yet. (10 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus SDR,
Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta Loop, Cumbre
DX via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DXLD)
See Aoki, most Wednesdays only; altho 300 kW, easy to overlook in the
middle of the night once a week:
11550 Yuye guangbo diantai 0900-0930 ...4... Amoy(Hokkein) 300 205
11550 Yuye guangbo diantai 0930-1000 ...4... Amoy(Hokkein) 300 205
15290 Yuye guangbo diantai 0800-0830 ...4... Amoy(Hokkein) 300 205
15290 Yuye guangbo diantai 0830-0900 ...4... Amoy(Hokkein) 300 205
Tainan TWN 12010E 2302N FRS a13 exc last Wed [all]
(Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN. 15970, 0025, Soh Xi Wang Zhi Sheng, poor, very faint with
music, // 16360, 16920, 17250 (Measured frequency 15970.14) – 14/3
(Phil Van de Paverd, Howick IC-76E. 15 EWE, April NZ DX Times via
DXLD) You mean music was *not* Firedrake, i.e. jamming instead? (gh)
11765, Sound of Hope heard at 1625 GMT, talks and songs in listed
Mandarin. 4/17/13 (Bob Brossell, Pewaukee WI, JRC NRD-545; Eton E1;
Sony SW-77, NASWA Flashsheet April 21 via DXLD)
Could be, a 300 kW transmitter, but did you rule out a CNR1 jammer, by
perhaps comparing with other listed frequencies? Was there no
interference? Aoki says SOH uses 11765* during this hour only (Glenn
Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
9450, TAIWAN, Sound of Hope (Xi Wang Zhi Sheng) presumed the one at
1430 in Chinese with time pips and a woman with talk introducing
program - Good Apr 19 (Robinson-ON, ODXA Your Reports via DXLD)
?? Why assume it was SOH when more likely or at least as likely is the
ChiCom jamming against it, with CNR1 programming? Yes, Aoki does have
SOH on 9450 at 1400-1600, 100 kW, 335 degrees from Paochung, Taiwan,
but it also has a very important * after 9450 denoting it is jammed.
And does SOH run timesignals, even on the half hour? (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN. 9680, TAIWAN, RTI at 1415 in Chinese with a man and woman
with talk - Fair Apr 19 (Robinson-ON, ODXA Your Reports via DXLD)
Essentially the same problem: altho this is a 300 kW transmitter for
RTI, it would be a rare day indeed if it were free of CNR1 jamming,
not to mention RRIndonesia also co-channel. Altho omitted from the
credit list, that would be Joe Robinson (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN. 12370, 20/Apr 2213, SOH in Chinese. YL talks to a man by
phone. Outside commentators. 25332 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de
Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
At 2145-2230 UT Apr 21, on the Iceland remote post: 15800. SOH Taiwan
weak S=5. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
SOH complains that Taiwan, pressured by the ChiCom, have announced
they will be dismantling two major SW transmitter sites by end of May,
putting SOH and Radio Free Asia relays off the air, perhaps even RTI
itself. Full story already in the dxldyg; in next week`s DXLD (gh)
** TAIWAN [non?]. TAIWAN/CHINA, 28980.0, broadcast harmonic of
fundamental 9660 kHz, on 16 Apr at 1000 UT. Via Japan on 9660 kHz
rather powerful loud. Your idea? 73 de Wolf DK2OM, (DARC / IARU
Bandwatch Apr 16, via BC-DX April 19 via DXLD)
Hi Wolf and Peter, the transmitter CBSC Radio Taiwan International is
listed on Aoki Nagoya list from Japan under 9660 kHz.
* The asterisk denotes co-channel jamming, naturally against radiation
of mainland reception in China.
9660 kHz * R. TAIWAN INT. 1000-1400 UT daily Chinese 100 kW 267
degrees Kouhu in Yunlin province TWN CBSC
there are also 2 x strong 250/300 kW MW stations, each with multiple
MW masts visible, see image
<http://static.panoramio.com/photos/1920x1280/16781350.jpg>
TWN_Kouhu RTI CBS 1098 kHz 250 kW
23 32 14.40 N 120 09 49.55 E
<http://binged.it/Znxqc8>
TWN_Kouhu TWR 1557 kHz 250 kW
23 32 13.46 N 120 10 28.23 E
<http://binged.it/17i7qj4>
The short-wave was only poor in recent years, stn are available here
is now stronger on 100 kW of power, expanded the antennas. Earlier
there were only there from the 3335 kHz.
TWN_Kouhu SW 6075 6105 6150 7385 9660 11640 kHz, antenna 267 and 310
degrees
23 32 04.41 N 120 10 04.87 E
see rather better image at BING Maps <http://binged.it/17idTKB>
vy73 Wolfy df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.)
Re: Which organization produce the harmonic 28980.0 kHz? Taiwan or
China jammer?
If the TWN and CHN 9660 kHz transmitter are not identifiable of exact
differ 'foot print' show frequency in 31 mb (multiple on 28 MHz); it
could also be the Chinese jammer on 9660 kHz, which were often noticed
on exact frequency.
Actually, the Taiwanese channels are always read for a frequency
inaccuracy of 10 to 100 Hertz! (Wolfgang Büschel, April 16, ibid.)
** TAIWAN [non]. Listening to the end of the broadcast of Radio Taiwan
International from WYFR tonight from 03-04 and the audio is muffled
and choppy. What in the world is going on in Okeechobee? It is not the
transmitter but the relay feed itself because the ID at 0400 was clear
with good audio quality (Ryan Ellegood - KG4ZDF, Union City, TN, UT
April 24, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) So maybe not WYFR`s fault
** TAJIKISTAN. 15760.080, Voice of Russia's Kurdish morning service
via new 500 kW unit at Dushanbe Yangi-Yul site {Aoki lists wrongly
Orzu}, as usual a little odd frequency. Moscow chimes at 0558-0600 UT,
disrupted in between by switches to Tajik national radio channel, at
0600 UT Tajik program was heard for 2-3 seconds, before TX off
(Wolfgang Büschel, April 12, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Apr 19 via DXLD)
** TATARSTAN [non]. RUSSIA. 15195, Tatarstan Wave, carrier as early as
0801. 0810 start of broadcast with usual IS-like melody twice and ID
announcements by M and W. 0815 found here with pleasant vocal by W.
Talk by M with instrumental music bridge. Into soft vocal music at
0814. M announcer at 0818. (12 April) (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA,
Perseus SDR, Wellbrook ALA1530S+, and 153’ vertical triangular Delta
Loop, Cumbre DX via DXLD)
** TIBET [non]. Voice of Tibet:
1200-1230 on 15607 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese
1230-1300 on 15562 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan
1300-1330 on 15563 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan
1300-1330 on 15607 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese
1330-1400 on 15568 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan
1330-1400 on 15608 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese
1400-1430 on 15567 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan
1400-1430 on 15525 MDC 250 kW / 045 deg to CeAs Tibetan
1430-1500 on 17535 MDC 250 kW / 045 deg to CeAs Tibetan
1530-1600 on 15485 MDC 250 kW / 045 deg to CeAs Tibetan
Changes between each frequencies varied from 3 to 5 min (DX RE MIX
NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD)
15525, April 24 at 1359 good open carrier, 1400 cut on a few secs late
theme and announcement, presumably V. of Tibet as scheduled via
MADAGASCAR. No doubt jammed, but none heard as this transequatorial
path has great propagational advantage here vs degraded hi-latitude
conditions, tho Talata aims NE instead of NW toward us (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TUNISIA. 7275, April 24 at 0512, IWT is gone again, altho 7285 S
Africa and 7295 Algeria via France are in normally. Not on 7225
either, night frequency which is sometimes on by mistake. Will it be
off for another week like the recent hiatus? How about the other
transmissions? Check 17735 at 1600-2010v* if you can get it, or 7225
at 1655-2110, or 7345 at 1900-2310 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO
1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Or 7335 0557v-0810v
In South Africa, nothing heard on either 17735 or 7225, at 1700-1710
on April 24 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO
1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
At 1737 BOTH scheduled broadcasts from RTT Sfax ARE OFF at present. 73
(Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** UGANDA [and non]. 4750, Dunamis SW, Mukono (tentative),1530-1600,
Apr 01, Christian songs. Very hard interference from R Bangladesh on
the same frequency. Very poor, 22131. After 1600 I could not hear the
station, because was not any signal at all. The next few days I tried
to listen again to the station, but there was not any signal at all
(Kyriakos Dritsas, Thessaloniki, Greece, DSWCI DX Window April 17 via
DXLD) May be testing after silent period (Anker Petersen, ed., ibid.)
** U K. ** Warning over World Service budget **
Uncertainty about the BBC World Service budget as the corporation
prepares to take on full funding of the service is ``unacceptable`` a
group of MPs warns.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/news/entertainment-arts-22208426
(via Ed Gardner, CA, DXLD) Viz.:
BBC WORLD SERVICE BUDGET UNCERTAINTY 'UNACCEPTABLE'
18 April 2013 Last updated at 20:43 ET
Uncertainty about the BBC World Service budget as the corporation
prepares to take on full funding of the service is "unacceptable", MPs
have warned. Foreign Office funding for the service will stop in April
2014 when it will be paid for out of the licence fee.
The Foreign Affairs Committee said the World Service could not "plan
properly" because the BBC had yet to issue an operating licence to
define its budget. The BBC Trust said it had shared a draft licence
with the service.
A World Service spokesman said the change in funding next April, when
it will be integrated with the BBC's domestic news services, "provides
certainty and stability".
But the committee of MPs said it did not see how the World Service
could prepare when it would not know "either the priorities, targets
or characteristics which have been set for it, or its budget" until a
few months before the change came into force.
"We do not see how the BBC World Service can plan properly how to
reflect its new priorities, pursue its new objectives or shape its
output... given the short lead-in time," the report said.
'Direct conflict'
The BBC Trust said in a statement: "We are in regular, ongoing
discussions with the World Service about the transition to licence fee
funding from 2014 to ensure that this transition is as smooth as
possible, and we are already delivering on a number of the committee's
recommendations."
It said it had "already consulted the World Service on the draft
operating licence" and would publish the draft for wider public
consultation in the summer "as has always been our intention".
“The World Service must continue to take into account significant
audiences in certain parts of the world, such as rural India and
Africa, who currently rely on shortwave radio”
Foreign Affairs Committee
There had been regular discussions with the World Service about the
draft since February, it added. The committee has also called for
"some form of direct representation" from the World Service on the
BBC's executive board, instead of by the director of news.
The report said World Service interests would be "in direct conflict"
with those of other departments. In October, the World Service
announced it was to lose a further 73 jobs as part of the latest round
of cutbacks to save £42m, with 25 jobs going in the English-language
service. Savings of £30m have already been made following its
reduction in funding by the government in 2010.
The committee also warned that, while it was logical to withdraw
shortwave radio in dwindling markets where audiences had access to the
internet and TV, such services still had a place. "The World Service
must continue to take into account significant audiences in certain
parts of the world, such as rural India and Africa, who currently rely
on shortwave radio," it added.
The committee's report, which also covers the work of the Foreign
Office and the British Council, also warns that the UK risks losing
credibility if more senior diplomats are not fluent in a range of
languages.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22180613
(via DXLD) See also CYPRUS
FOREIGN OFFICE FACES PROPERTY SALE DEFICIT - UK - Scotsman.com
Some MPs aren't happy with the funding conversion process for the
World Service. . .
http://www.scotsman.com/news/uk/foreign-office-faces-property-sale-deficit-1-2901917
(via Richard Cuff, April 19, Swprograms mailing list via DXLD)
** U S A. 5745, VoA (Radiogram) programme 4 with Olivia and MFSK modes
tests, including one where they intentionally played music over the
top of the Olivia transmission, and reduced the level of the digital
transmission all to simulate QRM -- (I told Kim Elliot they should
have used Firedrake to make it more realistic!) and it worked (sort
of) even with the 'challenges' and the fact that I decoded it by
putting the wireless headphones next to the microphone of the laptop!
They also had a sort of 'psudo-hellschreiber' thing in the waterfall
display showing modes. Just 'way cool' stuff! In well, 5554+4+ *0230-
0300* 14/Apr (Kenneth Vito Zichi, MI, MARE Tipsheet April 19 via DXLD)
[and non]. Thor versus MFSK this weekend on VOA Radiogram
VOA Radiogram will feature Thor digital text modes this weekend, with
MFSK modes also transmitted for comparison. Details here:
http://voaradiogram.net/post/48358773399/voa-radiogram-april-20-21-will-feature-thor-modes
The Mighty KBC will also compare Thor and KBC with a simultaneous
transmission. More information:
http://voaradiogram.net/post/48432804632/thor22-versus-mfsk22-this-weekend-on-the-mighty-kbc
(Kim Elliott, KD9XB, April 20, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
17860, April 20 at 1322-1323*, big open carrier with some hum, atop
weak music, then that`s in the clear. Must have been another IBB
Greenville tuneup for the Saturday-only Radiogram transmission not
until 1600 on 17860; and meanwhile blocking Romania in Chinese.
With this reminder, I delay completing this report to monitor the
weekly Radiogram broadcast, 17860 sufficient from tune-in 1607
Saturday April 20. Axually, I take it as a new-music concert of
multiple tones, since VOA absolutely refuses to broadcast any
classical music (AFAIK, in English or any other language I run across,
and that also goes for any of the other BBG substations). 1617 pause
for a brief announcement by non-Kim, but with unnecessary conventional
music background; more intoning until 1626.4 music and then Kim
announcement asking for reports; 1627.4 more tones, 1629.4 music past
1630, carrier to 1631*. He did not announce the complete schedule for
this, which might have been helpful, so I will: repeats are UT Sundays
0230 on 5745, 1300 on 6095, 1930 on 15670.
Altho I myself have not been sufficiently motivated to try to decode
it, if Radiograms will help to preserve Greenville and even SWBC
itself, more power to Kim. I wonder when real current news will be
transmitted rather than NASA test material.
I also lamented that his excellent blog aggregating media news
interspersed with his comments, http://www.kimandrewelliott.com has
stalled: As of April 20, still nothing new since his last Radiogram
promo on March 30! Kim hopes to reactivate it, but says this Radiogram
business has been consuming his free time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
Finally, April 23, one new entry since March 30 by Kim with his
extensive remarx:
** U S A. IN USIB, IT'S NOT DUPLICATION, IT'S "PARALLAX." IN THAT
CASE, NO NEED FOR REFORM. Posted: 23 Apr 2013
Broadcasting Board of Governors press release, 9 Apr 2013: "BBG Board
member Dennis Mulhaupt today informed the White House and his
colleagues that he is leaving the Board. Mulhaupt had been serving as
alternate presiding governor, chair of the BBG Governance Committee
and chair of the board of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty." From Mr.
Mulhaupt's letter of resignation to President Obama: "Over my tenure
I, along with some of my board colleagues, have consistently advocated
for necessary and far-reaching reform of the governance structure and
organization of U. S. international broadcasting (USIB). My belief in
the importance and need for these reforms has only grown stronger the
longer I have served. I hope that the administration and Congress will
address soon the urgent issues facing USIB and the BBG, the components
of which do such vital work advancing freedom and human rights in many
countries throughout the world." (kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD)
Mr. Mulhaupt did not provide a reason for his resignation, but he did
address the need for reform USIB, suggesting that he may have been
frustrated by the lack of movement in that direction. BBG members
Susan McCue and Victor Ashe take over as chair and vice chair of the
RFE/RL board. The Board itself is now down to four members in addition
to the ex officio Secretary of State.
Acting RFE/RL president Kevin Klose was one of the USIB entity heads
who spoke at the April 11 meeting of the BBG. He is clearly not of the
side of the reforms mentioned by Mr. Mulhaupt. He noted he was deeply
interested in collaboration with the other entities, the names all of
which he could not remember. (There really are too many of them for
most people to remember.) But he also spoke of the "rubric" of
"overlap and duplication." Noting that cars and trucks have two
headlights, he said "we need parallax."
"I don't buy it that there is duplication and that there is overlap...
. We accept that there are differences" between RFE/RL and VOA, but
"we need to emphasize our common strengths and not get into a dialogue
with anybody about overlap and duplication because we don't do that."
Mr. Klose mentioned "parallax" and "depth perception." This website
has documented many instances of duplication and overlap in USIB. It
did not take much depth perception to do so. In USIB, one cannot swing
a cat without hitting an instance of duplication. A casual perusal of
the USIB websites provides the evidence. Duplication is a significant
form of waste in federal spending. There is never a legitimate excuse
to waste the taxpayers' money.
Mr. Klose no doubt thought he was giving a passionate defense of his
entity and of the jobs of his entity's employees. What entity heads,
who spend so much of their energy trying to preserve their entities
(and their own jobs), don't seem to realize is that USIB, if its
limited budget continues to be drained by duplication, and if its
scarce resources are divided among competing entities, has no chance
of competing with the real competition out there in the real world.
And that will be to the detriment of all the entities and all their
employees.
I give Mr. Klose credit, however, for coining "parallax" as a
surrogate (if you will) term for "duplication." I think members of
Congress, journalists, senior distinguished think tank fellows, and
other Washington types will swallow it. I think the "parallax" concept
will ensure that USIB continues to fall short of its potential.
In a recent national survey in Cambodia, respondents were asked how
many minutes of a newscast from the United States should be about
Cambodia, about the United States, and about the rest of the world.
Ethics regulations prevent me from providing the three numbers here
(although the BBG could make them public), but suffice it to say that
the result is more news about Cambodia than VOA can do well, and more
US and world news than RFA can do at all. In the present structure of
USIB, the one that the entity heads are trying so hard to preserve,
there is no provision for a station that provides news in the
proportions that audiences in Cambodia and elsewhere want. Listeners
in Cambodia and elsewhere must do their part for the parallax concept,
and for the maintenance of five senior management suites, through the
inconvenience of tuning to two USIB stations at two different times to
get complete news coverage.
Data from comScore, which employs representative panels of internet
users, shows the number of visitors to the RFE/RL, VOA, and BBC
websites in Russia. Again, I can't provide the numbers, but can note
that RFE/RL and VOA are fighting it out rather far below the BBC
Russian website, which is soaring. Keep in mind that the UK spends
less on international broadcasting than the United States. The BBC
World Service, however, has the advantage of not frittering much of
its budget on duplicated, sorry, parallaxed efforts, and not dividing
scarce resources among competing entities. ComScore shows a similar
situation in Vietnam between the VOA and RFA websites versus a
considerably more successful BBC Vietnamese website.
Television is playing a greater role in US international broadcasting.
For example: VOA is developing television services for Burma. RFA is
developing television services for Burma. There are several other
instances where more than one entity is increasing its television
products for a single target country. When radio prevailed, the
taxpayers might have been able to afford duplicated efforts of two
entities. The entities might have been able to divide talent and other
scarce resources between them. In television, however, the days of
profligacy are over. As the entire federal government looks to reduce
spending, duplicated television services can neither be justified nor
afforded. And there is not enough talent, not enough outlets in target
countries, not enough of other resources to divide between entities.
In the television age, preservation of multiple USIB entities is folly
(Kim Andrew Elliott, ibid.) And another one on April 24
R. Marti fire: see CUBA [non]
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1665: confirmed first airing on
WRMI webcast, UT Thursday April 18 after 0330. Next:
Thursday 2100 on WTWW 9479; UT Friday 0330v on WWRB 3195 (and maybe
5050); UT Saturday 0130v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; Saturday 0630
& 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB; Saturday 1500 on WRMI 9955;
Saturday 2330v on WTWW 9930; UT Sunday 0400 on WTWW 5830; Sunday 2330v
on WTWW 9930.
WORLD OF RADIO 1665 monitoring: confirmed Thursday April 18 at 2100.5
on 9479, WTWW-1.
Also confirmed UT Friday April 19 just ending at 0357 on 3195, WWRB.
So would have started early about 0328. After a pause, Dave came on
live, referring listeners to 3185 before turning off 3195. BTW, as
usual, 3185 has a considerably stronger signal than 3195.
Next WOR airings: UT Saturday 0130v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB.
Saturday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB. Saturday 1500
on WRMI 9955. Saturday 1730 on WRN via SiriusXM 120 (for the last
time!). Saturday 2330v on WTWW 9930; UT Sunday 0400 on WTWW 5830;
Sunday 2330v on WTWW 9930.
WORLD OF RADIO 1665 monitoring: 5110v-CUSB, Area 51 via WBCQ,
confirmed at 0154 UT Saturday April 20 with the Puntland item, which
means it started on time at 0130. Next: Saturday 1730 on WRN via
SiriusXM channel 120, for the last time. Saturday 2330v on WTWW 9930,
UT Sunday 0400 on WTWW 5830, Sunday 2330v on 9930.
WORLD OF RADIO 1665 monitoring: Saturday April 20 on WTWW-2, 9930,
does not start until 2332:30 at the end of a piece of music, and
unfortunately due to lack of coördination or attention at the
transmitter site, cut off the air at 0000:40* or so before I had
finished, about KVOH: ``Ray says ---``. May have concluded on 5085
after break, unchecked. Hope they get it together for expected replay
at 2330v Sunday; meanwhile, unscathed at regular time on other WTWW-1,
5830, UT Sunday April 21 after 0400.
WORLD OF RADIO 1665 monitoring: Starts at 2328:42 UT Sunday April 21
on WTWW-2 9930, early enough to end well before 2400, i.e. 2358:42,
*then* off the air promptly. QSY to 5085 which was still on the air an
hour later this UT Monday with music. Next for WOR:
Tuesday 1100 on WRMI 9955; also UT Thursday 0330 unless new 1666 is
ready by then, both always jammed; tnx a lot, Arnie! But if awake
Tuesday at 1100, please check. Also Wednesday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger
Lokalradio 7265-CUSB, if on the air (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO
1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9930, WTWW Lebanon TN; 1742-1800+, 16-Apr; Ted Randall
program from the Dayton Hamvention interviewing a Cleveland
broadcaster reminiscing; interviewee got in a word every now and then.
Ted sed he was on 9990 (not) and not sure if he was on 9930. Break-in
ID at ToH over Ted who continued after ToH. SIO=454-, fady (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)
WTWW QSO show on 9930 kHz 1930 UT Monday, April 22, 2013 --- As I was
walking my dog minutes ago, tuning my Tecsun PL360, I found the QSO
program on WTWW 9930. Mostly about ham radio but I was amused to hear
the host say that he is always confused converting to UTC: "...the
next thing I know I'm getting e-mail from Glenn Hauser telling me that
I messed up on my times..." DH KCMO (Dave Hughes, Kansas City, dxldyg
via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Old show remark keeps getting repeated (gh)
12105, WWTW (40 kW, Lebanon, U.S.A.), 2305 UT. Spanish programme, with
readings and comments about Holy Bible. SINPO: 44333 (Eduardo
PEÑAILILLO, Receiver: Brigmton BT-360; Antenna: wire antenna, 7 meter
(approx.) QTH: North zone of Santiago, residential area, Chile, April
22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 40 is the azimuth, not the kW
** U S A. 3185, WWRB, April 22 at 1050, when scanning the tropical
bands this morning, I noticed The Overcomer Ministry hogging a huge
portion of spectrum with a severely overmodulated signal, 3157–3212
kHz. Or is this frequency being jammed for some reason? At the top of
the hour, 1100, ministry audio was cut when a canned station ID was
heard, and the “spread” appeared less. WWRB is in effect jamming the
band this morning. NBC Sandaun, 3205v is lost in the QRM, although the
carrier is visible. Strange (Mike Gilchrist in rural EC Iowa, dxldyg
via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
3185, April 18 at 1110, no signal from WWRB which ought to be
propagating this early if on the air; nor on 9370, the nite & day
frequencies dedicated exclusively to Brother Scare. By 1337, 9370 is
on with distorted modulation, edited clips (from Weather Channel?) of
tornado warnings to countless counties in IN, TN, MS. By 1341 it`s
clearly a survivalist show, and NOT // Brother Scare on 9980 WWCR ---
not merely out of synch, but totally different. So WWRB has departed
from The Overcomer Ministry! Which is obsessed with *not* surviving as
soon as possible (on this Earth).
1735 recheck, 9370 is awfully weak, but on fade-ins still seems
survivalist, and not // 9980 BS, neighbor WWCR inbooming as usual.
Homepage
http://www.overcomerministry.org/ still shows both WWRB frequencies
Further observations of WWRB not carrying Brother Scare: 9370, April
18 at 2104 dead air, then exposition about jet streams, climate
changing, etc., eventually program ID as `Planet X`. This has been
scheduled elsewhen on WWRB for a long time, so apparently such
programing is being plugged into the transmitter which is normally
exclusively for BS: contract closed, or just lost feed from
Walterboro?
3185, April 19 at 0137, BS is back on now, altho not synch with 7490
WBCQ (it never is, but within a minute).
9370, April 19 at 1237, BS is also back here. Apparently it was a
protracted feed outage yesterday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
5050-AM, UT Sunday April 21 at 0057, WWRB extra frequency is on again,
as programmer mentions origination at WHKW Radio, also on 3215 & 5050
every Saturday night at 7:30-9 [EDT = UT Sat 2330-0100 Sun].
But what is it? Rather than prolong my monitoring since Chaski is
imminent, looking up later, the outdated schedule for Global I of WWRB
claims 5050 is always the frequency until 0400, not 3215
http://www.wwrb.org/schedule/global_1/combined.pdf
not starting until 0000 (assuming the times are EDT)
with `Back to the 80s` and `Unshackled`.
WHKW is the big 1220 in Cleveland OH. Trouble is, their own Saturday
program schedule shows two different ones in this block:
7:30 PM Jay Sekulow Weekend
8:00 PM Townhall Weekend Journal
So maybe the WWRB sesquihour is really elsewhen on WHKW
5050, UT Monday April 22 at 0056, WWRB is not on the air, unlike 24
hours earlier; seems it depends on business, which client wants the
extra frequency, so maybe on Saturday nights only? (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST) And not on April 23 either at same time
** U S A [and non]. 15420, WBCQ, Monticello ME; 2042...2100:50*, 12-
Apr; English Agressive Christianity huxtress -- if she emitted a high-
pitched whine, she could be a Euro police siren! ToH ID & off leaving
Chinese audio --- maybe AWR Guam. SIO=4+54 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI,
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)
9330-CUSB, noticed NO signal from WBCQ circa 0500 UT April 22, but
could be `long` propagation, with e.g. Greece 9420 in well. However at
1236 over day path, still no trace of a 9330 signal, when e.g. 9370
WWRB is in well. Nor at 1407. So conclude 9330 transmitter, nominally
24 hours, is really off the air. WBCQ still missing at 1646, but 9370
WWRB is weak, and 9479 WTWW attenuated; must be propagation
disturbance too. WWV reported at 1500:
``Geophysical Alert Message
Solar-terrestrial indices for 21 April follow.
Solar flux 109 and estimated planetary A-index 3.
The estimated planetary K-index at 1500 UTC on 22 April was 1.
Space weather for the past 24 hours has been minor.
Radio blackouts reaching the R1 level occurred.
No space weather storms are predicted for the next 24 hours.``
Now`s our chance to hear SYRIA?? q.v.
9330-CUSB, April 22 at 1902 check, WBCQ is now on after absence
earlier in the day, who else but Rod Hembree promoting, who else, but
Jesus Christ; 15420-CUSB also on and stronger with the androgynous
anapaestic preachperson from Fence Lake NM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. Hi Jeff, I find the following currently in HFCC for
RMI. Are any of these besides 9490 on the air now, and what are they?
Tnx, Glenn
9490 0000 0200 11 ISS 250 275 0 216 1234567 310313 261013 D
8500 Spa F RMI TDF 10272
9610 0530 0600 46SE NAU 100 180 0 216 23456 310313 261013 D
9600 Mul D RMI MBR 16123 X.18
11945 1930 2000 46SE WER 100 180 -30 217 1234567 310313 261013 D
14800 Mul D RMI MBR 4971 X.18
13810 1600 1630 47E,48 WER 125 135 -15 217 1 310313 261013 D
17650 Mul D RMI MBR 16150 X.318
15170 1700 1730 47E,48 WER 125 135 -15 217 1 310313 261013 D
17650 Mul D RMI MBR 16157 X.318
(Glenn to Jeff White, via DXLD)
Glenn: No, we don't have anything on MBR at the moment. I'm not sure
what those listings were for (Jeff White, RMI, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. [Re 13-16] UNIDENTIFIED. I can hear something on 4930 via
the Perseus site near Detroit – and weaker here in Southern California
from 0227 tune. The Botswana transmitter would do a better job than
this, especially after 0230. I can hear VOA Botswana even here in
California quite well after *0300. Tried several European Perseus
sites, but nothing registers on 4930, even from excellent LA/African
DXing sites in C. Germany, Netherlands and Austria. The Detroit signal
is not much over audibility, but better than the Boston Perseus site.
Tonight the Botswana transmitter signed on before the UNID left the
air (Bruce W. Churchill, Fallbrook, CA, U.S.A., in DXplorer, April 15,
via DSWCI DX Window April 17 via DXLD)
All he had to do was look for a match on 9860 from WHRI, of which 4930
is a semiharmonic. Some hard-core DXers don`t want anything to do with
bands above tropical, even if it means relying on remote receivers
(Glenn Hauser, DXLD)
5920, UT Monday April 22 after 0000, WHRI is on the air, but not DXing
with Cumbre; 7385 is not on the air at all. At 0056, 7315 is on the
air with praise music. At 0452, 11635 is on with only fair signal,
music, not DWC, and off the air after 0500. I was checking for real SW
airings of DWC vis-à-vis previous and alleged scheduling, but none
found this Sunday evening. However, it might have been on some
frequency at 0100 or 0200. Marie makes no effort whatsoever to
research and publish when she is really on the *air* (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11830, WEWN, at 2055 on 4/15, apparently a late addition to
the EiBi list here in Spanish. Only at a fair level; continued in
Spanish past 2100 (Gerry Dexter, Lake Geneva WI, TenTech 340, "Parker"
balanced doublet, NASWA Flashsheet April 21 via DXLD)
Apparently you typoed this for 13830, the real WEWN frequency, or they
did? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CUBA ``11720``
** U S A. 6970, WWCR Nashville TN; 2256, 17-Apr; 13845-6875 mixing
product; stronger than usual & can hear both clearly. Dead Dr. Gene on
13845 and English huxter on 6875 relating the Bible to aliens (Harold
Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180
ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real
time! DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 6823-USB, April 18 at 1343, Army MARS net, discussing Field
Day (two months ahead?); strongest signal requiring some attenuation
is the NCS, AAM6TTX (often just ``TTX``), also AAR6UD, and AA#6GJ,
AA#6UK --- assuming I missed a third letter in those prefixes. 1345
goes into ``comments period``, i.e. less formal part of net.
Would you believe that AAM6TTX gets about 65,000 Google hits? Where to
start? Near the top. Not surprisingly, it`s Texas Army MARS, also
involved with TX Emergency Management. One site shows ``Training:
AAM6TTX: Scott Hamende``. It would take a lot more digging, possibly
pointless, to find his location. AAR6UD comes up as a password rather
than a callsign (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 21430- in AM, slightly on lo side, April 20 at 2005, WA1HLR
again, instantly recognizable TimTron (Tim Smith) monolog about
equipment, etc., mentions he was into pirate radio in the 80s, and now
doing `Radio TimTron Worldwide` (legally) on WBCQ; finally call ID,
over to contact who is much weaker. Again not much else audible on
15m, certainly not in AM, so essentially the OSOB (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I omitted his call on WOR
** U S A. Special News: One less station to listen to. The FCC has
issued a NOTICE OF UNLICENSED OPERATION for radio transmissions on
6925 kHz to a station located in Ohio. It seems that the FCC is now
looking for HF Free Radio stations. Details are available at the FCC
enforcement web site (Free Radio Weekly April 19 via DXLD) Viz.:
PIRATE ON 6925, RADIO RONIN, BUSTED ---
http://transition.fcc.gov/eb/FieldNotices/2003/DOC-320165A1.html
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
ENFORCEMENT BUREAU
Northeast Region
Detroit Office
24897 Hathaway St.
Farmington Hills, MI 48335-1552
April 11, 2013
(Sent via Certified Return Receipt Requested and First Class US Mail)
Michael E. Rohde
Hilliard, Ohio
NOTICE OF UNLICENSED OPERATION
Case Number: EB-FIELDNER-13-00007831
Document Number: W201332360005
The Detroit Office received information that an unlicensed broadcast
radio station on 6925 kHz was allegedly operating in Hilliard, Ohio.
On April 2, 2013, an agent from this office confirmed by direction
finding techniques that radio signals on frequency 6925 kHz were
emanating from your residence in Hilliard, Ohio. Although Commission
records show that you are the licensee of Amateur Station KD8MVH, the
Commission's records show that no license was issued for operation of
a broadcast station on 6925 kHz at your residence in Hilliard, Ohio.
Radio stations must be licensed by the FCC pursuant to 47 U.S.C. S
301. The only exception to this licensing requirement is for certain
transmitters using or operating at a power level or mode of operation
that complies with the standards established in Part 15 of the
Commission's rules, 47 C.F.R. SS 15.1 et seq. Based on the distance
from which the signal could be received in the FCC's radio direction
finding vehicles, agents concluded that the field strength of the
signal on frequency 6925 kHz exceeds the maximum permitted established
in Section 15.209 of the Rules (See 47 C.F.R. S 15.209(a)). Thus, this
station is operating in violation of 47 U.S.C. S 301.
You are hereby warned that operation of radio transmitting equipment
without a valid radio station authorization constitutes a violation of
the Federal laws cited above and could subject the operator to severe
penalties, including, but not limited to, substantial monetary fines,
in rem arrest action against the offending radio equipment, and
criminal sanctions including imprisonment. (see 47 U.S.C. SS 401, 501,
503 and 510).
UNLICENSED OPERATION OF THIS RADIO STATION MUST BE DISCONTINUED
IMMEDIATELY.
You have ten (10) days from the date of this notice to respond with
any evidence that you have authority to operate granted by the FCC.
Your response should be sent to the address in the letterhead and
reference the listed case and document number. Under the Privacy Act
of 1974, 5 U.S.C. S 552a(e)(3), we are informing you that the
Commission's staff will use all relevant material information before
it to determine what, if any, enforcement action is required to ensure
your compliance with FCC Rules. This will include any information that
you disclose in your reply.
You may contact this office if you have any questions.
James A. Bridgewater
District Director
Detroit Office
Attachments:
Excerpts from the Communications Act of 1934, As Amended
Enforcement Bureau, "Inspection Fact Sheet", March 2005
(FCC via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DXLD)
Mike Rohde, editor of the Pirate Radio Report column in the NASWA
Journal --- who`da thunk it that he himself might be a pirate?? I
don`t think I ever heard Radio Ronin, probably because he operated
earlier in the evening than I usually do --- there were three logs of
him from others in his April column. It looks like this first step
constitutes a warning rather than a Notice of Violation, so maybe OK
if he complies. altho his ham license may be in danger. Expect other
42-mb SW pirates to lie low for a while (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF
RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Radio Ronin Shortwave Sign-Off
Published on Apr 2, 2013
Ronin sign-off around 20:40 EDT April 2 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUEFM_BnEWU
(W1FVB via DXLD)
Sounds like it was recorded previously, but that was the date of the
bust (Glenn Hauser, DXLD)
TIME TO SET THINGS STRAIGHT
« on: April 19, 2013, 0056 UTC »
Sorry, guys this is going to be a bit long. Go get a beer and kick
back while you read this.
I am talking to you from an account name that I have always used on
this board. I am the operator responsible for Radio Ronin Shortwave.
As most know I did get the knock from our friendly federal civil
servants a few weeks ago.
I have received many emails from friends and listeners which were all
supportive. Thank you very much! Some just expressed sadness of my
demise while others did the same and suggested that a fellow operator
dropped a dime on me that resulted on my knock. Others asked what was
my “hunch” on how it all came down.
I disseminated some limited and general information within my close
circle of trusted people with the expressed request that the
information be treated with confidentiality. Well, some of that
information has now appeared on a blog. Two things have resulted from
that first, my circle of friends has gotten smaller.
Second, it has fired up people on that blog site. I attempted to cool
things down last night by posting an anonymous comment there. I should
have known better than to think that would be well received there
considering past history and past accusations. For my trouble I was
called among other things a Moron. Thanks, that was real nice but, as
I said, maybe I asked for it unintentionally.
OK, so here is the deal, so I got the knock. Even to my most trusted
friends only segments of the information acquired during this process
with our federal friends was revealed to them. But is seems that even
with that very incomplete information set some people have drawn the
conclusion that another op MUST have dropped a dime on me resulting in
my knock.
First, let me say that I am sure that the feds may choose to use
deception when they feel that is to their advantage. Also, that the
first sentence of the NOUO can, off the top of my head be interpreted
in at least six different manners, only one of which involves a dime
dropped on me by anther op.
As I said in the blog last night “The operator of RRS he has NO
indication or information that would lead him to believe that any op
dropped a dime on him”.
Of course everyone is free to think, write, and, say what they want.
My purpose here is the answer the question “I wonder what the op
thinks happened”. Keeping in mind the only other person that knows
more about this other than myself is the friendly federal civil
servant that knocked on my door. Also I have had over two weeks to
think about and analyze the situation.
Think what you like, but now you know both my public and private
position on the matter. If someone wants to think or call me a fool or
moron so be it.
We live the USA and despite the position of our federal government in
the last couple of administrations, this is still the “land of
innocent until proven guilty”. If you have accusations then show us
the evidence.
I have always attempted to promote good will in the community,
including across both sides of the divide that we now seem to be
living with.
In closing, I have few regrets; I really liked what I did and how I
did it. If that exposed me more to our federal friends so be it! I
have always believed that it is important to live life big as doing
otherwise was like not living at all.
My intension is to continue to participate in the community in several
capacities as I have in the past. Long Live Free Radio!! (RRS, HF
Underground forum via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DXLD)
Further comments on this thread:
http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php?topic=10916.0
Awesome recording of Radio Ronin, which some very good audio quality
for a pirate operator!
Mar 23, 2013 – Though many had great signals, the strongest was Radio
Ronin Shortwave on 6925 (AM). Ronin's broadcast started around 2215
UT. The SWLing Post » Radio Ronin Shortwave
http://swling.com/blog/tag/radio-ronin-shortwave/feed/
(via DXLD)
** U S A. PASSING OF LONGTIME DXER BILL NITTLER
Had not seen anything on any of the discussion lists that I belong to,
so I was rather surprised to get this in my inbox just a few minutes
ago. I had the opportunity to visit with Bill on at least one occasion
(the 2011 NRC convention in Omaha) and possibly another (I THINK he
attended the 1995 NRC convention in Aurora, CO). His contributions to
the DXing hobby were many, and he will be sorely missed. Here's a link
to his obit:
http://www.cortezjournal.com/article/20130415/NEWS07/130419873/0/SEARCH/Maurice-'Bill'-Nittler?
73, (Rick Dau, South Omaha, Nebraska, April 23, IRCA via WORLD OF
RADIO 1666, DXLD) Viz., with portrait:
Maurice 'Bill' Nittler
Article Last Updated: Monday, April 15, 2013 5:24pm
Maurice "Bill" Nittler, age 78, a resident of Belen, passed away on
Wednesday, April 10, 2013. He was born December 24, 1934, in Shickley,
Neb., to Rose and Frank Nittler. He was a member of Our Lady of Belen
and of the Knights of Columbus. Bill and Sally moved to Belen, N.M.,
in 2004 after his retirement from the first National Bank in Cortez.
Bill devoted 50 years to a career in banking.
He was always involved in the community in which he lived and joined
service oriented clubs: The Jaycees in Denver and The Lions Club in
Mancos, his home before moving to Belen.
As a teenager, Bill began radio DX-ing with his brother, Francis, and
he continued to enjoy the hobby throughout his entire life. He and
friends started a DX club and published news letters on the subject.
He also enjoyed stamp collecting, and recently, he and his wife Sally
joined the geo-caching community, an organization of people who
enjoyed finding caches hidden by other members using GPS coordinates
to find the site of the hidden caches.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Rose and Frank Nittler;
brothers, Francis Nittler, Leroy Nittler; sisters, Rosella Graham and
Mildred Viola; and grandson, Toby Jones.
Bill is survived by his beloved bride of nearly 56 years, Sally;
children and spouses, Tammy Hettchen and husband Bob, Robin Nittler,
Jennifer Nittler, Andrea Stevens, Matthew Nittler and wife, Brandy,
Lesley Davis and husband, Greg, Ethan Nittler and wife, Kimberly;
grandchildren, Matthew, Corey, Emilee, Kristopher and spouse,
Kimberly, Kelton, Mackenzie, Brandon and spouse, Katie, Caitlin,
Paige, Summer, Harley, Cody, and Dylan; great grandchildren, Samantha,
Nathan, Hailey, Emma Leigh, and Miley Raye; and numerous nieces and
nephews.
Memorial contributions to the Belen Knights of Columbus 121 S. 9th
St., Belen, N.M., or Catholic Daughters, 101 A. N 10th St., Belen, NM.
Services will be held at Our Lady of Belen Catholic Church, Wednesday,
April 17, beginning with a Rosary at 11:30 a.m., followed by the Mass
at 12 p.m. Interment will be private. Serving as pallbearers will be
Ethan Nittler, Matthew Nittler, Robert Hettchen and Greg Davis.
Honorary pallbearers will be Kristopher Nittler, Matthew Hettchen,
Corey Hettchen and Kelton Stevens.
Arrangements are being handled by the caring professionals at the
Noblin Funeral Service Belen Chapel, 418 W. Reinken Ave., (505) 864-
4448, where an online guest register is available at
http://www.noblinfuneralservice.com (via DXLD)
Really sad. He attended the Albuquerque IRCA convention in 2009. One
of the original charter members that started the IRCA in 1964. A very
active QSLer through the years too. We lost two greats of late, Don
Kaskey and Bill Nittler. 73, (Patrick Martin, Seaside OR, IRCA via
DXLD)
I'm sorry to hear about Bill Nittler. I had the opportunity to meet
him 3 or 4 times at conventions, the most recent being Seaside in
2010. He was one of the IRCA's founders and was part of the DX Monitor
publishing team during the club's very early days.
Bill was my first contact with the IRCA. I wrote to the club in 1966
asking for a sample bulletin, and received a friendly letter from him
along with a copy of DXM. I was impressed by the reply and joined IRCA
soon thereafter. He will definitely be missed (Bruce Portzer, WA,
ibid.)
Thank you for passing this on, Rick. I met him only once, at the
Calgary convention, where we somehow ended up being the co-
auctioneers. He had a fine sense of humor, and was a worthy
replacement for Mr. Bytheway. And as Bruce mentioned, he was a major
force in the early days of the club. And in recent years, still a
supporter of the club. He presented the elections committee report for
me a couple of years back in Colorado Springs, and always voted in the
elections. Best wishes, (Nick Hall-Patch, ibid.)
** U S A. 690, April 22 at 0532 UT, open carrier/dead air, no doubt
from KGGF Coffeyville KS, as happens frequently (always?) after local
midnite, making slow SAH with presumed KTSM El Paso underneath. What
does the KGGF program schedule show? Who knows? Cannot find any
website. I should listen at 0500, when I am instead trying the 960
Fox-hole.
690, April 23 tune-in just before 0500, KGGF Coffeyville KS is playing
taps, and then dead air, open carrier, making slow SAH with news
understation presumably KTSM. So this indicates KGGF is deliberately
signing off at local midnite, but not turning off the carrier. Since
they are licensed for fulltime, why not burn up 5 kWh for 5 hours or
however long it takes before resuming programming? But what a waste:
they could be modulating at no extra cost with *something*. Next I
will have to tune in a few minutes earlier than that for what they say
at closing.
690, April 24 at 0456 UT, tuning in early to hear KGGF sign-off, it`s
already in open carrier, vs KTSM El Paso, and no taps tonite around
0500, altho a Mexican NA could be heard weakly mixing. At 0459 KTSM
ran a TX DOT seat-belts PSA, 0500 Fox ``news``, 0506 C2CAM (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 930, April 18 at 1211 UT, checking inhabitant with WKY OKC
nulled --- it`s still WTAD Quincy IL, with river levels at Quincy &
Hannibal; it seems there is some flooding. Now WTAD is legitimately on
non-direxional day pattern since 1130 UT in April (1045 in May), but
we also hear it at night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 960, April 19 at 0503 UT during KGWA Fox-hole, harmonica
blues music is dominating rather than ABC News, indicating KGKL San
Angelo TX has stopped running ND day pattern at nite, but WABG
Greenwood MS may have resumed doing so (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
Bet on WABG, Glenn. I live somewhat close and I got them pretty good
with this format (Kevin Redding, Crump, TN, ABDX via DXLD)
960, April 20 at 0503 UT during KGWA Fox-hole, dominated by bluesy
music, not ABC news, which again points to WABG Mississippi, no more
KGKL Texas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1020, April 18 at 1215 UT, with semi-local KOKP Perry
nulled, Spanish suddenly switches to heavily-accented English for
legal ID at odd time: ``KMMQ, Plattsmouth-Omaha, la estación oficial
de la celebración del 5 de mayo en Ómaja``. How could you say
Plattsmouth in Spanish? It refers to the Platte River flowing into the
Missouri, but I wouldn`t call that a boca (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1420, April 18 at 1141, UT M&M DJs talking about Merle
Haggard`s appearance sometime in June at the Civic Center Theater; TC
for 6:41, then `This Day in History` capsule introduced by Rocky the
Flying Squirrel, starting with Paul Revere in 1775y. Checking the tour
dates for Merle at
http://www.songkick.com/artists/366005-merle-haggard/calendar?page=2
he`s all over Canada in April-May, resuming USA in June-July and this
is the match but maintaining Canadian orthography:
http://www.songkick.com/venues/101646-memorial-civic-centre-arena
i.e., Lubbock TX on 19 June.
Therefore this station is: KJDL, non-direxional 500/140/191 watts per
NRC AM Log. It`s after 6 am CDT, so the PSRA power should be in
effect. However FCC info at
http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=4210
shows KJDL PSRA starting at 6 am local every month is only 147 watts,
except for June bumped up to a hefty 168 watts, the ``limiting
station`` in all cases being XEF in Juárez (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) Maybe also the earlier 1420 UNIDENTIFIED, q.v.
** U S A. 1440, April 20 at 1216 UT, ID in passing as WGEM, back to
ESPN; Quincy IL, difficult versus much stronger 50 kW Spanish religion
from KTNO TX (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1560, April 18 at 0553 UT tune-in, ID immediately as ``KLTI,
Today`s True Country``. Slogan confirmed at http://www.kltiradio.com/
rather than (former?) ``Real Country``, as in NRC-AM Log; i.e. Macon
MO, non-direxional 1000 watts day, 41 watts night: wonder which I was
really hearing? Macon is west of Hannibal, south of Kirksville, but
address is in Brookfield, some 38 miles further west where I daresay
the 41 watts night are not going to reach; so where is the transmitter
site? Own coverage map (from Radio Locator for day signal) shows right
in Macon, and even then, Brookfield is beyond the ``local`` contour.
Topo map at FCC shows a radio tower 3 km south of Macon, but is it
KLTI`s? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1650 AM The Buzz --- While going to Walmart today I saw a
sign for "1650 AM The Buzz" and it was on the air with "Arizona's Real
Rock Radio". They cover all of Prescott Valley with a good signal and
they have ads. Not sure when they came on the air (Bill Block,
Prescott Valley, AZ, April 23, IRCA via DXLD)
The Buzz-1650 is heard in all parts of Prescott Valley with good
signals but is not heard in Prescott. Arizona has had several of
these low power stations one of them is KBXZ-1650 in Flagstaff which
has been in trouble with the FCC. We went by KBXZ in 2008 during IRCA
convention. Also their was a low power station at Embry-Riddle
Aeronautical University in Prescott for around 2 years but is now off.
(Bill Block, Prescott Valley, AZ. April 24, ibid.)
I remember KBXZ 1650 during the Flagstaff convention. I believe they
were broadcasting ESPN programming or something similar. I think we
got a few photos of their antenna and studios from the outside. 'Would
sure be nice to have another convention in that town again someday
(Mike Sanburn, ibid.)
KBXZ is Fox Sports. The last time I was in Flagstaff last fall they
were still on the air (Bill Block, Prescott Valley, AZ, ibid.)
As of 1730 EDT The Buzz is off the air with a OC (Bill Block, Prescott
Valley, AZ, April 24, IRCA via DXLD)
** U S A. Iowa TIS's on 1680 --- For the past couple years on western
antennas I've commonly noted the Iowa TIS's in the mix on 1680, but
nothing like I heard yesterday evening between about 6:45 and 7 pm CDT
[UT -5]. X-banders commonly skip in rather early, and I had WQHC968
(ID's as Quad Cities) almost all alone and very clear for a while.
There was sometimes QRM from WQHC967 (ID's as Iowa City) and by 7 pm
Bloomberg Radio WRJO was starting to QRM them.
These TIS's use computized female voices for traffic info and ID
frequently. I've had the one in Soiux City a few times but still need
Council Bluffs which is the newest of the 4. There's also one in Des
Moines on 1670 that can get thru WOZN.
1680 can be quite wide open in this part of the midwest if you can get
rid of WPRR, so these may be good targets for other DXers. No trace of
WPRR was noted whatsoever during this time frame in the back null of
my just installed (for tests and mods) Double KAZ antenna aimed due
west. 73 KAZ Barrington IL (Neil Kazaross, April 22, IRCA via DXLD)
** U S A. QSL: WQFG689, Hudson County Office of Emergency Management,
Jersey City, NJ, 1710, date/time letter in 133 days for English report
via first-class mail and US $1.00 return postage, plus follow-up in
English via fax to 201-369-5204. QSL arrived 8 days after fax follow-
up. V/s James Woods, Coordinator. Mr. Woods apologized for the great
delay in answering and stated that they were still busy cleaning up
after "Super Storm Sandy." This is an Emergency Radio Station and is
the only one of its class licensed on 1710 kHz by the FCC, running 10
watts (Al Muick, Whitehall PA USA, April 20, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. FCC fines WOBO-FM $3,000
04/23/13 at 2:48pm by John Kiesewetter 0 Comments
The Federal Communication Commission Monday fined Batavia’s non-
commercial WOBO-FM (88.7) for being too commercial.
The FCC said WOBO-FM “willfully and repeatedly violated” federal rules
“by airing commercial announcements on a noncommercial educational FM
station,” after reviewing the station’s license renewal. It cited
underwriting announcements aired last year for:
–The Years of Farming Bluegrass show featuring “Canada’s #1 bluegrass
band” in Flemingsburg, Ky. . .
http://cincinnati.com/blogs/tv/2013/04/23/fcc-fines-wobo-fm-3000/
Details:
http://www.fcc.gov/document/notice-apparent-liability-wobofm-batavia-ohio
(via Artie Bigley, DXLD)
** U S A. FM translator weirdness --- So, after resolving the LPFM vs.
translator thing, the FCC has been accepting amendments to the
thousands of FM translator applications filed in 2003.
The idea is that if your translator would preclude LPFM service, you
can amend your translator application to allow it to co-exist with
LPFM service. Or, if your translator application is mutually exclusive
with another one & you don't want to have to go to auction with the
other guy, you can amend yours so that *both* applications can be
granted & nobody has to try to outbid anyone.
You're going to see a TON of these. Some of them seem a bit
technically questionable. For example, Refuge Media Group, a religious
broadcaster in Minnesota, had a translator application on file
specifying 98.9 from a site in St. Paul. This application has been
amended to change the site *slightly* and to change frequency to 98.5.
98.5?
100,000-watt KTIS-FM has been operating on 98.5 for years. Licensed to
Minneapolis, the KTIS-FM site is only a few miles (five or six) from
the translator site.
Another questionable one I saw this morning specified 97.5 at Pine
Bluff, Arkansas. That's maybe not quite as close to KQUS Hot Springs,
but still seems awfully unlikely to coexist. I think I also saw two
translators trying to use the same frequency in Milwaukee County (Doug
Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, April 24, WTFDA via DXLD)
The FCC is determined to turn FM into the new AM: overcrowded
frequencies, too many translators, and QRM. This 97.5 translator in
Pine Bluff AR is pointless. I pulled up that "new" assignment via the
FCC FM query and it proposes to retransmit KUAP (a station that has a
50 KW signal *in* Pine Bluff).
http://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?list=0&facid=156465
LPFM could easily be done in this country today if the FCC had not
been bullied by the "non-commercial" religious broadcasting lobby in
the 1990's (aided of course by the 1996 Telecommunications Act) to
permit bird-fed translators on every street corner (especially in the
Southern states). Now with K-LOVE, AFR, Air 1, Calvary Chapel, Smile
FM (now moving into AR) bogarding every third frequency plus every
other viable AM station getting a translator on the air to broadcast
on the FM dial, and of course IBOC/HD Radio, the FM dial is getting
more and more crowded in larger areas. I hate to imagine the situation
for the DX'er in Southern New England, but the dials are getting
crowded even here in rural Southeast Arkansas (Fritze H. Prentice,
Jr., KC5KBV, Star City AR EM43aw twitter.com/fritzehp
http://facebook.com/SoutheastArkansasDXAndMediaReport ibid.)
I can understand allowing a one-time opportunity to update the
applications since they are 10 years old. After that, the FCC needs to
deny (without an opportunity to revise) any application that has
clerical or technical errors (Neil Griffin, Spartanburg, SC, ibid.)
** UZBEKISTAN [non]. 17510, April 23 at 1309 W&M in Turkic language,
fair signal, gone at 1337 recheck. Aoki shows it`s BBC Uzbek via OMAN.
Normally jammed by the ChiCom but apparently not propagating today
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VANUATU. Just completed recording my DX report for next Monday's
airing of Mailbox on Radio NZ International, which contains my latest
observations on these stations. Radio Vanuatu is missing from
shortwave at present. Adrian Sainsbury from RNZI tells me that both SW
transmitters are off air awaiting spare parts. Radio NZ Transmission
Engineer Steve White is due back in Vanuatu next month, so hopefully
the transmitters will be back in operation soon (Bryan Clark,
Mangawhai, New Zealand, AOR7030+ and EWEs to the Americas, April 24,
dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1666, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN CITY EXTRA-TERRITORIAL AREA. 15595, Vatican Radio, *1600-
1630*, 13-Apr; On with "Vatican Radio news, French & English Edition",
into French news; 1615:20 "Vatican Radio World News". French & English
segments very different. French segment focused on places where people
are killing each other or threatening to kill each other. English
segment opened with 7 minute feature on Vatican activities & history.
1622 brief mention of N Korea, Serbia & Croatia attempt to become EEU,
then feature on stem cells. No mention of Syria or any 'stans as there
was during the French segment. (What's the Vatican hiding from us?)
Off after only partial VR bells IS (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)
[non] [Re 13-16:] As of today, 22 April, Vatican Radio to LatAm at
0200 UT on 7305 kHz is supposed to have "adjusted" the schedule,
though I will have to listen in order to determine what has changed,
if indeed anything. Please let me know if you notice anything other
than 0200 Spanish and 0230 French. I never logged any English in the
0200 to 0245 time slot, though I wrote to Sergio Salvatori, Frequency
Management, and suggested either English or Portuguese to LatAm at
0150 to 0200, since the Greenville carrier is on and this is open air
time. Unless they are making transmitter adjustments/fine tuning.
73's, (Ed Insinger, Summit, NJ, April 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
7305, April 23 at 0150, the Greenville carrier is on prior to Vatican
Radio relay; 0209 check in Spanish, only fair signal; 0232 check in
French! Spanish supposedly is half a sesquihour until 0245. Ed
Insinger in NJ had noted this previously and contacted VR about the
anomaly. Reply explaining how a substitute satellite stream has to be
picked up for this was in DXLD 13-16. Sergio Salvatore of VR frequency
management also said after 0230 it could be in English, Armenian or
Russian which we have not heard yet. It seems what they need to do is
run the Spanish service intact at original timing of 0145-0230 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM. Received preliminary replies from both VISHIPEL GMDSS
Director (Vu Thi Phuong Nhung) and Asst. Director of Hai Phong Radio
(Nguyen Thi Thanh Huyen) for March 23, 2012 and April 4, 2013
receptions respectively of Vietnam's VISHIPEL coastal radio sites from
1020 to 1415 UT. All stations were heard Poor to Good with Ho Chi Minh
Radio the best and Hai Phong Radio the worst in signal strength.
In 2012, Ho Chi Minh Radio used English during its transmission - not
so in 2013. Thanks to Ron Howard for the heads up on these stations in
2012 (and again this year) and to T. Breyel in Malaysia for ID and
contact info of VISHIPEL personnel. Have not received veries yet but
one can only hope! The GMDSS head seemed to want to know more
information about who I was, what company I worked for, what business
was I in and so forth. Interesting (Bruce W. Churchill-CA-USA,
DXplorer Apr 17 via BC-DX April 19 via DXLD)
?? Ron Howard and I heard 7906 in English on March 13, 2013 (Glenn
Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM. 12000, April 18 at 1327 something in Chinese with big hum,
1328 just hum until off at 1329:05*. Aoki shows it`s the end of VOV`s
alternating Russian/Chinese services, 100 kW, 27 degrees from Hanoi-
Sontay site, so also USward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
[non]. 6175, April 18 at 0526, VOV via WHRI with traditional
instruments and wailing; wish I had intuned earlier. 0527:45 cut to
BaBcoCk music loop for less than a quarter-minute, 0528 WHR promotion
which they tack on to relay clients. Usual VG signal eclipsing even
Brasília 6180. Yet for English earlier in the evening, VOV makes us
listen to Woofferton 12005 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
12019.3 approx., Wednesday April 24 at 1245, ``VOV Letterbox``
replying to Richard that they will not abandon shortwave; also has new
QSL design since last year. Next reply to a Nigerian about whether
Vietnam has diplomatic relations with. YL with considerable accent but
still mostly readable on fair signal with flutter; 1257 says ``goodbye
till next time`` and no other sign-off, dead air until 1300 opening
Indonesian with Vietnamese accent too.
Aoki shows 177 degrees on 12020. A major drawback of the otherwise
excellent Aoki list is that nominal/rounded frequencies are shown, not
perpetual off-frequencies like this which could be very helpful to
identification; but would take up at least two scarce columns in the
listings. HFCC does not either; EiBi has room for decimal frequencies
in some entries, yet shows this also just as 12020. VOV is far enough
above RTTY on lo side to avoid it, and fortunately nothing on 12020.0
to make a het, fooling casual listeners into believing VOV is really
on 12020 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM [non]. Que Me: 1200-1230 on 9930 HBN 100 kW / 318 deg to
EaAs Vietnamese Fri (DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo
Ivanov, April 22, 2013 via DXLD)
** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. 1550.03 | ALGERIA | RASD Clandestine,
Rabouni, APR 15 2317 - North African vocal, plucked string instrument;
usually over WSDK. + APR 15 2330 - Arabic vocal & orchestration; good.
(Mark Connelly, WA1ION, Orleans, Cape Cod, MA, USA, (GC= 41.8072 N /
69.9537 W) (= 41? 48.43' N / 69? 57.22' W) (beach area: northeast end
of Tonset Road, near Weeset Road); Receiver: Microtelecom Perseus.
Antenna: cardioid-pattern Micro-SuperLoop on car roof, square, 2 m per
side, with Clifton Laboratories Z10130A amp on east bottom corner to
speaker wire to 2:1 transformer to W7IUV amp, and 9:1 transformer on
west corner to speaker wire to 500 ohm null-adjust potentiometer, NRC-
AM via DXLD)
** ZAMBIA [and non]. ZNBC1 5915 on air one hour late today, ZNBC2 6165
still missing.
ZNBC1, 5915 Lusaka. Apr 22, 2013 Monday. *0358-0410. Lunyaneka
(listed). Suddenly on at *0358, late. ID at 0400 “Zambia Broadcasting
Corporation” and at 0403 “ZNBC Radio One”, repeated at 0405. At 0404,
song with drumming and whistles, to telephone interview with OM.
Jo'burg sunrise 0427.
ZNBC2, 6165 Lusaka. Apr 22, 2013 Monday. 0345-0410. AWOL. Instead,
Chad in French is clearly readable on this frequency, at least after
improving substantially at around 0400. Jo'burg sunrise 0427 (Bill
Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
ZNBC1, 5915 Lusaka. Apr 24, 2013 Wednesday. 1803-1807. News in
English. At 1806, ID “ZNBC News in Lusaka”. Good. Jo'burg sunset 1543
(Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ZANZIBAR [non log]. 6015, ZBC Radio. April 22 yet another day with
no broadcast here with checking from 0259 to 0330. Thanks to Bill
Bingham (RSA) for checking last week and confirming he also noted
their continued absence (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón
E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Also think absent from 11735 (gh)
** ZIMBABWE. Radio Zimbabwe, 6045 Gweru. Apr 19, 2013 Friday. 1703-
1714. AWOL. Lots of lightning QRN local to Jo'burg.
Voice of Zimbabwe, 999 and 4828 both Gweru. Apr 19, 2013 Friday. 1703-
1714. AWOL. Lots of lightning QRN local to Jo'burg. Sunset 1548.
Radio Zim on SW is AWOL tonight, but present on MW:
Radio Zimbabwe, 6045 Gweru. Apr 23, 2013 Tuesday. 1715-1725. AWOL. I
am hearing AIR GOS in Urdu instead, with fair reception. Jo'burg
sunset 1544.
Radio Zimbabwe, 999 Gweru. Apr 23, 2013 Tuesday. 1715-1725. Present
but barely readable. Afro music introduced by YL and OM. Poor. Jo'burg
sunset 1544 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** ZIMBABWE [and non]. BOTSWANA, 12025, VOA English from Botswana, hit
by an exact annoying 625 Hertz whistle tone on upper side flank. At
0512 UT Apr 12, of same powerful signal S=9+25dB level, maybe
interference from Zimbabwe? (Wolfgang Büsschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews
Apr 19 via DXLD)
** ZIMBABWE [non]. SW Radio Africa:
1700-1900 on 4880 MEY 100 kW / 005 deg to SoAf English
Radio Voice of The People:
1800-1900 on 9345 MDC 250 kW / 265 deg to ZWE English/Shona/Ndebele
Radio Dialogue FM:
1600-1700 on 12105 MDC 250 kW / 265 deg to ZWE English/Shona/Ndebele
(DX RE MIX NEWS #777 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, April 22, 2013
via DXLD)
12105, Dialogue, 19 April at 1602 with introductory messages, ID and
comments (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) English?
PROSECUTORS REFUSE TO PUT RADIO DIALOGUE BOSS BEFORE COURT
http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/news/zimbabwe/65111/prosecutors-refuse-to-put-radio.html
State prosecutors yesterday refused to put Radio Dialogue manager
Zenzele Ndebele before the magistrate court and returned the docket to
police saying the charges are not clear. 18.04.1306:43am by Gladys
Ncube
Ndebele was arrested last month on allegations of distributing SW and
AM radios after police raided Bulawayo based community radio station,
Radio Dialogue’s Ingwe studios in Hillside suburb and confiscated 180
SW and AM radios. Then police did not take him to court saying were
still investigating the case. However yesterday police summoned
Ndebele to appear in court but state prosecutors at Tredigold
magistrate court in Bulawayo refused to prosecute saying police
charges against Ndebele were not clear.
“My client did not appear in court because the prosecutor referred the
docket back to the police to clarify the charges,” said Ndebele lawyer
Kucaca Phulu Last month police went on rampage ransacking several non-
governmental organisations (NGOs) around the country accusing them of
distributing the SW and AM radios. The NGOs which were raided over
these radios include Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) the
country’s biggest independent elections watchdog group and Zimbabwe
Peace Project (ZPP) and National Youth Development (NYDT) searching
for the same radios.
Many villagers already own the radios and have in the past been
harassed by war veterans and Zanu PF militia who confiscated the
gadgets in volatile areas such as Mutoko during the bloody 2008
presidential election run-off period.
Recently police spokesperson Charity Charamba announced the ban and
warned that people who received the radios would also be arrested
together with organizations which distribute the gadgets.
This sets the stage for a massive crackdown likely to affect rural
people who rely on the radios to listen to popular short wave stations
such as Studio 7 and SW Radio Africa. The short wave radio stations
have become a hit in rural areas, not only because ZBC has poor
transmission there but also because they have shied away from rabid
propaganda broadcast on State-owned stations (via Zacharias Liangas,
Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD)
UNIDENTIFIED. TP carrier search low part of band, April 18 at 1153 UT
finds JBA ones on 702, 728, 882, probably Pacific rather than Asian.
Our sunrise in Enid: 1154 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 660, April 18 at 0549 UT, open carrier with hum, roughly
SSW/NNE. Same as I had Feb 21 at 0656 when I thought KSKY TX most
likely, but could also be any of several Mexicans. Is it a station not
24 hours but leaving the carrier on; or a 24-hour station failing to
modulate?
660, UT Monday April 22 at 0531, dead air except for big hum here
again from somestation in US or Mexico; loops NNE/SSW. I should listen
at 0500, when I am instead trying the 960 Fox-hole (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 730, April 18 at 1150 UT, open carrier with hum, suspect
a Mexican; XEDP Chihuahua is still in on 710, and so should be XEHB on
730 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 870, April 18 at 1152 UT, open carrier with no hum;
surely XETAR in Chihuahua, daytimer which signs on at 1200.
However, by 1206 UT recheck something in English within the WWL 870
null with funeral notices, so must be a small town, and low temps. Bet
it`s KAAN, Bethany MO, population 3060 on I-35 near the IA border
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1420, April 18 at 0558 UT, somestation in heavy QRM
mentions ``Santa Rosa`` in English --- conjuring up long-gone KSYX,
first radio station in my old New Mexico hometown (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST) Maybe Lubbock TX, see U S A
UNIDENTIFIED. 1520, RE 13-16, Spanish QRM to KOKC: April 13 at 0555 --
- Odds are this is KUNX in Port Hueneme, having traded slots with
KVTA, which itself is now News/Talk on 1590. All the same ownership;
1520 was known to cheat now & then in daytime mode, during its KVTA
incarnation. Many 73z – (GREG HARDISON, West San Fernando Valley,
April 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Greg, It looks like even the day pattern of 1520 has a deep null
toward OKC. It would have to be ND for me to be getting that much from
it, I think (Glenn to Greg, via DXLD)
Glenn: -- Pattern-wise, it would look like KMPG:
http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/544959-71767.pdf
They used to cheat regularly at, and even before 6 AM PT. Maybe
they're pursuing a new audience? -- G H of L.A. (Hardison, ibid.)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1520, April 20 at 1218 UT, KOKC OKC has CCI from sports
talk in English, making slow SAH of about 84/minute = 1.4 Hz. Strongly
suspect KOLM Rochester MN with ESPN which is U8 10000/800 watts, tho
there is another ESPN at KMSR Mayville ND, only 1300 watts (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7275, possibly RRI Serui at 1148 in possible Indonesian
(definitely not Korean or Chinese) with a man and woman talking to a
man on the telephone - Very weak with ham QRM Apr 15. Most lists
show CNR1 and KBS in Mandarin but only the HFCC list for A13 has RRI
Serui listed from 1100 to 1430. Rob Wagner, an Australian DXer, has
let me know that he is hearing a possible Indonesian under CNR1 and
PBS Xinjiang. On April 18th at 1100 I caught what sounded like a
"Radio Republik Indonesia" ID but I could not be sure. We need more
research (Mark Coady, Ont., ODXA Your Reports via DXLD)
?? HFCC is replete with imaginary wooden registrations for domestic
RRI stations --- just in case? I would not use HFCC as my primary
resource for such info (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
- - - posted to Cumbre DX Facebook:
7275 INDONESIA RRI Serui tentatively at 1148 in presumed Indonesian
with a man and woman talking to a man on the telephone - Very weak
with HAM QRM Apr 15 Coady-ON - only the HFCC list for A13 has this
listed from 1100 – 1430
and also:
With a tip of the hat to Ron Howard for his thoughts, when this log
appears in my column this week it will go in as UNIDENTIFIED as only
the HFCC list has it. What I heard was definitely not Chinese or
Mandarin which is listed from KBS and CNR1 at the time. This morning
(Apr 16th) at 0950 I did log KBS in Korean but this was also not the
language I heard yesterday. It begs of more research and perhaps those
of you closer to the scene can monitor the frequency in the 1100 to
1215 time frame.
- - - email sent to Mark Coady (April 15):
Hi Mark, Could you please double check your RRI Serui log!
RRI Serui was last heard on 4604.9 kHz (2010) and was running 1 KW.
Scheduled now on 7275:
100 KW CNR1 scheduled 1100-1735 in Chinese and
250 KW KBS World Radio scheduled from 0900-1300 in Korean.
RRI Serui last heard in 2010:
INDONESIA. 4604.90, RRI Serui, 1204-1228, August 9. Back on the air
again. Jakarta news relay and National Anthem (choral); // 3325 (RRI
Palangkaraya), 3344.96 (RRI Ternate), 3995 (RRI Kendari), 4749.94 (RRI
Makassar), 4789.96 (RRI Fak Fak – interesting that they would also
resume broadcasting again on the same day that Serui returned) and
9680 (RRI Jakarta). After 1228 no longer //. 1239-1300 C&W songs in
English; 1300-1305 SCI, Jakarta news relay and National Anthem
(choral) which was // 3325 (RRI Palangkaraya) (Ron Howard, Asilomar
State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Also note - http://rri.jpn.org/ with "silent stations" at the bottom
of the page. He monitors Indonesia daily. With all due respect Mark,
based on the above information, I have to question if you did hear RRI
Serui, even as a tentative log (Ron Howard, California, via DXLD)
Also, some downunderite thought he had RRI Serui January 28, 2011 at
0335 on 7290 (Glenn Hauser, DXLD)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15103.8, another spur 4/15 at 1728 // 15160 with program
in Portuguese till 1729 then sign off. Heard no ID (Zacharias Liangas,
Thessaloniki, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Nothing scheduled on 15160 then in Aoki or EiBi, but HFCC has an
unknown MBR registration from Wertachtal until 1730 (gh, DXLD)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15420 approx., April 24 at 1224, weak SSB scratching
from an intruder, maybe Spanish; notable in that it`s the only signal
propagating on the 19m broadcast band, with 16 and 13m also dead
almost half a sesquihour after sunrise here at 1146; much degraded
propagation with K-index of 3 at 1200, but ``no storms`` per WWV. Grew
to K=4 by 1500.
An hour later at 1336, 13 and 16m are still dead, not even RHC, but
some signals on 19m, notably low-latitude 15400 HCJB Australia and
15340 Cuba, little else (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 19640 kHz, 1447 UT, 4 x 4910 or 2 x 9820, way too weak
to ID language, sorry.
Sorry, more very weak unids! 19130 & 19170 at 1455 UT 23/4 -- (Tim
Bucknall, Congleton, UK, RDR54D1 + CLP5130, April 23, harmonics yg via
DXLD) = 2 x 9565, 2 x 9585 (gh)
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UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS
++++++++++++++++++++++++
ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1666:
Michael Rutkaus, for a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com
One may also contribute by check or MO in US funds to P O Box 1684,
Enid OK 73702
Dear Mr. Hauser, Congratulations for your great digest. I read it all
the time. I hope have some luck (until now I has not been able to
listen it) to hear WOR by radio. Here I am sending some logs from
Santiago, Chile. If they are useful to the digest, I'll be delighted
that you publish it. Best wishes, (Mr. Eduardo PEÑAILILLO Barra,
Santiago, Chile) Who has now joined the dxld yg
PUBLICATIONS
++++++++++++
ShortWaveMusic
https://soundcloud.com/shortwavemusic/sets/shortwavemusic-2012-timbuktu-2
(Zacharias Liangas, Hard-Core-DX mailing list) That`s Myke Weiskopf`s
site with lots besides Timbuktu (gh, DXLD)
H-Net Review Publication: Watson on Potter,
'BROADCASTING EMPIRE: THE BBC AND THE BRITISH WORLD, 1922-1970'
----
Simon James Potter. Broadcasting Empire: The BBC and the British
World, 1922-1970. Oxford Oxford University Press, 2012. 261 pp.
$125.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-956896-3.
Reviewed by Joe Watson (Baker University)
Published on Jhistory (April, 2013) Commissioned by Heidi Tworek
How the British Broadcasting Corporation Shaped an Empire
Since its debut on November 14, 1922, the British Broadcasting
Corporation has held an esteemed place in the hearts of English-
speaking broadcasters. The BBC's commitment to a public broadcasting
model that emphasizes quality and impartiality stands in stark
contrast to many commercial broadcasters around the world. Their
philosophies make the BBC an admired and valuable contributor to
modern broadcast production. The organization's path to its current
place in the media landscape, however, has not always been smooth.
Many books explore the British Broadcasting Corporation's history, but
Simon Potter has produced what may be among the most defining efforts
to document the BBC's past, particularly its influence on other
broadcasting entities within the British Empire. With impressive
detail, Potter explores behind-the-scenes efforts by BBC executives to
create a global radio -- and later television -- power by influencing
fledgling broadcast industries around the British Commonwealth and in
dominion nations like Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and
Canada.
As with all new radio systems in the 1920s, those who launched the
British Broadcasting Corporation sought to determine what it could
and should be. Potter explains how BBC leaders debated the value of a
public broadcasting model versus a commercial one, ultimately
embracing the former. The BBC was seen as a means by which British
culture could be promoted and preserved, an essential value to the
middle- and upper-class men who led the new network. But the launch
of the BBC was more than just a foray into the radio age. Early on,
BBC managers recognized the power of radio to unite countries in the
empire. Radio offered not only a unique outreach opportunity but a
powerful propaganda tool that could promote imperial ideals,
particularly among the commonwealth's white populations.
Central figures are skillfully developed in Potter's work, providing
one of the book's primary strengths: well-crafted biographical
profiles of the characters that add a sense of authenticity and drama
to what could otherwise be dry historical prose. By painting vivid
portraits of people like Sir John Reith, the British Broadcasting
Corporation's first director general, and H. P. Brown, who led
emerging radio efforts in Australia, conflicts and struggles to define
early radio come to life. Reith saw the BBC as an antidote to what he
believed was the cultural decay of the era. He believed such power
should be exported to countries with British connections. Brown, on
the other hand, frequently resisted Reith lest he have too much
influence over Australia's evolving radio structure.
It was not just Australia where conflict occurred. A central theme of
Potter's book focuses on the growing pains experienced by the BBC as
it tried to export its ideals and its programs. Quite often,
broadcasters in Australia and Canada chose not to rebroadcast BBC
content. That thwarted many of the BBC's empire-building ambitions.
Indeed, early on, the dominions were not unlike children coming of age
and trying to find themselves. In the shadow of an overbearing BBC
parent, some countries, like New Zealand, often acquiesced and did
what was expected. Others, like Canada, were akin to rebellious
teenagers fighting back hard against home office expectations. With
the United States right next door, Canadian broadcasters struggled to
ensure they had options should a commercial broadcasting system be
needed to compete with America's powerful entertainment offerings.
The 1950s produced more conflict, especially when commercial
broadcasting systems became necessary to fund television's growth in
Great Britain and the commonwealth. The effort by dominions to
maintain national identities through broadcasting and the clashes it
produced with the BBC remain a central part of the book right up to
where it ends in 1970. Yet there were moments when imperial
broadcasters came together in a spirit of cooperation that made radio
and television stronger throughout the commonwealth. World War II
provided an opportunity for the BBC to "convince audiences around the
empire that they were part of a single great collaborative venture"
(p. 124). The war forced broadcasters with ties to the United Kingdom
to work together, ultimately making commonwealth broadcasting
stronger. Additionally, royal events like the abdication of King
Edward VIII in 1936, the death of King George VI in 1952, and the
coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 tugged at patriotic
heartstrings around the empire. Coverage of the monarchy ensured that
broadcasters had large audiences, which made everyone happy.
The British Broadcasting Corporation eventually developed greater
respect for broadcasters not only in Australia, New Zealand, and
Canada, but also in African and Asian nations of the commonwealth. By
the 1960s, under the leadership of director general Hugh Carlton
Greene, the BBC embraced a more direct approach to competing with
commercial rivals. Even for Canadians, who had grown ambivalent about
their British roots, a connection to the BBC remained. Events like
the annual Commonwealth Broadcasting Conference allowed nations of
the empire to feel valued by London, which spoke to the real progress
that had been made in forging relationships. Indeed, Potter
effectively maps out the evolution of the British Broadcasting
Corporation from a near-dictatorial entity to a leader of commonwealth
partners.
The book's level of detail, although largely beneficial, can be
overwhelming in some passages, especially when exploring technical
obstacles faced by the BBC. Furthermore, while Potter does a fine job
introducing the people who played a role in the network's early days,
there are times when it can be difficult to keep track of the sheer
number of secondary players. Lastly, even though it is not central to
Potter's effort, there are times when greater acknowledgement of the
audience, as opposed to broadcasting executives, could have added
valuable context to help the reader understand important events and
why certain decisions were made.
Even today, the BBC struggles to maintain its public broadcasting
model amid threats of commercial competition. Potter demonstrates
that this has been, in fact, a component of the BBC landscape since
day one. In many ways, modern-day challenges are no different from
ones broadcasters faced more than half a century ago. The case of the
British Broadcasting Corporation, as portrayed by Potter, hints that
the more things change, the more they stay the same. That is, after
all, the remarkable thing about studying history: one realizes that
there are few new problems. Most, if not all, of the major challenges
facing current journalists and media organizations have been
experienced by those who came before. By studying the successes and
failures of the BBC's development in the twentieth century, modern
broadcasters may find a valuable road map to help them maneuver
twenty-first-century dilemmas.
Citation: Joe Watson. Review of Potter, Simon James, _Broadcasting
Empire: The BBC and the British World, 1922-1970_. Jhistory, H-Net
Reviews. April, 2013.
URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=38757
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-
Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
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http://www.h-net.org/~jhistory (via Kit Rushing, DXLD)
SENDER UND FREQUENZEN 2013 A-13 2ND UPDATE
Subject: 2. Nachtrag Sender und Frequenzen
Seit gestern hier erhältlich:
http://www.vth.de/fileadmin/shopdownloads/sf-2013-n2.pdf
(via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD)
40-page issue packed with info, altho presented in German is easily
referenced. Starts with exhaustive listing by time of broadcasts in
German not only on SW, but many more on webcasting domestic radio
stations all over the world.
Then another schedule by time of English broadcasts mostly on SW
audible in Europe --- but beware, includes some imaginary stuff like
KVOH on 9975 at 0100-0700; outdated winter times for WWRB ending at
0500 instead of 0400 UT, etc. These skeds are in UT, while the shorter
list of recommended programs in German at the end are in MESZ (UT+2).
In between there is a roundup of DX news and schedules by country,
including a few citations of DXLD (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
LANGUAGE LESSONS
++++++++++++++++
WHAT IS A RELAY?
This may seem like splitting hairs, and it is certainly not said by
Jorge alone, but the term ``relay`` originally meant a rebroadcast of
a station already broadcasting from somewhere else. But these are the
only/original transmissions, so they are not really ``relayed`` --
except in the sense that just about any broadcast is a relay by the
transmitter site from wherever the studio may be, nearby or on the
other worldside (Glenn Hauser, DXLD)
Concordo com a sua descrição do que seja Relay, que também é a mesma
na linguagem técnica aqui no Brasil. Lendo diversos logs no decorrer
dos anos eu percebi que a indicação de "Relay" se dá por uma
transmissão de rádio de um determinado ponto que não é a sua origem.
Assim como a DW transmitindo desde Ruanda seria descrita como um
"Relay", pois a DW tem por origem a Alemanha. Como você mesmo diz a
utilização desse termo como descrito nos meus logs também é utilizada
por muitos outros dexistas e possui o mesmo significado de [and non]
que você mais precisamente faz. Apesar de eu acreditar que a maioria
dos dexistas tenham entendido o significado de "Relay" dentro de meus
e de outros logs, eu agradeço a explicação que pode esclarecer melhor
o assunto especialmente para os novos. 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de
Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
COMPRENDER vs ENTENDER in SPANISH
From DXLD 13-16: ``If I understood Tibetan, I could understand the
Tibetan despite this jamming, and wish the same for the dentro-
Tibetans (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)``
The ``understood`` and ``understand`` might seem strange above, but
in traditional Spanish there would be two different words ---
comprender meaning of course to comprehend in the first instance, and
entender, meaning being able simply to hear it, audibly in the second.
Except comprender seems to have fallen out of fashion, as a bit too
rude for polite speech. Especially as a question. ¿Comprende? Instead
you tone it down by asking ¿Entiende? Then if one truly did not
comprehend something, one can blame it on reception conditions rather
than ignorance (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGESTE)
CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES
+++++++++++++++++++++++++
JOINT DX CONVENTION IN BLOOMINGTON, MINNESOTA, AUGUST 1-4, 2013
CONVENTION AGENDA
The program agenda for the combined 2013 DX Convention is taking
shape. This year`s event is called `Learning and Sharing 2013` and we
have a lot of both for you. Folks from the National Radio Club, the
IRCA and the Minnesota DX Club will keep your attention through the
three days of the get-together. [WTFDA is also participating --- gh]
Here`s a partial list of topics:
`Interference workshop` (DX-ing in noisy environments, how to enlist
the help of the power company for electrical noise; how to quiet down
smaller antennas).
We`ll hear about Nick`s `DXFISHBARREL` and share a session on using
the Grey-Line. There`ll be updates on what`s going on these days from
Long-Wave to 10 gigahertz.
Sessions on Ultralights and SDRs.
Antenna design sessions will include short verticals for MW, antenna
advancements by Kaz; the quest for the `perfect` loop antenna, and the
latest on the FSL antenna.
Thursday night we`re trying to put together a DX-Pedition with a
Beverage antenna on an abandoned railroad bed. We also hope to set up
an antenna at the hotel for your use in capturing signals in the
Minneapolis area.
As a bonus, we`ve added a Friday lunch to the schedule, featuring a
fascinating presentation by the IEEE on state-of-the-art antenna
advancements. Friday night at the Museum we`ll enjoy a Pizza-Fest,
`Show-and-Tell` from members and we`ll block out time for separate
club business meetings, followed by discussions of general interest.
(Among topics will be `the aging of the clubs,` how to attract new
members, what services club members would like.)
The world-famous auction will also be held at the Museum Friday night,
and this year we anticipate some very nice radio gear going on the
block.
Saturday evening`s banquet will feature Dean Sorenson, long-time radio
broadcaster and a DX Audio Service member who?ll share a fascinating
look at what it`s like to build and manage radio stations. The banquet
will be followed by the DX Quiz
The agenda continues under construction and may include Sunday-morning
sessions. If you haven`t registered, please get it done now because
the hotel is filling up. Registration information is found at
http://www.nrcdxas.org/
Regards, (Mark Durenberger, IRCA via DXLD)
By the way -- if anyone out there wants to do a roadtrip through
northern and east-central Minnesota (in a Roseau-to-International
Falls-to-Grand Rapids-to-Minneapolis line) in the days either
immediately before or immediately after the convention, feel free to
e-mail me off-list. This ties in with another hobby of mine (one which
some of you on these listservers share), and I'm hoping for the
opportunity to add to my totals while I'm in the area. 73, (Rick Dau,
South Omaha, Nebraska, ibid.)
DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See AUSTRALIA; ERITREA; ETHIOPIA; INDIA;
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ NIGERIA; SAUDI ARABIA; DBC IBOC below
DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
A PUSH TO TURN OFF AM ANALOG AND GO ALL-DIGITAL
Glynn Walden (and Ben Downs) pushed hard at the NAB Show for the FCC
to establish an "AM Sunset and All-Digital Sunrise" date for the AM
broadcast band. They also want the FCC to mandate that all radio
receivers sold in the U.S. have all-digital receiving capability
built-in (for HD Radio of course). Not a word was said about testing
DRM or any other all-digital broadcasting technology.
What these gentlemen failed to say is that the AM band is already
partially digital -- especially in major markets -- and the public
isn't demanding digital receivers. So now they want the FCC to force
digital receivers on everyone -- a very sweet deal indeed for
iBiquity, the parent of HD Radio.
We appreciate that Glynn Walden believes 110% in AM digital
broadcasting. His heart is in the right place. However, the AM HD
technology currently deployed by iBiquity is seriously flawed -- as we
have said repeatedly -- and helps contaminate the AM band. Glynn even
mentioned the self-inflicted interference in his remarks during
Commissioner Pai's panel.
So, if the AM band ever does go all-digital, it would be wise to
consider all options before taking the leap. Let's not blindly trust
iBiquity which has done such a poor job with AM so far.
http://tinyurl.com/Wants-AM-All-Digital
http://tinyurl.com/CommentsOnMaking-AM-AllDigital
http://tinyurl.com/DIY-Media-Comments
http://tinyurl.com/Is-AM-Worth-Revitalizing
http://tinyurl.com/Clays-Alternative
P.S. Another major AM station has shut off AM HD at night and there
have been no listener complaints. (Private communication to the CGC
Communicator at the NAB Show.)
P.S.2. Riddle: What happens when AM stations use FM translators? It
gives the public yet another reason not to listen to AM
(CGC Communicator April 22 via Kevin Redding, ABDX via DXLD)
POWERLINE COMMUNICATIONS
++++++++++++++++++++++++
"The FCC has denied ARRL's request for reconsideration of the
Broadband-over-Power-Line (BPL) rules.
We can hear you asking, 'What, again?'"
http://www.commlawblog.com/2013/04/articles/unlicensed-operations-and-emer/fcc-reaffirms-broadbandoverpowerline-rules/index.html
(via Benn Kobb, DXLD)
RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM
+++++++++++++++++++++
DISCONNECT AND GROUND ANTENNAS
When the antenna is disconnected for storm activity, it should be
grounded. I use a knife switch, an old Radio Shack DPDT (double pole,
double throw) one with the antenna (and counterpoise) attached at the
center terminals, and the antenna connected to the upper ones. The
lower terminals are direct to earth ground, and short as possible with
heavy gauge wire. The switch is in the upper, active position only
when I am listening, and in the lower position otherwise. This keeps
the antenna grounded to keep any electrical currents shorted to
ground, protecting my radios whether I am there or not. This works
best with twin lead type lines, and grounding systems for coax leads
can also be as inexpensive with a bit to web searching to find switch
arrangements for coax cable.
Without grounding the antenna, and in electrical storm activity
nearby, the disconnected antenna lead-in can arc to whatever is near,
and can cause some damage to sensitive equipment that may be nearby.
-- (Bart VanAllen, KA7ZFD, PTSW yg via DXLD)
LISTENER "CALLSIGNS"
``Everyone knows your name`` --- so why does anyone need or want a
series of made-up alfanumeric characters with no meaning except an
amateur radio prefix and a sequential number before ``SWL``? 3000+
plus do so far since 2002y. They are accumulating a database which
could be used for commercial or nefarious purposes. I have looked at
their website and not found the NAME of the individual(s) behind this
(Glenn Hauser, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
There is another way: get your ham ticket (which you'll be granted
after studying radio related issues pertaining amateur radio). Study
for the exam according to the category, then enjoy the huge bouquet of
activities ham radio offers today, and the best that suits your
abilities. Then after the callsign you can add a slash and three
letters (/SWL). Eg.: CX3BZ/SWL. The ham call is recognized officially
(FCC or each telecom body in any country) issues it. Exception are
those countries where AROs are forbidden (Horacio Nigro Geolkiewsky,
CX3BZ/SWL, Montevideo, Uruguay, ibid.)
Horacio, Great idea! Here in the USA, the entry-level amateur radio
license is the "Technician" license. Most every local amateur club (at
least the clubs in my QTH) offer Technician license exams one Saturday
every month. Plus, the Morse Code requirement has been dropped from
all 3 license classes (Technician/General/Extra). 73 & Good DX,
(Steve Ponder, N5WBI, Sent from my iPhone, ibid.)
Never seen the need for a listener call-sign, despite my almost 50
years of listening. What does a call-sign prove? At least with an
amateur call-sign, I can look it up on QRZ.com, and read more info on
the amateur. These so-called "listener" calls seem very awkward to me,
compared to amateur call-signs. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, BC, ibid.)
The SWL callsigns are accepted by some DX Cluster-type applications
where a call sign of some sort is required to log in (Andy K3UK
O`Brien, ibid.)
Ugh. Where do I start? If you want a "callsign," get a license. These
things are nothing more than numbers and letters thrown together to
make them look official. I agree with Walt Salminiw and others in
saying that these things are of little use, as a hobbyist or
professionally. OK, it's nice to hang upon the wall and have your
friends and neighbors oooh and ah over, but eventually, the excitement
just fades away. I honestly thought these things had gone the way of
pet rocks, but I guess I'm sadly mistaken.
Don't our various governments give us enough numbers and letters to
remember? Social security numbers, weapons serial numbers, passport
numbers, drivers' license numbers, license plate numbers, real
callsigns, etc.? It's hard enough to remember all that! I don,t think
stations would really care about them either, if you were writing for
a QSL.
The only plus side I see to all of this, is that it makes someone's
job somewhere much easier when they can search a database of
alphanumerics for your name, address and other biographical data.
That, in and of itself, should be scary enough to give pause to anyone
considering getting themselves assigned any more alphanumerics than
they really need! 73 (Al Muick, KD3WU, ibid.)
BAD LINE NOISE KICKED UP - SOLVED
Hi All, I ran into a recent problem with line noise in the house that
was really interfering with AM band reception. It seemed to start up
about a week ago but I didn't notice anything out of order in the
home.
I took a Panasonic RF2200 tuned to 530 kHz and walked around the
house, turning light switches on and off and noting any changes. The
noise seemed strongest in one bathroom where I have two CFL lamps in
the ceiling and I usually leave one running all the time for a night
light. Sure enough when I turned off the one ceiling lamp running all
the time the noise vanished.
I never noticed any bad noise coming from a CFL lamp before but
something must have degraded over time. The lamp looked to be normal
brightness. I replaced it with a 60 W incandescent lamp and everything
is fine now. The noise sounded like a raw switching power supply -
really bad.
Just goes to show don't overlook anything in the home when trying to
trace a noise problem! I have also noticed noise coming from one of
the newer LED bulbs before but it didn't spread into the whole house.
Probably best to stick with incandescent lamps over CFLs for quietest
AM band reception or else be aware the CFL lamps can go bad even if
they seem quiet at first. 73 - (Todd WD4NGG Roberts, April 17, ABDX
via DXLD)
It must be nice to have an RF-2200! It has an excellent reputation.
Has anyone ever put one up against a stock Sony ICF-2010? That would
be interesting. 73 de WB6TNB (Dennis Gibson, ibid.)
Glad you fixed your problem Todd. Line noise is so bad in my house as
to render all my AM radios useless, and I still haven't found the
source (John Cereghin WDX3IAO, Smyrna DE, ibid.)
Interference can be a crazy thing. At least 25 years ago an elderly
lady friend of mine had terrible crosshatching interference on her
ancient vacuum tube TV. This was a UHF religious station way before
cable, digital, satellite, etc. We're talking basic rabbit ears here!
Since this was her favorite station she was beside herself because
she could not watch the channel without horrible diagonal lines.
Since the interference was solely limited to this one TV video signal
I said it had to be a resonant source that was causing the problem.
The apartment was fused and I unscrewed each fuse until the lines
disappeared. I then disconnected every light and appliance on that
circuit until the crosshatching went away. Turned out to be a
chandelier in her dining room with multiple small night-light style
bulbs in the fixture. After removing and replacing each in turn the
culprit bulb reared it's head! After changing it out, no more
interference! One stupid night-light bulb caused crazy UHF RF
problems! I still shake my head! (toptyp19, ibid.)
Have you tried turning off one circuit breaker at a time? That could
help point you in the right direction (Dennis Gibson, ibid.)
Hope you can fix your noise problem, John. There must be an
explanation. Have you checked everything that is plugged in or turned
on in your house? Bad street light? Have you tried walking around with
a portable radio? Something coming from down the street somewhere or
only in your house? 73 - (Todd WD4NGG Roberts, ibid.)
Glad you fixed your problem Todd. Line noise is so bad in my house as
to render all my AM radios useless, and I still haven't found the
source (John Cereghin WDX3IAO, Smyrna DE, April 17, ibid.)
I remember having to purge all the CFL lamps out of my old house. It
wasn't easy, there were several in sneaky places like forgotten
closets and attics. It took days to track them all down and replace
with good old reliable incandescents. Now that the government is
outlawing incandescents from higher wattages down, I am having to
replace with high priced LED bulbs. No mercury filled, radio jamming
CFL's in THIS house! (Bruce Carter, ibid.)
I've never had RFI problems with CFL bulbs. But I'm gradually phasing
them out in favor of incandescents because I have yet to find a brand
of CFL that lasts anywhere near the advertised life span (Tim Kridel,
ibid.)
On the new LED bulbs - is it just a very local interference, or does
it radiate father away, like the CFL's do as they age? J ("Sam Quantum
Leap" toledohamradio, ibid.)
Don't forget the LED lamps have switching supplies in them. I got an
expensive Sylvania, and upon turning the lamp on FM reception went
away. So did the AM. Though my CFLs make noise, but not as bad as
these.
I don't consider incandescent lighting reliable with bulbs made in
China. There's Halogen to replace them, but don't ever leave them
unattended. At End-of-Life they CAN explode and if they do, it can
cause a fire. See warning on the box the lamps came in. The BETTER
quality CFLs don't usually cause interference down the line. I have 3
that do, but they don't radiate in the air. One of them is my 85 watt
(yes, it takes 85 watts ) 6700 lumen porch lamp. It is bright as a
SuperNova. Two in my small bedroom were very noisy, but they are
Sunbeam or Honeywell and that means they won't last long. And if I am
in that room, I have on the incandescent over the NC-188 receiver.
Linear fluorescents can get noisy as they age. If it is in a preheat
(starter to start lamp) make sure the starter has a capacitor in it,
as that will filter the line. Some instant start lamps with solid
state ballasts can be noisy due to improperly filtered line inputs.
The manual preheat as in desk lamps where you press a button to start
the lamp can be a problem. A .01 at 600 volts or higher ceramic
capacitor across the AC line will take care of that noise.
Incandescent lighting is going away. Halogen lamps are the stop gap,
but as I mentioned earlier, they run VERY hot and when they fail they
can explode and therefore present a fire hazard as stated on the box.
The new fad is LED lighting. To get them as bright as incandescent or
CFL lighting they use switching power supplies in them and use higher
wattage multiple LEDs and drive them VERY hard. These are noisy, and
due to capacitors and other parts, they won't come close to rated
hours.
To get better CFL life they should never be in enclosed fixtures.
Burning them base down gives the best life. GE and Sylvania ones give
me the best life. I just retired a Sylvania CFL that had done over
30,000 hours. It was on the fixture off the back steps, mostly exposed
to cold and the hot afternoon sun shone on it. It was on 24/7. It
still worked. The plastic had degraded. I could not put an
incandescent that bright in that fixture and not burn up the thing.
If you have a fixture that is switched on and off on a frequent basis,
a Halogen or incandescent (while you can get them) should be used.
Since CFL lamps have a solid state "instant start" ballast, frequent
switching will substantially reduce life of said lamps. I don't know
about LED lamps, but they also run warm to hot so should not be in
enclosed fixtures. At one time GE had a CFL that you could use in
enclosed fixtures, but I have not seen these for some time. I expect
it was too expensive, and everyone wants the CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAP
bulbs, then whine and whine when they don't last. The 3 "U' shaped
Philips lamps SL and SLS series (not made in China) lasted forever.
Now they have Chinese made swirl lamps (Powell E Way III, ibid.)
The newer LED bulb I tried was a 40W equivalent from Home Depot,
Philips brand Made in China. Actual draw 10.5W. I use it in my garage
door opener. I can hear a buzz from the lamp when I pull the car in
the garage but it is only within a few feet of the lamp. It does not
seem to get into the house wiring though. I figured it must have some
kind of power supply inside to power the LEDs with DC. 73 - (Todd
WD4NGG Roberts, ibid.)
My $39 Sylvania covered the entire bedroom. I had put it in the lamp
that sits across the National RX and yuck. The CFL never did that. So,
I have a 43 watt Halogen in it. GE and VERY poor construction. I saw
some clear ones where the Halogen capsule was leaning on the outer
glass. That would be very festive shortly after it got hot! (Powell E
Way, ibid.)
I'm using incandescent in the shack, but a long term solution may be
an LED lamp powered by the 12v shack supply through a simple circuit
(I use an Alinco supply that is rf quiet). I'm guessing this would
have to be homebrewed. I have a simple battery powered LED reading
lamp that produces no interference. It wouldn't be bright enough for
everyday use (Ef Johnson, ibid.)
John - I have a similar situation. I traced the noise to the cable TV
system. It's all over the cable to the TVs and the Modem. Also present
on the telephone wires. Fortunately it all ends 2 feet outside the
walls. Inside AM is not good at all, but in the shed and garage it's
fine. I tried reporting this to the cable company and got as far as
someone that reminded of "Peggy" in the credit card commercial (Mike
AD1OS, ibid.)
A lot of good info here, thanks Powell! Fact of the matter is that we
need energy efficiency, we need safety, we need to reduce pollution of
all kinds including RFI.
The old 'lights of America' 1.5 watt LED bulbs I got a few years back
from Walmart - [there are still some in stock at my local store] equal
in light output to a 15 to 25 watt incadescent - created no noise
whatsoever. I suspect they just had a resistor inside. I've had mixed
reliability results with them - but a couple strong explanations -
base up and enclosed fixture are bad for LED bulb life - and same goes
with CFLs. No bulb wants to run hot but if there is no choice in the
matter, your best bet are old fashioned incadescent bulbs. The guts
that can get fried are in the base and heat rises, so that's why base
down is good and base up is bad.
The newer, high brightness LED bulbs I have - along with good quality
CFLs - create lots of noise close in to the bulb but that noise
dissapers once you get a radio about 3 feet away. To me, that's the
sign of a good bulb - RFI is a necessary evil but good filters have
been designed and implemented to keep the plague of RFI from traveling
through the wiring.
The only CFLs I've experienced that were truly bad were the one's used
in hotel rooms - one would blanket the room. Of course, that also
tends to be with desk and floor lamps with 2 wire wiring.
Incadescent bulbs can cause interference too if they go bad or are
defective. Whether CFL or LED - here are a few pointers:
1. try to buy quality - even if it costs a bit more - every time we
buy a cheap poor quality product we are encouraging the making of
junk.
2. make use of the warranty - that encourages quality - an avalanche
of returned bulbs encourages making them better
3. base down whenever possible - base to the side is OK too
4. open fixtures - may need to get rid of some old enclosed fixtures
in favour of newer fixtures that happen to be open - I've changed a
few in our house
5. try to limit daily use of a particular LED bulb to no more than 3
to 4 hours continuous use - e.g. try to avoid letting it run 24/7 or
all night.
6. keep tabs on your bulbs - LED, CFL and incadescent can start off
good but sometimes go bad interference wise.
7. CFLs hate being turned on for 5 minutes then being turned off.
Maybe another reason why hotel CFLs always make a mess of RFI. I think
LED bulbs can be more tolerant of on/off cycles - given the use in
vehicles for brake ligths, turn signal lights etc.
Some other RFI tips:
1. try to encourage family members to unplug their chargers - phones,
ipods, laptops etc. once the device is fully charged - not just for
RFI - but for fire safety and longevity of the device. Some of these
devices are RFI ok until some capacitor gets fried from too much heat
and then they become a mini USSR style cold war jammer.
2. make sure fancy TVs and all their associated hardware etc. are
plugged into good power bars with filtering etc. and are switched off
when not in use - this saves electricity, makes the device last way
longer, and reduces RFI. For things that have to run 24/7 like PVRs
etc. have a switched and an unswitched power bar system.
3. today's bizarre RFI could be tomorrows' device burn out or even a
fire - a few years back we had a ceiling fan that went wonky RFI wise.
Bought a new fan, but before I put the new one in some smoke started
coming from the old. Once the new one went in, the RGI and the smoke
went away.
4. watch for bad wiring - including poorly wired fixtures, switches
and sockets. Watch for bad wire nuts. Watch for aluminum wire not
connected with the correct connectors. Once again, today's RFI at a
connection spot could be tomorrow' s fire.
My wife still thinks I'm a geek when I sniff around wiring with a
pocket radio but she realizes that while very geeky, its a noble
geekiness that not only spares me some RFI but could prevent a fire.
Keep in mind that most incadescent bulbs will be phased out pretty
soon. There will need to be some exceptions - the biggest one that
comes to mind are oven lights!!! No LED or CFL can ever be used in an
oven!!!
Finally, the very best CFL is ... drumroll please - the Canadian
Football League :) (Phil 'the RFI crusader' Rafuse, VY2PR, Stratford
PE Canada, ibid.)
Some of this is due to poor quality switching power supply 'bricks`
used for modems, cable set boxes etc. The RFI then is carried along
both the house wiring and the coax. Had lots of this in my crusade to
tame Bell Aliant Fibre-Op 2.0.
There are actually some good switching bricks out there among the
turkeys. Slap on filters sometimes help - but both the AC input and
the DC ouput of the brick needs filtering if the brick lacks good
internal filtering or a filter cap is fried open. And, linear power
supplies are good, but you gotta get the voltage right and they should
always be over-rated amp wise.
The goal of RFI reduction is - well - reduction. All too often it
can't be eliminated - but when you can get the RFI down enough to DX
again - you have every right to smile! (Phil Rafuse, ibid.)
CommRadio CR-1
Has anyone run this CommRadio CR-1 radio? Looks like it has some
potential and I might buy one.
http://www.commradio.com/cr-1-communications-receiver/
(Craig Healy, Providence, RI, IRCA via DXLD)
Subject: [IRCA] Fwd: [MDXC] CR-1 set up acct today, get $40 off Mon
Craig, this might be of interest to you.
(Todd Skaine, Woodbury, MN, ibid.)
I guess I'll be ordering it in a few days. Coupon for free battery &
free shipping, so only $500 total, go to commradio.com & sign up for
newsletter to get the coupon. Coupon can be used starting Monday until
5/6. I called for clarification after getting the e-mail. Don is
working on the manual. He's going to give me a couple BNC/PL-259
adapters & a pigtail. Foreign orders accepted starting 5/1 & price
increase 5/31, $690 with battery & shipping.
There's a very lengthy thread about this radio at radioreference.com/
under SDRs. They worked very hard to get the bugs out, so just about
everything is as it should be. There will be free software upgrades.
If you sign up for the newsletter today, you might get a coupon Monday
for free battery & free shipping. He said to me in an e-mail we are
having a special but I didn't notice it on the site, so I *hope* it is
for all. commradio.com is the website. Don said the coupon is good
until May 6th.
Even if you don't get a coupon, it's $150 cheaper now than in June &
Don will likely advertise the radio in QST. Don is selling them on
eBay & through Universal Radio.
I've been in contact with Don, I wrote him couple months ago
requesting LW & a filter narrower than 1 kHz, so it has the 500 Hz
filter & LW now (but no preselector for LW). A truly portable mini-
communications receiver with 7 selectivities, only 1.75 lbs, internal
battery is rechargable hundreds of times. Imagine taking this radio to
a place with no noise, setting up antenna, selecting 500 Hz DSP IF
filter LSB or USB and tuning in 10 Hz steps for traces of some very
weak & distant stations (TAs, TPs).
The MW sensitivity is not reduced compared to HF/SW, minimum
discernible signal -125 dBm. I can't imagine anyone wanting to return
it, but there is a 30 day return privilege, less shipping. Also nice
it has FM BCB, NOAA weather, 2m & 440 MHz ham bands, though less
sensitive -95 dBm on VHF/UHF.
It should be lots of fun & I'm sure many will be sharing? their
experiences. If anyone wants to call the owner, Don Moore 1-303-279-
3671, he's a great guy & will answer if he's there & also answers e-
mails. He said he would also supply me with 2 BNC to PL-259 adapters &
a pigtail, so I'll have no problem connecting my Quantum loops.
It's for sale to buyers outside US beginning 5/1 & likely price
increase to $690 including battery and shipping 5/31 (George Sherman,
ibid.)
RADIO DIRECTION FINDERS
I always had a certain fascination for the marine radio direction
finders. It is a technology which had a window of usefulness, from the
late 1920's until the advent and proliferation of GPS in the 1980's
and 1990's gradually made them obsolete. By the year 2000 the last
marine radio beacons were decommissioned, and the radio direction
finder became a piece of maritime electronic history.
The only operating radio beacons are the ones still working out of
airports. These will be phased out by about 2015, so enjoy them while
they last. I am still able to clearly receive about 6 aero beacons
from my home in Putnam County, NY, about 50 miles above NYC. After
they are gone, it's AM Broadcast or nothing. There is a very concise
list of them here.
http://www.dxinfocentre.com/ndb.htm
There are a few manufacturers of RDF's today. Some are used as a
hobby/sport, known as "Fox Hunting". Others are used in "man
overboard" systems, where crew carry small transmitters on their
person. Vecta makes such a unit today. But here is one which I find
interesting, the Vector Finder, by National RF. It can be purchased in
different frequency ranges, including the old marine radio beacon
band! Below are some of the RDF's from my collection, grouped by
major type. Some images are linked to a larger view. . .
http://www.angelfire.com/space/proto57/rdf.html
(via Terry L Krueger, FL, DXLD)
PROPAGATION
+++++++++++
LIGHTNING SCATTER PROPAGATION
Bored? No E-skip? No tropo? Need something to do? Why not try
Lightning Scatter? What you'll need:
A good UHF antenna with a rotator.
A receiver capable of tuning the upper UHF channels (frequencies) in
SSB or CW mode.
Another receiver to monitor for lightning events (an analog TV, tuned
to channel 2, or a broadcast band radio, tuned to an open frequency,
will work).
A cluster of thunderstorms about 150 to 200 miles from you.
A fairly high powered, upper UHF channel, DTV (or, if you're lucky,
analog) station, 300 to 500 miles from you, in the same direction as
the thunderstorms.
Here's what I've been doing:
As I type, I have the antennas aimed at KGAN 51/2 Cedar Rapids, IA.
(420 miles) through a cluster of storms in eastern MO. Using the Icom
R-7000 receiver, in SSB mode, I'm tuned to the DTV channel 51 pilot
carrier frequency of 692.31. I also have the analog TV parked on
channel 2 so I can watch the picture jump when lightning events occur.
Via normal tropo scatter, I can hear a very weak carrier on the Icom
receiver. During lightning events (as monitored with the analog TV) I
hear a rapid, fluttery, enhancement of the DTV pilot signal. I've
moved the antennas towards KPXE 51/50 Kansas City (365 miles) and I'm
getting similar results (it's a large line of thunderstorms).
A few weeks ago I did this with the antennas aimed through a cluster
of storms in eastern TN. During the lightning events I could hear a
chorus of channel 51 DTV pilot signals.
Back in the days when there were plenty of high-powered UHF analog
transmitters I'd actually get bursts of picture by using the Lightning
Scatter mode. WGBO channel 66 near Chicago (350 mi) was my favorite
Lightning Scatter, "guinea pig." I've tried this same Chicago path
using WPWR 51/50 as the signal source and the Zenith DTT-901 DTV box
as a receiver. I've seen the signal, "meter," on the DTT-901, jump to
1/3 scale during lightning events but have yet to get a decode out of
it. I'll keep trying, though.
Why the upper UHF channels? I've had the best luck with them over the
years. Will this work with FM? Yes, so I've been told. (I don't pay
any attention to FM).
There's no shortage of thunderstorms this time of year so why not have
some fun with them. Try it and see what happens. Share your results.
73, (Ed NN2E Phelps, Owner / Operator - Murphy's Law Test Site &
Thunderstorm Proving Grounds, [Benton KY], WTFDA via DXLD)
I've IDed two stations by LS on FM, one tentatively, from Burnt River
ON.
104.9 yielded a clear JR-FM burst for CJKR Brockville ON as a storm
was pretty well underway here. That's about 150 KM and it popped in
and out very suddenly - in fact timing with a long sheet of lightning.
I was using an indoor dipole.
106.9 - I don't think it's in my log but I recall being pretty sure I
nailed Muskegon WMUS with a local reference or something. That's about
400 miles. It was also sudden and during a storm with same indoor
antenna.
I wasn't deliberately trying for LS - I think the radio just happened
to be on an empty channel - probably taping for MS at the time - I
often leave the radio on in the background while I'm doing other
things and if I hear something I check the tape to see if it contains
something IDable (Saul Chernos, Ont., ibid.)
[vhfskip] RECENT F2 DX
Hi folks, One new transmitter heard via F2 here is the 3rd harmonic of
the KVM70 NOAA HF weather fax n Hawaii [ref 1], on 33.271 [11090+ kHz
x 3. I wonder if that was the QRM we used to get to Radio Saint Helena
Day? --- gh]. It's in most days, usually very weak, as early as 23 UT
until as late as 0630 UT (then with eTEP qsb). The distance is about
6800 miles, similar to Cyprus, whose "jumpers" from 31 to 35 MHz are
received here for hours in the last few weeks.
On one afternoon I was able to receive both the 3rd harmonic and
fundamental, and heard them both go off for 1 minute (and return). The
frequency of the upper carrier in idle mode, 33.271083, is within 3 Hz
of that calculated by multiplication from the fundamental.
Also, on 38.9 there was a Chinese meteor radar using 500 Hz combs
instead of the usual 430 or 440 Hz. It was in with Beijing's radar on
35.00 (440 Hz), so could be the new installation at 53N.
The meteor radar at Biak, Indonesia (1S, 136E), 33.32, fades in around
0100 UT. Its frequency combs are the standard 2144 Hz spacing. This
transmitter is also received well in Sydney at the same distance.
The F2 conditions we have are such that the 24/7 carrier from Cooma,
VK2 on 35.06996 (1900 miles) can only be received for short periods.
So far I've heard nothing this cycle above this frequency via F2 from
the east (or west).
Regards, Tony Mann, 32S, 116E [Western Australia]
ref 1: http://goughlui.com/?p=1638
-- (via Tim Bucknall, Congleton, UK, harmonics yg via DXLD)
See also INTERNATIONAL VACUUM
Propagation outlook from PIG
F. K. Janda, OK1HH: Weekly forecasts from Ondrejov for the period
April 19 - May 13, 2013
Solar activity forecast for the period April 19 - 25, 2013
Activity level: mostly very low to low
X-ray background flux (1.0-8.0 A): in the range B1.0-B4.0
Radio flux (10.7 cm): a fluctuation in the range 90-120 f.u.
Events: class C (0-8/day), class M (0-2/period), class X (0/period),
proton (0-1/period)
Relative sunspot number (Ri): in the range 25-75
Astronomical Institute, Solar Dept., Ondrejov, Czech Republic
e-mail: sunwatch(at)asu.cas.cz (RWC Prague)
______________________________
Geomagnetic activity forecast for the period April 19 - May 13, 2013
Geomagnetic field will be:
quiet on April 20, May 1 - 4, 6 - 7, 9,
mostly quiet on April 21, 29 - 30, May 5, 8, 10, May 13,
quiet to unsettled on April 19, 22, 27 - 28, May 11 - 12
quiet to active on April 23, 25
active to disturbed on April 24, 26
High probability of changes in solar wind which may cause
changes in magnetosphere and ionosphere is expected
on April 20 - 21, 24 - 27 (max. on 26), May 4, 9 - 14 (max. on 11).
Remarks:
- Parenthesis means lower probability of activity enhancement.
- If during present year solar activity will not reach
a similar or higher level as in November 2011, then 2012
will remain to be the maximum of 24 cycle (R = 70) - and vice
versa.
F. K. Janda, OK1HH, Czech Propagation Interest Group
(OK1HH & OK1MGW, weekly forecasts since 1978)
e-mail: ok1hh(at)rsys.cz (via Dario Monferini, DXLD)
SOLAR MAX PROGRAMME ON BBC RADIO 4
Next TUESDAY (23rd April at 11.00am) Repeated THURSDAY (25th April at
9.00pm) [TIMES BST] SOLAR MAX Programme about Maximum Sunspot period
by Astronomer Lucie Green - Astronomer{Just under 30 Minutes} BBC
Radio 4 All Normal Wavelengths and I presume BBC iPlayer for 7 Days
thereafter
Source:- Radio Times Dated 20th to 26th April 2013
(Ken Fletcher, P-Code CH43 5RG, BDXC UK yg via DXLD)
There was a really interesting programme yesterday which almost passed
un-noticed. It was at 11 am and was called "Solar Max":
"As we approach 'solar max', when the sun is at its most active and
ferocious, astronomer Lucie Green investigates the hidden dangers our
nearest star poses to us on Earth.
"In March 1989, a solar superstorm brought down Quebec's power grid.
Six million people were without light and heat, as outside
temperatures sank to -15C. After the winter sunrise, subway trains sat
still, traffic lights went off and petrol pumps stopped delivering
fuel.
"Two days earlier, a giant bubble of plasma had burst from the surface
of Sun traveling at millions of miles per hour. It hit the Earth and
disrupted our magnetic field, creating electric currents which knocked
out power grids in Canada for nine hours and even damaged two
transformers here in the UK.
"Now, almost a quarter of a century later, our reliance on technology
that's vulnerable to solar attack is even higher, from GPS to
satellites. 'Severe space weather' is the newest threat to be added to
the UK National Risk Register of Civil Emergencies. The potential
impacts of solar superstorm could be far-ranging, causing national
blackouts, shutting airspace and interrupting financial transactions.
"Lucie Green looks at what UK industry is doing to minimise the risks
from solar superstorms. She visits the newly opened Space Weather
Forecasting area at the Met Office and talks to engineers at the
National Grid to find out how they are preparing for 'the big one'.
"But with so many national hazards to deal with, from flooding to
pandemic flu, how much importance should we place on solar storms?"
If you are interested in hearing it, go to:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s09z3
(Andrew Tett, April 24, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD)
Re: Listen to BBC Radio 4 programme about solar superstorms
This might also be of interest:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s09zw
- a little bit on early radio. 73, (Martin A Hall, Scotland, MWCircle
yg via DXLD)
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:Issued: 2013 Apr 22 0431 UTC
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Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 15 - 21 April 2013
Solar activity was at low levels during the period. The first half of
the period (15 - 18 April) was dominated with mostly low-level C-class
activity from Regions 1719 (N11, L=077, class/area Eki/290 on 12
April) and 1723 (S18, L=001, class/area Dai/200 on 17 April). The
largest event during this time frame was a long duration C6 at 18/1823
UTC from Region 1719. Associated with the event was a Type II
signature with an estimated plane-of-sky speed of 1273 km/s and a
coronal mass ejection (CME) observed off the west limb. The remainder
of the period (19 - 21 April) witnessed the rapid emergence on the
disk of Region 1726 (N12, L=326, class/area Ekc/260 on 21 April).
During this time frame, Region 1726 produced a total of 20 C-class
flares. The largest flare was a C4/Sf at 21/1838 UTC. At the time of
this report, Region 1726 was continuing its growth phase and
maintaining its complex beta-gamma-delta magnetic configuration.
No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. However, the
greater than 10 MeV proton flux increased slightly above background
levels beginning at about 21/1005 UTC and peaked at about 3 pfu at
21/1640 UTC. The enhancement was likely triggered by activity beyond
the west limb from old Region 1719 (N11, L=077).
The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at
normal to moderate levels.
Geomagnetic field activity was at predominately quiet levels with an
isolated unsettled reading observed during the period 15/1800 - 2100
UTC. The period began under the waning influence of a weak CME. Solar
wind speeds were at mostly nominal levels, beginning the period near
450 km/s and exhibited a steady decline to end the period at about 285
km/s. Total interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) readings ranged from a
high of 12 nT early on 15 April, declined to 4 nT by early on 16 April
and varied between 4 - 6 nT for the remainder of the period. The Bz
component of the IMF ranged from +11 nT early on 15 April and declined
to about +5 nT by midday on 15 April. Through the remainder of the
period, Bz did not vary much beyond +/-4 nT. The Phi angle was in a
negative (toward) orientation through early on 16 April and switched
to a predominately positive (away) orientation through about 20/1900
UTC when it became variable through the remainder of the period.
FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 22 APRIL - 18 MAY 2013
Solar activity is expected to be at predominately low levels through
the outlook period. A chance for M-class activity and a slight chance
for x-class activity exists due to active regions that currently
populate the visible disk and active regions due to rotate onto the
disk throughout the outlook period.
A slight chance for a 10 MeV proton event at geosynchronous orbit is
possible due to active regions that currently populate the visible
disk and active regions due to rotate onto the disk throughout the
outlook period..
The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is
expected to be at moderate to high levels from 24 April - 02 May in
the wake of a coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS). Normal to
moderate levels will predominate from 03 - 18 May.
Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at quiet to unsettled
levels on 22 April in response to a possible glancing blow from the
18 April CME. Mostly unsettled to active levels with isolated minor
storm periods are possible from 23 - 26 April due to recurrent (CH
HSS) effects. Predominately quiet levels are expected from 27 April
- 18 May.
:Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt
:Issued: 2013 Apr 22 0431 UTC
# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction
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# Product description and SWPC contact on the Web
# http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wwire.html
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# 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table
# Issued 2013-04-22
#
# UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest
# Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index
2013 Apr 22 110 8 3
2013 Apr 23 120 12 4
2013 Apr 24 115 12 4
2013 Apr 25 120 15 4
2013 Apr 26 110 12 4
2013 Apr 27 110 5 2
2013 Apr 28 110 5 2
2013 Apr 29 115 5 2
2013 Apr 30 115 5 2
2013 May 01 120 5 2
2013 May 02 125 5 2
2013 May 03 125 5 2
2013 May 04 125 5 2
2013 May 05 125 5 2
2013 May 06 120 5 2
2013 May 07 115 5 2
2013 May 08 115 5 2
2013 May 09 120 5 2
2013 May 10 120 5 2
2013 May 11 120 5 2
2013 May 12 115 5 2
2013 May 13 115 5 2
2013 May 14 110 5 2
2013 May 15 110 5 2
2013 May 16 105 5 2
2013 May 17 105 5 2
2013 May 18 105 5 2
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