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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1670 headlines: *DX and station news about: Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Antarctica, Australia, Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Eritrea non, Ethiopia and non, Germany and non, Guam, Guatemala, Indonesia, Mexico, New Zealand, Oklahoma, Oman, Pakistan non, Papua New Guinea, Portugal non, Saint Kitts & Nevis, Sarawak non, Somaliland, Spain, Syria, Taiwan and non, Tajikistan, Tibet non, Tunisia, USA SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1670, May 23-29, 2013 Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [confirmed with jamming] Thu 2100 WTWW 9479 [confirmed] Fri 0328v WWRB 3195 [congirmed] Sat 0130v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 [confirmed at 0133] Sat 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1500 WRMI 9955 Sat 2330v WTWW 9930 Sun 0400 WTWW 5830 Sun 2330v WTWW 9930 Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 Wed 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or maybe 1671 if ready in time] Recent editions have also been airing in rotation at variable times on WTWW 9930 between 18 and 24 UT, 5085 between 00 and 01 UT. Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html or http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org For updates see our Anomaly Alert page: http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html WRN ON DEMAND: http://www.wrn.org/listeners/#world-of-radio WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS VIA WRN: http://www.wrn.org/listeners/customize-panel/addToPlaylist/98/10:00:00UTC/English OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org DAY-BY-DAY ARCHIVE OF GLENN HAUSER`S LOG REPORTS: Unedited, uncondensed, unchanged from original version, many of them too complex, minutely researched, multi-frequency, opinionated, inconsequential, off-topic, or lengthy for some log editors to manage; and also ahead of their availability in these weekly issues: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser DXLD YAHOOGROUP: Why wait for DXLD? A lot more info, not all of it appearing in DXLD later, is posted at our yg without delay. When applying, please identify yourself with your real name and location, and say something about why you want to join. Those who do not, unless I recognize them, will be prompted once to do so and no action will be taken otherwise. Here`s where to sign up: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxld/ ** ALASKA. 7355, KNLS, 1209 English, “Postcard from America’s Last Frontier” looking at a carver of native Alaskan art, 1212 “True Stories from the Bible”. Fair May 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) [and non]. KNLS releases a new QSL to announce 30th anniversary. Re: reception report of KNLS programme. Dear Jonathan, So glad to hear from you again! I hope you are well. Yes, I remember writing you several times in the past. Thank you for your reception reports. I believe we have printed a new QSL card since the last one we sent you, so you'll be glad to receive it. You will be one of the first people to receive this new QSL which is printed in commemoration of our 30th anniversary of broadcasting! We currently have only the antennas that are in Alaska, as you see in the pictures on One of these transmitters has been down (broken) sometimes during the past months, and I am not sure when it will be repaired; the engineers are working on it now, but it is old. We do not broadcast Chinese or English on other stations/antennas. However, we are building another antenna site in the Indian Ocean [sic; really on land, NW coast of Madagascar], so we look forward to beginning transmission from that antenna; but I do not know when it will begin. It is also correct that we do NOT receive funds from the government of the United States or any other country. We are a private radio station that was begun for the purpose of spreading the Good News of the Bible, Jesus and Christianity. You have listened to us for a long time, so I think you are very familiar with the content of our programs. We use some human-interest segments from Radio Canada International, but we receive no funds from the Canadian government. They do not pay us to air their segments; and we do not pay them for the segments. They just allow us to use the material. I believe that I asked you before whether you visit often or not. I hope you will visit very often, as you can enjoy reading and listening to a lot of information on our website [in Chinese] THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO KNLS and SMZG. Please check and for the latest news about our station. (We do not send a newsletter or schedules to listeners.) I will put a QSL card in the mail for you. Sincerely, Edward Short (from dxswl May 17 via wwdxc BC-DX topnews May 18 via DXLD) ** ALGERIA [non]. 7295, May 18 at 0517, RTA via FRANCE is unmodulated, or barely modulated, and weaker than 7275 Tunisia, while 7285 SOUTH AFRICA is much stronger in Afrikaans. Summer conditions now disfavor Europe and North Africa this late; the other RTA via France on 9535 is fair, a bit better with Qur`an but not enough to overcome storm noise level (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS. AIR Port Blair SW transmitter break down For the last few days AIR Port Blair is not heard on SW. When I contacted the station, they confirmed that their SW transmitter is under break down and that they are trying to get it back on air. The SW schedule of AIR Port Blair is (10 kW): 4760, 2355-0300 1030-/1700/1730 7390, 0315-0400 (Sat 0415, Sun 0500), 0700-0931(Sun 1000) Interestingly, 4760 used by both Leh (now on 4660) and Port Blair is now empty. Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, May 20, dx_india yg WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DXLD) AIR Port Blair noted back on air last night at around 1630 UT on 4760 after being off air for a few days. Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, May 22, dx_india yg via DXLD) Unfortunately this update arrived too late to include on WOR 1670`s very first item (gh, DXLD) ** ANTARCTICA. I have been watching 15476 since 1759 UT and I see no sign of the carrier from Antarctica --- yet. They were having problems yesterday so maybe they are just late (Dave Hughes, KCMO via [sic] Twente SDR, Thursday May 16, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) First time I have checked for them here in California. May 16 nothing heard at all on 15476 with random checking from 1800 to 1930. Do not know if I could hear them even if they were broadcasting? (Ron Howard, ibid.) LRA 36 was on air on May 15 on footprint 15476.003 kHz. But not heard tonight May 16 here in Europe. But RAE Italian service noted at 1940. . . (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) see ARGENTINA Watching Twente display while I work and no carrier seen at 1811 UT on 15476. Second day for no signal from them. Possibly not making it to this receiver? Recheck at 1830 shows OTHR from 15460 to 15480 obliterating all. DH KCMO, (Dave Hughes, Kansas City MO, Friday May 18, dxldyg via DX LISTENIING DIGEST) At 1937 UT May 17: OTHR in broadband range 15457 to 15482 kHz, S=9+10dB. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) Finally the station's Facebook (in fact, a program called "Junto a Vos", made by the current staff) has accepted mine and other "friendship" requests by some DXers. Nice photos there: https://www.facebook.com/junto.avos.756?fref=ts They write there that from next coming Monday, the station will resume "de 15 a 18hs, como todos los dias, ya que toda la dotacion se encuentra afectada al abastecimiento de la base. Muchas gracias por entender." (i.e. -translated- "from 15 to 18 hours, like every day, since the entire crew is affected to the work with the supplies at the base. Thank you very much for understanding.") I have asked for confirmation if their sked is M to F only. Imagen integrada 1 73 (Horacio Nigro, Uruguay, May 17, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. RAE Italian service noted at 1940 UT May 16, footprint 15344.845 kHz, wandered down 10 Hertz within 2 minutes. RAE General Pacheco in French language started late at 2002:45 UT, and wandered still downwards 20 Hertz, now on 15344.825 kHz at 2003. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15345, RAE (100 kW, General Pacheco) Mayo 21. 1503 UT. Emisión del programa “Siempre Argentina” con bajísima modulación y mucho ruido, no obstante, se entiende que leen noticias nacionales, además de destacar el memorándum mandado a Irán por parte de Argentina. SINPO: 33333 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Coaxial de 5 Ohms de 20 Metros, QTH: Centro de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) 11710.75, RAE, 0404, May 22 confirming they do indeed now have programming in Chinese (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARMENIA. QSL: 9440, Deutsche Welle, Pashtu via Yerevan transmitter. Full data (with site) DW HQ’s building card, also sent in a large white envelope (besides the QSL Card) DW lapel pin, compliments card from the Customer Service, and a bright blue DW handbag. Quite a reply from one the best stations that replies to their listener’s request for verification replies! V/S: Adallend Lucas. Total time of 44 days for a Postal report (Edward Kusalik, Alberta, CANADA, May 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. Radio Symban - Samoan Broadcasts For the past several weeks I have been hearing Samoan programming from Radio Symban full time. The 'at times' low level modulation speech & the language itself has made identification of this station just tedious. In frustration, I contacted Radio Symban with several questions. Result: Unfortunately nothing too enlightening (a single line reply), other than Radio Symban is working on some projects and whilst they are busy, they have allowed (their friends) a Samoan group to broadcast on their licence. I can hear at times occasional advertising. I suspect it is a Sydney based Samoan group as I did hear an advert mentioning a suburb in Sydney. The Samoan group appear to give a website address as something like: http://www.radiorms.com.au or http://www.radiorts.com.au or http://www.radiorvs.com.au - but nothing`s comes up under those addressed. Maybe I'm not hearing it correctly. Perhaps John Wright knows more? That said it appears that Radio Symban programming will return before too long on 2368.5 kHz. There's several Samoan radio programs on SBS Radio & Community FM stations in Sydney, I believe. Perhaps there's a 151 MHz narrowband FM Samoan broadcast group on air on the VHF band that I'm not aware of? Anyway for those somewhat confused by the Pacific Island programming currently on Radio Symban, the above notes are my 'dim light' of enlightenment on the subject (Ian Baxter, NSW, May 17, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. Australia VOLMET, Ningi QLD, 11387, date only letter in 35 days for English airmail report and US $2 (returned). Very kind letter from V/s Paul Sadler, Media and Communications Advisor for AirServices Australia. Paul states that they no longer issue QSL cards and he was not allowed to accept the US $2 as payment for the postage (I guess being a government-contracted agency?). He included a really nice and heavy (!) AirServices keychain as a memento. 73 (Al Muick, Whitehall PA USA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) That would be AXQ421, Brisbane, which I recently heard again. Do they ever use the callsign on the air or refer to it in reply?? (gh, DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. Radio Australia joins the shortwave broadcasters that are experimenting with digital text and images via analog shortwave broadcast transmitter. The five-minute broadcasts will include text in MFSK16 and MFSK32 and an image in MFSK32. It will be very interesting to see how well the digital modes perform over the long trans-Pacific path. Saturday 18 May and Sunday 19 May 2013 UTC kHz Target 0830-0835 7410 11945 south-west Pacific 1230-1235 9580 12095 south Pacific Details: http://voaradiogram.net/post/50573915377/radio-australia-digital-text-and-image-may-18-and-19 (Kim Andrew Elliott, May 17, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Kim, I assume you mean 12065, RA`s usual frequency, not 12095. PS: please revive http://www.kimandrewelliott.com ! (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Hi Glenn, I pasted the 12095 directly from an RA email. I'll try both 12095 and 12065 tomorrow morning. Yes, I'm feeling bad about http://www.kimandrewelliott.com and will try to start it back up. 73 (Kim Elliott, May 17, DX LISTENING DIGEST) At 0830, I selected 7410 because it was coming in less well, about SIO242, with maybe Cuban jamming on 7405. Text copy was 100%. And, indeed, it started late, cutting off just as the MFSK32 image was starting. Then RA switched back to the sporting event, where the commentator was difficult to comprehend because of the signal level. Below is a screenshot, showing the MFSK16 trace centered on 1500 Hz. (Kim Elliott, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, You are probably correct about 12065, because that's what I'm hearing now, rather than 12095. RA text is coming up at 1230 UT on 9580 and probably 12065, maybe but unlikely 12095 (Kim, 1211 UT May 18, ibid.) LOG on 11945 kHz at 0831z QTH: D-06193 Petersberg/Germany ANT: Dipol for ~12 MHz RX: IC-R75+STUDIO1+Fldigi 3.21.72 Decoding audio from the USB-area, in LSB at times disturbing foreign- data pulses. Because the show started late, there was no image transmission more. 73+55 roger ====================================================================== This is Radio Australia transmitting in the MFSK16 digital text mode. MFSK16 has a speed of about 58 words per minute. Digital text via an analogue shortwave broadcast transmitter provides an opportunity for content to be received in challenging reception conditions, when voice broadcasts may be difficult to understand. Please send reception reports, if possible with screenshots and audio samples, to Holmes.Nigel@abc.net.au. Next from Radio Australia, digital text in the MFSK32 mode. This is Radio Australia transmitting in the MFSK32 digital text mode. MFSK32 has a speed of about 120 words per minute. With a focus on Asia and the Pacific, Radio Australia offers an Australian perspective. Our content on radio, web, mobile and through social media encourages conversation and the sharing of ideas between Australians and the diverse people and cultures of the Asia Pacific. As the international radio and online service of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC,) Radio Australia has a rich history as a producer of content that is educational, informative and entertaining and that serves to expand horizons, shape opinions and broaden regional views on topical issues. Our content explains Australian culture and society and includes news and analysis, English Language Learning and information about Australia. Please send reports on reception of this digital text transmission to Holmes.Nigel@abc.net.au. If possible, screenshots and audio samples would also be appreciated. Next from Radio Australia, an image in the MFSK32 mode. http://www.rhci-online.de/11945_kHz_Radio_Australia_LSB-QRM.gif (via Roger, Germany, dxldyg via DXLD) [Attachment(s) from Delaunoy Nicolas included below] Hi, Very good reception in France at 0830-0835 on 11945 with a SIO 454. My receiver Kenwood R600, longwire antenna of 10 meters (East/West) (Nicolas Delaunoy, ibid.) [same perfect[?] text copy via Kraig Krist, who adds:] Next from Radio Australia, an image in the MFSK32 mode. ************************************************* *** Digital Text 3 *** * 2013-5-18 9580 kHz 1234 UTC MSFK32 centered on 1500 Hz Sending Pic:268x56C; Image is ABC logo with word "Radio" in white, word "Australia" in orange. See image here http://misc.kg4lac.com\2013-5-18_9580kHz_1234UTC_MSFK32Image.jpg ************************************************* Complete audio of the digital items are here http://misc.kg4lac.com\2013-5-18_RAustralia_9580kHz_1230-1235UTC_DigitalText.wav 73, (Kraig, KG4LAC, Krist, Manassas, Virginia, United States of America, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11665, RA, *1259, May 22. In English; “Radio Australia programs will not be broadcast for several hours from 10:30 this Friday evening. Instead join us for a special selection of the most beautiful music in the world courtesy of ABC Classic FM”; RA services should resume by “mid-day Saturday Eastern Australia Time”; 1300 into Chinese. Mixing with strong signal of Wai FM (Malaysia) already on 11665; Wai FM ID and two pips at ToH (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DX LISTENING DIGEST) What in the world is going on with this? Strike, maintenance, experiment? (gh, DXLD) See also MALAYSIA; SARAWAK [non] [and non] A-13 SW schedule of Radio Australia: 0000-0030 on 9660 BRN 010 kW / 010 deg to NPac English 0000-0030 on 12005 SNG 100 kW / 340 deg to SEAs Indonesian *see below* 0000-0030 on 12080 BRN 010 kW / 080 deg to EPac English 0000-0030 on 15240 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English 0000-0030 on 15415 SHP 100 kW / 355 deg to EaAs English 0000-0030 on 17750 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg to SEAs Indonesian 0000-0030 on 19000 SHP 100 kW / 065 deg to EPac English 0000-0030 on 17795 SHP 100 kW / 050 deg to EPac English 0000-0030 on 21740 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English 0030-0100 on 9660 BRN 010 kW / 010 deg to NPac English 0030-0100 on 12080 BRN 010 kW / 080 deg to EPac English 0030-0100 on 15240 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English 0030-0100 on 15415 SHP 100 kW / 355 deg to EaAs English 0030-0100 on 17750 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg to SEAs English 0030-0100 on 19000 SHP 100 kW / 065 deg to EPac English 0030-0100 on 17795 SHP 100 kW / 050 deg to EPac English 0030-0100 on 21740 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English 0100-0130 on 11780 SNG 100 kW / 340 deg to SEAs Burmese 0100-0200 on 9660 BRN 010 kW / 010 deg to NPac English 0100-0200 on 12080 BRN 010 kW / 080 deg to EPac English 0100-0200 on 15240 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English 0100-0200 on 15415 SHP 100 kW / 355 deg to EaAs English 0100-0200 on 15160 SHP 100 kW / 065 deg to EPac English 0100-0200 on 17750 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg to SEAs English 0100-0200 on 17795 SHP 100 kW / 050 deg to EPac English 0100-0200 on 19000 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English 0200-0300 on 9660 BRN 010 kW / 010 deg to NPac English 0200-0300 on 12080 BRN 010 kW / 080 deg to EPac English 0200-0300 on 15240 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English 0200-0300 on 15415 SHP 100 kW / 355 deg to EaAs English 0200-0300 on 15160 SHP 100 kW / 065 deg to EPac English 0200-0300 on 17750 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg to SEAs English 0200-0300 on 17795 SHP 100 kW / 050 deg to EPac English 0200-0300 on 19000 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English 0300-0315 on 9660 BRN 010 kW / 010 deg to NPac English 0300-0315 on 12080 BRN 010 kW / 080 deg to EPac English 0300-0315 on 15240 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac French Mon-Fri 0300-0315 on 15240 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English Sat/Sun 0300-0315 on 15160 SHP 100 kW / 065 deg to EPac English 0300-0315 on 15415 SHP 100 kW / 355 deg to EaAs English 0300-0315 on 15515 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac French Mon-Fri 0300-0315 on 15515 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English Sat/Sun 0300-0315 on 17750 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg to SEAs English 0300-0315 on 21725 SHP 100 kW / 355 deg to EaAs English 0315-0400 on 9660 BRN 010 kW / 010 deg to NPac English 0315-0400 on 12080 BRN 010 kW / 080 deg to EPac English 0315-0400 on 15240 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English 0315-0400 on 15160 SHP 100 kW / 065 deg to EPac English 0315-0400 on 15415 SHP 100 kW / 355 deg to EaAs English 0315-0400 on 15515 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English 0315-0400 on 17750 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg to SEAs English 0315-0400 on 21725 SHP 100 kW / 355 deg to EaAs English 0400-0500 on 9660 BRN 010 kW / 010 deg to NPac English 0400-0500 on 12080 BRN 010 kW / 080 deg to EPac English 0400-0500 on 15240 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English 0400-0500 on 15415 SHP 100 kW / 355 deg to EaAs English 0400-0500 on 15515 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English 0400-0500 on 15160 SHP 100 kW / 065 deg to EPac English 0400-0500 on 17750 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg to SEAs Indonesian 0400-0500 on 17800 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg to SEAs Indonesian 0400-0500 on 21725 SHP 100 kW / 355 deg to EaAs English 0500-0530 on 9660 BRN 010 kW / 010 deg to NPac English 0500-0530 on 12080 BRN 010 kW / 080 deg to EPac English 0500-0530 on 13630 SHP 100 kW / 050 deg to EPac English 0500-0530 on 15240 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English 0500-0530 on 15415 SHP 100 kW / 355 deg to EaAs English 0500-0530 on 15515 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English 0500-0530 on 17750 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg to SEAs Indonesian 0500-0530 on 21725 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg to SEAs English 0530-0600 on 9660 BRN 010 kW / 010 deg to NPac English 0530-0600 on 12080 BRN 010 kW / 080 deg to EPac English 0530-0600 on 13630 SHP 100 kW / 050 deg to EPac English 0530-0600 on 15240 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English 0530-0600 on 15415 SHP 100 kW / 355 deg to EaAs English 0530-0600 on 15515 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English 0530-0600 on 17750 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg to SEAs English 0530-0600 on 21725 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg to SEAs English 0600-0700 on 9660 BRN 010 kW / 010 deg to NPac English 0600-0700 on 11945 SHP 100 kW / 100 deg to SPac English 0600-0700 on 12080 BRN 010 kW / 080 deg to EPac English 0600-0700 on 13630 SHP 100 kW / 050 deg to EPac English 0600-0700 on 15240 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English 0600-0700 on 15415 SHP 100 kW / 355 deg to EaAs English 0600-0700 on 17750 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg to SEAs English 0600-0700 on 21725 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg to SEAs English 0700-0800 on 7410 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English 0700-0800 on 9475 SHP 100 kW / 353 deg to EaAs English 0700-0800 on 9660 BRN 010 kW / 010 deg to NPac English 0700-0800 on 9710 SHP 100 kW / 353 deg to EaAs English 0700-0800 on 11945 SHP 100 kW / 100 deg to SPac English 0700-0800 on 12080 BRN 010 kW / 080 deg to EPac English 0700-0800 on 13630 SHP 100 kW / 050 deg to EPac English 0700-0800 on 15240 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English 0800-0900 on 5995 BRN 010 kW / 010 deg to NPac English 0800-0900 on 7410 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English 0800-0900 on 9475 SHP 100 kW / 353 deg to EaAs English 0800-0900 on 9580 SHP 100 kW / 080 deg to EPac English 0800-0900 on 9710 SHP 100 kW / 353 deg to EaAs English 0800-0900 on 11945 SHP 100 kW / 100 deg to SPac English 0800-0900 on 12080 BRN 010 kW / 080 deg to EPac English 0800-0900 on 15240 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English 0900-1000 on 5995 BRN 010 kW / 010 deg to NPac Pidgin 0900-1000 on 6080 SHP 100 kW / 005 deg to NPac Pidgin 0900-1000 NF 6150 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac Pidgin, ex 6020 0900-1000 on 9475 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac Pidgin 0900-1000 on 9580 SHP 100 kW / 080 deg to EPac English 0900-1000 on 9710 SHP 100 kW / 353 deg to EaAs Pidgin 0900-1000 on 11945 SHP 100 kW / 100 deg to SPac English 0900-1000 on 12080 BRN 010 kW / 080 deg to EPac Pidgin 1000-1100 on 5995 BRN 010 kW / 010 deg to NPac Pidgin Mon-Fri 1000-1100 on 5995 BRN 010 kW / 010 deg to NPac English Sat/Sun 1000-1100 on 6080 SHP 100 kW / 005 deg to NPac Pidgin Mon-Fri 1000-1100 on 6080 SHP 100 kW / 005 deg to NPac English Sat/Sun 1000-1100 NF 6150 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac Pidgin M-F, ex 6020 1000-1100 NF 6150 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English Sa/Su, ex 6020 1000-1100 on 9475 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac Pidgin Mon-Fri 1000-1100 on 9475 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English Sat/Sun 1000-1100 on 9580 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English 1000-1100 on 9710 SHP 100 kW / 353 deg to EaAs Pidgin Mon-Fri 1000-1100 on 9710 SHP 100 kW / 353 deg to EaAs English Sat/Sun 1000-1100 on 12065 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English, ex 11945 1000-1100 on 12080 BRN 010 kW / 080 deg to EPac Pidgin Mon-Fri 1000-1100 on 12080 BRN 010 kW / 080 deg to EPac English Sat/Sun 1100-1200 on 5995 BRN 010 kW / 010 deg to NPac English 1100-1200 on 6080 SHP 100 kW / 005 deg to NPac English 1100-1200 on 6140 SNG 100 kW / 013 deg to SEAs English 1100-1200 NF 6150 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English, ex 6020 1100-1200 on 9475 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg to SEAs English 1100-1200 on 9580 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English 1100-1200 on 11945 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg to SEAs English 1100-1200 NF 12065 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English, ex 11945 1100-1200 on 12080 BRN 010 kW / 080 deg to EPac English DRM 1200-1300 on 5995 BRN 010 kW / 010 deg to NPac English DRM 1200-1300 on 6080 SHP 100 kW / 005 deg to NPac English 1200-1300 on 6140 SNG 100 kW / 013 deg to SEAs English 1200-1300 NF 6150 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English, ex 6020 1200-1300 on 9475 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg to SEAs English 1200-1300 on 9580 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English 1200-1300 on 11945 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg to SEAs English 1200-1300 NF 12065 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English, ex 11945 1300-1400 on 5940 SHP 100 kW / 334 deg to SEAs English 1300-1400 on 5995 BRN 010 kW / 010 deg to NPac English DRM 1300-1400 NF 6150 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English, ex 6020 1300-1400 on 9475 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg to SEAs Chinese 1300-1400 on 9580 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English 1300-1400 on 9965 HBN 100 kW / 318 deg to EaAs Chinese 1300-1400 NF 11665 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg to SEAs Chinese, ex 11660 1300-1400 NF 12065 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English, ex 11945 1400-1430 on 5940 SHP 100 kW / 334 deg to SEAs English 1400-1430 on 5995 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English 1400-1430 on 9475 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg to SEAs Chinese 1400-1430 on 9580 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English 1400-1430 on 9965 HBN 100 kW / 318 deg to EaAs Chinese 1400-1430 NF 11665 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg to SEAs Chinese, ex 11660 1400-1430 NF 12065 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English, ex 11945 1430-1500 on 5940 SHP 100 kW / 334 deg to SEAs English 1430-1500 on 5995 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English 1430-1500 on 9475 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg to SEAs English 1430-1500 on 9580 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English 1430-1500 NF 11665 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg to SEAs English, ex 11660 1430-1500 NF 12065 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English, ex 11945 1500-1530 on 5940 SHP 100 kW / 334 deg to SEAs English 1500-1530 on 5995 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English 1500-1530 on 7240 SHP 100 kW / 040 deg to NPac English 1500-1530 on 9475 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg to SEAs English 1500-1530 NF 11665 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg to SEAs English, ex 11660 1500-1530 NF 12065 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English, ex 11945 1530-1600 on 5940 SHP 100 kW / 334 deg to SEAs English 1530-1600 on 5995 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English 1530-1600 on 7240 SHP 100 kW / 040 deg to NPac English 1530-1600 on 9475 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg to SEAs English 1530-1600 on 11660 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg to SEAs English 1530-1600 on 11880 SHP 100 kW / 050 deg to NPac English 1600-1630 on 9540 SNG 100 kW / 340 deg to SEAs English 1600-1700 on 5940 SHP 100 kW / 334 deg to SEAs English 1600-1700 on 5995 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English 1600-1700 on 7240 SHP 100 kW / 040 deg to NPac English 1600-1700 on 9475 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg to SEAs English 1600-1700 on 11660 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg to SEAs English 1600-1700 on 11880 SHP 100 kW / 050 deg to NPac English 1700-1730 on 5995 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English 1700-1730 on 9475 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg to SEAs English 1700-1730 on 9500 SHP 100 kW / 353 deg to EaAs English 1700-1730 on 9580 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English 1700-1730 on 11660 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg to SEAs English 1700-1730 on 11880 SHP 100 kW / 050 deg to NPac English 1730-1800 on 5995 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English 1730-1800 on 6080 SHP 100 kW / 005 deg to NPac English 1730-1800 on 9475 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg to SEAs English 1730-1800 on 9500 SHP 100 kW / 353 deg to EaAs English 1730-1800 on 9580 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English 1730-1800 on 11880 SHP 100 kW / 050 deg to NPac English 1800-1900 on 6080 SHP 100 kW / 005 deg to NPac English 1800-1900 on 9475 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg to SEAs English 1800-1900 on 9500 SHP 100 kW / 353 deg to EaAs English 1800-1900 on 9580 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English 1800-1900 on 9710 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English 1800-1900 on 11880 SHP 100 kW / 050 deg to NPac English 1900-2000 on 6080 SHP 100 kW / 005 deg to NPac English 1900-2000 on 9500 SHP 100 kW / 353 deg to EaAs English 1900-2000 on 9580 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English 1900-2000 on 9710 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English 1900-2000 on 11660 SHP 100 kW / 065 deg to EPac English 1900-2000 on 11880 SHP 100 kW / 050 deg to NPac English 2000-2030 on 6080 SHP 100 kW / 005 deg to NPac English 2000-2030 on 9500 SHP 100 kW / 353 deg to EaAs English 2000-2030 on 9580 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English 2000-2030 on 11650 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English 2000-2030 on 11660 SHP 100 kW / 065 deg to EPac English 2000-2030 on 12080 BRN 010 kW / 080 deg to EPac English 2000-2030 on 15515 SHP 100 kW / 050 deg to NPac English 2030-2100 on 9500 SHP 100 kW / 355 deg to EaAs English 2030-2100 on 9580 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English 2030-2100 on 11650 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English 2030-2100 on 11660 SHP 100 kW / 065 deg to EPac English 2030-2100 on 11695 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg to SEAs English 2030-2100 on 12080 BRN 010 kW / 080 deg to EPac English 2030-2100 on 15515 SHP 100 kW / 050 deg to NPac English 2100-2200 on 9500 SHP 100 kW / 355 deg to EaAs English 2100-2200 on 9660 BRN 010 kW / 010 deg to NPac English 2100-2200 on 11650 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English 2100-2200 on 11695 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg to SEAs English 2100-2200 on 12080 BRN 010 kW / 080 deg to EPac English 2100-2200 on 13630 SHP 100 kW / 065 deg to EPac English 2100-2200 on 15515 SHP 100 kW / 050 deg to NPac English 2100-2200 on 21740 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English 2200-2300 on 9660 BRN 010 kW / 010 deg to NPac English 2200-2300 on 9695 DHA 250 kW / 105 deg to SEAs Indonesian 2200-2300 on 9855 DHA 250 kW / 090 deg to SEAs English 2200-2300 on 11695 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg to SEAs Indonesian 2200-2300 on 12080 BRN 010 kW / 080 deg to EPac English 2200-2300 on 13630 SHP 100 kW / 065 deg to EPac English 2200-2300 NF 15240 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English, ex 15230 2200-2300 on 15415 SHP 100 kW / 355 deg to EaAs English 2200-2300 on 15515 SHP 100 kW / 050 deg to NPac English 2200-2300 on 21740 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English 2300-2330 on 5955 DHA 250 kW / 085 deg to SEAs Burmese 2300-2330 on 9660 BRN 010 kW / 010 deg to NPac English 2300-2330 on 9695 DHA 250 kW / 105 deg to SEAs Indonesian 2300-2330 on 9855 DHA 250 kW / 090 deg to SEAs English 2300-2330 on 11695 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg to SEAs Indonesian 2300-2330 on 12080 BRN 010 kW / 080 deg to EPac English 2300-2330 NF 15240 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English, ex 15230 2300-2330 on 15415 SHP 100 kW / 355 deg to EaAs English 2300-2330 on 17795 SHP 100 kW / 050 deg to NPac English 2300-2330 on 19000 SHP 100 kW / 065 deg to EPac English 2300-2330 on 21740 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English 2330-2400 on 9660 BRN 010 kW / 010 deg to NPac English 2330-2400 on 9855 DHA 250 kW / 090 deg to SEAs English 2330-2400 on 12080 BRN 010 kW / 080 deg to EPac English 2330-2400 NF 15240 SHP 100 kW / 030 deg to NPac English, ex 15230 2330-2400 on 15415 SHP 100 kW / 355 deg to EaAs English 2330-2400 on 17750 SHP 100 kW / 329 deg to SEAs English 2330-2400 on 17795 SHP 100 kW / 050 deg to NPac English 2330-2400 on 19000 SHP 100 kW / 065 deg to EPac English 2330-2400 on 21740 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg to EPac English (DX RE MIX NEWS #782 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 21, 2013, dxldyg via DXLD) *[0000-0030 on 12005 SNG 100 kW / 340 deg to SEAs Indonesian] heard Burmese instead (Tony Ashar, Depok, West Java, Indonesia, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Tony, it is in Burmese, see for example http://wrth.com/files/WRTH2013IntRadioSuppl2_A13Schedules.pdf page 2. 73, (Mauno Ritola, WRTH, ibid.) ** BAHRAIN. 9745, 2118 is alone in the frequency! S4-5 (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH. 15505, May 20 at *1359:35, I can barely detect the Bangladesh Betar carrier cutting on late, but can`t make out a timesignal if any as the Urdu service opens (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BELARUS. BIELORRUSIA, 11730, R.BELARUS (150 kW, Minsk-Kalodzicy) 2121 UT [probably May 21]. Mujer habla en inglés con baja modulación. SINPO: 33333 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Coaxial de 5 Ohms de 20 Metros, QTH: Centro de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 3310.00, R. Mosoj Chaski, Cochabamba, 5/05 0937-1005, 44444, px religioso en quechua, mx religiosa, ID “Mosoj Chasqui Radio”, Slogan en español en quechua y dan la frecuencia en español, escuchar grabación adjunta. 4716.70, R. Yatun Ayllu, Santiago de Quijaro, 13/05 2345-0035, 33333, tocan mx juvenil en forma continua, advs, más vale prevenir sobre el VH sida, ID “Yatun Ayllu” lo dan mientras tocan la pieza musical, lo lanzan como un flash 6105.50, R. Panamericana, La Paz, 13/05 1132-1210, 44444+, ID "7 y 40 minutos en su Radio Panamericana", px noticiero, ID "Panamericana presenta las noticias CNN (en cadena con CNN), mejor escucho en USB, px Por Panamericana de la Paz, usted escuchó la noticias de la hora por CNN, advs, no a la piratería, compre CD originales, la nueva lavadora Samsung, news paro en Tarija, corresponsal de Panamericana en Tarija. La recepción la he efectuado del 5/05 al 20/05 en compañía de mi sabueso Icom IC R72 acompañado del Mizuho KX-3, una antena de hilo largo de 12 metros y una antena loop. Muchos 128´s PFA (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, Perú, CHASQUI DX PFA – MAYO 2013, May 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 5952.41, 2350-2400 14.05, R Pio XII, Siglo XX, Quechua talk with a woman screaming, short music 45333 (Anker Petersen, my latest DX-loggings from Skovlunde, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) 5952.40v, Radio Pio Doce, 0231*, May 22. Distinctive whistling “Colonel Bogey March” (commonly known as the River Kwai March) along with ID followed by chimes and off; mostly poor (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 6134.8, R. SANTA CRUZ (10 kW, Santa Cruz) Mayo 21. 2248 UT. Avisos sobre el salario mínimo y del gobierno de Santa Cruz. A las 2250, se vuelve a un programa con noticias sobre el desarrollo agrario de la región con entrevistas a campesinos y autoridades. SINPO: 44444 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Coaxial de 5 Ohms de 20 Metros, QTH: Centro de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 4845.00, BRASIL, R. Cultural Onda Tropicais, Manaus, 18/05 0035-0105, 33333, mx varias, ID “Justo a tiempo, Radio Cultural de Amazonas en los 4845 kHz onda tropical, Manaus, Amazonas`` (Escuchar grabación). A las 0057 se para la señal, hay un zumbido de salida pero no trasmiten nada, s/off aparentemente a las 0100, corto señal. 4865.00, BRASIL, R. Verde[s] Floresta[s], Acre, 18/5 0940-1030, 33333++, mx, ID "Radio Verde[s] Floresta[s],`` (escuchar grabación) después mx y px religioso 11780.00, BRASIL, R. Nacional da Amazônia, Brasília, 15/05 2040-2115, 44444, px News (notícias), mx, ID "relatórios nacionais" mx, ID "Nacional informa, a empressa de comunicação no Brasil". Papa Francisco estará no Brasil no mês de julho, "Rádio empressa de comunicação Nacional, Amazônia, Brasil", ID x ID "Rádio Nacional da Amazônia, cubrindo dois terços do país, trazendo alegria, música, informação e prestação de serviços, a Rádio Nacional da Amazônia, uma contribuição”. Gravação Listen La recepción la he efectuado del 5/05 al 20/05 en compañía de mi sabueso Icom IC R72 acompañado del Mizuho KX-3, una antena de hilo largo de 12 metros y una antena loop. Muchos 128´s PFA (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, Perú, CHASQUI DX PFA – MAYO 2013, May 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Radio Inconfidência on 6010.088 kHz, 2138 UT 17-5 with comments by OM and YL about Brazil, following with nice music. Signal was not strong and noisy audio. Best with phaser mfj1026 (Maurits Van Driessche, Belgium, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** BRAZIL [and non]. 6089.95, R Bandeirantes, São Paulo, 0151, May 22, Port, seemed all talk, noted during random checks. Completely in the clear as University Network / Melissa Scott off but eventually overpowered by ETHIOPIA appearing here 0255:32 with usual IS (Martien Groot, Schoorl, Netherlands, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. BRASIL, 11735, RTM (50 kW, Santa Maria-Camobi) Mayo 21. 1345 UT. Programa “Bom Dia RTM” con música cristiana contemporánea en portugués y locutora que manda saludos a los oyentes de las ondas cortas de Brasil, zonas fronterizas con Argentina y Uruguay, Portugal y Japón. SINPO: 54444 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Coaxial de 5 Ohms de 20 Metros, QTH: Centro de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 11815, Rádio Brasil Central – Goiânia, 0200, 5/14/13, in Portuguese. Announcer, theme, ID, same man continues, rock ballad. Fair (Mark Taylor, Madison WI, Microtelecom Perseus, WinRadio g313e, Eton E1, Grunding G5 & Satellit 800; EWE, Flextenna, 40 meters dipole, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) 11815, R. Brasil Central-Goiânia, 5/17. poor but readable at 2016 with intense, rapid-fire talk in Portuguese by man (Jim Ronda, Tulsa OK, NRD-545, R-75 + Wellbrook loop, PAR EF-SWL, and attic-mounted Eavesdropper, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) 11815, Rádio Brasil Central, Goiânia, 0510-0640, 18-05, Brazilian songs, male, identification: "3 e 13, Rádio Brasil Central". 34433 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Reinante, Lugo, Sony ICF SW 7600 G, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BULGARIA. UNIDentified station in Arabic, 2100 on 9400 from Kostinbrod, very strong in Sofia, also observed on second harmonic 18800. Identification at 2130: Huna Akhbar Mutreh. At 2145 announced http://www.arabicbroadcasting.com 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, May 17, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DX LISTENING DIGEST) It's a gospel station in Arabic with verses from the Bible and how to be a good Christian. No ID given at 2200. The ID is Idhaat al Akhbar al Mofreha (Joyful News Radio). According to their web site they are supposed to be on 12025 from 2100 UT. They are still on with verses from the Bible 2215. All the best (Tarek Zeidan, Cairo, Egypt, Sent from my iPad, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DX LISTENING DIGEST) News from Kostinbrod: New broadcasts from SOF Kostinbrod: Idhaat al Akhbar al Mofreha, 2100-2300 on 9400 SOF 100 kW / 126 deg to N/ME in Arabic // 2nd harmonic on 18800. First observed on May 17, at 2145 given address: http://www.arabicbroadcasting.com Thanks to Tarek Zeidan from Egypt for identification on this radio program! -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, May 18, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re contact [Arabic script copied cannot be reproduced here in DXLD] Satellite Radio Al-Mahabba is on 24/7. You can listen to it from our Links. From the Joyful News station every night at 9:00 GMT [2100 UT], on short wave 25 Meter Band, 12025 KHZ. From Radio Sama every night at 7 GMT [1900 UT], on 25 Meter Band, 12070 KHZ. http://www.radiosama.net/ Voice of Hope / Radio Ibrahim Mobile Number: 0035799447768 Address: PO Box 53379, 3302 Limassol, Cyprus e-mail : pawlo @ radiosama.net e-mail: voiceofhope @ radiosama.net Chat : Skype: radio.sama faceBook : http://www.facebook.com/swatelamalPawlo From Voice of Forgiveness every morning at 8 GMT, on 19 Meter Band, 15280 KHZ, and every evening at 7 GMT, on 31M.B, 9550 KHZ. this from DXLD 4-046, March 12, 2004: ``ECUADOR [non]. Akhbar Mufriha (The "Joyful News" Station)/Radio Al- Mahabba 12025, verified an e-mail report in one day with an e-mail reply from Andy Braio abraio @ hcjb.org Station Manager - Akhbar Mufriha. My report was e-mailed to the Arabic Broadcasting Service ("ABS") at info @ arabicbroadcasting.com I obtained the address from the ABS website. Shukri Habibi at the ABS forwarded my report to Andy Braio identifying the programs I heard. In his reply to me Andy noted "Thank you for your note. You tuned into our Arabic programs on "Akhbar Mufriha," the "Joyful News" station, 12025 kHz. We are on every night from 2100 to 2230 UT. I don't have a QSL card but this email verifies your reception. Thank you for the report." He goes on to mention: "Our programs are typically broadcast from Skelton U.K., although this time of year it has probably been transferred to Sackville, Canada." He provided the station's website address http://www.akhbarmufriha.com and indicated that Akhbar Mufriha is tied into its satellite station, Radio Al Mahabba. Finally, Andy says, "Arabic Broadcasting is a partner of ours who supplies us with four of our programs. Radio Ibrahim is a cooperating partner radio station." I seem to recall mentions in the hobby press about Radio Ibrahim being tied into HCJB is some fashion. Apparently this is may be the case based on Andy's e-mail address. So, it appears Radio Ibrahim is a program provider to another program provider, Akhbar Mufriha, and all this relates to HCJB who is keeping a low profile. Interesting but why the CIA-like operation? (Rich D'Angelo, PA, March Australian DX News via DXLD) This is a revision of the item in DXLD 3-219 (gh)`` (all via Wolfgang Büschel, May 18, 2013, dxldyg via DXLD) That mention of 12025 kHz at 2100 UT clearly points at HCJB Global. They used to book such a slot at Sackville during winter and one of the UK sites during summer. Nothing is shown in HFCC anymore, nothing was shown in B12 either, so do these 12025 kHz transmissions still exist or have they been terminated and now, it seems, being replaced by a cheaper option (it could also be that it is just a free test, not necessarily leading to a regular service)? If it`s them, the related corporate presentation would be http://www.hcjb.org/Journey-of-Hope-About (Kai Ludwig, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9400, 19/May 2117, BULGARIA (Relay), Idhaat al Akhbar al Mofreha in Arabic. OM speaks animatedly. Some excerpts of music. At 2129 OM discloses address of site. At 2129 repeats the ID by OM and YL. 35433 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, ibid.) 9400, Idhaat al Akhbar al Mofreha, ¿nueva emisora? via las facilidades del sitio transmisor en Sofía (Kostinbrod), reportada a partir de las 2103 UT con talk o diálogo entre OM e YL. La emisión sale con 100 kW en árabe (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, condiglista yg via DXLD) Test on May 17-19 from Kostinbrod-Arabic Broadcasting Service: 2100- 2230 on 9400 SOF 070 kW / 126 deg to N/ME Arabic Joyful News Radio (DX RE MIX NEWS #782 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 21, 2013 via WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DXLD) 9400 formerly relayed Brother Scare (gh) ** CANADA [non]. BULGARIA, Frequency change of Bible Voice Broadcasting from May 9: 1530-1730 NF 15750 SOF 100 kW / 126 deg to WeAs Farsi and cancelled: 1530-1730 on 7485 KCH 300 kW / 116 deg to WeAs test May 6-8 BABCOCK 1530-1730 on 15635 WOF 300 kW / 086 deg to WeAs test May 6-8 BABCOCK (DX RE MIX NEWS #782 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 21, 2013 via DXLD) ** CHINA. 12000 + 9800 (thanks to tip from topnews) new CNR frequency for emergencies at 1953 7 May with discussions. S9 for 12000 and S20 for 9800; IDed as Zhongguo zhe shen (V of China, i.e. CNR1 (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17520, May 16 at 1305, no signal at all where CNR1 was heard 23 hours earlier, and which Ivo Ivanov concluded was a new frequency for the earthquake-provoked National Emergency broadcast, but which has just been relaying CNR1 much of the time. Is it gone again? 16m propagation is quite poor today, however, even from Cuba. Then at 1402, 24 hours later than yesterday, still no 17520 but I do find a CNR1 on 17530, synchronized with the jammer on 11990. Rather than Emergency service, 17530 could be jamming VOA Tibetan, but this is Thursday and latest Aoki shows that scheduled on Tuesdays only during this hour from Lampertheim, Germany, inaudible. But that hardly fits with VOA English via Botswana supposedly daily 1400-1500 on 17530. And the Tibetan schedules are highly volatile. 12000, May 16 at 1407, reconfirmed that the National Emergency service, is carrying CNR1, and is two seconds behind 11990 CNR1 jammer, which I have been using as a reference // checker. {before 1330 this is mixing badly with Vietnam in Chinese} 12040, May 16 at 1406, CNR1 poor signal with CCI: in this case it`s jamming VOA Chinese via Philippines this hour only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12000, Lushan Emergency Radio (LER) (presumed). May 16 with close to identical format and timing as I had May 8; 1735 to 1800 clearly LER normal format with YL (soft spoken and dramatic sounding!) announcer over background piano music; playing some EZL songs; 1800 to 1830 LER dramatization; 1830 switched to CNR1 programming till tune out at 1850; fair-good; // 9800 poor. Did not hear anything on 17520, which Ivo Ivanov indicates is also a LER frequency (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17520 CNR-1 National Emergency broadcast, 1400-1410, Mayo 19, en idioma chino, reportada en esta nueva frecuencia, en paralelo con 12000 con noticias leídas por YL. 25552. Según el colega búlgaro Ivo Ivanov, la emisora emite en esta nueva QRG desde hace muy pocos días atrás (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, condiglista yg via DXLD) 12000, CNR 1 National emergency broadcast or Lushan Emergency Radio (100 kW, Shijiazhuang 723) Mayo 21. 2129. Programa de música china tradicional y voz de una mujer en chino. La frecuencia, en éste horario tiene la misma programación que las restantes CNR 1. SINPO: 44444 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Coaxial de 5 Ohms de 20 Metros, QTH: Centro de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** CHINA. Non-Firedrake jamming with CNR1 audio, in addition to the separate logs which don`t correlate with former Firedrake channels: May 16 after 1300: 17450, JBA at 1309, (and no ute whine as sometimes audible now) 15970, JBA at 1315; none in the 18s or 16s 15900, very poor at 1315 13970, poor at 1318; none in the 14s or 12s except as noted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) CHINA/TAIWAN Some SOH / CNR jamming logs of May 16 at 16-17 UT. 6970 1603 SOH 9970 1610 CNR1 jammer 11765 1612 CNR1 Jammer 11970 1614 SOH 13850 1616 SOH 14600 1618 SOH 15970 1619 SOH 16920 1620 SOH strongest signal, maybe outside TWN relay from another Central Asia site? (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 16, dxldyg via DXLD) [and non]. 11640, May 17 at 1202, CNR1 jamming // 11605 against RFA Tibetan, but on 11640 it`s vs R. Taiwan International. Other CNR1 jamming instead of Firedrake, before 1400: 13970, fair at 1356; none in the 12s 14700, fair at 1356 14750, poor-fair at 1356 16100, poor at 1359 16360, fair at 1359 I did not get above 17000 before 1400, but hardly anything propagating on 16m (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Firedrake on May 20. 7385, from 1153 to 1200*; along with CNR1 jamming which continued past 1200. Jamming RTI. 7365, from 1329 to 1400*, along with CNR1 jamming which continued past 1400. Jamming perhaps also against RTI? (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Firedrake, May 21 before 1400: 13795, fair at 1345. This remains the only real FD still heard, tho I think there are still some in the 7 MHz band. Otherwise, CNR1 jamming: 13530, good at 1344 13920, fair at 1345 13970, fair at 1345 14750, poor at 1346 15115, fair and 15195, very poor at 1347 (these inbanders not ex-FD) 16920, poor at 1349; none in the 17s, 18s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Jamming on May 21: 6110 // 9845, Firedrake and CNR1 jamming against VOA; 1428 + 1449. 7365, Firedrake and CNR1 jamming against VOA at 1345. Not shown with * (jammed) on Aoki database. BTW – I was wrong yesterday to think it was perhaps against RTI. 7385, echo CNR1 jamming at 1345 against RTI. Has been a while since I have really noticed the echo! 12040, echo CNR1 jamming against VOA at 1431 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17560, May 22 at 0007, CNR1 with fair signal. Must be here to jam VOA Chinese via Tinang, PHILIPPINES, this hour only. Firedrake, May 22 before 1300: 13795, very poor at 1258; all the rest are CNR1 jam instead of FD: 12670, very poor at 1257; none in the 13s, 14s, 15s, 17s 16360, fair at 1259-1300* after two pips of timesignal After 1330: 15800, fair at 1333. Must be here because of 100-watt Sound of Hope nuisance transmitter in Taiwan, per Aoki at 2130-1430 16920, JBA at 1333 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 9440, CRI (100 kW, Nanning 954) Mayo 21. 1302 UT. Comienzo de la emisión en Esperanto, presentación de la emisora por parte de una locutora y un locutor con baja modulación que presentan noticias sobre China en el mismo idioma, con siseo proveniente de 9435 VOK, via Kujang, Corea del Norte. SINPO: 33443. No obstante, en 11650 CRI (500 kW, Beijing). SINPO: 44444 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Coaxial de 5 Ohms de 20 Metros, QTH: Centro de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** CHINA [and non]. China jockeys for radio control [in INDIA] http://www.financialexpress.com/news/china-jockeys-for-radio-control/1118428 Sent from my iPad (via Ryan Ellegood, Union City, TN, May 21, dxldyg via DXLD) ** COLOMBIA. 1069.98, R. Santa Fe, Bogotá, 14/05 0805-0830, 22222, mx, ID "En Radio Santa Fe es la [sic] 3 de la mañana con 11 minutos", mx, ID "Santa Fe, la emisora de los bogotanos" 5909.92, Alcavarán Radio, Puertolleras, 10/05 0554-0620, 33333+, mx, ID “Origina su señal, Alcavarán Radio, 1530 AM HKB82 y en onda corta 5910kHz, en banda internacional de 49 metros, una estación de interés público, progreso y bienestar social para el municipio de Puerto Lleras Meta, Colombia, Alcavarán Radio…” [sic, he keeps reversing the letters: it is ALCARAVÁN --- gh] 6010.00, La Voz de tu Conciencia, Bogotá, 6/05 0730-0752, 44444, px religioso, mx varias, ID "En la Voz de Conciencia, estamos para cambiar el mundo", mxf joropo, ID “La Voz de tu Conciencia, 6010 en la onda corta y Alvacaván [sic] Radio 1530 AM, por la paz de Colombia y el Mundo… hacemos una radio diferente”. La recepción la he efectuado del 5/05 al 20/05 en compañía de mi sabueso Icom IC R72 acompañado del Mizuho KX-3, una antena de hilo largo de 12 metros y una antena loop. Muchos 128´s PFA (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, Perú, CHASQUI DX PFA – MAYO 2013, May 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COSTA RICA [and non]. Estimado don Glenn Hauser: Es Berny Solano, molestándolo nuevamente desde Costa Rica. Ante todo quería saludarlo cordialmente, enviándole un tan tico Pura Vida desde acá y también, quería comentarle, por si le parece relevante para su difusión, que en el programa Mundo Sorprendente con Berny Solano, que se transmite a las 0300 UT los días sábado por http://www.radiocr.net y las app de Radio Costa Rica para teléfonos inteligentes y que se pueden escuchar en diferido a través del enlace del perfil de facebook del programa o de http://www.iVoox.com estaremos arrancando una serie de concursos para aficionados a la radio, adivinando emisoras, etc., para lo cual, habrá premios o "recuerdos" del programa y tarjeta QSL virtual, también vendrá tarjeta QSL física, para quienes nos escuchen por rebote en 930 AM y en onda corta a través de la difusión que hace del programa Radio Verdad de Guatemala por los 4055 de la banda Tropical. Como siempre es una alegría y un honor, dirigirme a usted. Le reitero que para cuando lo crea oportuno y le sea de utilidad, tiene el programa a su disposición. Con las muestras de mi más alta consideración y estima, (Berny Solano Solano, May 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Estimado Berny, Muy bien. Se transmite en Radio Verdad en vivo a la misma hora, o después? (Glenn a Berny, via DXLD) Después. Entre semana aproximadamente a partir de las 0215 UT por Radio Verdad de Guatemala, ahí se pasa el programa en mitades de 30 minutos, el programa es de una hora semanal, así que se le pone un toque mayor de emoción, digo yo! Cordiales 73 (Berny Solano, Enviado desde mi iPhone, WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DXLD) so the days are not known ** CUBA. 11930, May 16 at 0520, multiple tone & pulse jamming against nothing (never R. Martí, anyway at night, but blocking any possibility of Belarus); then similar weaker jamming circa 11879 where there is even less to target, probably a spur of this tho no match on the hi side. At 0531, same jamming just about synchronized on another non- Martí daytime-only frequency, 13820. 17730, May 17 at precisely 1402, RHC timecheck for ``en todo el territorio nacional, exactamente las diez, un minuto``. More lies from the Commies. I had hoped to hear lies in the form of claiming frequencies which aren`t really on the air, like 17580. 6125, May 19 at 0519, RHC English is somewhat undermodulated and distorted; 6165 is somewhat undermodulated and not distorted. // 6060 mod is OK but weakest as usual aimed toward Europe; and 6010 is OK. Sunday May 19 at 1401, RHC Spanish has lost modulation, only dead air on: 17580, 15340 vs HCJB, 11860, 11760. Nominal on 17730, 15230, 13780, 11750, 11690; trace of signal? on 9540. Things always go more haywire than usual on Sunday mornings, presumably because of long- defunct `Aló Presidente` relay from Venezuela, which required transmitter and feed shuffling to accommodate, from which RHC has yet to recover (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non]. MARTÍS RELEASE NEW PHONE APP May 10, 2013 MIAMI - The Office of Cuba Broadcasting has released a new smart phone application that makes accessing accurate news and information easier for Cubans, who live in one of the least free press environment in the world. The app, which is available for iPhone and Android phones and tablets, features breaking news alerts, video and audio on demand, easy-to-share photos and text, and the ability to download and store content. "It was a logical step, our mobile site traffic has grown 1,400 percent since this time last year," said Office of Cuba Broadcasting Director Carlos García-Pérez. "This app brings us closer than ever to our audience in Cuba." Additionally, the free app will be useful in getting information off the island. "We have built in the capacity for audiences in Cuba and the diaspora to share pictures and videos with the Martís and the world," said Natalia Crujeiras Director of Digital Media for the Martís. "The use of mobile phones to access news is rapidly growing in Cuba," said Will Sullivan, Mobile Product Lead for BBG's Office of Digital Design and Innovation. "Access to the Internet in Cuba via landlines or Wi-Fi is extremely restricted, but more than two million people on the island own cellphones. We're thrilled to have enabled this technology to help the Martís reach new audiences." For more information (in Spanish) and to download the app, visit http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001CDE8F4GagzcaPV6ENlmL_yVZYe3pfMpDKya3XpS4AVBJR1thf9nrnbtpBFYWSisyoLGftFvFlBAyH5HvMQ2qKSoT85ih4CIAowM-7qRYRyIObwQtWaPUwDINIwYlvr8Hy-qwdeRApCtLJJR--yT-sYB9Vn0Rw8SKGUjQ16am2DNtnGhDC-SjDQ== (BBG PR May 21 via Clara Listensprechen, DXLD) ** CZECHIA [non]. No signal Radio Prague, at 1725, on 6005 in German from SDR Twente. In place is the Voice of Iran in Pashto, // 7340 and moderate QRM from PBS Xinjiang (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, May 18, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) This is correct, as Radio Prague was On Air from 1400 to 1700 UT on 6005 and 1200-1500 on 7310. Next broadcast is 1900-2200 on 3985 (Christian Milling, Funkhaus Euskirchen, ibid.) The widely circulated schedule was rather confusing, headed HORA UTC, but the first column of times was really UT +2 (gh, DXLD) En 3985 khz en el receptor holandés siendo aprocimadamente 1835 UT hay una emisora en alemán pasando oldies. De repente se interrumpe la portadora y cuando retorna se escucha brevemente la señal de intervalo deRadio Praga, luego se corta y vuelve el pop... Mmmmm..... Eso debió ser un error del operador de Radio 700 (a esa hora debería estar en 6005, donde no encontré nada). En cambio a las 1900 UT en 3985 comenzó en inglés como estaba indicado. Los horarios UT en la lista que pasó Horacio son los que están entre paréntesis. Si bien no me tomé el trabajo de verificarlo supongo que la hora de Praga es UTC+2 que es lo que aparece en la columna de la izquierda. En éste momento (2131 UT) se escucha en algo que parece checo; esto coincidiría con el sked que pasó Horacio. Lo que escuché fue en 3985 kHz a través del receptor SDR hoandés. A esta hora (19:30 acá) están pasando oldies así que pienso que volvió a la programación normal de Radio 700. La emisora en alemán 3985 parece ser Radio 700; ¿cuántos transmisores de onda corta tiene? ¿Puede soportar una segunda transmisión además de la propia? 73 (Moisés Knochen, Montevideo, Uruguay condig yg via DXLD) Agora às 1858 em 3985 o sinal de intervalo da Rádio Praga; às 1859 clara ID em diversos idiomas. As 1900 início do programa em inglês por OM. Antes estava a Radio 700 conforme Moisés. Escuta em SDR Twente. 73 (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, condig yg via DXLD) 3985, 18/May 1858, GERMANY (Relay), R Prague in English. Interval signal. ID in various languages. At 1900 ID start of the program in English. Good signal in SDR Twente. Only 1 kW? (Jorge Freitas, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) CZECH REP: Good to hear once again the familiar IS and sign-on of Radio Prague on shortwave at 1900 UT on 3985 kHz today 18 May via Germany. Unfortunately, transmission was only barely audible here at 1900, improving only slightly by 1915, so I'll have to "listen-again" via MP3 download later (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, ibid.) 6005, *1600-1630* 18.05 R Prague, via Kall-Krekel [GERMANY; one time special] English historical recordings from Czech Radio's 90 years, 35232 (Anker Petersen, my latest DX-loggings from Skovlunde, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** ECUADOR. 829.96, R. Huancavilca, Guayaquil, 5/05, 0840-0910, 22222, ID "Radio Huancavilca 830AM, te felicita en el día de la madre" mx pasillo, ID "Huancavilca 830AM", mx pasillo, ID “A Huancavilca le fascina” 6050.00, R. HCJB, Quito, 9/05 1020-1040, 44444+, mx religiosa, px religioso en quechua, dan la señal horaria en español, 5 de la mañana con 24 minutos en Quito, Ecuador, ID "Quito, Ecuador, banda radio HCJB" … en quechua y español, escuchar grabación adjunta. La recepción la he efectuado del 5/05 al 20/05 en compañía de mi sabueso Icom IC R72 acompañado del Mizuho KX-3, una antena de hilo largo de 12 metros y una antena loop. Muchos 128´s PFA (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, Perú, CHASQUI DX PFA – MAYO 2013, May 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ERITREA [non]. News from Kostinbrod: BULGARIA, On May 17 no broadcast of Radio Shorouq, off transmitter: 1600-1700 on 11610 SOF 070 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Arabic Mon-Fri -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldlyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DX LISTENING DIGEST) And that was a Friday; all off since?? ** ETHIOPIA. 6090, Amhara State Radio, 0309-0320, May 22. As Martien Groot (Netherlands) has already posted to dxldyg, the Caribbean Beacon (University Network) via Anguilla was having tx problems and didn’t start till *0320 (checked again at 0352 and found them going on and off – still having trouble); mostly HOA music. Very nice to find in the clear! (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. News from Kostinbrod: BULGARIA, On May 17 no broadcast of Dimtse Radio Erena, only carrier: 1700-1730 on 11560 SOF 070 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Oromo -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via May 18 WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Sabato 18 maggio 2013, *1700 - 11560 kHz, DIMTSE RADIO ERENA, Sofia- Kostinbrod (Bulgaria), Tigrigna, notizie OM+YL. Segnale buono (Luca Botto Fiora, QTH G.C. 09E13 - 44N21, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, bclnews.it yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DXLD) Is it Tigrigna for Eritrea, or Oromo for Ethiopia?? (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** EUROPE. Radio Spaceshuttle World Sevice on air today! Hello friends everywhere, We have already started on 15880 kHz (USB) our tests for today. I wish many of yours can hear us. Pleease send your reports to spaceshuttleradio@yahoo.com e-mail address. Some SSTV-tests as well (few times during transmission- Scottie1 mode). Best Saturday day to you, (Dick Spacewalker, 0752 UT Saturday May 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. QSL: 15180, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Tajik to Asia via Issoudun transmitter (yet EiBi indicates as Turkmen via Lampertheim 100 kW, 77 degrees azimuth which I indicate in my report). Received an e-mail verification letter with the site as Issoudun on a bearing of 75 degrees with 250 kW in the Tajik Language. Reply in 28 days V/S: Walter Brodowsky Head of Short-wave, Senior Expert sales (Edward Kusalik, Alberta, CANADA, May 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) He`s with MBR, not RFE/RL (gh, DXLD) ** GERMANY. 873 FINAL CLOSURE OF MEDIUMWAVE AFN FRANKFURT GERMANY INSTALLATION acc Radioforum / and forward by Daniel Kaehler in A-DX ng today: 873 Final closure of mediumwave AFN Frankfurt installation on May 31, 2013, because of the US budget problems after three wars in Middle East in past 25 years... "as part of the Department of Defense's ongoing efforts to reduce operating costs ... The 873 AM transmitter, which is located off post in Weisskirchen, {near Frankfurt/Main} Germany, was singled out for cost savings because of its isolated location and high-cost upkeep requirements." see item URL below. AFN Frankfurt Weisskirchen 873 kHz {formerly 150 kW} 40-80 screened 50 11'00.62"N 08 36'41.37"E I guess in past decade only on air with reduced 50 kW, the signal is only a shadow of bygone days. vy73 wolfy df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: ----- Original Message ----- From: ""D. Kähler"" Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 4:54 PM Subject: Abschaltungen: AFN und 90elf 2x Abschaltungs-News heute: - Fußballradio 90elf wird eingestellt, weil die entsprechenden DFL-Rechte jetzt bei SPORT 1 liegen, man denkt über neue DAB-Sender nach: http://www.radioszene.de/54025/regiocast-digital-stellt-90elf-ein.html - AFN schaltet 873 kHz ab: http://www.afneurope.net/Headline/tabid/2098/Default.aspx?aid=28284 (via Radioforum erfahren) Gruss, Daniel (via wb, DXLD) AFN WIESBADEN AM RADIO TRANSMITTER GOING OFF THE AIR AFN Europe, in coordination with IMCOM Europe and USAREUR, is turning off its 873 AM radio transmitter in Central Germany May 31, as part of the Department of Defense's ongoing efforts to reduce operating costs. The transmitter is one of two that serves Wiesbaden Army Airfield. The 873 AM transmitter provides Power Network programming, a mix of news, talk and political commentary. The second transmitter, 98.7 FM, broadcasts AFN The Eagle, a 24/7 service of contemporary music, community information and top of the hour news. Wiesbaden area listeners will still get news, traffic, weather and community information from 98.7 FM News and talk fans may still listen to two popular Power Network Shows, Morning Newswatch, from 0600-0900 and Afternoon Newswatch from 1600-1880 [sic] weekdays on AFN 360: Internet Radio. AFN decoder owners may tune in Power Network 24 hours a day on their "box." AFN Europe hopes to be able to offer Power Network as a 24/7 streaming audio service on AFN 360 sometime in the future. Some iPhone and Android mobile device users may be able to listen to AFN's streaming audio service in their car. The 873 AM transmitter, which is located off post in Weisskirchen, Germany, was singled out for cost savings because of its isolated location and high-cost upkeep requirements. As with all of DoD, AFN Europe anticipates additional changes this year as it works to provide the American military with quality entertainment and command information, while simultaneously being good stewards of taxpayer dollars (via Chris Greenway, UK, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DXLD) Oh wow, that's sad the hear. I spent many a fun hour listening to AFN Frankfurt when I was younger. The 873AM signal came in quite strong in the south of the UK and was particularly popular with American sports fans for the live NFL and MLB coverage in the years before satellite TV. But I can understand the reasons for the closedown (Martyn Williams, CA, ibid.) Here in the UK I was brought up on US music from AFN before the offshore stations arrived, it has great memories for me (Mike Terry, ibid.) Yet another English speaking station leaves the Medium Wave. When I was a kid as well as Home Service (regions) Light Programme on 247 Metres, Third, Athlone, Luxembourg there was VOA (News in 'special English' - read slowly) and AFN with all sorts of shows where the commercials were cut out and 'Information items' substituted. But now it's eastern music and talksport with 5 live for boredom on tap. What did we do to deserve it! (Rog Parsons (BDXC 782), Hinckley, Leics., BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** GERMANY. Is any one here who owns a copy of the cd signature tunes from Deutsche Welle? If you have, is it possible to upload this cd ? I lost my copy so I ask (Andre Schokker, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) If you mean the CD with stations' interval signals, I may upload them. :) (Georgi Bancov, Bulgaria, ibid.) Deutsche Welle - Erkennungsmelodien und Pausenzeichen (2001) http://www.mediafire.com/?gumkvnmff6lzyx7 (Aleksandr Diadischev, Ukraine, ibid.) zipped ** GERMANY. 7265-cusb mode, Glenn Hauser's WoR #1669 heard on steady S=8-9 signal via Goehren Germany site, here in Stuttgart southern Germany. Around 0640 UT May 18, still in progress at 0650 UT. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DXLD) ** GERMANY. 7310.11, R 700, Kall-Krekel, 0603, May 05, on off frequency with folk and brass music, 35333 // 6005.08 (also off), here surprisingly much better (45544), also // 3985.00 (here frequency as normal) (35433). Later on the 41- and 49-mb-frequencies went to normal values (Johann Wiespointner, Schörfling, Austria, DSWCI DX Window May 15 via DXLD) Radio 700 Kall Eifel Germany on 7310.141 kHz, and wandering DOWNwards frequency at 0559 UT station ID at S=9+10dB level. When checked again at 0628 UT stn signal arrived finally even 7310.0 kHz frequency. wb (Wolfgang Büschel, May 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. RMRC broadcast via WRMI on 02 June Hello Glenn, here is something new !! Cheers, Robert ------------------ Hello SWLs and DXers everywhere, the Rhein-Main-Radio-Club (RMRC) of Frankfurt in Germany will broadcast a special program on Sunday, 02. June 2013 from 0300 to 0400 UT via Radio Miami International, WRMI with 50 KW of power on 9955 kHz shortwave. The program has been compiled by RMRC-member Nick Barker in English and German and should be well-received in North, Central and South America (and, perhaps, also in Europe - after all, we are DXers!). In this first special program, the RMRC will present the club and its activities with the aim to make itself better known in the radio world. For Reception Reports, there will be a < Special QSL-Card > issued only by the RMRC. Reception reports by email or regular post ONLY to the RMRC. Return postage is not required, and recordings can not be returned. Please do send any reception reports to WRMI. Thank-you kindly, good listening, and we hope to hear from you soon, Harald Gabler, Chairman of the RMRC Homepage: http://www.rmrc.de (via Robert Kipp, May 18, WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [same:] EDXC News By OH6001SWL May 21, 2013 Link: http://queescucharenlaoc.blogspot.com/2013/05/alemania-rmrc-emitira-traves-de-wrmi-el.html (via Mike terry dxldyg via DXLD) ** GERMANY. Re WRTH A-13 update: ``HCJB GERMANY (Rlg) Russian Days Area kHz 0300-0330 daily Eu 3995wnm, 7365wnm*`` Ukrainian on Thursdays (Aleksandr Diadischev, Ukraine, May 16, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Seems their schedule is a bit outdated/inaccurate. http://www.andenstimme.org/radio 73, (Mauno Ritola, WRTH, ibid.) Hello Mauno and all, The info is correct, but still hasn’t started on the new (second) frequency yet. I’m still working on that. Time for Russian/Ukrainian is 05.00 MESZ (0300 UT). Btw: The web adress is http://www.hcjb.de J 73, (Stephan Schaa, HCJB Germany, ibid.) Hello Stephan, I meant for the Ukrainian programme, which Alexandr reported missing: on http://www.hcjb.de/index.php?id=16 only russisches Programm listed also on Donnerstag. J 73, (Mauno Ritola, ibid.) Ah, OK! The thing with Russian/Ukrainian is: all the programmes come from “Hoffnungswelle e.V.” in cooperation with HCJB Global and HCJB in Russia and are not made by HCJB Germany direct. I will ask the people involved if they changed schedule. 73, (Stephan Schaa, ibid.) ** GREECE. 15630, May 22 at 0534, VOG fair with music, which is better than usual and better than expected with K=4 at 03 UT. 16m was still dead (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. 15570 DRM TEST 24th / 25th May. KTWR Guam is planning a DRM test to Japan for May 24th and 25th. It will be on 15570 kHz at 1230- 1300 UT. The language will be Japanese. While we are really hoping that Japanese SWLs and radio clubs get involved in this test, reports on the side and back lobes would also be appreciated. We will be beaming at a heading of 335 degrees. We will be running 75 kW, so that Japanese listeners in Russia and the Europe can tune in as well. We should have good side lobes into Southeast Asia and possibly India. The main beam should be quite strong in Europe. The main back lobe will be toward NZ (via Mike Sabin KTWR, via NZ DX Times magazine May 15 via BC-DX via DXLD) Dies sende ich schon mal vorab, am Wochenende bin ich aushaeusig zum Fieldday Kontest ... und nicht auf den BC Baendern. Hoffentlich spuckt da nicht Voice of Tibet 15568 kHz aus Yangiyul-TJK und der chinesische Jammer auf 15570 kHz in die DRM Suppe (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 15 via WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DXLD) ** HAITI. To some degree, the promise of solar-flare-induced auroral activity has started to materialise. Here are some recordings from last night (17 MAY at 9 p.m. EDT = 18 MAY at 0100 UT) here in South Yarmouth, MA [including]: 840, 4VEH (noisy, but the 'dashing through the snow' interval music stands out) http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/audio1/haiti-840_20130518_0100z.mp3 (Mark Connelly, WA1ION, South Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA, RX = Perseus NRC-AM via DXLD) See also PUERTO RICO ** ICELAND. New QSL (RUV-Iceland 189) --- Reykjavik, after several f/ups to the CE, and others, I finally received a nice QSL letter in 35 days ff. Original report sent back October 7th, 2009! All reports enclosed a CD of the signal too V/S: Sigrun Hermannsdottir - International Relations. Very nice Blue Letterheard with envelope with a Reykjavik postmark. No MW QSLs from Iceland, but this is close enough. I had their SW QSLd years ago. This made my day (Patrick Martin, Seaside OR, KGED QSL Manager, May 20, HCDX via DXLD) Good for you, Patrick. I verified Iceland in 1964 when they had outlets on 737 and 665 MW. In all my years of DX veries I have found that the best results came from written reports because the responders preferred them because they were more interesting and easier to check. I'm not sure how much attention is paid to CDs and tapes these days or whether anyone really listens to them (Ben Dangerfield, Wallingford, PA, NRC-AM via DXLD) Tapes? Probably few listen to them. CDs? Much more likely. But in either case, keep the length of the recording brief enough for a busy person to take the time to hear (Jim Renfrew, ibid.) I know plenty of stations who don`t even have tape decks anymore. None of our 3 radio stations have a tape deck. The best way is to send a short 20-30 second clip via email (Paul Walker, ibid.) Paul, I send a CD in CDa form that anyone can play on a computer to a boombox. as some stations do not like attachments, especially some of the ME and old Russian republics (Patrick Martin, ibid.) Ben, The problem is with Iceland and other TAs I hear, they are fair to poor at best. Plus add to that the atmospheric noise on 189 kHz. Then there is the language. I send a lot of CDs out in CDa form so it can be played on anything from a computer to a boombox. Some stations do like them as they can hear what the signal sounded like and they do not have to go through past logs to verify a report. I have been told that by several engineers. I try to make it as easy as I can on the station in this day. 40 years ago, all of my reports were typed with details but by 1979 I started QSLing so many TPs from Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, etc that I started including a reel to reel tape, then a few years later, a cassette tape along with the typed details. I still include typed details along with the CD, if I can get them. I did hear Icelantic and the opening IS with one of the broadcasts, but that was about all I could get. Yes, I would have loved to have heard Iceland on MW, but here TAs are not all that common. Any I get are jewels, hi. Thanks. 73, (Patrick Martin, ibid.) ** INDIA. AIR Kohima to organize Musical Concert as part of its Golden Jubilee --- All India Radio Kohima will be organizing a Musical Concert of Naga modern songs for invited audience on May 23, to mark the occasion of yearlong Golden Jubilee Celebration of the station. Prominent artistes and bands of all 15 recognised Tribes coming from across Nagaland will perform modern songs in their respective dialects. The concert will begin from 4 p.m. at ‘The Heritage’ Kohima. Popular musician and singer Methaneilie Jutakhrie will be the special invitee performer on the concert. Parliamentary Secretary for Information & Public Relations and Printing & Stationery Department, Kropol Vitsu will grace the concert as the chief guest. Director Engineer of All India Radio Kohima K.K. Rengma stated that this is one of the series of programmes being organized in Kohima in commemoration of completion of 50 years of public service broadcasting by All India Radio Kohima in Nagaland. http://www.morungexpress.com/entertainment/95569.html --- (via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, dx_india yg via DXLD) That would be 1030 UT, a bit early to propagate if broadcast live, but possibly this event will have encouraged Kohima to turn on the SW 4850 transmitter again? (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** INDIA [and non]. 9575, AIR (500 kW, Bengaluru) Mayo 21. 1315 UT. Hombre y mujer hablan en chino (CNR 1) por sobre la emisión en tibetano de AIR que transmite música tradicional. SINPO: 34444 por parte de AIR, y SINPO: 33333 por parte de CNR 1 como jammer según lista EiBi (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Coaxial de 5 Ohms de 20 Metros, QTH: Centro de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) Summer A-13 SW schedule of All India Radio: 0000-0045 on 7270 CNI 100 kW / non-dir to SoAs Tamil 0000-0045 on 9835 DEL 100 kW / 174 deg to SoAs Tamil 0000-0045 on 9910 ALG 250 kW / 132 deg to SEAs Tamil 0000-0045 on 11740 PAN 250 kW / 120 deg to SoAs Tamil 0000-0045 on 11985 DEL 250 kW / 174 deg to SoAs Tamil 0000-0045 on 13795 BGL 500 kW / 108 deg to SEAs Tamil 0015-0430 on 6155 ALG 250 kW / 282 deg to SEAs Urdu 0015-0430 on 7340 MUM 100 kW / 010 deg to SoAs Urdu 0015-0430 on 9595 DEL 250 kW / 334 deg to SoAs Urdu 0015-0430 on 11620 DEL 250 kW / 334 deg to SoAs Urdu 0045-0115 on 7270 CNI 100 kW / non-dir to SoAs Sinhala 0045-0115 on 11740 PAN 250 kW / 120 deg to SoAs Sinhala 0045-0115 on 11985 DEL 250 kW / 174 deg to SoAs Sinhala 0100-0200 on 5990 DEL 250 kW / 334 deg to SoAs Sindhi 0100-0200 on 7370 ALG 250 kW / 282 deg to SoAs Sindhi 0100-0200 on 9635 ALG 250 kW / 312 deg to SoAs Sindhi 0130-0230 on 7420 GUW 050 kW / 130 deg to SoAs Nepali 0130-0230 on 9810 ALG 250 kW / 065 deg to CeAs Nepali 0215-0300 on 9835 ALG 250 kW / 312 deg to WeAs Pashto 0215-0300 on 9910 ALG 250 kW / 282 deg to WeAs Pashto 0215-0300 on 11740 PAN 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Pashto 0215-0300 on 13695 BGL 500 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Kannada 0215-0300 on 15120 BGL 500 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Kannada 0300-0345 on 9835 ALG 250 kW / 312 deg to WeAs Dari 0300-0345 on 9910 ALG 250 kW / 282 deg to WeAs Dari 0300-0345 on 11740 PAN 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Dari 0315-0415 on 11840 DEL 250 kW / 282 deg to N/ME Hindi 0315-0415 on 13695 BGL 500 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Hindi 0315-0415 on 15120 BGL 500 kW / 240 deg to EaAf Hindi 0315-0415 on 15185 PAN 250 kW / 205 deg to EaAf Hindi 0330-0430 on 7420 HYD 050 kW / 125 deg to SoAs Bengali 0400-0430 on 11670 ALG 250 kW / 282 deg to WeAs Farsi 0400-0430 on 15210 PAN 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Farsi 0400-0430 on 15770 DEL 250 kW / 282 deg to WeAs Farsi 0415-0430 on 15120 BGL 500 kW / 240 deg to EaAf Gujarati 0415-0430 on 15185 PAN 250 kW / 205 deg to EaAf Gujarati 0430-0530 on 11670 ALG 250 kW / 282 deg to N/ME Arabic 0430-0530 on 15210 PAN 250 kW / 300 deg to N/ME Arabic 0430-0530 on 15770 DEL 250 kW / 282 deg to N/ME Arabic 0430-0530 on 15120 BGL 500 kW / 240 deg to EaAf Hindi 0430-0530 on 15185 PAN 250 kW / 205 deg to EaAf Hindi 0700-0800 on 7250 GKP 050 kW / 015 deg to SoAs Nepali 0700-0800 on 7420 GUW 050 kW / 130 deg to SoAs Nepali 0700-0800 on 9595 DEL 100 kW / 342 deg to SoAs Nepali 0700-0800 on 11850 DEL 100 kW / 102 deg to SoAs Nepali 0800-1100 on 7420 HYD 050 kW / 125 deg to SoAs Bengali 0830-1130 on 7250 GKP 050 kW / 015 deg to SoAs Urdu/Hindi/English 0830-1130 on 7340 MUM 100 kW / 010 deg to SoAs Urdu/Hindi/English 0830-1130 on 9595 DEL 100 kW / 342 deg to SoAs Urdu/Hindi/English 0830-1130 on 11620 DEL 250 kW / 334 deg to SoAs Urdu/Hindi/English 0845-0945 on 15770 ALG 250 kW / 132 deg to SEAs Indonesian 0845-0945 on 17510 DEL 250 kW / 132 deg to SEAs Indonesian 0845-0945 on 17875 BGL 500 kW / 120 deg to SEAs Indonesian 1000-1100 on 7270 CNI 100 kW / non-dir to SoAs English 1000-1100 on 13605 BGL 500 kW / 058 deg to EaAs English 1000-1100 on 13695 BGL 500 kW / 120 deg to SEAs English 1000-1100 on 15030 ALG 250 kW / 060 deg to EaAs English 1000-1100 on 15410 BGL 500 kW / 060 deg to EaAs English 1000-1100 on 17510 DEL 250 kW / 132 deg to SEAs English 1000-1100 on 17895 ALG 250 kW / 132 deg to SEAs English 1115-1200 on 11670 BGL 500 kW / 060 deg to SEAs Thai 1115-1200 on 13645 DEL 250 kW / 132 deg to SEAs Thai 1115-1200 on 15410 PAN 250 kW / 120 deg to SEAs Thai 1115-1215 on 7270 CNI 100 kW / non-dir to SoAs Tamil 1115-1215 on 9810 PAN 250 kW / 120 deg to SoAs Tamil 1115-1215 on 13695 BGL 500 kW / 108 deg to SEAs Tamil 1115-1215 on 15050 DEL 250 kW / 174 deg to SoAs Tamil 1115-1215 on 15770 ALG 250 kW / 132 deg to SEAs Tamil 1115-1215 on 17510 DEL 250 kW / 174 deg to SoAs Tamil 1145-1315 on 11840 ALG 250 kW / 065 deg to EaAs Chinese 1145-1315 on 13605 BGL 500 kW / 058 deg to EaAs Chinese 1145-1315 on 15795 BGL 500 kW / 035 deg to EaAs Chinese 1215-1245 on 9810 PAN 250 kW / 120 deg to SoAs Telugu 1215-1245 on 13695 BGL 500 kW / 108 deg to SEAs Telugu 1215-1245 on 15770 ALG 250 kW / 132 deg to SEAs Telugu 1215-1315 on 11710 DEL 050 kW / 102 deg to SoAs Burmese 1215-1315 on 15040 DEL 100 kW / 102 deg to SoAs Burmese 1215-1330 on 7420 GUW 050 kW / 130 deg to SoAs Tibetan 1215-1330 on 9575 BGL 500 kW / 038 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1215-1330 on 11775 PAN 250 kW / 025 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1230-1500 on 6165 DEL 250 kW / 334 deg to SoAs Sindhi 1230-1500 on 7340 MUM 100 kW / 010 deg to SoAs Sindhi 1230-1500 on 9620 ALG 250 kW / 282 deg to WeAs Sindhi 1300-1500 on 7270 CNI 100 kW / non-dir to SoAs Sinhala 1300-1500 on 9820 PAN 250 kW / 120 deg to SoAs Sinhala [no more DRM on 15045-15050-15055 for Sinhala??? O, DRM is below - gh] 1315-1415 on 9910 DEL 250 kW / 282 deg to WeAs Dari 1315-1415 on 11670 BGL 500 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Dari 1330-1430 on 7420 GUW 050 kW / 130 deg to SoAs Nepali 1330-1430 on 11775 PAN 250 kW / 025 deg to CeAs Nepali 1330-1500 on 9690 BGL 500 kW / 090 deg to SEAs English 1330-1500 on 11620 DEL 250 kW / 132 deg to SEAs English 1330-1500 on 13710 BGL 500 kW / 120 deg to SEAs English 1415-1515 on 9910 DEL 250 kW / 282 deg to WeAs Pashto 1415-1515 on 11670 BGL 500 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Pashto 1430-1930 on 6045 DEL 250 kW / 334 deg to SoAs Urdu 1445-1515 on 7420 GUW 050 kW / 130 deg to SoAs Bengali 1500-1600 on 6165 DEL 250 kW / 334 deg to SoAs Baluchi 1500-1600 on 7340 MUM 100 kW / 010 deg to SoAs Baluchi 1500-1600 on 9620 ALG 250 kW / 282 deg to WeAs Baluchi 1515-1600 on 11620 DEL 250 kW / 245 deg to EaAf Gujarati 1515-1600 on 13640 BGL 500 kW / 240 deg to EaAf Gujarati 1515-1600 on 15175 PAN 250 kW / 205 deg to EaAf Gujarati 1515-1615 on 9950 DEL 250 kW / 245 deg to EaAf Swahili 1515-1615 on 13605 BGL 500 kW / 240 deg to EaAf Swahili 1515-1615 on 17670 DEL 250 kW / 245 deg to EaAf Swahili 1515-1545 on 9910 DEL 250 kW / 282 deg to WeAs English 1515-1545 on 11670 BGL 500 kW / 300 deg to WeAs English 1600-1730 on 7420 GUW 050 kW / 130 deg to SoAs Bengali 1600-1930 on 6155 BGL 500 kW / 060 deg to EaAs Urdu 1615-1715 on 9595 BGL 500 kW / 325 deg to EaEu Russian 1615-1730 on 7250 PAN 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Hindi 1615-1730 on 9445 DEL 250 kW / 282 deg to WeAs Hindi 1615-1730 on 9950 DEL 250 kW / 245 deg to EaAf Hindi 1615-1730 on 12025 PAN 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Hindi 1615-1730 on 13605 BGL 500 kW / 240 deg to EaAf Hindi 1615-1730 on 17670 DEL 250 kW / 245 deg to EaAf Hindi 1615-1730 on 9620 ALG 250 kW / 282 deg to WeAs Farsi 1615-1730 on 11710 PAN 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Farsi 1615-1730 on 13640 BGL 500 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Farsi 1730-1830 on 7250 PAN 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Malayalam 1730-1830 on 12025 PAN 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Malayalam 1730-1945 on 9620 ALG 250 kW / 282 deg to N/ME Arabic 1730-1945 on 11710 PAN 250 kW / 300 deg to N/ME Arabic 1730-1945 on 13640 BGL 500 kW / 300 deg to N/ME Arabic 1745-1945 on 7550 BGL 500 kW / 320 deg to WeEu English 1745-1945 on 9445 ALG 250 kW / 282 deg to NEAf English 1745-1945 on 11580 DEL 250 kW / 282 deg to NoAf English 1745-1945 on 11670 BGL 500 kW / 320 deg to WeEu English 1745-1945 on 11935 MUM 100 kW / 250 deg to CEAf English 1745-1945 on 13695 BGL 500 kW / 240 deg to EaAf English 1745-1945 on 17670 DEL 250 kW / 245 deg to EaAf English 1945-2030 on 9620 ALG 250 kW / 282 deg to NWAf French 1945-2030 on 11710 DEL 250 kW / 282 deg to NWAf French 1945-2030 on 13640 BGL 500 kW / 300 deg to NWAf French 1945-2045 on 7550 BGL 500 kW / 320 deg to WeEu Hindi 1945-2045 on 11670 BGL 500 kW / 320 deg to WeEu Hindi 2045-2230 on 7550 BGL 500 kW / 320 deg to WeEu English 2045-2230 on 9445 BGL 500 kW / 325 deg to WeEu English 2045-2230 on 9910 ALG 250 kW / 132 deg to SEAs English 2045-2230 on 11620 BGL 500 kW / 120 deg to SEAs English 2045-2230 on 11670 BGL 500 kW / 320 deg to WeEu English 2045-2230 NF 12025 PAN 250 kW / 120 deg to SEAs English ex11740 May 20 2245-0045 on 9690 BGL 500 kW / 090 deg to SEAs English 2245-0045 on 9705 PAN 250 kW / 120 deg to SEAs English 2245-0045 on 11710 ALG 250 kW / 132 deg to SEAs English 2245-0045 on 13605 BGL 500 kW / 058 deg to EaAs English 2300-2400 on 9910 ALG 250 kW / 132 deg to SEAs Hindi 2300-2400 on 11740 PAN 250 kW / 120 deg to SEAs Hindi 2300-2400 on 13795 BGL 500 kW / 108 deg to SEAs Hindi DRM transmissions: 0130-0230 on 11715 DEL 100 kW / 124 deg to CeAs Nepali 0315-0415 on 17715 DEL 100 kW / 245 deg to EaAf Hindi 0415-0430 on 17715 DEL 100 kW / 245 deg to EaAf Gujarati 0430-0530 on 17715 DEL 100 kW / 245 deg to EaAf Hindi 1300-1500 on 15050 DEL 100 kW / 174 deg to SoAs Sinhala 1615-1715 on 15140 ALG 100 kW / 312 deg to EaEu Russian 1745-1945 on 9950 ALG 100 kW / 312 deg to WeEu English 1945-2045 on 9950 ALG 100 kW / 312 deg to WeEu Hindi 2045-2230 on 9950 ALG 100 kW / 312 deg to WeEu English 2245-0045 on 11645 DEL 100 kW / 065 deg to EaAs English (DX RE MIX NEWS #782 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 21, 2013 via DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 3345, RRI Ternate, tnx to Ron's tip heard on 5/14 from 1228 UT tune to past 1308 UT with weak signal (S2) in lots of noise at local sunrise. Qur`an reading (did not know that was a competition - tnx Ron for that info!) by several men (10-13 minutes each) interspersed with 1.5 minute announcements by a man in Indonesian. Signal peaked at S3 between 1245 and 1255 UT (Bruce W. Churchill, CA, USA, DXplorer May 15 via BC-DX 18 May via DXLD) [non-log]. 3344.87, RRI Ternate. As of May 21 they continue silent since their May 16 broadcast. Only reactivated for 4 days! Seemed to have just came back on for some special programming (Qur’an reading competition [Tilawah Al-Quran], etc.). (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 4749.96, RRI Makassar, 1240, May 21 (Tuesday). Another weekly “information” segment in English; mentioned “listeners of RRI Makassar”; this week played some indigenous music; varying reception depending on amount of CNR1 and BB QRM; this is frustrating, as half an hour later reception was better (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 19/5, 9525.92, VOI, 2058 with song salutations in Spanish, 2100 in French, S9 (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9526, Voice of Indonesia, May 20, 1300 open carrier, 1301 on suddenly with “RRI World Service, Voice of Indonesia.”, frequencies (including old 11 and 15 MHz ones not used for years), website, 1302 program lineup and into news. Excellent signal today May 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) 9525.9, Voice of Indonesia. [Tuesday May 21] 1303 open carrier; *1306* said a few words; audio really started a few seconds before 1319; “Exotic Indonesia” with “Commentary”, “Today in History” and “Focus”. Frustrating listening to a segment about Banjarmasin, as the background music was annoyingly too strong; self jamming of the announcer. https://www.box.com/s/9etr1tff3e0ecq6xk5rl contains MP3 audio (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL INTERNET. ABC Live TV via Web --- The world has now changed. TV broadcasters are now full-time streaming. WABC New York and WPVI Philadelphia have just begun full time 24/7 streaming of their programming on the web. All you need to do is download the 'Watch ABC' app. from the iTunes App store or via http://abc.go.com The PC version doesn't require an app at all. Just drill down to the LIVE tab. You can make it full screen by touching the arrows icon in the lower right. It also features captioning, if you want it. You'll also notice many commercials will not make it to the stream. They are replaced with ABC promos. Advertisers have to pay for the increased reach of the web stream. This is a free trial until the end of June. After that time, you'll need to be a subscriber to cable or satellite to see the service. In the end, they have control and they will make you pay! It is also keyed to geographical location. I don't think you can see this trial outside the New York and Philadelphia demos. I believe this is a direct reaction to the service Aereo. Aereo is a independent subscription service that offers all New York City's over- the-air TV channels via the web by (in theory) renting you a receiver and antenna to access. Aereo has succeeded to continue to operate have multiple legal battles in the courts since they are not paying for any of the programming they provide. They are just passing it on, you see. Aereo maddened broadcasters with CBS, Fox and Univision threatening to turn off their transmitters if Aereo continues. All the major networks are readying streaming services like the one ABC has just launched. It's all about control and money. What a great excuse for them to end expensive over-the-air broadcasting and reduce their operating costs! In my opinion, Aereo does two good things. It widens the audiences of the stations it provides. It offers all the stations in one place allowing you to change channels easily. Aereo also allows subscribers to record programming for later playback. A new world has begun. This is just the beginning. It is very interesting to watch! Stay tuned! (Karl Zuk N2KZ, May 17, WTFDA via WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DXLD) I'm in the New York ADI but we don't normally get WABC-7 here because of co-channel WXXA in Albany: the two stations wipe each other out. So it is cool that WABC is streaming live. I just tried it out and it works. I was automatically directed to the WABC-7 stream. I could not choose WPVI-6. I assume if you're not in either the NY or Philly area, you don't get live steaming. Too bad it won't stay free (Chris in Poughkeepsie Lucas, ibid.) Another example of TV channels being shortspaced and causing interference that reduces choice. The FCC's proposal will make the problem even worse with the loss of more spectrum for TV (Dave Pomeroy Topeka, Kansas, ibid.) Add WCBS TV to the list of 24/7 live streamers. You can watch at: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/live-video/ They still have technical issues to work out. They are streaming with what sounds like just one channel of a surround sound mix without downmixing it. All you hear, most of the time, is the show's effects track with no dialogue. It looks like New York City broadcasters are dying to put Aereo out of business fast. It's quite interesting to see all this develop (Karl Zuk, N2KZ, 20 May, WTFDA via WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DXLD) The stream is working here in Southern AR. Severe buffering at times due to my rural DSL ISP's speeds and the usual school-night 'net traffic. I expected to see a message telling me that the video was unavailable (Fritze H. Prentice, Jr., KC5KBV, Star City AR, EM43aw, WTFDA via DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL INTERNET. WHO NEEDS RADIO? I'LL TAKE THE WEB See RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM below ** IRAN. 15150 kHz, 17 May 2013, 1420 UT, Arabic via Zahedan, slightly distorted audio. In the Perseus spectrum, the modulation actually reaches down to 15130 kHz, at lower strength also up to 15170. Additionally, it creates a spur between 15080 and 15090 kHz. The spur is very scratchy but still clearly // 15150 and bugs the IBB Dari program on 15090. 73, (Eike Bierwirth, Leipzig / Germany, Perseus SDR + DX-10 Pro Active Antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) When IRIB Sirjan in Azeri moved to next service at 1430-1657 UT on 11985.007 kHz footprint, only 6 kHz bandwidth, no spurious noted today May 17. But final tube seemingly not clean and not linearly flashover too. 73 wb 15150, Now checked the distorted audio signal from IRIB Zahedan 500 kW at 289 degrees on Saturday May 18. Around 1200 UT heard broadband 15134-15166 kHz distorted Arabic sce, mostly phone-in program. And accompanied two spurious signals on stronger 15081.5 to 15090 kHz, but lesser 15211 to 15219 kHz. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) ** IRELAND [non]. 11 May, 5820 for RTE on 1940+ but no signal http://www.delicious.com/gr_greek1/@zach (all mypages !!) (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, Standard rig: ICOM R75 / 2x16 V / m@h40 heads Sennheiser, Pesawat penerima: ICOM R75, Lowe HF150, various Degen Tecsun models, Antenna: 16m hor, 2x16 m V invert, Loops: SW mag loop 1 m2 for MW, AN200 MW loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RTÉ via WRN via SENTECH, Meyerton, SOUTH AFRICA, scheduled 1930-2000 M-F, and 11 May was Saturday, so that explains it (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY [non]. /ROMANIA, 9510, Radio City via IRRS Milano, *0800- 0812, 18-05, male, identification: "International Radio Relay Service Short Wave signing on", "This is Radio City, the station of the cars, Radio Ciudad, la voz de los coches", English, male, comments, pop music. 44444 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Reinante, Lugo, Sony ICF SW 7600 G, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. QSL: JJY, 40 kHz, full data moutaintop aerial tower view card in 46 days for English airmail report, SAE and US $3 (returned). V/s Shigeru Tsuchiya stated the return postage was not necessary. On their website they do request an SAE and an IRC. Station heard in Hong Kong. 73 (Al Muick, Whitehall PA USA, May 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN [non]. 11730, May 19 at 0529, surprised to hear NHK giving full English schedule, 0530 into `Sakura` theme and French as scheduled. The English was // 11970 just before it closed. TDF Issoudun applied off-topic modulation to 11730 a minute too early (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. 1,070-mile tropo, Osaka to Taipei (audio) For those over-water tropo geeks such as myself (I think it's a small club, including mostly the East Coast and Great Lakes folks, such as myself [! Don`t overlook the Gulf of México! -- gh]), I'd like to share a few recordings from this past Monday. The wonderfully helpful DXer in Taipei who has helped me ID numerous hours of my Mandarin-language stations from across the Yellow Sea in China, has a pretty nifty location when it comes to over-water DXing, mainly Japan. I've posted three of his clips from two stations in Osaka, 1,070 miles to his northeast. Both ID in English, as many Japanese stations do (oh, if only I were so lucky with my Chinese stations!!). As every other Asian country uses the normal FM band range, except Japan, with nothing to interfere with the Japanese signals but Japan itself, he reports hearing 76.5 ("FM COCOLO, Whole Earth Station") in stable for a few hours every day throughout the summer. It's an interesting station to bump into. They're currently playing The Beach Boys' "California Girls." (Note on the live signal: it can only be heard online from Japan). For those interested in this sort of thing, the clips can be found on the forum, here: http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?8099-1-070-mile-FM-tropo-Osaka-to-Taipei-%28-audio%29 (Chris Kadlec, Seoul, Korea, May 17, WTFDA via DXLD) Chris, this is GREAT, dude, I hope sometime in the next two years to find a location in the northern Philippines not far from the coast, preferably on a hill where I will have a view of the ocean and be about 350 air miles from TAIWAN and 600 air miles from HONG KONG. Keep up the good work :) (Steven Wiseblood, Harlingen TX, AB5GP, ibid.) Thanks Steven, but credit goes to fellow DXer Jeff for these clips. Damn him and his nice location!! Calculating water paths is often a rather precise DXing science of course. You need to calculate the angle at which the stations have a chance to come in at. In the past 12 years of doing that, I realized that whenever I map out the stations and their paths, there is a very distinct pattern to them. They don't just do a 180 over the water or make a curved path. You can literally take a map and easily map out the specific coastline that will be possible for your exact location and 9 times out of 10 (or better), it'll be accurate. Beyond that, how far you can penetrate inland beyond that coastline is the question mark. Getting into Shandong province from here, despite the ton of mountains, I've gotten very far inland. However, I've never gotten beyond that section of coastline I mapped out on my first day here as "expected possible coastal tropo area." This is the same reason the Cape Cod DXers don't often get that area between Outer Banks and Jacksonville. The shape of the coast just doesn't match up for distant signals, but when they do run out of DXable coast in that area and hit land, they can get pretty darn far inland in VA and NC. I've taken logs of many other coastal DXers and done the same thing with their over-water DX and it repeats time and time again. So, as for Hong Kong and Taiwan to the Philippines, there are two specific locations that would be most ideal for that when Bill's maps are showing good tropo (and in that neck of the woods, that's virtually every hour of every day): 1. From Burgos to Claveria along the Pan-Philippine Highway north of Laoag City will get you the best shot to Taiwan and Hong Kong. Any further east or south and you lose the direct line-of-sight over the water and it'll cut down signals. When you're talking those longer distances, that small distance off of that line-of-sight is the difference between 50 stations and 5. Believe me, I hear China only in a specific spot (short of intense tropo like spring 2011 where I could get 400 mile stations on my MP3 player in my concrete-wall apartment, almost on seek) but once I walk twenty feet in the other direction, it cuts down the signals to almost nothing. Being 20 miles from the water, that tiny change in location or elevation wipes everything out. 2. Bolinao (Hundred Islands National Park area) on the western coast. This keeps the direct line of sight to Taiwan, Hong Kong, as well as all stations from Fuzhou, China to Nha Trang, minus Hanoi. I think there's such great DXing opportunities out there that many WTFDAs just miss out on reading about (or posting/re-posting). I guess that's what we get for living in such a large country with ample DXing opportunities and not so often hearing other countries (Chris Kadlec, Seoul, Korea, ibid.) ** KOREA NORTH [and non]. TAJIKISTAN, 11550, R. Free North Korea ([Sin datos], Clandestina desde Dushanbe-Yangiyul, Tajikistan) Mayo 21. 1335 UT. Hombre lee informaciones en idioma coreano, después de las 1340 UT, aquello lo realiza una mujer. La señal se encuentra por sobre WEWN con bajísima modulación en español, que se escucha en los silencios de los locutores de Free North Korea. SINPO: 54444. 73! (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Coaxial de 5 Ohms de 20 Metros, QTH: Centro de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. JAPAN(non), Frequency changes of JSR Shiokaze Sea Breeze from May 15: 1330-1430 NF 6135#YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE, ex 6020 Japanese Mon/Wed/Thu; Chinese/Korean Tue; English Fri; Korean/Japanese Sat and Japanese/Korean Sun # co-channel Radio Taiwan International in Chinese [and CNR1 jamming!! --- gh] 2000-2100 NF 5965*YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE, ex 6075 Japanese Mon/Wed/Thu; Chinese/Korean Tue; English Fri; Korean/Japanese Sat and Japanese/Korean Sun * co-channel RTM Klasik Nasional FM in Malaysian on 5964.7 (DX RE MIX NEWS #782 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 21, 2013 via DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH [non]. 9760 DRM [via Woofferton UK], *1100-1120 18.05 KBS World R, Seoul, English ID, news, 1110 Listeners Lounge with reports from USA, UK, Romania and India, 55555, 100% heard (Anker Petersen, my latest DX-loggings from Skovlunde, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** MALAYSIA. 6050, Asyik FM, 1247 Bahasa Malay, pop Malaysian song, 1250 ID and into another song. Fair-good May 20 Sellers-BC 11665, Wai FM, 1245 Bahasa Malay, man preaching or teaching about Islam and Koran. Fair May 20 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening in my car with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Harold, You did well to hear them before R. Australia starts up on 11665 at 1300, causing serious QRM, as has also been frequently noted by Glenn. We can only hope RA moves off this frequency soon (Ron Howard, ibid.) 18-5, 11665, RTM Sarawak signed off after national hymn at 1602; same time 9835 was full of QRM from nearby stations (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DX LISTENING DIGEST) which? ** MEXICO [and non]. 660, May 16 at 0502 UT, haven`t looked for the hummer lately, but there it is, mixed with `The Answer` = KSKY The Metroplex; previously tracked to XEFZ Monterrey NL, which leaves a hummy carrier on after NA, sign-off circa 0500; Optimod presumably maxing out on the `silent` STL feed. And the DF fits. 660, May 17 at 0506 UT, really big hum atop the channel, much more than 24 hours earlier, presumed fault of XEFZ Monterrey NL. 660, May 18 at 0502 UT, big hum from XEFZ Monterrey NL dominating channel (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 690, May 22 at 0505 UT dominant signal from the DF instead of KTSM or KGGF (but whose carrier is probably still on), is Spanish, finishing choral NA, full ID as XEN, 100,000 watts, Grupo Radio Centro, ``la 69 es noticias``, beginning playback of Jacobo Zabludovsky`s 1 pm talkshow, and announced as also on several other GRC stations including XERED 1110 (now or originally, or both?). Conditions somewhat auroral; K index at 03 was 4, by 06 UT down to 2, and ``no spaceweather storms`` per WWV (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 710, May 17 at 1115 UT, a few words of Low German, dead air, and canned sung ID for ``XEDP, la Ranchera de Cuauhtémoc``, Chihuahua, and more music. Fridays are a regular day for this minority preacher, but he stopped rather abruptly, maybe unintentionally, cuing a silence-sensor. Not sure what other days he may be on during this semihour. I have to get up this early now for any sunrise skip DX from NW Mexico as our Enid sunrise is now 1123 UT, to reach its earliest in less than a month circa 1113. Just before this on 710, I was still getting a good signal with ID on 650 from the very reliable Radio 65 in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, XETNT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO [and non]. 1000, May 16 at 0540 UT, ``La Rancherita Mil AM, Ciudad Juárez``, i.e. XEFV. No problem from KTOK OKC, which was on low power and/or not modulating, as I first noted a few minutes earlier on the bathroom radio when I could not hear it, despite WKY 930 loud as usual. XEFV can normally be heard at night with KTOK nulled on the DX- 398 close to 90 degrees away (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 2, May 19 at 1533 UT, sporadic-E signal fades in, Spanish. Jockeying rotor, seems slightly east of due south. A B&W documentary. Probably XHY-TV Mérida, Yucatán; yes, during ads at 1541 I make a match to webstream via http://sipse.com/canal2/ with the usual delay. It`s only a weak opening so far, in and out, mostly out, and not above ch 2. Hope to have more in my next report. Glad to be getting some real TV DX again, while analog still exist in parts of México. But I continue to pine for something further, extended single hop from Central America, double-hop from Central or South America, which DXers further east now have little trouble getting with no US stations in the way. But for me, Mexicans are still in the way. At 1550 UT, the essential 50 MHz Es maps at http://www.tvcomm.co.uk/radio/muf5.html and http://www.dxmaps.com/spots/map.php?Lan=E&Frec=50&Map=NA show lots of paths across eastern, southern and western USA, but no linx between Enid and Mérida. BTW, I appreciate the tolerance in SW lists for my including VHF/UHF DX which may simply be ignored if not interested, but which I find hard to fathom (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MICRONESIA. 4755.5, May 22 am monitoring JBA carrier from PMA The Cross, to note its autotimer cutoff: 1159:03* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. Germany: 9925, The Mighty KBC with English Pop/Rock music and ads for KBC Imports and the like on the "Giant Juke Box" show. Several IDs mentioned this was broadcast from Nauen with 125 kW and email address mentioned as TheMightyKBC @ gmail.com Broadcasting live from the announcer's holiday house on the Dutch coast, with the usual eclectic mix of music like Beach Boys and the Rolling Stones deep tracks, intermixed with even MORE obscure stuff. They had 2-3 brief announcements/IDs in Dutch, but all the rest was in English, including several SIDs and using slogans including "KBC: you never know what’s gonna happen next!" and "We Want What You Want". They also did a couple of digital mode tests as they often do, courtesy of Kim Andrew Elliott of the VoA. At 0134 they sent a 'feldhell' transmission as follows: Inline image 5 and at the end of the broadcast at 0158 they sent two MFSK-32 images at the same time: Inline image 4 centred at 1000 Hz and centred at 2000 Hz. In really well, 5554+4+ from 0001 to 0200* 12/May (Kenneth Vito Zichi, MI, MARE Tipsheet via DXLD) 9925, May 19 at 0058 check, The Mighty KBC via Nauen, GERMANY, good signal but very heavy flutter in propagation disturbance. I wonder how that affected Kim`s Radiograms (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) KBC did not have its usual big signal on 9925 here in northern Virginia. This is what the Hell80 at 0133 looked like: (Kim Elliott, ibid.) The Mighty KBC May 19, 2013 9925 via Nauen, Germany, 0000-0200 UTC. Program began with sea gulls and surf sounds. "The Giant Jukebox", trying to contact Kim Elliott, some "Silent Night" Christmas song played as a joke, story about spicy food at a restaurant. Digital text at 0135 and 0159 UTC. **************************************************** 2013-5-19 0135 UTC Hell80 centered on 1500 Hz. see image here http://misc.kg4lac.com\2013-5-19_MightyKBC_9925kHz_0135UTC_Hell80.jpg **************************************************** 2013-5-19 0159 UTC MSFK32 centered on 1000 Hz. Sending Pic:330x40C; "We Want What You Want" slogan. see image here http://misc.kg4lac.com\2013-5-19_MightyKBC_9925kHz_0159UTC_MSFK32-C1000Hz.jpg **************************************************** 2013-5-19 0159 UTC MSFK32 centered on 2000 Hz. Sending Pic:246x58C; "The Mighty KBC" white letters on blue background. see image here http://misc.kg4lac.com\2013-5-19_MightyKBC_9925kHz_0159UTC_MSFK32-C2000Hz.jpg **************************************************** Radio Conditions: WTWW stayed on 9930 kHz until 0002 UT causing moderate QRM to the Mighty KBC. SIO 433. WYFR carrier on 0148 UT, 9930 kHz. Good thing no audio as without audio not causing a problem. Mighty KBC reception without 9930 QRM SIO 454. 73, (Kraig, KG4LAC, Krist, Manassas, Virginia, United States of America, May 20, ibid.) ** NEW ZEALAND. More changes of Radio New Zealand International in English: 0651-0758 on 11725 RAN 050 kW / 000 deg AM All Pacific 0651-0758 NF 9890 RAN 025 kW / 000 deg DRM All Pacific, ex 11675 1651-1750 on 9700 RAN 100 kW / 035 deg AM Cook Isl, Samoa, Tonga 1651-1750 NF 7330 RAN 035 kW / 035 deg DRM Cook Isl, Samoa, Tonga, ex 6135. -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, May 18 dxldyg via DXLD) More changes of Radio New Zealand International in English: 0651-0758 on 11725 RAN 050 kW / 000 deg AM All Pacific 0651-0758 NF 9890 RAN 025 kW / 000 deg DRM All Pacific, ex 11675 1651-1750 on 9700 RAN 100 kW / 035 deg AM Cook Isl, Samoa, Tonga 1651-1750 NF 7330 RAN 035 kW / 035 deg DRM Cook Isl, Samoa, Tonga, ex 6135 (DX RE MIX NEWS #782 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 21, 2013 via DXLD) QSL Confirmation --- Dear Tony Ashar, Thanks for sending us a reception report. This has now been verified and you can collect your QSL card at the follwing URL: http://www.rnzi.com/pages/qslcard.php?email=shortwave@clubmember.org&code=18ab95f57584982d453467a7259e3a8e My apologies for the delay in replying! Adrian Sainsbury, Frequency Manager (via Tony Ashar, Indonesia, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Properly filled out but anyone can ``collect`` it Sweeet, just got one of these today myself. (Bill Blair, TX, ibid.) ** NIGERIA. 15120, May 22 at 0535* just as I tune in VON English, dumps off the air for about a semi-minute. When back, fair signal, modulation somewhat distorted. At this time after K=4 at 03 UT, 19m the best band, with everything from poorly audible Saudi 15170 Qur`an, to this to inbooming Australia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [non]. QSL RECIBIDAS --- World of Radio & Mundo radial confirmando escucha 10 Feb 2013, 9955 kHz, despachada el 9 de Mayo demora 11 Días (Ernesto Paulero, Argentina, May 20, condiglista yg via DXLD) Only WRMI has a special WORLD OF RADIO QSL card (gh, DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Saturday May 18 at 1948 UT check on caradio at squirrel haven, KEOR Catoosa is gone again. 1120, May 17 at 1120 UT (how appropriate), praise music in Spanish seemingly from Ca-Tulsa direxion, i.e. KEOR, and no KMOX; then that fades back in with the usual few-Hz SAH, and shortly the PMS is no longer heard, so KEOR at less than 200 km may also have been via sky- rather than ground-wave; unless it was really something else, as IDs are scarce. Lately KEOR has mostly been active in full daytime. Official FCC span for this daytimer in May is 1115-0130 UT; June, 1100-0145 (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 101.5, May 17 at 1918 UT, Spanish romantic music. A sporadic E FM DX opening was in progress from Mexico, so on caradio I was bandscanning upward for signals in Spanish. After some on 92.3, 93.9, 96.3 and 97.9, none identified, found best signal here so stayed with it: 1919 YL DJ with recipe including guayabo, yierba buena; refers to http://www.lapreciosa.com and a singing ID for ``La Preciosa``, ad/promo for a May 31 game at 1930 (local) between México y Nigeria on ``tu emisora de fútbol``; still in steady at 1925 UT, and now I am getting suspicious: not volatile sporadic-E fading. PSA for CruzRojaAmericana.org and 1-800-784-2433 on La Preciosa 101.5. Altho Mexico does have something like our toll-free numbers, an XH would not be promoting the American Red Cross. And no website in .mx! Yet: at 1927 song which is an ode to Atotonilco and its mujeres preciosas among other attributes. Googling soon shows Atotonilco is a place name in at least four Mexican states. Here`s one place for the lyrix I heard: http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Atotonilco-lyrics-Brave-Combo/AAD5F32C684B2345482568C800082687 At 1929 YL DJ is back on with greetings to listeners in Tulsa, Bakersfield, Huron and Guadalajara! Tulsa FM stations are regular here in the 200 km range, but such signals were boosted today by fog in the morning and still high humidity at mid-afternoon. FCC FM Query shows this one is: KIZS Collinsville, with only 6.2 kW ERP, licensed to: Clear Channel {At first I thought it might be the newish 101.5 translator in OKC} Searching on lapreciosa, we find this group with outlets in various unlikely places including Tulsa: http://www.1015lapreciosa.com/main.html including obligatory cheesecake gallery, but no slideshow funxion (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. RF 31 & 32, KXOK-LD, Enid, May 18 at 0430 UT check, both subchannels are black screen and silent but with PSIPs still displayed: 31-2 M-FOX, and 31-3 Azteca. Usually only one of them is missing. If these networks are paying KXOK for OTA coverage around Enid, they are sure getting shafted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hello, I was wondering if you could tell me, is KXOK-LD running on RF31, RF32, or both? Thank you, and have a great da. (Trip Ericson, http://www.rabbitears.info DX LISTENING DIGEST) Trip, Yes, both. I just rechecked. This was discussed some months ago when the situation first arose. Evidently the ch 32 transmission is not licensed as broadcast but as inter-city relay or some such. Speculation is that it is feeding at least on backup the Lamont translator. At my location in the other direction from the main 31 site in downtown Enid, 32 is much weaker and hard to get it to reach a Good signal level, not necessarily by aiming at the 31 site. I have wondered if it is really at a different location. Maybe just due to CCI from hi-power 32s in nearby cities. If you have any further info on this, please let me know. Also just rechecked, both 31-2 M-FOX and 31-3 Azteca remain black but with ID displayed (Glenn to Trip, via DXLD) Thanks for the update. The RF32 signal is, as you suggest, an STL licensed as a relay rather than broadcast. Its call sign is WQOS306. It's a very narrow-beam antenna, vertically polarized, aimed straight at the Lamont K35JY-D transmitter site. I wonder what TVOK's relationship is with KOHC-CD in Oklahoma City, if any. Have a great day (Trip http://www.rabbitears.info ibid.) ** OKLAHOMA. 48, May 19 after 0230 UT, with my new C-490 antenna in service, I am pleased to find that KOCY-LP is still NTSC from OKC, 18.1 kW with Estrella TV network. Under dead conditions I am lucky to see a frame bar, but with a little help from the troposphere, it visiblizes, hardly ever snow-free: the nearest if not only OK TV station that hasn`t gone DTV yet, which I will really miss as a signal-checker that antenna be funxional (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. Tornado radio in OKC: Saturation coverage on local TV and national cable networks. But around 0055 UT May 21, shortly before sunset, checked the AM stations in Oklahoma City, as I know three of them at least have transmitter sites near the Moore tornado area. 1520 KOKC is on 1000 KTOK is on 640 KWPN is OFF Most FM and some AM stations simulcasting one TV station or another including 1520, 1000, and: 1140 KRMP 1340 KGHM Regular programming now (if not earlier): 800 KQCV 890 KTLR 930 WKY Did not check all the FMs for absences, not too familiar with transmitter sites, but 92.5 KOMA and 107.7 KRXO are on. All this is some 80 miles from where I am. Further chex, May 21 at 1324-1340 UT, on the DX-398 inside: 1640, KOAG Enid, still all-ag, but some mention of the tornado; from Floydada HQ or OKC? 1580, KOKB Blackwell & 1020, KOKP Perry local `Triple-play` sports talk but also about the tornado 1560, KEBC Del City, still all-comedy, just what we need?? 1520, KOKC on with tornado, TV simulcast? 1490, KMFS Guthrie, fundraiser for Jimmy Swaggart, seems unlocal; later with gospel music 1340, KGHM still talk about the tornado rather than sports 1220, KTLV Midwest City, I can barely hear anyway; not sure if on 1140, KRMP, OFF; had been on last evening post-tornado; power out? 1000, KTOK, on with tornado, TV simul? 930, WKY, Spanish, discussion of Mexican politix 890, KTLR, regular religion 800, KQCV, regular religion 640, KWPN, still OFF. Paul Walker first thought its four towers were right in the path, but later said they were OK, just off due to power issues Another check this time on the parked caradio, which has much better sensitivity, 1445-1451 UT: 1560, KEBC, ad during comedy service 1520, KOKC is now OFF!! Power issue? Paul Walker reported that the tornado missed its towers by only 300 feet 1490, KMFS Guthrie, yes, a ``shareathon`` not for the tornado victims 1460, KZUE El Reno, usual Spanish music 1340, KGHM, still tornado coverage, not sports 1260, KWSH, Wewoka, C&W music (near Shawnee which was hit day before; Show & Tell shopper May 15 issue had display ad for this as part of One Ten Broadcast Group, Inc, along with Planet 104.7 KSLE Seminole, and Real Country KIRC 105.9 Shawnee) 1220, KTLV, trace of a signal, presumably this 1140, KRMP is still OFF 1120, KEOR, Catoosa is off again, no surprise, not tornadic 890, KTLR, now in Spanish religion 800, KQCV, still gospel-huxtering in English 640, KWPM is still OFF; I am hoping to pull in WOI Ames IA on daytime groundwave, but the storm noise level will first have to abate; 5 kW ND, the ONLY public radio station on AM around here. Maybe a trace of a signal between crashes FM check 1451-1458 UT on caradio: 88.1, KMSI, Moore! Usual Oasis Network gospel-huxtering 88.5, KZTH, Piedmont, tornado relief, // 89.7 KJTH Ponca City 90.1, KCSC, classical as usual 90.9, KOKF, Edmond, Air One // 91.1 Enid, re Moore, but national net 91.7, KOSU, Stillwater, `The Takeaway` national show is interviewing KOSU`s Michael Cross. During the strike, KOSU was relaying one of the commercial TV station`s coverage (but all commercials suspended) 94.7, KBRU, // KFOR-TV 27, all regular TV programming still pre- empted [only KWTV-39 provides network, CBS on 9.2 when 9.1 is pre- empting it; KFOR and KOCO stay with old movie channels on .2s] 95.1, KQCV, gospel-huxtering like its AM 800 96.1, KXXY, // KFOR, or partially so 96.9, KQOB, tornado interview, not sure whence 100.5, KATT, tornado coverage 101.9, KTST, tornado coverage; guess it is still nicknamed ``The Twister``? I never listen to it. Hey, why doesn`t The Weather Channel *name* tornadoes now like they do regular winter storms and `canes? 102.7, KJYO, tornado coverage Following OKC-area stations seemed in regular programming: commercials or music as I tuned by: 92.5, 93.7, 98.1, 98.9, 99.7, 104.1, 106.7, 107.7 (Glenn Hauser, Enid, UT May 21, WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I listened a little bit to KTOK on iHeart radio and they were simulcasting KFOR-TV. I find iHeart and Tunein are decent DX tools when it is impossible to get the signal on any radio at my location in Mississippi. I also listened to a feed that KOCO was airing courtesy of their Sister Station in Jackson, MS, WAPT. But the best coverage I saw was KWTV's coverage. I remember the days Gary England introduced Doppler Radar on KWTV in the late 70's and early 80's while I lived in Stillwater, OK going to School at OSU. If anyone knows Tornadoes, Gary England is the expert. And if I need to follow up on a Oklahoma story News9.com is my first choice. I tuned in to News9.com when they were starting to assess damage and starting to ascertain damage in the Moore area. They had wall to wall coverage of all the damage and there was considerable damage in Moore, OK. Either Tuesday night, Wednesday or Thursday we are going to get in Mississippi what came through Oklahoma but in a weakened state, I hope. We do get our share of tornadoes here but most are in rural areas (Rich Lewis, MS, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re the 88.1 Oasis station in Moore - I don't know the rules - would the FCC have anything to say about a station right in the affected community not veering at all from its regular programming? (Saul Chernos, NRC-AM via DXLD) Nope, not a bit; the FCC can't really say anything about programming if it doesn`t violate any rules the FCC has. Plus, the "serving the public interest" is really up for debate, in that the FCC doesn't decide WHAT that is (Paul B Walker, Jr., ibid.) Things that a U.S. radio station *must* broadcast: - Call letters & city-of-license, once an hour and every time the station signs on or off the air. - An EAS Required Weekly Test, once a week. Not necessary in weeks when the Required Monthly Test is relayed, or if an actual emergency alert is broadcast. - Must relay the EAS Required Monthly Test. (which originates from state emergency authorities) - When the license is up for renewal, the station must broadcast announcements to that effect and informing listeners of their right to contact the FCC and object to (or support) the renewal. (kinda pointless as it's nearly impossible to derail a renewal) - Must broadcast *something* for at least 2/3 of the hours the station is authorized to operate between 6am and 6pm, and at least 2/3 of the authorized hours between 6pm and midnight. For Class D AM stations ("daytimers") this requirement doesn't apply after sunset. It doesn't matter *what* is broadcast although a TV case suggests that test patterns & "dead air" don't count. Operation on Sunday is not required. - Commercial stations must allow political campaigns "reasonable access" to airtime -- they can't refuse to air political material. - If it is not obvious that a program was paid for by a third party, the station must announce that fact. There are a few additional requirements for TV, related to the TV-PG etc. ratings and to children's educational programming. Nothing else is required anymore. At one time, stations were required to make promises to air certain amounts of public-service, news, and religious programming; and to live up to those promises. There wasn't really a minimum amount you were required to promise, but if a competing applicant promised more, they'd probably get the license. Those rules are long gone. One might imagine thousands of people in central Oklahoma who normally listen to 88.1 are listening to some other station this week. One might wonder how many of those people will go back to 88.1 once this disaster is only a memory. – (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, ibid.) In possible fairness to KMSI Oasis Moore, my note was from only a quick tuneby; I don`t know whether at other times they paid attention to the tornado, but this thread certainly led to useful info (gh, DXLD) Further post-tornado monitoring of OKC stations: Around 1820 UT May 21: 1140 KRMP and 1520 KOKC are back on the air; missing earlier in the morning. Paul Walker said, ``Reportedly, there's debris stuck IN the towers or on the towers of KOKC 1520``. 640 KWPN is still off. 1000, KTOK, mentioned that all the Clear Channel stations were simulcasting. 930, WKY Spanish seems to be talking more and playing music less. Around 1820 UT the poor DJ is trying to pronounce numerous OK counties with tornado watches(?), really mangling Pushmatáha (in the southeast) Next check 2357 UT May 21: 640 KWPN is back on with Lucidol ad; so much for my WOI hopes, unless this too prove to be intermittent. But remains on whenever checked into May 22. Haven`t noticed any IBOC yet; probably too much to hope that recent troubles have eliminated it. 1140 & 1520 still on 1336 UT Wednesday May 22: 1520 KOKC is off again! Still cleaning out the towers? All the others seem nominal. This was posted by OKCRadioGuy on the OK board at radiodiscussions.com May 21 at 1618 UT: ``1520, 640, 1000, and 1140 are all OK tower-wise. All are on the air except for KWPN who has generator issues. The Big 1520 is chugging along sipping on diesel. Thank you, FEMA for that big-assed 80's generator and the huge tank next to it. It's come in really handy to keep Moore informed. Most all stations in the market, including 1520, were simulcasting TV audio. 1520 continues to primarily be repeating channel 9 (KWTV), with some cut-ins from their radio news guy. Yes, the towers are 1946 Blaw-Knox towers. They are huge, square, angle iron beasts from 1946, when people built stuff to last. It's softer steel, so that probably gives a little more, making them more likely to survive. Old man Griffin did things only one way: 100% right. Those towers are one of the last relics of that legacy at KOMA (KOKC). Ironically, David Griffin's multi-million dollar chopper flew over that area reporting also live via 1520. Some things still are the same. Griffin's still do things 100% right.`` Also from EJM May 21 on same board: http://radiodiscussions.com/smf/index.php?topic=234926.10 ``Both All Access http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/118588/radio-withstands-reports-on-oklahoma-city-tornado and Inside Radio http://www.insideradio.com/Article.asp?id=2655033&spid=32060 have roundup stories of what various stations have been doing. The Inside Radio one is newer, and notes that Tyler's cluster may be using generator power`` (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Moore Tornado Path (KOKC/KTOK) Here's some info from Tom Taylor NOW on the Moore, OK tornado path: A “whew” moment – tornado barely misses radio towers in Oklahoma. The TV screen shot captured by NOW Reader Paul Burt of Alert FM is scary. He says it shows the tornado that destroyed a hospital “just missed the three historic towers” of Tyler Media’s talk KOKC Oklahoma City (1520). He says “the brown dirt area where the tornado scraped the ground comes right up to the field where the towers are located.” KOKC remained on the air, serving the public – and thanking its lucky stars. Another engineer posts on the Oklahoma Board of RadioDiscussions.com that “the KOMA/KOKC site is 0.5 miles west of the 7-11 that was leveled.” A different poster says Clear Channel’s talk KTOK (1000) tweeted that the twister came “dangerously close” to its transmitter. He reports that “Clear Channel and Cumulus have both been doing cluster-wide simulcasting this evening.” Unimaginably scary stuff, and of course we all mourn the deaths and injuries caused by Monday’s natural disaster centered around Moore, Oklahoma (Brian Goodrich, supercfl, ABDX via DXLD) Here's a link to some photos taken by a friend of mine that lives in the area: http://www.filefactory.com/file/1noo3tsqnt83/Tornado_2013.rar Picture 11 gives a good idea of how close the tornado devastation was to the KOKC towers. I am a former Chief Engineer of KOMA (KOKC) from the 1970's and I've always been amazed that those Blaw Knox towers were guyed at only one level. My condolences and sympathies go to the residents of Moore who experienced this tragedy. Please know I am thinking of you and wishing you well in this difficult time. As a former resident, I sympathize with you deeply. 73 and Good Luck (Mike Gorniak, NM7X, Braham, MN, ABDX via DXLD) Unfortunately that photo site File Factory badgers you to buy faster downloads, and then buy Flash Player Pro. Mike then put them on the ABDX group but photos are only accessible to members. Most of the pix show heavy damage to cars, etc. (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Top News Update: Radio responds in OKC Oklahoma City officials are crediting broadcasters with getting out the warnings, now stations are turning their attention to helping with the relief efforts. That includes collecting donations and turning the stations over to local officials and listener calls. With cell phones down or jammed in many areas, National Association of Broadcasters president Gordon Smith says what radio stations are doing is the sort of public service that can’t be replicated by any other communications technology. “Time and again during a crisis, local radio and TV stations have saved countless lives with 'boots-on-the-ground' reporting and advanced weather meteorology,” NAB president Gordon Smith says. “There is no doubt that local broadcasters face new competitive threats in the form of social media, smartphones and the latest apps. But it is equally true that broadcasting's 'one-to-everyone' transmission architecture remains indispensable as a lifeline service in times of danger." Some stations have returned to airing music, including KOMA, KMGL, KATT, KTST, KXXY, KRXO and KKWD according to monitoring services – but all have been breaking away with news updates. Others are still simulcasting local TV station partners, taking advantage of their more sizable news departments. In addition to news and press conference coverage, Clear Channel’s “News Talk 1000” KTOK is airing listener calls as people look for information and ways to help the victims. Clear Channel says several station vans have been packed with donations so far. From Hurricane Sandy last fall to the tornados that struck Joplin, MO two years ago, broadcasters have consistently stepped up to not only keep the listeners informed but helping with the recovery effort. That’s again the case today in Oklahoma City. Many Oklahoma City stations had already launched fundraising drives and were collecting items for people who suffered losses from Sunday’s tornadoes. Those efforts have taken on added urgency. A Cumulus Media van was collecting water, food and clothing at a local restaurant just hours after the tornadoes moved through the market last night. Salem Communications radio executives quickly coordinated a nationwide effort to enlist its listeners to help collect donations for storm victims through the Oklahoma City-based Feed The Children. Their effort is airing on Salem Radio Network shows and local news-talk stations nationwide. Clear Channel says “News Radio 850” KOA, Denver reporter Steffan Tubbs will be in Oklahoma City today to provide coverage for the company’s news-talk stations and its 24/7 News digital stream. “Our 850 stations across the country will air disaster relief PSAs and run digital banners on their website directing donations to the Red Cross,” a company spokeswoman said last night. “I don’t know if I can put into words how horrific this is,” one broadcaster says, assessing the damage to his market. But amazingly there are no reports of downed radio towers so far. The biggest problem has been electricity outages. Tyler Broadcasting CEO Ty Tyler says their seven stations are on the air reporting the news and consoling listeners — but the tornado knocked out electricity so they were using generator power. “Cell phone systems are down or overloaded. Electricity is off. But local broadcasters continue to do a magnificent job,” Tyler says. Clear Channel’s KTOK said the tornado came “dangerously close” to its transmitter site. The storms also came close to the site used by Tyler Broadcasting’s “News Talk 1520” KOKC and classic hits KOMA (92.5). Local radio had been alerting listeners throughout the day warning them to be on guard, and when the weather turned violent stations were ready. Oklahoma Broadcasters Association president Vance Harrison says there was “amazing coordination” among local broadcasters with most radio stations going to wall-to-wall coverage, many using the feeds of local TV stations. “Proud to be a broadcaster,” Harrison says, adding, “The experience of the weather forecasters saved countless lives in what will be the single largest tornado in our history.” Clear Channel says all of its Oklahoma City stations went to wall-to- wall coverage 20-minutes before the first tornado warning was issued and 30-minutes before the first touchdown was sighted using “News Talk 1000” KTOK and KFOR-TV coverage. Several stations also flashed the news to Facebook and Twitter followers. Local officials have repeatedly credited radio and TV for getting the weather warnings out. There’s little doubt that broadcasters saved lives. Lindsay Carter told CBS News that she heard on her local radio station that a storm was approaching her neighborhood and because of that warning she was able to escape to safety. “Countless lives were saved due to the extraordinary efforts of every broadcaster when it really mattered,” Harrison says. “As we've seen during every single severe weather event, Oklahomans have relied on the experience and reliability of their local broadcasters to keep them out of harm's way." (radioinfo.com via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. OKC’s TV news excels in another disaster --- Life-saving information before the tornado, essential reporting afterward By Ryan Chittum In Oklahoma, particularly in the springtime, dangerous weather is a part of life. And so are the local TV news stations in my home state. Chances are good that the bottom corner of your TV screen come May has the familiar map of the state covered with red, yellow, and green Doppler radar images on loop denoting the severity of the latest thunderstorm, flash flood, or tornado warning in your area. Weather is routinely a matter of life and death in the state, and meteorologists rank somewhere between football coaches and pastors on the authority spectrum. If there’s anyone left in journalism with the fabled stature of a Walter Cronkite, it’s probably an Oklahoma weatherman, and probably Gary England, whom OKC blog The Lost Ogle calls “our Severe Weather Savior” (only half in jest). . . http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/okcs_tv_news_stations_shine_in.php (CJR May 21, via DXLD) Gary is, I am afraid, past his prime, but he has a new hotshot sidekick lured away from KFOR. I would have to go with Mike Morgan still on KFOR as the tops. Here`s further discussion of the different stations` coverage: http://www.okctalk.com/arts-entertainment/33784-okc-weather-coverage-wars-2013-a-3.html (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN. Frequency change of Radio Sultanate of Oman. First noted on May 16: 1600-2200 NF 15560 THU 100 kW / 220 deg to EaAf Arabic. Good choice, clear frequency. Ex 15595 to avoid Vatican Radio in French and English 1600-1630 But on May 17 back again on 15595 -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, May 18, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15560 has been the frequency for English at 1400-1500 for some months, ex-15140; forgot to change one day? (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Yes, Ivo. 15560 18/May, 1620, Radio Sultanate Oman in Arabic. OM talk over dance music, giggles, phone conversation. Fair signal in SDR Twente and very weak signal in my QTH (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAKISTAN [non]. REVIEW OF URDU TRANSMISSIONS FOR PAKISTAN BY INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTERS Hi Glenn, After the rapid introduction of internet and live audio streaming of external services on websites of international broadcasters, it was thought that shortwave broadcasting shall soon become a phenomenon of the past in Pakistan. We witnessed closure of shortwave services by major international broadcasters during last ten years. However Pakistan has remained an exception and except for Radio Tashkent, Uzbekistan, which closed down all of its shortwave services including Urdu, no other international broadcaster has closed down its Urdu transmission for Pakistan permanently during last fifteen years. In fact VoA and Radio China have increased broadcast hours for Pakistan, and Vatican Radio has launched Urdu language broadcast for Pakistan during the preceding years. 1. Afghanistan. Radio Television Afghanistan resumed its Urdu Service for Pakistan in 2011. However the service is apparently suspended from 2012. The transmitter was new and signal was strong in Pakistan. The number of its listeners was limited as the transmission was resumed after a long break and is now suspended. We do not have any update on its resumption in near future. 2. Bangladesh. Urdu service from the external service of Bangladesh Betar was resumed recently. The station broadcasts an half hour transmission for Pakistan in the evening at 7.00 pm Pakistan Standard Time. The programme content is news, news commentary and Urdu Bangla music. The station broadcasts anti-Pakistan commentaries about alleged atrocities of Pakistani authorities/forces on Bengalis prior to 1971, i.e. before creation of Bangladesh. Such hate broadcasts have not helped in developing any listenership of the station in Pakistan. 3. China: China Radio International broadcasts for Pakistan in Urdu on shortwave, medium wave and FM through local partner stations. The signal is strong all over Pakistan. The broadcast is friendly and has substantial number of listeners across Pakistan. Radio China receives listeners’ mail in large number. 4. Egypt. Radio Cairo Urdu Service has limited listeners in Pakistan owing to weak signal. The transmitter used for the external service is old and requires replacement. The station broadcasts Pakistani film music and programmes about Egyptian culture and economy during two hour broadcast from 9 to 11 pm Pakistan time. The signal is also heard in Middle East where expatriate Pakistanis listen and respond to the music programs. The station receives mail in moderate numbers. 5. Germany. Radio Deutsche Welle Urdu service has substantial listeners in Pakistan. The transmission time is appropriate, 7.30 pm to 8 pm. The signal is strong and programme content is good and covers Pakistan current affairs and news as well. 6. Iran: IRIB Tehran and IRIB Zahedan stations broadcast programmes for Pakistan in Urdu. The transmissions are popular among Shia Muslims of Pakistan and contains lots of material about shiaism. The station covers Pakistani current affairs as well. The signal is very strong and clear all over Pakistan. The transmission from Tehran is from 6 to 7.30 pm Pakistan in the evening and 6.30 am to 7.30 am Pakistan Time. 7. Japan. Radio Japan is heard all over Pakistan. The signal is strong and programmes are mostly about Japanese culture and economy. The station receives substantial response from listeners via mail. 8. Kuwait. Radio Kuwait has recently re-launched its Urdu service. The transmitter is new and gives very good signal across Pakistan. The station shall regain its listeners in some time as the transmission remained suspended for a long time after Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait. The service is also available for listeners in Kuwait on medium wave as well. 9. Russian Federation: Voice of Russia broadcasts for Pakistan in Urdu from 7 to 8 pm at 9445 kHz. The signal is strong and listenership is substantial. The programme content is mainly about Russian culture and economy. The station receives substantial mail from Pakistan. 10. Saudi Arabia. Saudi Radio broadcasts programmes for three hours from 5 to 8 pm Pakistan time at 21710 kHz. The programmes are mainly religiously oriented. The transmission is popular among Wahabi (Salafi) Muslims in Pakistan. The service was carried through strong transmitter in the past but nowadays a noisy transmitter is being used which has resulted in decline in the listeners. 11. Turkey. Voice of Turkey transmits friendly broadcasts for Pakistan. The signal is good and transmission time is one hour. The transmission is heard in Pakistan from 5 pm at 13710 kHz. The station has substantial number of listeners and a lot of mail is received. 12. USA: VOA has increased transmission hours for Pakistan in recent years. The transmission is available on medium wave for twelve hours. The transmission is available on shortwave and FM as well. The station has wide listenership across Pakistan. A number of renowned broadcasters from Radio Pakistan has joined VOA in recent past and sometimes it appears that as if a local station is being heard. 13. UK: BBC is one of oldest broadcasters for Pakistan. The service has been immensely popular in Pakistan prior to introduction of private current affairs TV channels in Pakistan. The service still has substantial listeners across Pakistan. The signal is strong and programme content is interesting and Pakistan oriented. 14. Vatican. Vatican Radio is one of those stations which have recently introduced Urdu service. The Pakistani Christian community listens to the transmission in large numbers at 7.15 pm Pakistan time at 15110 kHz. Missionary Stations. Some missionary radio stations also broadcast for Pakistan in Urdu which include Family Radio, Radio Veritas Asia, etc. Regards (Aslam Javaid, Lahore Pakistan, May 21, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING via WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3260, NBC Madang, 1202 English, woman with news and weather, followed by PSA in Tok Pisin about education, back to English for an announcement about football, ID “NBC National Radio 90.7 FM” and inviting call-ins for a quiz show of “general knowledge questions”, off suddenly at 1208. Good May 20 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening in my car with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. QSL: 4960, Catholic Radio Network/Radio Saint Gabriel, Vanimo. When I first heard this station back in 2006, attempts to find a QSL route resulted in a dead issue; one via Australia (failed) and the other from the Archdiocese of Papua New Guinea, in Post Moresby c/o of Media and Editorial Section (no response after two letters to this route). The third attempt was some friends who had relatives (on a archaeology search) there in Vanimo, but they left before I could get them my report. After seeing Bruce Churchill`s QSL response, I proceeded to send my report to director.pg @ radiomaria.org and within two days received back a confirmation statement stating my report as correct and gave some insight about the station and aims. V/S: Father Paul Kote. Total time of 8 years, ten months, but 48 hours after posting my e-mail report. This makes my _25th_ PNG Station verified on short wave. Many Thanks to Bruce for opening up this route for others to receive their verifications! (Edward Kusalik, Alberta, CANADA, May 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 7325, Wantok Radio Light, 1219 Christian songs in English, including “Shout to the Lord”, 1222 male announcer and heard definite “Wantok Radio Light” before another song. Very poor May 20 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening in my car with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) A reminder to everyone that this is the last week to catch Wantok Radio Light without CRI interference between 1000 to 1257. CRI scheduled to start up again May 26 (Sunday). Weekdays they normally play religious songs from about 1205 till start of "Back to The Bible" about 1230 or so. They do indeed often ID about 1220 (Ron Howard, CA, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. Noise bands --- Has anyone else noticed noise bands, +_ 1 kHz around 1320 kHz, when La Crónica is audible? They seem only to be there when the carrier on 1319.94 is present and sound like a low drone. I had thought that the problem was with my receiving equipment or otherwise locally, but they went away for the last few days when conditions to Perú have not been as good. This morning they were back at 0100 when La Crónica was there and went again later. 73 (Andrew Brade, UK, May 19, MWCircle yg via DXLD) Nothing untoward here with 1319.945 causing a drone on LSB which of course goes in USB. No audio from 1319.945 but clearly visible on spectrum. Best wishes (Barry :-) Davies, Carlisle UK. Lat..54:58:50N, Lon. 02:52:30W, PERSEUS, 3.7m x 10m Flag + FLG100 amp, 1204 UT May 19, ibid.) Andrew, Did you mean 1 kHz? a 1 kHz heterodyne is a fairly sharp whistle, not a low drone. At around 0030-0100 this morning, I have a Spanish-speaking station on 1319.94 with a man talking. I haven't found an ID yet, but it's quite likely to be La Crónica. However, I don't get any heterodyne that's symmetrical about that frequency, which it would need to be if it's in their signal. There is a 60 Hz het with the mix of other 1320 stations which are close to their nominal frequency, and that does produce a low drone in USB, but that's only on one side, of course. I don't see anything at 1 kHz either side. Regards, (Jack, ibid.) Thanks to Barry and Jack for their suggestions. I didn't mean a 1kHz het, or a 60Hz rumble. I meant noise bands in the range of +- 1 kHz (I worded my original message badly) What I mean is as shown below: It has been absent these last few days but returned again this morning when the carrier on 1319.94 came back. There are similar effects on some other frequencies but 1320 is by far the worst affected. I've tried changing the power supply to the Perseus and to the antenna amplifier. Next I suppose I should try it with a different antenna but it would be best to do so "live" when the problem is actually present. I can't make it happen during the day. 1320 is far from the strongest carrier on the dial so I doubt that it's an overload from that frequency (although I suppose it might come from an mixing product from, say, 909. Martin noticed (and it's pretty obvious) that the bands become closer as frequency increases. You might recall that I had a similar (but not the same) problem with a failing SMPS unit a year or so ago. It's different this time as it doesn't happen every day and the symptoms are different. If none of you is noticing the same thing from La Crónica it suggests more research is needed at this end (Andrew, ibid.) I had the same pattern when I heard Bacan Sat, Huancayo on 1319,94. It would be interesting to know if someone has heard Bacan Sat without that pattern. 73 (Fredrik Dourén, Sweden, ibid.) My mistake – La Crónica is on-frequency; the -60 Hz signal belongs to Bacán Sat. I’m rather relieved that you are hearing/seeing it too, Fredrik! (Andrew, ibid.) 1319.995, OAX4I Radio La Crónica Lima. Music station 1319.945, OBU4T Radio Bácan Sat Dos Huancayo. Music station. Are heard when conditions favour Perú. This morning the K4s wiped out my band here in Carlisle so zilch to report : - ( Best wishes (Barry :-( Davies, Carlisle UK, PERSEUS, 3.7m x 10m Flag + FLG100 amp, May 19, ibid.) Yes noted here, and audible (Paul Crankshaw, ibid.) Thanks Paul - exactly the same frequencies as mine (Andrew, ibid.) ** PERU. CQ, CQ, CQ; Aquí Pedro F. Arrunátegui para compartir algo con los que disfrutan y aman el DX latinoamericano; todas las horas son UT. Desde la tierra de los incas, les informo mediante este Quipus lo siguiente: 860.00, PERÚ, R. Nor Andina, Celendín, Cajamarca, 10/05 0525-0550, 22222, mxf, ID "Radio Nor Andina, derrotó a la competencia… una programación justo a tu justo” [gusto?], mxf, ID “Radio Nor Andina, una voz celendina en el norte del Perú”. mxf huayno 1029.96, PERÚ, R. Los Andes, Huamachuco, 18/05 1055-1015, 22222, ID "Radio Los Andes", advs Medicina natural en Huamachuco, Agropecuaria Andina en la ciudad de Huamachuco, Agropecuaria Ros Mery. ID “Feliz Aniversario, Radio Los Andes, señal satelital para Huamachuco y todo el norte del Perú, con orgullo, con cariño”, mx, px Avisos Comunitarios 1139.99, PERÚ, Radio Chami, Otuzco, 20/05 0320-0350, 22222, mx romántica, ID "Cuando te pregunten qué radio escuchas, responde Radio Chami", mx varias, ID "Radio Chami, un señal de libertad," mx varias 1510.00, PERÚ, R. Tarma, Tarma, Junín, 18/05 2340-0010, 22222, mx varias, ID "Por Radio Tarma", mx cumbia peruana. 1599.99, PERÚ, R. NUEVO TIEMPO, Huancayo, Junín, 5/05 0914-0935, 22222, ID "Una campaña de Radio Nuevo Tiempo" mx religiosa, ID "Radio Nuevo Tiempo, la voz de la esperanza”, mx, ID “Amigos de Radio Nuevo Tiempo Perú, un placer de saludarlos e invitarlos a esta nueva propuesta, todos los jueves a las 20 horas, hora de Perú”, advs La Ciudad de Arequipa invita a usted a la escuela, adventista del Perú, Clínica Adventista del Perú, ID "Nuevo Tiempo presenta la forma más efectiva en comunicaciones...", mx, ID "Nuevo Tiempo Perú", mx, ID "Las 24 horas del día, Radio Nuevo Tiempo, le presenta....``, ID Radio Nuevo Tiempo, la Voz de la esperanza”. [corrected from 1549.99 in original post] 4789.87, PERÚ, R. Visión, Chiclayo, 11/07 1050-1130, 33333, px Iglesia Pentecostal la Cosecha, advs, asista a nuestra Iglesia, ID ”Son las 6 de la mañana con 10 minutos, desde Chiclayo, departamento de Lambayeque, trasmite la cadena Radio Visión, frecuencia 1350 y 770 de la Amplitud modulada, traspasando fronteras a través de los 4790 en la banda internacional, enlazados con Radio Moderna en Lima, capital del Perú en los 930 amplitud modulada, escuchemos en tiempo real en www.visiónradioperu.com, px La Voz de la Salvación 4939.98, PERU, R. San Antonio, Atalaya, 13/05 0040-0140, 44444, px religioso, advs, luego tocan en forma continua mx variada con temas religiosos y entre canción y canción dan la hora, mas no dan ID. Advs Concurso de moto cross en Atalaya, en nuestro feliz aniversario, municipalidad de Atalaya, px Iglesia Peregrina. NOTA: después de tiempo esta estación la copio con tan buena señal y la confirmo por el advs que dan sobre Atalaya 5039.20, PERÚ, R. LIBERTAD, Junín, 5/05 1040-1105, 44444++, mx tropical andina, ID "Radio Libertad de Junín informa la hora, son las 6 de la mañana imputo” [en punto! = exactly, while imputo means I impute --- gh], Slogan “Radio Libertad de Junín, la emisora que usted prefiere porque tiene lo que a usted le gusta” 9674.80, PERÚ, Pacifico Radio, Lima, 17/05 1820-1850, 33333, ID “Por Pacifico Radio”, px Bíblico, No duermas con el enemigo, la ira, la violencia familiar va en aumento, advs Cartílago de tiburón y Maca… los mejores productos naturales. [flawed shark cartilage?] La recepción la he efectuado del 5/05 al 20/05 en compañía de mi sabueso Icom IC R72 acompañado del Mizuho KX-3, una antena de hilo largo de 12 metros y una antena loop. Muchos 128´s PFA (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, Perú, CHASQUI DX PFA – MAYO 2013, May 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [Starting over by frequency from other reporters:] ** PERU. 4774.96, 0310-0345 17.05, R Tarma, Tarma nonstop pop songs in Spanish, 34333, CWQRM (Anker Petersen, my latest DX-loggings from Skovlunde, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) So reactivated R. Congonhas, Brasil is off by local midnite? (gh, DXLD) ** PERU. 5980.02, 0005-0045 15.05, R Chaski, Urubamba (presumed) Spanish talk, (religious?) songs, ann, fanfare, 35333 (Anker Petersen, my latest DX-loggings from Skovlunde, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) I don`t find it that far off 5980 (gh) 5980, May 16 at 0059, R. Chaski carrier detectable until cut off the air at 0100:02*, which is 5 seconds later than yesterday. At this rate it will take roughly 70 days to reach 0106 and another timer reset. 5980, May 17 at 0055, R. Chaski carrier, 0058 with lite music instead of preaching, cut off at 0100:07* which is 5 seconds later than last nite. 5980, May 18 at 0059, not even a carrier audible from R. Chaski, expecting cutoff shortly after 0100. Not clear yet whether just not propagating or off earlier. 5980, May 19 at 0057, no signal at first, then a JBA carrier, but seems slightly on the lo side, unlike usual 5980.00 from R. Chaski, or is it some other carrier? No time to measure it, so I just listen for the cutoff. This one goes off about 0100:18*, 11 seconds later than last heard two evenings ago, so still correlates as the Urubamban. 5980, May 20 at 0057, R. Chaski, JBA carrier, to cutoff at 0100:23*. 5980, May 21 at 0057, JBA carrier to cutoff at 0100:28*, 5 seconds later. Martien Groot, Netherlands timed it at 0100:27* but let`s not quibble, hi (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5980.00, R Chaski, Urubamba, 0056, May 21, Spanish preaching, piano solo thru TOH, carrier off 0100:27, i.e. 5 secs later than previous day. T-storm noise but freq otherwise clear (Martien Groot, Schoorl, Netherlands, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5980, R. CHASKI ([Sin datos {de potencia}], Urubamba) Mayo 21. 2225 UT. Música instrumental, como el himno: “Oh qué amigo nos es Cristo” que se entrecorta hasta las 2232 UT, cuando se identifica como “Radio Integridad, una voz que glorifica a Dios” e inmediatamente pasa al programa “Visión para vivir” con el tema de que la luna de miel dentro de un matrimonio cristiano nunca debe terminar. SINPO: 43444 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Coaxial de 5 Ohms de 20 Metros, QTH: Centro de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) 5980, May 22 at 0100, quick check for the Chaski turnoff: 0100:33* which is 5 seconds later than yesterday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 6173.95, 0015-0040 15.05, R Tawuantisuyo, Cusco, Spanish talk, 25332 (Anker Petersen, my latest DX-loggings from Skovlunde, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** PHILIPPINES. Re WRTH A-13 updated: ``FEBC PHILIPPINES (Rlg) Russian Days Area kHz 1500-1600 daily RUS 11650boc`` 1530-1600 on Sundays in Ukrainian – (Aleksandr Diadischev, Ukraine, May 16, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re HCJB Germany: OK. It's the same with the other example Alexandr brought up: FEBC lists only Russian in their schedule, but R. Teos, which is the source, lists it more accurately: http://www.radioteos.ru/ts/sch/sw-schedule.pdf 73, (Mauno Ritola, WRTH, ibid.) ** PORTUGAL [non]. Ainda existem 18 emissoras internacionais que transmitem em português Convido-vos a fazerem só uma breve pesquisa nas "Season broadcast schedules" disponibilizadas pelo WRTH em http://www.wrth.com/files/WRTH2013IntRadioSuppl2_A13Schedules.pdf e descobrirem, como eu fiz, que só nesta temporada ainda existem 18 emissoras internacionais de radiodifusão em Onda Curta que emitem em português em Amplitude Modulada. Para nós em Portugal, é surpreendente que uma delas seja a nossa vizinha Radio Exterior de Espanha e uma das mais exoticas a Radio Cairo no Egipto. E esses malditos mentecapos dos "governantes portugueses" aproveitaram a crise economica que está a destruir a nossa vida aqui em Portugal e aniquilaram as emissões em Onda Curta da RDP Internacional! Como radioescuta e português nunca lhes desculparei este CRIME à lingua portuguesa e ao Mundo da lusofonia (João Costa (CT1FBF), May 16, radioescutas yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DXLD) ** PUERTO RICO. To some degree, the promise of solar-flare-induced auroral activity has started to materialise. Here are some recordings from last night (17 MAY at 9 p.m. EDT = 18 MAY at 0100 UT) here in South Yarmouth, MA [including]: 940, "Máxima, Nueve Cuarenta" [WIPR] http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/audio1/pr-940_20130518_0100z.mp3 --- Here are a few others from over the last few weeks [including]: 580 WKAQ, Puerto Rico (UT 0100 / 2 MAY) http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/audio1/wkaq-pr-580_20130502_0100z.mp3 (Mark Connelly, WA1ION, South Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA, RX = Perseus NRC-AM via DXLD) See also HAITI ** RUSSIA. VOICE OF RUSSIA - Summer 2013. The program is in Russian. CIS Central Asia on 05/08/13 to10/26/13 A13 Transmission time UTC / Frequency / Fitting Position Transmitter 24 h / 1503 / Dushanbe 0200-0300 / 9860 / Moscow 0300-0400 / 9860 / Moscow 1200-1900 / 15585 / Moscow 1500-1900 / 1026 / Novosibirsk 1600-1900 / 5975 (ex 5925) / Novosibirsk (Consultant Editor A.V.Molodkina, VOR) (Alexander Golovihin, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx", "open_dx", "qsl-dx" via RusDX May 19 via DXLD) ** SAINT KITTS & NEVIS. Is 555 ZIZ gone again? I have not noted 555 ZIZ St. Kitts lately, even when I use an north-null cardioid antenna that reduces pest 560 WGAN to the night levels of other stations on that channel (chiefly WFIL, WQAM, WHYN, and Cuba). This is the case even at times that 820 TBN (R. Paradise), 800 PJB, 780 R. Coro, the 580 & 940 Puerto Ricans, and other stations in that general region are doing well. ZIZ had been off air quite a while and then back on, seemingly at less power, a few months ago. The station's website still shows 555 kHz AM as well as 96.1 and 95.9 MHz FM. Is anyone on this list in the eastern Caribbean area or, lacking that, know of a remote online receiver that does a good job covering that area at least on night skywave if not all day? (Mark Connelly, WA1ION, South Yarmouth, MA, USA, 22 May, NRC-AM via WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DXLD) I have an amateur radio friend who lives on St Kitts and he informed me a few weeks back that 555 was down. He didn't know what the reason was. Their FM station is still up (Dave Marthouse, ibid.) ** SAMOA. Potential Channel A-1 (!) in western Samoa Well not quite, but close! According to this paper, in 2008, US Channels A-1 and A-3 were considered for use in Western Samoa for new stations to fit in with American Samoa's existing US Channels A-2, A-4 and A-5. Eventually they decided to use of VHF-Hi E channels. Maybe they didn't realize that A-1 hasn't existed for over 60 years, but it's here nevertheless --- Initial studies indicate that channels 1 and 3 could be licensed in Samoa provided that care was taken in selecting appropriate sites in order to minimize current and/or future interference problems with American Samoa. Any applications for use of these channels will need to be supported by detailed propagation studies to confirm that use of the channel(s) will not result in transmissions being received in American Samoa. Use of these frequencies may also require coordination with the FCC. Channels 1 and 3 will generally be considered for use in areas on the Western side of Upolu and Savaii or other areas where adequate shielding of American Samoa is provided by mountain ranges. These channels may be used in Apia area provided that the transmitters involved are relatively low in power and that the transmitters are located at a site not higher than Mt. Vaea. (Mt. Fiamoe is not considered an appropriate site for low band transmitters due to the possibility of interfering with TV reception in the western part of American Samoa.) The use of channel 2 will not be considered until fully detailed propagation studies have been carried out to analyse the possibility of interference to and from American Samoa. http://www.regulator.gov.ws/files/documents/TV-frequency-Policy-Updated-24-Sept-2010.pdf -- (William R Hepburn (VEM3ONT22), Grimsby ON CAN 43 10 59.5 -79 33 34.3, WTFDA via DXLD) Channel 1 --- does that mean 48-54 MHz, or was it lower? What about the 50+ MHz hamband now? (gh, DXLD) They mean New Zealand channels 1 & 3 (however, New Zealand channel 1 is in spectrum similar to that used by U.S. channel 1 back when it still existed) – (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66) NZ Channel 1 = 44-50 MHz, apparently, video at 45.25, per WRTH (gh, DXLD) ** SARAWAK [non]. 11655 collision: see AUSTRALIA (WORLD OF RADIO 1670) ** SERBIA [non]. Re 13-20, IRS off the air: Hi Dragan, Haven`t heard from you for a long time, since last July it seems. Hope you are OK. IRS has been missing from 9685 for a few nights on the N American service, so wonder if you can find out what is happening there? Thanks, (Glenn to Dragan Lekic, Serbia, May 5, via DXLD) Dear Glenn, Thank you for your kind words. Unfortunately, I've just read your email (sent 12 days ago), so now it is late to phone-call IRS about their offs. I guess nobody was (physically) on transmitter site (Bijeljina-Jabanusa) at those days, so something went wrong. In Serbia, we had a VERY VERY long holidays (10 days) from Apr 27 till May 7!!! In mean time, I actually listen to short wave just occasionally, because I don't have time for my hobby, and sometimes I forget to check emails :( I hope in future I'll have more time for SWLing / DXing, but, as you know, SW radio is dying. How are you? Kind regards from Subotica, Serbia (Dragan Lekic, May 17, DX LISTENING DIGEST) BOSNIA/SERBIA, 6099.995, In Bijeljina Bosnia the 125 kW transmitter is on air again, noted Radio Serbia International 6100 kHz service scheduled 1800-2130 UT, and also logged 9685 kHz to Nordamerika - in our deep night 0000-0130 UT. Today at 1945 UT May 14 logged the Spanish service at 1915 UT - covered economic and political European matter. Powerful signal S=9+50dB here in southern Germany. But - rather tiny low modulation! (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 18 via DXLD) ** SIKKIM. INDIA, 4835, AIR Gangtok, 1552, May 01, two male speakers in interview in English about employers, labour force, welfare estate, labour law, trade unions, abruptly interrupted at 1600 with switch into Hindi, unusually strong peak signal, 35323 (Graham Bell, Simon’s Town, South Africa, DSWCI DX Window May 15 via DXLD) ** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5020, SIBC, 1153 English, Country song “Help Me Jesus”, 1156 man with Christian devotional, 1200 closing with brief anthem, woman “You have been listening to the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Happy Isles”, frequencies and cut off in mid-sentence. Fair, May 20 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening in my car with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOMALILAND. 7120, Radio Hargaysa. May 22 at 0345; back on the air again at this time, after having been off for a while (about 2 weeks?). IS (?), possibly I just missed their sign on? Into assume Somali; poor (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9980, Thursday May 16 at 1409, no signal from Brother Scare via WWCR-4; on weekdays supposed to start at 1200, weekends 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9955, May 21 at 0528, Brother Scare via WRMI mixed with two different tones alternating every few seconds. Unseems jamming, but something on the program feed. Checked 5890 WWCR BS but no tones there, and at 0529 they stopped on 9955. See also WWCR 13845 log (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. ESPAÑA, 9535, REE (350 kW, Noblejas) Mayo 21, 0300 UT. Noticias en español, con dos señales simultaneas con eco, sobre la visita de la troika a España, debido a la crisis. A las 0306 comienza "Españoles En la Mar". SINPO: 43444 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Coaxial de 5 Ohms de 20 Metros, QTH: Centro de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) [non]. ESPAÑA [non], 11910 REE (500 kW, Beijing, China) Mayo 21. 1350 UT. Hombre habla sobre las exploraciones de petróleo en las Islas Canarias y su repercusión económica comparándola con algunos proyectos de Repsol en Filipinas. A las 1355, la señal pasa de un leve ruido de portadora a tener sobre modulación. SINPO: 54444 en general // Desde las 1355 UT con SINPO: 54441 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Coaxial de 5 Ohms de 20 Metros, QTH: Centro de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) 21515, May 12 at 1544, poor signal from REE Noblejas (intended for Africa) with Tablero Deportivo sports program. Has 21515 replaced 21.540 or was this a programming error? [consistently 21515 ---gh] 11910, May 13 at 1230, fair signal from REE Beijing (intended for Philippines) with Hora de Asia program. As noted by Glenn: harsh audio, very different than the normal mellow sound from Noblejas and Cariari. 9650, May 14 at 0430, very good signal from REE Noblejas (intended for N. America) with weekly [UT Tuesdays only] Sefardí program. This is the best REE signal I have experienced in the A13 schedule (David Williams, Sacramento, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) A correction to the latest update for WRTH in respect of their frequency information on Radio Exterior d'Espana. WRTH advises the weekend transmission to Europe at 2100 UT broadcasts on 9650 kHz. This is in fact out: I had it crystal clear this evening (19th May) on 9660 and the announcer at the close of transmission confirmed that 9660 is indeed the correct frequency (Dave Harries, Bristol, England, May 20, WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6055, May 22 at 0002, REE has just started its English hour to ``North America`` but useless here in summer noise level. Should be on a higher band, duh. OTOH, 9535 in Spanish is very good. But we`re lucky REE condescends to continue any English at all; NEVER on the Costa Rica relay. Speaking of which, 9630, May 22 at 0004, REE Cariari supposed to be starting a bihour in DRM Spanish to N America, but instead just open carrier/dead air in AM mode. Lucky for the neighbors, but rather pointless waste. The simultaneous DRM to S America is funxional on 11810-11815-11820 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWEDEN [non]. U.K., IBRA Radio to Africa remains on hfcc table from 10 May. 11875 kHz at 1900-2000 UT to zone 46 from Babcock Woofferton relay site, 300 kW at 182 degrees. Probably acc to their schedule: West Africa Babcock, England 12345.. 1900-1930 Fulfulde West Africa Babcock, England .....67 1900-1915 Futa-Jalon West Africa Babcock, England .....67 1915-1930 Kanuri West Africa Babcock, England 1.....7 1930-1945 Joula Malinke West Africa Babcock, England ...456. 1930-1945 Tamajeq West Africa Babcock, England .23.... 1930-1945 Zarma West Africa Babcock, England .....67 1945-2000 Bambara West Africa Babcock, England 12345.. 1945-2000 Hausa (hfcc file, May 15, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 18 via DXLD) ** SYRIA [and non]. Hello DXers, Checking Syria yesterday 16/5/2013 around 1730 UT on MW I noticed that 783 and 567 are off the air. 783 had Radio Om Durman from Sudan loud and clear. Just wondering what's going on. In the meantime the opposition Radio Watan FM which represents the voice of the revolution in Syria, announced new FM frequencies in Adleb 90.3 MHz and in Damascus 98.8 MHz. First time to announce a fixed frequency for Damascus! Gotta keep an ear on MW frequencies of Radio Damascus. All the best (Tarek Zeidan, Cairo, Egypt, Sent from my iPad, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Was the 783 kHz transmitter on air during the days before? So far I heard it only once, just hours after the blockade from Wiederau [Germany] finally ceased, on May 6 UT (already May 7 local) after 2300, with rather nervous talk. Since then I heard only COPE [Spain] but did not jump to conclusions; it could also be that the Barcelona transmitter just dominates too much here (Kai Ludwig, May 18, ibid.) ** TAIWAN. 9746, May 16 at 1250, not much modulation audible, but fair carrier, plenty to make annoying 4-kHz het with NHK 9750, which is all-Japanese, all the time from 0755 to 1700 per Aoki. This has already been IDed May 15 by Ron Howard as Voice of Han, ex-9745. It was on exactly 9746.00 so obviously an intentional shift rather than a drift, but why? Helps BBC Singapore a little by moving 1 kHz further away, but now a problem for NHK listeners. Maybe it`s catching, as another Taiwan station, Fu Hsing, has been on 9774 for a long time. At least there is nothing else on 9745 at the moment to make a 1 kHz het --- except Bahrain supposedly 24 hours, but which we never hear here. Today`s Aoki already has 9746 as effective May 14, but calling the station Voice of Guanghua, 250 kW, 300 degrees from Kuanyin at 1040- 2400. Yet another version in WRTH 2013: Kuanghua Chih Sheng (Voice of Kuanghua) with SW schedule as 0755-0005. BTW, only RTI is in the International Section of WRTH; all the other Taiwan SW stations including this denoted ``Broadcasts to Mainland``, are in the National section, page 367 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9745.00, Voice of Han. Unusual happenings here! May 20 back on this frequency again; had been noted for several days on former 9746.00 and then off the air for May 17, 18 and 19 (thanks to the monitoring of Dan Sheedy – as I was away for the weekend!); 1126 in Chinese with phone conversation (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9745.00, Voice of Han, random listening from 1353 to 1442, May 21. Mostly phone conversations and EZL music; 1400 no pips; fair. 9774, Fu Hsing BS, with quick check at 1219, May 21 to hear Celine Dion with "My Heart Will Go On”. 11500, Sound of Hope, 1205, May 21. News in Chinese; unique musical bridges between items; 1211 spelled out with letters in English: “w-w- w-s-o-u-n-d-o-f-h-o-p-e-o-r-g” and followed by “Sound of Hope”; no CNR1jamming present. MP3 audio https://www.box.com/s/a26qnmynkw3mgyfur8os with muffled audio (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN [and non]. 11500.6, SoH, 2114 19/5 with talks in Chinese, and without QRM till 2124 when CNR1 jammer started (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN [and non]. Family Radio financial woes also affected RTI It has been interesting reading the postings about Family Radio here on DXLD YG. Here's a bit more info on the subject:- I'd thought that the transmission of RTI programs on WYFR transmitters and the broadcast of Family Radio programs on RTI transmitters was a one for one swap with no exchange of funds. It looks like this info is incorrect. Apparently 1/3 of funding for RTI comes from non government sources. With the culling of many Family Radio broadcasts globally, apparently RTI experienced a significant income loss from the loss of Family Radio airtime via its transmitters. RTI says this has affected their operations. IB (Ian Baxter, NSW, May 16, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I understand that what is nowadays Radio Taiwan International and Family Radio indeed maintained a classic airtime swap, but not anymore since a few years ago when RTI cut back its use of Okeechobee, eliminating in particular its transmissions to Europe from there. I think since then it's no longer reciprocal, thus a cash flow from California to Taiwan no surprise at all. I would like to raise the question what will happen after May 31. It has been reported that on this date the Spanish and Portuguese broadcasts from Family Radio will cease, but is this all? I suspect that on this date the Okeechobee site could be closed altogether. If the reports came from the programming side they could very well omit the shortwave aspect in regard to the English stuff. And on the other side I suspect that more RTI transmissions could go away at short notice than the already specified English slots at Tainan (Kai Ludwig, May 18, ibid.) Waldecy Oliveira, Brasil, Old monitor Family Radio, talked with the direction of the program in Portuguese and responded that May 31 will be the last day of Portuguese broadcast on shortwave: ""Waldecy Oliveira Amazônia Acabo de conversar com a Direção da family radio em Português me confirmaram que este e o últimos mês, transmissão em onda curta"" (via facebook, "No mundo do dexismo") 73 (Jorge Freitas, Brasil, ibid.) Hi Kai, Thanks for the posting. I checked other language webpages on the RTI website a couple of days ago, but I haven't seen any other notices indicating cessation of RTI services - yet. It would be good if one of the USA located folk could telephone Family Radio at the HQ & perhaps also the WYFR SW TX site to see if any further information can be procured about Okeechobee's future (Ian Baxter, NSW, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Answer: see USA: WYFR Hi Glenn, Thanks very much for initiating these enquiries & the feedback. Back to RTI, there is no official word yet on a date for the closure of the Huwei site. The Engineering staff haven't yet determined a date. It will be in 2013 and probably not too far away. I can also add that the MW English service to the Philippines will continue. Regards (Ian Baxter, May 21, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN [non]. Beginning May 19th until June 9th, 2013. PCJ Radio International will be conducting some test transmissions from Trincomalee, Sri Lanka. Time: 1300 to 1400 UT Dates: May 19, 26; June 2, 9th – 2013 Frequency: 11750 kHz – 25 meter band Target area: East and South East Asia Power: 125 kW Azimuth: 45 degrees The address to send reception reports to is: PCJ Radio International 8th Floor, Number 47, Lane 31, Sanmin Road, Section 1, Banciao, New Taipei City Taiwan, 22070 Republic Of China email: pcjqsl@pcjmedia.com http://www.pcjmedia.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/234-pcj-radio-international-via-trincomalee-sri-lanka (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) Listening right now via SDR in Brisbane, Australia. Decent signal strength, but being beaten up by co-channel Radio Habana at 1310 UT, 19 May 2013. Might be a good idea to avoid any Cuba frequencies in the future. If Cuba is hitting Oz this hard, they are surely hitting other parts of the targeted area with a similar strength (Al Muick, Whitehall PA USA, ibid.) 11750, PCJ Radio International, Trincomalee, *1300, 19/5, English, Focus Asia Pacific: people smuggling, communal violence in Myanmar, women in India, The Happy Station Show, 442 flutter (Tony Ashar, Indonesia, ibid.) 11750, 19/May 1320-1400, SRI LANKA, PCJ Radio International in English. OM talk, at 1322 mention Radio Nederland and at 1323 piano music. At 1328 back to OM talk. At 1332 local pop music. Good signal in remote radio from Manila (Global Tuners). Very weak signal from SDR Twente, modulation heard best when music. Also weak signal from SDR Milpitas, California. At 1344 address PJC Radio. At 1357 OM bids farewell, then old American music. At 1400 end of transmission (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil, ibid.) Heard the last 15 minutes of the PCJ test 11750 at 1345 UT via Globaltuners Hong Kong receiver with quite a good signal; mention of Radio Netherland and heard the Happy Station song. 73 (Gilles Letourneau, Montreal, Canada, ibid.) 11750 was dominated by RHC, which had a fair signal beamed to S America. The PCJ IS was heard weakly in the background at *1300 and 1359*. Otherwise, it was just was bits of music and 0% readable talk behind the Cuban. SINPO 21221 (Bruce Portzer, WA, ibid.) 20 May 2013, Keith Perron wrote yesterday on Facebook: We have a very successful test today on 11750. Any reports sent to us by email have been forwarded to Victor Goonetilleke who will respond. Any sent by post will be responded to from here in Taiwan. Emails that have come in this week will used on next week`s show. We are also taking requests. So let me know before Tuesday. I have had some audio clips made in Hong Kong, Japan, Australia and China. Clips of these will be made available soon after I go though them. Don't forget to tune into next week`s Focus Asia Pacific with Andy Sennitt and The Happy Station Show on May 26, 2013 on 11750 (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Keith Perron writes on Facebook: Just to let you all know for the June 2nd edition of Happy Station we will have a very special guest who many SWLs and DXERS know. But it's someone that maybe they have heard the voice, but someone who they never heard in English before. That's all I'm going to say. I'm not letting the cat out of the bag (via Mike Terry, May 21, dxldyg via DXLD) Keith Perron writes on Facebook: Just working on a special thank you QSL card for those who helped to let is know about reception for the Trincomalee relays of Focus Asia Pacific and Happy Station Show. It's going to the printers next Tuesday. Also I want to take a moment to see what people would think of a Happy Station Show in a few weeks that would have Eddy Startz, Tom Meijer, Pete Myres [sic], Jonathan Groubert and myself all in one show. Many people have fond memories of Happy Station going back to the Eddy Startz era. Well, this week I have a treat for you. A clip of Happy Station on Philips Radio PCJ from May 1931 also some other surprises (May 22, ibid.) Keith Perron writes on Facebook: The QSL card for our special broadcasts is ready. We thank Partha Sarathi Goswami for a great design. It has all the details a DXer would ever want on his QSL. Photo shows the Trincomalee relay station. Thanks Partha (ibid.) ** TATARSTAN [non]. 15110, Tatarstan Wave (now via Novosibirsk-Oyash, in central Russia?). *0410, May 22. Reception very noticeably poorer than when I last heard them on May 10; propagation seemed normal. Samara site really closed? (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET [non]. Hello, Voice of Tibet heard today at 1231 on 15568 kHz with a SINPO of 34333 at this time, but a station signed on at 1233 on 15570 kHz with a big signal (SINPO 45444). What is this? CNR1, Firedrake, jamming ?? 73 (Nicolas Delaunoy, from France with Kenwood R600 and longwire antenna, May 16, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes? But see also GUAM, KTWR DRM tests shortly (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** TIBET [non]. 11605, May 17 at 1200, theme and Radio Free Asia ID in English, introducing Tibetan; generally atop CNR1 jamming. 12-14 RFA is via TINIAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13830, TAJIKISTAN. Radio Free Asia relay heard at 1200 GMT on 5/13/13. talks in listed Tibetan (Bob Brossell, Pewaukee WI, JRC NRD-545; Eton E1; Sony ICF SW-77, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ?? Was there no jamming? Usually heard here on 13830 is CNR1 jamming - -- in Chinese, not Tibetan --- which is easily // to various ex- Firedrake frequencies such as 13920 which would not be carrying RFA Tibetan (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** TUNISIA. 7275, May 16 at 0524, IWT is still here with fair signal in Arabic. Perhaps they are limping along with only one operational SW transmitter now. 7275, May 17 at 0519, IWT still active in undermodulated Arabic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 18 May 2013, Tunisian Radio: No signal at 0409 and 0430 UT on 7275 or any other SW frequency. GOOD signal on 7275 at 0505 UTC! Music, talk in Arabic. SINPO 55433. Nothing on 17735. Close down of 7275 in mid-song at 0556. 7335 did NOT come up at previous sign-on time of 0556. None of the recent Tunis SW frequencies is active now at 0602. 73, Eike Bierwirth, Leipzig / Germany, Perseus SDR + DX-10 Pro Active Antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7275 kHz heard till about close-down around 0556 UT, S=9+15dB here in southern Germany. Nothing from Sfax on 7345 or 17735 kHz (Wolfgang Büschel, 0640 UT May 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7275, May 18 at 0517, undermodulated Arabic talk and music from IWT, much weaker than 7285 SOUTH AFRICA, yet stronger than Algeria via FRANCE 7295. Eike Bierwirth, Wolfgang Büschel and Ivo Ivanov have been monitoring IWT, and Ivo reports new times (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: Radio TV Tunisia this morning May 18: 0457-0556 on 7275 SFA 500 kW / 340 deg to WeEu Arabic, ex 0357-0627 0657-0756 on 7335 SFA 500 kW / 265 deg to NoAf Arabic, ex 0557-0807`` 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) New A-13 schedule of Radio TV Tunisia, only two morning broadcasts: 0457-0557 on 7275 SFA 500 kW / 340 deg to WeEu Arabic, ex 0357-0627 0657-0757 on 7335 SFA 500 kW / 265 deg to NoAf Arabic, ex 0557-0807 0257-0507 on 17735 SFA 250 kW / 100 deg to N/ME Arabic, cancelled 1557-2007 on 17735 SFA 250 kW / 100 deg to N/ME Arabic, cancelled 1657-2127 on 7225 SFA 500 kW / 340 deg to WeEu Arabic, cancelled 1857-2307 on 7345 SFA 500 kW / 265 deg to NoAf Arabic, cancelled (DX RE MIX NEWS #782 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 21, 2013 via WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DXLD) ** UGANDA. 4976, Radio Uganda, Kampala, 1920-1937, 17-05, African music. 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Reinante, Lugo, Sony ICF SW 7600 G, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. The availability of communications services in the UK The latest on this from Ofcom. http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/market-data-research/market-data/economic-geography/?utm_source=updates&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=economic-geography (via Gary Drew, May 17, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** U K. 80's London pirates tribute show --- From May 2010 the 80's London pirates tribute show now available from from the pirates archive. http://www.thepiratearchive.net/london-misc/ Happy memories (Gary Drew, May 19, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** U K. [Re 13-20:] Re: BBC on longwave to Denmark --- To sum up then: the Ottringham site was on air 1943-1953, though the longwave transmitter (variously on 200/250/271/167 kHz) switched to 1295 kHz MW in 1950. Thanks very much to Chris Greenway, Mike Barracough and Jari Savolainen for their help with my query, and for highlighting some very useful sources of info regarding BBC transmitter operations (David Kernick, May 16, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Some Ottringham mentions, taken from my archive. A comment of May 2001 by Noel from Blackpool [WW II bombers direction finding] As Olle will know, the BBC Droitwich LW tx was converted to MW during WWII and 200 KHz was radiated from Ottringham when that stn opened around 1943, and also by the old original 5XX at Daventry, and another, so that the freq could not be used for direction finding. All MW txs were combined into synchronised networks for the same reasons. And interestingly, R Eireann was broadcast from the UK to avoid their high power Athlone stn being used for the same purpose. Had the ten masts of 375m been built at Deutschlandsender III at Herzberg/Elster they would have made a tremendous sight - I wonder if the results would have been worth it. There was a very large stn built by the Americans near Carlisle (on the Solway Firth coast) a number of years ago for communicating with their subs on VLF which used a large array of masts in a star like formation. I've only seen it from a distance. It's excellent news to read that yet another obstacle has been put in the way of Musicmann 279. This and Delta 171 are not needed - there's hardly anything but pop mx audible on MW in the UK as it is. What is MegaRadio up to - they seem to be taking a long time to get going, much like Christian Voice from Darwin! (Noel R. Green-UK, BC-DX May 30, 2001) ... and October 2002: Re 198 - I think the high power stn at Ottringham (near Hull) was built to reach "Berlin" in WWII, and better served Germany than Droitwich. I seem to remember that the current aerial at Droitwich "beams" roughly NE - SW - or towards Scandinavia. I can remember hearing it like a local in Copenhagen. As far as I am aware, the aerial in use is the original one - I cannot remember reading in BBC Engineering anything about a new one being erected - can you, Olle? There were rumours about a tall tower to be erected near Daventry a couple of years ago, but I'm not aware of any activity taking place. (Noel R. Green-UK, BC-DX Oct 10, 2002) ... and Febr 2003: I just saw in a batch of photocopies that BFN Germany was relayed to Canada through a 25 kW SW tx at Elmshorn* from March 1946 to March 1947. No freqs given. The Norden MW tx first was redirected to 110 deg for BBC German. Later it was used a.o. for BBC Scandinavian pogrammes on 1295 as a replacement for the closed Ottringham stn. I remember that in the mid 50s reception was very good at a place some distance south of Goeteborg (Olle Alm-SWE, BC-DX Feb 21, 2003) * {{exReichspost WWII / British-CanadianForcesNetwork in 1945-1947 / Bundespost. German PTT Telekom overseas telephone txing site 1940- 2000, Elmshorn DWL 6140 kHz in early/mid-90ties. 53 46 49.38 N 09 39 45.47 E }} ... and August 2003: M GIBLIN sends in a local press cutting about the BBC stn in Ottringham, Humberside: "In 1943 Ottringham was home to the world's most powerful radio tx carrying BBC Overseas and Home Services, including the wartime speeches of Winston Churchill. The Ottringham stn was built mainly to transmit BBC radio bcs overseas, and transmitted across the whole of occupied Europe. It proved almost impossible for the German occupiers to jam, and may even have been used to transmit secret coded messages to resistance fighters. The stn was heavily guarded and well camouflaged and did not sustain a single hit during the whole of the war. It also transmitted popular British progrmes, and it was said that locally the signal was so strong that locals could listen using only a tin bath and metal spoon!" (via Mike Barraclough, Sept WDXC-UK Contact via DXLD Aug 31, 2003) Mike Barraclough has researched further: In a series of articles on black propaganda and the Aspidistra tx published some years ago in Contact, MICHAEL BURDEN reported that "Throughout 1943, "Aspidistra" continued to relay the BBC European Service but early in that year it could no longer claim to be the 'biggest Aspidistra in the world'. For, on 12th February 1943, the BBC brought into sce a high-power Long Wave stn on the east coast of England, situated at the village of Ottringham on the north bank of the Humber Estuary. The stn consisted of 4 x 200 kW txs which had the facility to he coupled to give a combined output of 800 kW. This made Ottringham the most powerful radio stn in the world at that time, and ensured that the BBC was heard with good reception in Germany, even during daylight hours on a standard domestic receiver. It operated on a freq close to the German national "Deutschlandsender" home sce. A Google search found Arthur Dungate's home page, where he recalls listening to the BBC European Service from Ottringham on 167 kHz with 200 kW after the war in Blackpool. The internet site has a lot of detail on the site including two photographs of one section some of the original basement rooms in the control centre which still remain intact. Details of the Aspidistra site in Crowborough, with recent photographs are also linked to. The site was 94 acres with seven buildings and several 500 foot tx masts. It was owned by the Govt, not the BBC. The txs were housed in 4 heavily protected surface buildings, possibly with earth revetments. These were driven and fed from a 5th building while the 6th building was the Central Combining House which contained the circuits to combine 200 kW at a time to a maximum 800 kW output. Although it was tested to 800 kW it never ran on programme to that level, 600 kW being the maximum used. The stn was designed to bc with 200, 400, 600 or 800 kilowatts with up to four separate programmes simultaneously. The fourth tx was used to relay the Home Service to the East Riding and Lincolnshire. The stn continued in sce until well after the war but closed on 15th February 1953 because neither channels nor funds were available for it to continue in sce. The site was dismantled shortly after closure and the txs were moved to Droitwich where they carried Radio 1 and Radio 4 on medium wave and Radio 2 on longwave well into the 1970's. One of the aerial masts in still in use at Brookmans Park; the others are believed to have gone to other BBC HF sites. The site of the masts has returned to farmland, the rest of the site was cleared of buildings and is now an industrial unit, storage yard and lorry park. As a boy I lived in nearby Withernsea between 1952 and 1963 and can recall, when I was about 8, being taken round the Ottringham site. A local family friend, who was a farmer, was considering buying the land and took my father, his bank manager, accompanied by me, around the site as he was looking for a loan to cover its purchase (Sept WDXC-UK Contact via DXLD, Aug 31, 2003) ** U K. New book on BBC WS history DIASPORAS AND DIPLOMACY --- COSMOPOLITAN CONTACT ZONES AT THE BBC WORLD SERVICE (1932-2012) Edited by Marie Gillespie, Alban Webb Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge. 254 pages. Series: CRESC Diasporas and Diplomacy analyzes the exercise of British `soft power` through the BBC`s foreign language services, and the diplomatic role played by their diasporic broadcasters. The book offers the first historical and comparative analysis of the `corporate cosmopolitanism` that has characterized the work of the BBC`s international services since the inception of its Empire Service in 1932 -- from radio to the Internet. A series of empirically-grounded case studies, within a shared analytical framework, interrogate transformations in international broadcasting relating to: --colonialism and corporate cosmopolitanism --diasporic and national identities --public diplomacy and international relations --broadcasters and audiences Marie Gillespie is Professor of Sociology at The Open University and Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change. Alban Webb is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research on Socio- Cultural Change (CRESC) at The Open University. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology and anthropology, media and cultural studies, journalism, history, politics, international relations, as well as of research methods that cross the boundaries between the Social Sciences and Humanities. It will also appeal to broadcast journalists and practioners of strategic communication. Introduction: Diasporas and Diplomacy: Cosmopolitan Contact Zones at the BBC World Service 1932-2012 / Marie Gillespie and Alban Webb PART I: National Interests with a Global Reach: Projection, Persuasion and Intonation 1. `It Is a Real Joy to Get Listening of Any Kind from the Homeland`: BBC Radio and British Diasporic Audiences in the 1930s / Emma Robertson 2. The Colonization of the BBC: Diasporic Britons At The BBC External Services, c.1932-1956 / Simon J. Potter 3. Frau Wernicke at the BBC: Wartime Satire and Propaganda / Rhys W. Williams 4. Les Frangais Parlent Aux Frangais: Voices from London on the Persecution of the Jews / Renie Poznanski 5. The BBC Polish Section and the Reporting of Polish Solidarity, 1980-83 / Alban Webb PART II: Cultures of Diplomacy in the Post-War Middle East and Asia 6. The BBC Arabic Service.s Dilemmatic Triangle: Competing Elites, Conflicting Priorities, Contested Media Strategies / Ramy Aly and Gerd Baumann 7. The BBC World Service - From Wartime Propaganda to Public Diplomacy: The Case of Iran / Annabelle Sreberny and Massoumeh Torfeh 8. The BBC in South Asia: From the End of Empire to the Cold War / Alasdair Pinkerton 9. Language, Nationhood and Diaspora at the BBC Urdu Service 1940-2010 / David Page 10. Diaspora Calling the Homeland? The BBC Persian Service, Cosmopolitanism and Music Listening in Iran / Jason Toynbee and Leili Sreberny Mohammadi PART III: Corporate Cosmopolitanism and the Global Conversation 11. Communication for Development and Public Diplomacy: Insights from an Afghan Radio Drama / Andrew Skuse 12. What Kind of Global Conversation? Participation, Democratic Deepening and Public Diplomacy through BBC World Service Online Forums: An Examination of Mediated Global Talk about Religion and Politics / David Herbert and Tracey Black 13. Discussions on BBC Chinese Have Your Say Forums: National Identity and International Broadcasting in the Interactive Media Era / Jingrong Tong and Hugh Mackay (via Dan Say, BC, DXLD) ** U K [non]. SINGAPORE / THAILAND. 7520, Probably election special in BBC English towards Malaysia on 1105-1805 2013 only. Daily 1700-2000 UT to zones 41 and 42SW via Nakhon Sawan Thailand relay site 250 kW at 290 degrees. And also via Singapore Kranji relay site on 12035 kHz at 1700-2000 UT to zones 41 and 42SW, 100 kW at 315 degrees Sats only on 11 and 18th May (hfcc file, May 15, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 18 via DXLD) New frequency changes of BBC from May 13: 1400-1500 9705 SLA 250 kW / 035 deg WeAs Dari, ex 9810 to avoid CNR1 1500-1600 9705 SNG 250 kW / 315 deg WeAs Pashto, ex 9810 to avoid CNR1 (DX RE MIX NEWS #782 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 21, 2013 via DXLD) ** U S A. 5745, VoA Radiogram programme #8 with all MFSK, but all MFSK-64 or slower, which means I got great copy. They also tried a SSTV photo, which had a slight error in it (corrected here)... either my equipment 'lost sync' or they send something wrong because 1/8th of the way down the photo, the colors 'shifted'. Never seen that before with hams, so I'm unclear what this could be caused by. In order to decode the 'special' characters like 'é' or 'ñ' and even a 'tilted' apostrophe correctly, you have to specifically tell FLdigi to use UTF rather than ASCII. Now WHY would they choose ASCII as the default in this day and age? In addition to text news stories, they provided an MFSK-32 photo of the mechanical fly one of the stories was about, (I now understand where all the 'nuclear waste mutant ninja' flies we have been seeing around the house lately come from -- they are drones!) and a SSTV photo of the antennas in North Carolina. Inline image 3 [refers to visible in original source] "MFSK32 photo ... : With a tiny carbon fiber body and wings made of thin plastic sheets, this robotic fly was inspired by the way real insects move. The wings are controlled by a minuscule flight muscle or ---actuator--- that drives wing movement when a voltage is applied. (By the Wood lab)" Inline image 2 "Next on VOA Radiogram, a slow scan television (SSTV) image using the Scottie DX mode. The photo is a curtain antenna array at the Edward R Murrow shortwave transmitting station in North Carolina." [photo phase corrected-kvz] At the end of the broadcast, there was a Hell transmission sent along with music. The music caused issues with the decoder in MultiMode, but it worked just fine in FLDIGI. Reception was a bit 'fadier' than usual: 4+54+44 *0230-0300* 12/May (Kenneth Vito Zichi, MI, MARE Tipsheet via DXLD) ** U S A. LOG on 17860 at 1600z. QTH: D-06193 Petersberg/Germany ANT: Boomerang/11m RX: IC-R75 + STUDIO1 + FLDIGI+MMSSTV (now I have calibrated my sound card for FLDIGI (125 RX ppm). So I avoid a slant position of the images.) 73+55 (roger, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. More and more new frequency changes of IBB: Voice of America 1630-1700 11905 NAU 250 kW / 150 deg to SDN English Mon-Fri, ex 9490 1630-1700 15720 GB 250 kW / 094 deg to CSAf Portuguese Fri, ex 15115 1700-1800 15720 GB 250 kW / 094 deg to CSAf Portuguese, ex 15115 1800-1830 15720 IRA 250 kW / 255 deg to CSAf Portuguese M-F, ex 15115 2000-2030 6005 SAO 100 kW / 100 deg to CeAf French, ex 6065 Radio Free Asia 0500-0600 21650 TIN 250 kW / 313 deg to EaAs Chinese Mon, ex 21470 0500-0600 21660 TIN 250 kW / 313 deg to EaAs Chinese Tue, ex 21480 0500-0600 21670 TIN 250 kW / 313 deg to EaAs Chinese Wed, ex 21490 0500-0600 21680 TIN 250 kW / 313 deg to EaAs Chinese Thu, ex 21510 0500-0600 21690 TIN 250 kW / 313 deg to EaAs Chinese Fri, ex 21530 0500-0600 21700 TIN 250 kW / 313 deg to EaAs Chinese Sat, ex 21550 0500-0600 21710 TIN 250 kW / 313 deg to EaAs Chinese Sun, ex 21540 Radio Liberty 1500-1600 15630 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg CeAs Tajik, ex 15180 from May 20 1500-1600 15180 LAM 100 kW / 077 deg CeAs Turkmen ex 15525 from May 20 (DX RE MIX NEWS #782 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 21, 2013 via DXLD) ** U S A. QSL: 6030, Radio Marti via Greenville “B”. Full data (without the site) QSL card for a report to Miami address. Returned my US dollar and sent a schedule for their broadcast. V/s: illegible. Total time: 68 days (Edward Kusalik, Alberta, CANADA, May 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CUBA [non] ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1669 monitoring: confirmed first airing on WRMI webcast, UT Thursday May 16 at 0331; SW 9955 not checked this time. WRMI repeats are Sat 1500, Tue 1100. Next: Thursday 2100 on WTWW-1 9479; UT Friday 0330v on WWRB 3195 (and/or we hope 5050); UT Saturday 0130v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; Saturday 0630 & 1430 on HLR 7265-CUSB (Europeans please confirm); Saturday 2329 on WTWW-2 9930; Sunday 0400 on WTWW-1 5830; Sunday 2329 on WTWW-2 9930. WORLD OF RADIO 1669 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-1 9479, Thursday May 16 after 2100 (before 2100 same edition was also playing on WTWW-2 9930). UT Friday May 17 at 0330 on WWRB: via webcast, Dave apologized for no WOR until next week, as station had been hit by lightning, knocking out computer so WOR could not be obtained, and continued with fill music. SW unchecked, but presumably still on 3195 only, as earlier in evening, no 5050 was on. Next: UT Saturday 0130v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; Saturday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB (Europeans please confirm); Saturday 1500 & Tuesday 1100 on WRMI 9955; Saturday & Sunday 2329v on WTWW-2 9930; UT Sunday 0400 on WTWW-1 5830. WORLD OF RADIO 1669 monitoring: confirmed on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v- CUSB from 0143:15 UT Saturday May 18. Live `Allan Weiner Worldwide` seemed to be over at 0138, but then played back a recorded(?) phone conversation for a few more minutes, as sometimes happens. Wolfgang Büschel confirms the 0630 Sat broadcast on Hamburger Lokalradio: ``GERMANY 7265cusb mode, Glenn Hauser's WoR #1669 heard on steady S=8-9 signal via Goehren Germany site, here in Stuttgart southern Germany. Around 0640 UT May 18, still in progress at 0650 UT. 73 wb`` On WRMI 9955: Saturday May 18 around 1510, no signal audible to possibly a JBA carrier. Propagation conditions are degraded. Next: Saturday 2329v on WTWW-2 9930; UT Sunday 0400 on WTWW-1 5830; Sunday 2329v on WTWW-2 9930. ** U S A. 5085, UT Sun May 19 at 0057, WTWW-2 is on with music. Did anyone notice whether WOR 1669 appeared at 2329 Saturday on 9930? I was otherwise occupied, but earlier in the afternoon suspected they were live from the Dayton Hamvention, if not a previous QSO show. WORLD OF RADIO 1669 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-1, 5830, UT Sunday May 19 at 0400.6, very good reception. Next: Sunday 2329v on WTWW-2 9930 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5050, UT Sun May 19 at 0101, WWRB is on again with hymn, since it`s Saturday night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. QSL: 5109.80 (Measured), WBCQ Offshore Radio Special of Radio NY International/Radio Caroline. Full data QSL sheet with site (Monticello, Maine), for a SASE Envelope (used) v/s Allan Weiner. Total Time: 30 days (Edward Kusalik, Alberta, CANADA, May 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. QSL: 9605, KBS World Radio via Cypress Creek. Received a large brown envelope from the Spanish Section, Special K-fest calendar, report forms, decals and compliment card, BUT no QSL card, so I have sent a friendly e-mail follow-up reminder that it may have been overlooked. Reply in 30 days time (Edward Kusalik, Alberta, CANADA, May 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 13845, May 20 at 1414, WWCR-3 is in open carrier/dead air. On weekdays it`s supposed to be // WWCR-2 7490 with `The Power Hour` until 1500 which was nominal. Axually, there is a trace of modulation on 13845, soon nailed as // and synchro with 9980 WWCR-4 Brother Scare! The bleedthru is probably there all the time, but obscured by the blasting main modulation when they manage to do it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Re TAIWAN: Re: Family Radio financial woes also affected RTI I just asked Dan Elyea at WYFR and he replies in brackets: Dan, Noted the termination of Spanish and Portuguese June 1. May we safely assume that English on 6115 and the RTI relays will continue, [That is correct, for the time being.] or is Okeechobee really closing down completely? [Any comments (either way) at this time would be premature.] Any info about the future of the facility will be of great interest. [Would that I knew the future!] Thanks, Glenn (Glenn Hauser, May 18, WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DX LISTENING DIGEST) If you think WYFR is having problems, there is some speculation that the rest of the stations that Family Radio has around the country may need to be divested as well. The Philadelphia board as well as the New York board on Radio-info.com have been speculating about what happens to some of the stations that were bought since the pronouncement about the End of the World two years ago. Since that time an AM station was bought in Philadelphia to replace the large FM station they divested in Philly (now WWIQ) as well as some small purchases to replace the FM they had in the New York area (once WFME, now WNSH). And yes, some on the New York board even discuss WYFR and its former life as Radio New York Worldwide (the former WRUL and WNYW). There are even some who have been reading this board on what is going on with WYFR. It would be poetic justice if all Family Radio stations would also close (Rich Lewis, MS, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Larry Russell passes along this bit of tid: End May Be Near For Oakland's Apocalypse-Predicting Christian Radio Network << CBS San Francisco (Russell) I wonder what will become of the WRUL / WNYW legacy now that WYFR may be gone soon?! Does anyone under 50 even realize that connection exists? The important paragraph: "By the end of 2011, Family Radio had a little less than $283,000 in cash on hand, down from $1.5 million at the start of the year and $2.5 million at the end of 2008, according to published reports. In 2012, records show it took out a $30 million bridge loan to keep operating while awaiting money from the sale of...(some of its radio) stations." A "Bridge Loan", for those not familiar with the term, is the corporate and municipal equivalent of a 'payday loan' -- short term money meant to 'tide you over' and generally with a high interest rate attached to it. If you ever hear of a company or city that has to rely on a 'brige loan' or 'tax anticipation note' or similar types of loans, it is your clue to run in the other direction ... a well run and managed entity has savings for that sort of thing; it is generally only when circling the drain that they resort to such loans! The article of course leaves out a critical piece of info that would tell much more: how much does it cost to run FR operations for 6 months? If that is less than 250K, then Family Radio is probably OK, despite these facts and 'predictions'. If not --- well, I won't be so bold as to predict a specific date, but I would expect that WYFR might be on the auction block soon. Anyone want to buy some swamp-land in Florida (with some rather large transmitters and antennas on it)? I bet it will be had for fire-sale prices! I wonder if Jeff White has been saving his pennies of late? :o --kvz (Kenneth Vito Zichi, MARE Tipsheet May 16 via WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DXLD) ** U S A. 690, May 16 at 0535 UT, no dead air from KGGF, but instead Royals/Angels silly baseball game, at the bottom of the ninth from Anaheim, on the Royals Radio Network, sponsored by Sonic. So now we know what it takes to keep KGGF Coffeyville KS modulating after midnight. Wonder when the taps played this night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 720, May 18 at 1954 UT, caradio bandscan at squirrel haven north of Enid, quiet location (but lite line noise detectable on some MW channels; I can still see powerlines in the distance), baseball game. Can this be WGN? Some player named deJesús. Yes, it`s the Cubs, daytime groundwave all the way from Chicago! I`ve heard it before in the daytime; in winter there is some question whether it`s residual skywave, but surely not now. City to city distance is 667 miles, maybe a bit less to the site. 670, the strange thing is, I am not hearing anything from WSCR, which theoretically should have at least as good a signal as WGN under these circumstances. KLTT Denver, a couple hundred miles closer, is alone with some non-sports talk mentioning area code 303. Why does WGN get out so much better than WSCR? Is the latter not up to par? Unfortunately, Okie stations block the other Chi-town possibilities, 780 and 890 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WSCR 670 IBOC back on: see DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC below Besides turning IBOC back on, has WSCR been at reduced power? Yesterday afternoon I was getting WGN on groundwave with Cubs, some 660 miles! But only Denver on 670. 73, (Glenn Hauser, Enid, IRCA via DXLD) I was just doing some antenna testing (switched feed and termination of one of my Double KAZ's so it aims east now (but bad powerline noise as expected) and WSCR is at normal strength. 73 KAZ hating their IBOC (Neil Kazaross, IL, ibid.) ** U S A. 960, May 16 at 0502 UT during KGWA Enid Fox-hole of no modulation except persistent hum, main occupant is blues music with harmonica, so presumed WABG Greenwood MS, which others have concluded is sometimes on day facilities at night. 960, May 18 at 0500 UT courtesy KGWA`s Fox-hole of hum only, upon otherwise open carrier: some station with local weather, then KMA ID in passing and joining ABC News in progress. Maybe a SBG ran over. Altho ABC news is commonly heard, and always assumed to be primarily from KMA Shenandoah IA (except when KGKL San Angelo TX was malfunxioning), it`s rare to get a real ID from KMA as normally it`s only network programming at 0500-0505 while KGWA is silent (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. I hear that KCKN 1020 Roswell NM is running only 1 kW non- direxional as its 50 kW has failed and is not being fixed by the new owners. That might audiblize it here, no longer nulled toward KDKA (not heard yet and not likely unless KOKP is off), while opening up 1020 for much else in the West (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The KCKN STA is for 10 KW DA-N. It was granted on March 22. http://tinyurl.com/kcknsta http://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?list=0&facid=57721 Sent from my iPad (Dennis Gibson, CA, WB6TNB, May 20, ABDX via DXLD) Viz., sic CAPS: KCKN IS LICENSED FOR 50 KW DAY AND 50 KW NIGHT. THE STATION HAS FOUND IT NECESSARY TO OPERATE ON ITS 10 KW AUXILIARY TRANSMITTER DUE TO FAILURE OF ITS 50 KW MAIN TRANSMITTER. Exhibit 154 Description: ENVIRONMENTAL THIS STA REQUEST IS ASSOCIATED WITH ONLY A REDUCTION IN TRANSMITTER POWER. NO PHYSICAL CHANGES TO THE SITE ARE PROPOSED. UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES NO ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS ARE TRIGGERED. Attachment 15 Exhibit 16 Description: EXH. EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES WARRANTING REDUCE POWER SINCE NOVEMBER 16, 2012 KCKN HAS BEEN OPERATING AT REDUCED DAYTIME AND NIGHTTIME POWER OF 10 KW, INSTEAD OF 50 KW, USING ITS AUXILIARY TRANSMITTER BECAUSE ITS 50 KW MAIN TRANSMITTER IS DAMAGED. BECAUSE THE MAIN TRANSMITTER IS OLD, IT IS PROVING VERY DIFFICULT TO OBTAIN REPLACEMENT PARTS. KCKN WAS HOPING TO RESUME FULL-POWER OPERATION BY DECEMBER 15, 2012, BUT IT WAS UNABLE TO DO SO, AND NOW IT IS REQUESTING AN STA TO OPERATE WITH REDUCED POWER FOR SIX MONTHS, DURING WHICH TIME IT HOPES TO HAVE ITS MAIN TRANSMITTER REPAIRED AND TO RESUME FULL-POWER OPERATION (FCC info via DXLD) ** U S A. KMXA 1090, CO, staying on day power an hour late --- My 10 pm CDT Perseus recordings this month (nights with few T-storms when I am home) have often noted KMXA staying on an hour late as they should switch to night power at 9 pm CDT. 50 KW ND gets out and they are usually destroying KAAY by 10 pm [0300 UT] here in IL and basically disappear once they switch power. Format is Romantic Spanish music and slogan is María Siempre Romántica. Go get 'em if you need 'em. I presume someone there has made an error with DST? 73 KAZ Barrington IL (Neil Kazaross, May 17, The NRC AM mailing list via DXLD) KMXA is (or should be) directional day and night with different patterns. They have a 7 tower array, but they use only 3 towers for day, and 6 for night. 73, (Kit W5KAT, CO, ibid.) Ahh, the site that lists them and ND days is incorrect. FCC has it right: http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/1436187-115463.pdf Anyhow a great pattern for covering much of the northern 3rd of the country. I'd expect this could make it to New England for those who can null WBAL, although May conditions don't seem to compare to fall/winter when it comes to double hop domestic skip across the country. KAZ (Neil Kazaross, IL, ibid.) ** U S A. Goodbye to WKZV-1110, Washington, PA --- Another of my locals bites the dust. I noticed WKZV-1110 off the air today, and then found this post C pbrtv.com: "We're hearing that Washington, PA-licensed WKZV-AM (1110) is now off the air for good. Apparently the land on which the tower sits has been sold and the tower site is expected to come down soon. The station signed on in 1970 as WKEG and held a variety of formats and owners until 1991 when the station went off the air. In 1992, the station went back on the air as WKZV and was sold again in 1993 to the current ownership of "My-Key Broadcasting". Mike Panjuscek (AKA "Polka Mike") and Helen and Stanley Supinski were the key shareholders. Panjuscek died in 2011 and Mrs. Supinski continues to hold the reigns. The format has long been Classic Country and specialty programming (including "The Peddler Hour" on which PBRTV was featured in 2002)." It's sad; they played country classics, kind-of old-fashioned, but I guess there's no money in it. So long, WKZV (Fred Schroyer, Violonista Canhoto, Freelance Writer/Editor/Book Developer, Waynesburg, PA 15370, May 17, IRCA via DXLD) Recent Road Trip, etc. Hi All: Got back yesterday from long, multi- state road trip. Noted a few things so I'll list them in frequency order. 910, WEPG, S. Pittsburgh, TN went thru Chattanooga on I-24 so got quite near Pittsburgh, TN, but no sign of WEPG, not even an OC. 1070, WBKW, Beckley WV, which was off last time I was thru there in March is on with its usual gospel format, so likely they had a failure in some part of the system in March. Don't think there's a live person there much. 1320, WCVG, Covington, KY was on with R&B. Barry has 'em listed as off 1480, WDJO, Cincinnati, OH has been noted several times here (tho' not on trip when I didn't check) playing local origination oldies, essentially the same format as when these calls were on 1160. 1560, WPAD, Paducah, KY - went right thru Paducah and no sign of this one, not even an OC. Could be temporary, but they were certainly off. WEMM is still silent and as for WWCS, 540, there's no sign of 'em. I've heard them regularly here since the days when they were WARO & playing classical music. Several Pittsburgh area stations are day regulars here, including WMBS-590 under WVLK, WKHB-620 over WWNR, WPIT-730 (barely), WWNL-1080, and, of course, KDKA. But WWCS has disappeared. I can't imagine this having anything to do with the move of CBEF, so I suspect their power must be reduced for some reason. 73 (David Faulkner, IRCA, May 21 via DXLD) ** U S A. A NEW NON-COMMERCIAL FM STATION FOR SAN DIEGO: KNSJ, Descanso, 89.1 MHz A new non-commercial educational FM station is being born. KNSJ, Class B1, 89.1 MHz, Descanso, will serve the greater San Diego area with a fringe (less than 60 dBu) signal, and preliminary listening tests indicate that their transmitter on Monument Peak "gets out" and makes itself heard in some highly populated areas. Following is a letter from Martin Eder to tell us more about this new venture. Mr. Eder is Director and Treasurer of Activist San Diego, permittee of KNSJ, according to their CP application that is viewable at the following URL. CGC wishes KNSJ the best of success! http://tinyurl.com/KNSJ-CP-App ************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ********* KNSJ(FM) - Solid progress and (finally) on-air testing "We will give The CGC Communicator a little scoop for your final May 2013 issue! You can be the first to report that KNSJ 89.1 FM will be testing its signal next week after a six-year effort to get on the air as San Diego's the newest public radio station. We will be an educational, listener-supported radio station. We expect to have FCC approval within a couple of weeks. Our tower is up on Monument Peak at 6200 feet and our city of record is Descanso, CA. In tests the last 2 days we were delighted to be able to pick up a good signal, while driving around in all of central San Diego from La Mesa to Ocean Beach, from Highway 52 in the north to the border of San Ysidro. By Monday we should be testing the reach of KNSJ's signal in East County and Imperial Valley. Early estimates are that KNSJ 89.1 FM will have a potential of more than 1 million listeners in the 40 to 60 DB coverage area. We will have potential listeners in Mexico as well. "At this point KNSJ is a 100% volunteer organization developing a community radio model of news and public affairs along with many syndicated programs from nonprofit news outlets and organizations. What has been most impressive is that this full power FM station was put on the air by sheer will power. Since getting our construction Permit from the FCC, KNSJ got virtually no grants or outside funding. Our fundraising efforts resembled bake sales more than cocktail parties. Individual donors and public events raised the $40,000 necessary, along with literally 1000 hours of volunteer labor. "Our doors are open! Join us! -- Our doors are wide open to radio enthusiasts that are surely among The CGC Communicator`s most consistent readers. While some of us have backgrounds in public radio, public TV and other media journalism, we lack people with a multitude of journalism, radio skills and programming ideas. We would welcome an appeal in The CGC Communicator`s last newsletter to have people give us a call, if they would like to get involved on the ground floor of this new grassroots, community venture. We have regular meetings that are open to supporters on the first and third Thursdays at 7 PM at 4246 Wightman St., San Diego 92105. Radio enthusiasts or any interested party can call us at 619-283-1100 or email us at info (at) KNSJ.org and find out more about our project at http://www.KNSJ.org " Martin Eder, May 16, 2013 (CGC Communicator May 20 via Kevin Redding, ABDX via DXLD) and the CGCC is going on hiatus (gh) ** U S A. NEWLY NAMED NETWORK TO CONTINUE ADDRESSING NEEDS IN U.S. AND MEXICO Inspiracom KYRM Víctor Venalonzo lr --- Inspiracom CEO Glenn Laffite (right) with volunteer radio programmer Víctor Venalonzo of Bethany Church in the studio of network station KYRM in Yuma, Ariz. [caption] (May 21, 2013 - by Ralph Kurtenbach and Harold Goerzen) As part of ongoing efforts to inspire people’s response to the life-changing message of Christ, a media and teaching ministry at the U.S.-Mexico border, the World Radio Network (WRN), is launching its new name, Inspiracom. “We’ve been known as WRN since 1982, but our name has never actually described who we are, especially in both English and Spanish,” explained Glenn Lafitte, the network’s CEO. “We were looking for a name that would unify all that we do with Spanish and English radio and in Spanish Bible correspondence.” . . . www.hcjb.org/hcjb-global-news/ministry-service-center/newly-named- network-to-continue-addressing-needs-in-u-s-and-mexico.html (HCJB PR via DXLD) Thus endeth a confusing two sesquidecades of name duplication with London`s unrelated secular WORLD RADIO NETWORK (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WMBR DJ’S 8-HOUR RADIO MARATHON DURING BOSTON LOCKDOWN Posted on May 12, 2013 by Jennifer Waits I hadn’t really given much thought to how DJs in Boston coped with the the lockdown during the search for the Boston Marathon bombing suspect until I read a fascinating story about a college radio DJ at M.I.T. radio station WMBR in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Jon Bernhardt, the long-time host of the Friday morning edition of “Breakfast of Champions,” ended up pulling an 8-hour shift at the station on April 19 after the DJs following him called in to say that they couldn’t make it to the station due to the lockdown in Boston. Bernhardt was originally scheduled to do his regular 2-hour show from 8 to 10am and had planned to do a tribute to the recently deceased musician Scott Miller (Game Theory, Loud Family). As the lockdown dragged on, he decided to stay at the station as both a safety measure and as a way to provide music to WMBR listeners who might want an escape from the scary news outside their doors. Not only did he fill in for programs similar to his, but he also had to quickly select music for shows (including a jazz program) that were outside of his area of expertise. I interviewed him over email in order to get more insight into how he handled his unplanned 8-hour shift. . . http://radiosurvivor.com/2013/05/12/wmbr-djs-8-hour-radio-marathon-during-boston-lockdown/ Glenn: -- You might like this, sent to me via 's weekly newsletter. – (GREG HARDISON, CA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Hi Glenn! Saw the article on the WNEW calls in DXLD [13-20]. They are in Washington, DC now on an all-news FM station. Amy Morris, a former co-worker of mine and a great newsperson, works there. http://washington.cbslocal.com/station/wnew-99-1-fm/ Take care! (Eric Loy, Sports Director, Neuhoff Media Danville, 1501 North Washington Ave. Danville, IL 61832, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. DTV 4 from Northeast --- A fairly steady yellow bar on channel 4 from the northeast at 9:20 pm CDT on the Zenith box. I checked the Zenith box just after 10 p.m. and found that WACP-TV on channel 4 had visited again. There is so little low band DTV on the east coast to pick from. WACP-4 has certainly been the most often seen with Schenectady and Philadelphia on channel 6 in as well but much less often. I did have channel 4 from Mataeo, NC before they went to UHF but nothing from the east coast on channel 2, 3 or 5. It's pretty predicable when there is any hint of signal on channel 4 from the east coast as to what it will be (Dave Pomeroy, Topeka, Kansas, 19 May, WTFDA via DXLD) WACP (no suffix per W9WI.com) is 10 kW, Atlantic City NJ (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. RF 9, May 18 at 1929 UT, KAFT Fayetteville AR, tropo is in with high humidity, even at mid-afternoon. 37.9 kW KAFT emits the usual four subchannels, three varieties of PBS, plus 13-4 with a reading service, video being nothing but a slide which changes colors and fonts every so often; I assume like all the other Arkansas PTV stations (OETA OTOH, restricts to only two so they can run HD on the prime one. KPTS-8 Wichita also has 3 or 4 channels we are missing in OK). Inaugurating my new C-490 Antennacraft antenna, which replaces the same model severely damaged by icing last winter. I was trying to hold off till after tornado season, but couldn`t wait any longer with sporadic E erupting (and the lowband elements being longest were the most damaged on the old one). The UHF `arrow` segment of the C-490 was not damaged, and now I am wondering if I can detach it and use it productively independently? Heavy storms and high winds followed this night, but whew, no tornados here. Axually the first non-local signal I got on the new antenna was KOTV- 45 Tulsa, as I was realigning the rotor and it was axually pointing WNW. Hmm. Also in: KOED-11, Tulsa. I discovered that with end point due west, the rotor won`t reach 270-280 degrees or so, but nothing much to be seen directly from that angle. Then on the way to squirrel haven, on caradio north of Enid on 107.9 heard an ad for Rogers at 1942 UT May 18, which must have been nearby KEZA, 99 kW also in Fayetteville AR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. TX>INDY Tropo! I just decoded KENS 39 out of San Antonio, TX at a whopping 998 miles! I got it on my DTT900 live as well as Autoscan. This is by far a new personal best. Is this a land record for DTV Tropo? I was also using my newly erected 10' Superdish at 40' AGL. (Mike Glass, IN, 0925 UT May 20, WTFDA via DXLD) Great catches, Mike!!!! KABB at 997 miles; KEYE at 925 miles; KHCE at 996 miles; KNVA at 925 miles; KVDA at 996 miles; KVUE at 925 miles. Amazing stuff. Nothing like that here. I'd have to aim at the local antenna farm to get those which KILLS my reception. http://n9bnn.ham-radio-op.net/TV/ (Steve Rich, Indianapolis, IN, ibid.) I am still shocked by the whole thing. I awoke about 5 [09 UT] as happens often. I checked my cell phone to see what was happening on Autoscan. Saw WLMT 31 Memphis and decided to get up and see if anything else was out there. By 5:10 San Antonio and Austin started popping in. I could only get a few of them on the DTT900; the HDHRs were doing better this time. The whole thing was over by 6:10. I did get KTBS 28 Shreveport at 625 miles on tuner 2 alone. All these stations were at 221-223 deg azimuth, like a knife edge. You don't have to have water to get long haul tropo! (Mike Glass, N9BNN, Indianapolis, Indiana USA, Digital - Zenith DTT900 Mobile DTV - Coby DTV111 Analog - Samsung 12" Low Band - Winegard HD7084P at 30' AGL High Band/UHF - 10' Superdish at 40' AGL Misc - Icom PCR-100 Preamps - HDP 269 HDHR-US for real time Indy DX at http://www.n9bnn.ham-radio-op.net/TV/ Current count since May 2007 - 208 analog, 344 digital, ibid.) Classic tropo ducting. I perhaps missed most of it having slept in. When I checked the FM dials this morning about 6:30, heard nothing further north than Memphis. Conditions were much better yesterday morning, but had to work early. – (Fritze H. Prentice, Jr, KC5KBV, Star City AR EM43aw, ibid.) Glad my Tropo map showed the path - otherwise I'd have some 'splaning to do, hi). (Bill Hepburn, Ont., ibid.) Yes, Bill, your map made it possible. The only reason I caught it was your map showed potential tropo SSW. I went to bed aiming my very directional that way. Thanks again for your regular updates (Mike, ibid.) Does anyone keep track of these records? I know there are 1000+ mile receptions over water, but not sure about land. I know there have been analogs over 1000 miles. Anyway, it is my own record! (Mike, Indy, ibid.) Per Danny's site, THE 1,000 MILE TROPO CLUB: DXers Who Have Received DTVs Via Tropo At 1,000 Miles 1112 Christopher S. Dunne (FL) KENS-DT39 TX 1100 Roy Barstow (MA) WOPX-DT48 FL 1061 Pat Dyer (TX) WKCF-DT17, et al FL However, they were assisted by lots of water in between. Overland is obviously much much harder to achieve! Congrats, Mike! (Fred Nordquist, Moncks Corner, SC, ibid.) Thanks, Fred. I am trying to get in that 1000 mile club, but according to Google Earth the KENS tower is 998.73 miles from my tower. I will record it as 999 miles! But, I won't complain (Mike, ibid.) Summary of Super Tropo this Morning --- It took me a while, but I am finally digesting what happened 5:15-6:15 this morning. WJKT 39 Jackson, TN at 316 mi WLMT 31 Memphis, TN at 366 mi KTBS 28 Shreveport, LA at 653 mi (New) KLRU 22 Austin, TX at 926 mi (New) KVUE 33 Austin, TX at 926 mi (New) KEYE 43 Austin, TX at 926 mi (New) KNVA 49 Austin, TX at 926 mi (New) KNIC 18 Blanco, TX at 987 mi (New) KHCE 16 San Antonio, TX at 998 mi (New) KABB 30 San Antonio, TX at 998 mi (New) KVDA 38 San Antonio, TX at 998 mi (New) KWEX 41 San Antonio, TX at 998 mi (New) KENS 39 San Antonio, TX at 999 mi (New Personal Best) I thought the days of getting 11 new logs in one sitting were over, but was I wrong! I guess that big dish antenna works better than I thought (Mike, 20 May, WTFDA via WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DXLD) ** VANUATU. 3945, thanks to Mauno and Ron for the lead on this - heard R Vanuatu via the Brisbane Perseus site from 1205 UT tune to past 1225 UT when only the carrier was on. Man with what sounded like a devotional, then a choir singing, woman in Tok Pisin and ending with national anthem at 1215 UT. Carrier was still there past 1225. Sign off not nearly as interesting as Mauno's earlier 12 May recording of the 1845 UT sign on. Also it appears that local sunrise in Brisbane (1845 UT) has better reception than their local night (1230 UT). At my home QTH, I could see a strong carrier on 3945 but the audio was mostly non-existent. I recorded from 0900 to 1200 UT on May 13 but could not detect any real programming (Bruce W. Churchill, CA, DXplorer May 15 via BC-DX May 18 via DXLD) ** VATICAN [non]. Hi Glenn, I received a reply regarding the 0150 to 0200 UT slot on 7305 kHz, before Vatican Radio signs on to LatAm in Spanish. 73's, (Ed Insinger, Summit, NJ, May 20, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: Dear Mr Insinger, Thank you for the report and the comments. I apologize for the delayed reply but I am back to the office today. I agree with you on your comment about the ten minutes program to be added before the Spanish service but unfortunately it is not possible: our colleagues in Greenville get the audio from the Intelsat satellite on the Atlantic Ocean, AOR, but both the satellite channels are carrying programs in the interval 0150-0200 UT, namely English to Asia on AOR1 (0138-0158 UT) and Spanish on AOR2 (0145-0227 UT). The 7305 kHz is silent till 0200 to avoid the broadcast of an already started program. Best regards, (Sergio Salvatori, Vatican Radio Frequency Management, May 18, via Ed Insinger, DXLD) ** VENEZUELA [and non]. Hola Glenn, saludos desde Venezuela. Espero que tú y el resto de los colegas de la lista se encuentren muy bien. Te escribo para informarte que - hace un mes - el periodista Chris Arsenault, de Al Jazeera en inglés, me realizó una entrevista telefónica y me preguntó acerca de mis impresiones sobre el descarado intervencionismo del "establishment" estadounidense en los asuntos internos de Venezuela. También hay comentarios sobre el papel de los medios de comunicación. Comparto contigo y la lista de DXLD, el reportaje de Arsenault: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/04/20134146504879826.html 73s y buen DX, (Adán González, Catia La Mar, Estado Vargas, VENEZUELA, May 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM. 7280 + 9730, V Viet, 7 May, 1802 with program in Spanish instead of listed German! Both at S7 (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM [and non]. 9795, May 22 at 1152, typical VietCom whoop- whoop jamming vs song in some SE Asian language. Aoki shows it`s Lahu from FEBC, Bocaue, Philippines, daily during this hour. (After 1200 WHRI blasts over 9795 and the Vietnam radio war moves up to 9920, but then the FEBC site is Iba) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZANZIBAR. 6015, ZBC Radio, May 22. Tx on at 0256; audio started *0258 with pop African songs (assume Spice FM intro); 4 + 1 pips; usual program format; above normal reception; drums at 0359 and more pips; clear ID and references to Zanzibar (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 580, May 18 at 1953 UT from squirrel haven, a daytime bandscan audiblizes a weak talk station underneath WIBW Topeka KS, the very dominant signal here. Lubbock TX, KRFE? But only 500 watts and supposedly directional westward. I do recall it gets out well. Or is it KJMJ Alexandria LA, 5 kW, non-direxional, and a couple hundred miles further than Lubbock, over a not-so-good ground conductivity path? No nulling and no DFing on the caradio. I guess we can rule out WILL, despite WGN incoming, with WILL`s null toward Topeka and us --- or is it out of order? IIRC they had some problems a while ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 910, May 21 at 0549 UT, open carrier/dead air: DF fits for KVIS Miamuh OK, the nearest and usual dominator (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 12095 BLR? RL?? 1340 11 May with talks in `Russian´ or possibly Byelorussian with many mentions of BLR ID heard as Mizame radio. S2 max 142x2. Rec is here: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/zliangas/15061601 (Zacharias Liangas, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) HFCC shows after 1300 on 12095: FEBC Bocaue Philippines, multilingual; and Poland via Bulgaria, multilingual. I bet it`s the latter (gh, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. There is an unidentified broadcaster on 17996 at 0600. There was a T/S at 0600 followed by brief music bridge, then an apparent news broadcast. Did hear mention of Pakistan but don't think it is from there. It does not certainly sound Chinese. Considerable QSB on signal and audio bounces up and down. Oops, forgot to mention this is via the University of Twente webSDR. 3rd harmonic perhaps. Unusual as slap bang into aero allocation. Pop music 0610 that sounds like HOA not Western. May 21 0600, 17996 AM UNID with T/S followed by news bulletin in non Asian language. Pop music later with considerable QSB making it virtually impossible to identify. Received from the University of Twente webSDR (Robin L. Harwood VK7002SWL, Norwood, Tasmania 7250, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Don`t know of anything on 5999-; suspect another image inside the Twente SDR (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 96.3 FM, May 17 at 1916 UT, on caradio, some Spanish fades in and out, vs ACI from 96.1 OKC and 96.5 Tulsa. First heard some Spanish on 92.3 mixing with Wichita Classic Country, following reports on the WTFDA list of a sporadic E opening into the FM band, presumably from Mexico. Not many open channels around here, but also briefly found some Spanish romantic music on 97.9 at 1917; Spanish music on 93.9 mixing with OK at 1923, but the best Spanish signal was on 101.5: unfortunately, this turned out to be from Tulsa! See OKLAHOMA (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1670: Tnx for a contribution from: David Eastman, Loudon NH, 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 Saludos desde Santiago Chile --- Un gran saludo para ti y te diré que son bastante años que te escuchaba sobre tus reportes DX y quise saludarte ahora; mirando internet encontré que aún escribes sobre DX. Yo soy aficionado al DX ondas cortas y al satélite señales libre acceso. Un saludo para ti (Juan Carlos Miranda Duarte, May 20, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I appreciate all the inquiries as to my well-being, far from this, and I surely hope, any future tornadic outbreaks (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, 80 miles from Moore, May 21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ WORLD RADIO TV HANDBOOK A13 CD WRTH Bargraph Frequency Guide A13 Now Available - Order your cd today! We are delighted to announce the availability of the new WRTH Bargraph Frequency Guide for the A13 season. The CD contains the complete, and monitored, A13 international broadcasts, and fully updated domestic shortwave, displayed as a pdf colour bargraph. This CD is only for sale on the WRTH site. Visit our website at http://www.wrth.com to find out more and to order a copy. I hope you enjoy using this Frequency Guide. 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Radio Supplement 2 (A13 Schedules) (17 May 2013 - version 2) (Steve Whitt, May 19, MWCircle yg via DXLD) Version 2 incorporates in red some of the correxions we provided (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) Not including BS on WRMI which we added later; however it is ``forward-looking`` to some other changes not yet in effect, i.e. BS off WRMI from May 31, we hope, we hope, we hope (gh) CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES +++++++++++++++++++++++++ WWCR Executive Elected President of NASB NASB News Release - May 22, 2013 Brady Murray, Operations Manager of WWCR in Nashville, Tennessee, was elected President of the National Association of Shortwave Broadcasters at the NASB 2013 Annual Meeting in Birmingham, Alabama May 15-17. He replaces former President Glen Tapley of WEWN, whose term ended after two years as the Association’s president. Murray had previously been Vice President of the NASB, and Charles Caudill, President of World Christian Broadcasting -- also based in the Nashville area -- was elected the new NASB Vice President. Jeff White and Thaïs White of WRMI in Miami were re-elected Secretary-Treasurer and Assistant Secretary-Treasurer, respectively. Two NASB Board of Directors terms ended this year -- those of Glen Tapley of WEWN and Dr. Adrian Peterson of Adventist World Radio (AWR). Two new directors were elected: Terry Borders of WEWN and Dr. Dowell Chow, President of AWR. Borders is the manager of the WEWN transmitter site in Vandiver, Alabama. Dr. Chow is based at AWR headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, but spends much of his time travelling around the world. The meeting was hosted by NASB member Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN), which operates shortwave station WEWN. A welcome reception took place on the evening of May 15, followed by a barbecue dinner sponsored by EWTN at a renowned Birmingham restaurant called Dreamland Bar-B-Q. On May 16, the meeting took place at EWTN headquarters in Irondale, a Birmingham suburb. Attendees toured the large state-of-the-art EWTN Television studios, watching part of a live broadcast and observing how a Catholic mass in Latin is translated and close-captioned. They saw the television and radio control rooms and the studios where EWTN Radio and WEWN shortwave programs are produced. After the tour, there were a series of talks and presentations about shortwave-related subjects for the rest of the day. Dowell Chow of Adventist World Radio gave an overview of AWR’s worldwide operations. He said that AWR operates with only 30 employees, but with the help of many more people who work at AWR studios around the world, producing programs in over 80 languages. The NASB was pleased to welcome back an old member station, KVOH in Simi Valley, California, which has been off the air for some time but has recently been transferred to the Strategic Communications Group headed by Rev. John Tayloe. Tayloe’s father-in-law was George Otis, who originally founded the station as part of the Voice of Hope network which included stations in the Middle East. The new owners are refurbishing the station’s shortwave transmitter and they hope to have it back on the air within the next 90 days or so with programs in English and Spanish. The antenna is beamed from southern California toward Mexico and Cuba. NASB meeting delegates had a chance to meet the new Vice President of Continental Electronics, who has recently taken over from Adil Mina -- a regular fixture at NASB meetings for many years. Mina has recently “semi-retired” to spend more time with his family, and more time at his home in Greece. His successor, Mike Rosso, gave a presentation in Birmingham about Continental Electronics and about Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) -- its status and its plans for the near future. He was followed by Mark Allen of the Rohn Tower Company, NASB’s newest associate member, who talked about “Considerations for Aging Broadcast Tower Structures.” Allen gave a sobering report, complete with photos, of the disasters that can occur when antenna towers are not properly maintained. He explained how faulty lighting, ice, wind and construction errors can easily cause accidents that result in extensive property damage, serious injuries and even death. In these days of financial cutbacks, Allen explained that tower maintenance is not an area that broadcasters should cut back on. Charles Caudill, President and CEO of NASB member World Christian Broadcasting, gave an update on his organization’s struggle to get a new shortwave station on the air from the island of Madagascar, off the southeast coast of Africa. Madagascar World Voice has had its transmitter site ready with antennas erected for a few years now, but is waiting on approval from the Madagascar communications minister to import its transmitters and put the station on the air. The Continental 100-kilowatt transmitters are sitting in crates in Houston waiting for shipment to Madagascar as soon as approval is granted. Caudill explained that elections will be held on the African island in July of this year, after which the government ministers will probably change, and this may give the station a better opportunity to get on the air in the coming months. Monday’s talks continued with Brady Murray of WWCR on the use of shortwave radio as an educational broadcasting tool. A discussion afterwards also dealt with subjects such as the potential for DRM and domestic shortwave broadcasting. Jerome Hirigoyen of NASB associate member Telediffusion de France (TDF) gave a presentation about his company’s large shortwave transmission facility in Issoudun, France. Seventeen 500-kilowatt transmitters and dozens of antennas -- including a rotatable version - - provide strong coverage of Africa, the Middle East, parts of the Americas and other regions of the world. Their main client used to be Radio France International, but TDF now sells airtime to a variety of public and private broadcasters from many countries. Finally, Dr, Jerry Plummer, WWCR’s Frequency Manager, spoke about the transition of international broadcasting to the for-profit sector. Plummer explained that while many European public broadcasters have been reducing or eliminating their shortwave transmissions in recent years, many of their facilities are now owned or being used by privately-owned and often commercial enterprises. As Plummer proclaimed, “shortwave is definitely not dying.” On May 17, the NASB annual meeting took place at the transmitter site of WEWN on a rural mountaintop about 40 minutes’ drive from Irondale. Once delegates reached the top of the mountain, they were treated to some spectacular views of the surrounding Alabama mountains and the nine large antennas that WEWN uses to reach the Americas, Europe, Africa and other parts of the world. Inside the transmitter building are four 500-kilowatt Continental transmitters which beam 24 hours per day of programming in English and Spanish. WEWN originally broadcast programs in 22 languages, and when it first went on the air, some of its super-power transmissions -- particularly on the higher frequencies -- made their way into the homes of local residents. As Glen Tapley explained, “We had calls from people who were hearing voices in Chinese coming from their knives and forks!” Station personnel visited peoples’ homes to install filters, and some of the highest frequencies were avoided in an attempt to cause less local interference. About 11 employees operate the WEWN transmitter site, managed by Terry Borders. On this occasion, some of them were performing double duty as they prepared an excellent barbecue of hamburgers and hot dogs for the NASB attendees. After lunch, Jerry Plummer of WWCR explained why it is still difficult to find in-band HF frequencies, even with some of the large European broadcasters leaving long-used channels. At the NASB business and Board meetings, the new board members and officers were elected. The members also agreed to assist NASB associate member Galcom International in its efforts to obtain some special concessions that could permit the company to produce simple, ultra-low-cost DRM receivers in the $20 range that could finally make DRM affordable for listeners in large parts of the world and viable for international broadcasters. The date and place of the NASB 2014 Annual Meeting was announced. It will be held at the Voice of America/International Broadcasting Bureau relay station in Greenville, North Carolina. Initial information is already available on the NASB website, http://www.shortwave.org Click on “Annual Meeting.” A selection of photos from the 2013 meeting in Birmingham will be available within the next few days on the NASB Facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/nasbshortwave For more information, contact: Jeff White, NASB Secretary-Treasurer c/o WRMI Radio Miami International 175 Fontainebleau Blvd., Suite 1N4 Miami, Florida 33172 USA Tel +1-305-559-9764 Fax +1-305-559-8186 E-mail: radiomiami9@cs.com http://www.shortwave.org (Jeff White, May 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Ahem, but is the NASB relevant? Look at the homepage as above, and note now many North American shortwave broadcasters are NOT members, including some very major ones; and of the ten member stations remaining: two no longer exist on SW; one is well on the way to extinxion; one has been off the air for a number of years; of those on the air, at least two have serious unresolved technical issues, including the host for this meeting; and three are not really in North America! However a separate voting-member page, http://www.shortwave.org/members.htm adds KVOH under its new ownership, which is working to come back, and subtracts defunct KFBS, moving it to the Associate member category along with equipment suppliers, etc. (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WELCOME TO EDXC CONFERENCE 2013 TO BE HELD IN FIGUEIRA DA FOZ PORTUGAL Dear DX friends, We would like to welcome you all to the EDXC conference 2013 to be held in Figueira da Foz, Portugal, on 6-9 September, 2013. Our conference hotel is Sweet Residence & Gardens http://www.sweethotels.pt/hoteis_residence.php http://www.sweethotels.pt/contactos_r.php located about 500 metres from the nearest beach of the Atlantic Ocean. see also Mika Palo "box" https://www.box.com/s/f57x57bh79cs7pgyq5ax The preliminary programme is as follows (local time, WEST): 6 September (Friday): 19.00 Check in starts at the aparthotel Sweet Residence & Gardens 21.00 Welcome session with cocktail 7 September (Saturday): 08.00-10.00 Breakfast 10.00 Programme about DXing and EDXC, to be confirmed: introduction to the history and recent developments of Portuguese shortwave & mediumwave broadcasting, by Mika Palo + a talk with Portuguese DX’ers on the little known DX hobby in Portugal, current EDXC topics 15.00 Visits to Sottomayor palace and Rádio Foz do Mondego (a local private FM station in Figueira da Foz) 18.00 DX Programme, to be confirmed: Italian DX’er Dario Monferini’s slide show about his trip to Peru (2011) 20.00 EDXC banquet 8 September (Sunday): 08.00-10.00 Breakfast 10.00-18.00 A day tour by bus including: - a visit to the historical centre of Coimbra - a visit to the transmitter centre of RDP Centro - a visit to Quinta do Encontro vineyard + a wine museum in Anadia 18.00 Return to the hotel + DX programme/evening free 9 September (Monday): 07.30 A quick breakfast 08.00 Check out from the hotel 08.15 Departure to Lisbon by bus 11.00 A tour in Lisbon - visits to RDP Internacional & Radio Renascença - lunch on your own - sightseeing in Lisbon 17.00 End of the official programme Preliminary prices (hopefully maximum): Single room per person: 320 € Double room per person: 270 € Including: - Accommodation (3 nights) at the conference hotel (aparthotel) Sweet Residence & Gardens - Breakfasts at the hotel - Welcome cocktail on Friday - Visit to Rádio Foz do Mondego on Saturday - Banquet dinner with programme on Saturday - Day tour on Sunday, with lunch and wine tasting on a vineyard - Transfer + sightseeing to/in Lisbon on Monday - Conference fee We want to be very transparent with the pricing so more information about the prices in more detail will be available as soon as we get a confirmation from the hotel. If you have anything to ask, please, do not hesitate to contact either Mika Palo, the EDXC 2013 conference coordinator in Portugal mika.palo@clix.pt or me ksk@sdxl.org More information can be found also on EDXC blog http://www.edxcnews.wordpress.com Once again you are all warmly welcome to the EDXC conference 2013. More information will be sent to you in due course. See you in Figueira da Foz in September! 73s Kari Kivekäs, Secretary General of EDXC, ksk@sdxl.org Jan-Mikael Nurmela, Assistant Secretary General of EDXC (via Dario Monferini, May 22, playdx yg via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See USA; PROPAGATION ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See AUSTRALIA; GUAM; INDIA; KOREA SOUTH; ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ NEW ZEALAND; SPAIN; CONVENTIONS & CONFS DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Broadcasting in Chicago took a step backwards today when WSCR 670 turned its long dormant IBOC back on!??? (Tom Jasinski, Joliet, IL, May 18, NRC-AM via DXLD) I was just doing some antenna testing (switched feed and termination of one of my Double KAZ's so it aims east now (but bad powerline noise as expected) and WSCR is at normal strength. 73 KAZ hating their IBOC (Neil Kazaross, IL, ibid.) Every time we are hopeful that the uselessness of AM IBOC is slowly dying, it comes back somewhere. Here in Chicago, it has come back on WSCR. One wonders why a sports talk station would think it would sound better in supposed AM HD. I don't know a single person outside of the radio industry or hobby or hobby related people who even know that AM has HD. No one I know has a radio capable of receiving it and I have no plans to waste any money buying one. I think we'll be suffering with AM IBOC for another decade as it slowly dies away but as diehards and those for some idiotic reasons continue with it. 73 KAZ (Neil Kazaross, ibid.) Just a thought -- is it possible there is a contractual benefit to running IBOC every so often? Some kind of incentive put in place to reward stations down the road for adopting IBOC? Just a guess. ef (Eric Flodén, Vancouver BC, ibid.) One thing that still amazes me about the continuing of IBOC is where are the radios? They are few and far between. The stores don't carry them, yet certain aspects of the broadcasting industry are still pushing it. Pushing something that was dead out of the box. No one is listening and no one cares. Here in the NW, the last "new" IBOCer, I believe, was KXXA-1520-Snohomish WA (Everett). KEX-1190-Portland dropped IBOC sometime back. I think that leaves just two in Portland, 1330 and 1640 (Patrick Martin, Seaside OR, ibid.) For the second time - after an absence of several months - WDAS-1480 has turned it back on, thus ruining my reception of WBCB-1490 to which I had been enjoying a daily morning program of old records - mostly from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. While I can phase the IBOC I can only bring in WLPA and WBSS but not WBCB. Why on earth would WDAS need to enhance the awful music they play? (Ben Dangerfield, Wallingford, PA, NRC-AM via DXLD) Ben, perhaps a waste of time but if it were me I would mail (postal mail) a strong complaint to the management of WDAS. DXers are frequently complaining - here - about their local stations running IBOC but I do not recall ever reading a single comment from someone on this (or any other) DXer list from a DXer, writing as just a listener, complaining about IBOC from one of their LOCAL STATIONS, causing interference to another of their LOCAL STATIONS. And then, saying they did so, on a DX list. Writing as a DXer is a waste of time. You, here, are a LISTENER, just like old Aunt Maude, who cannot hear her PROGRAM (Bob Foxworth, ibid.) When KEX 1190 Portland went IBOC HD, I contacted KLAY 1180 Lakewood WA and they knew about the switch. However, their manager said there was little they could do as KEX was outside their market, as well as Seaside OR. I contacted them as a listener, not a DXer. But again people that listen to out of market stations really have no power. At one time we did, but those days are long gone (Patrick Martin, Seaside OR, ibid.) Patrick has nailed it: the keyword (or rather, "phrase") here is OUT OF MARKET. Listener, DXer, does it really matter to 99% of stations if you're listening to their programming or not when you're NOT OFFICIALLY IN THEIR MARKET? Bob (Foxworth), that's why you never see anybody report to the DX lists that they've complained about IBOC "as a listener"; do any AM- broadcast band stations running HD/IBOC have such close channel separation between themselves and other LOCAL stations in THEIR OWN MARKETS? If they aren't QRMing another LOCAL station, what difference does it make to them if you can't hear programming on some "out-of- market" station? (Randy Stewart, Arts Producer, KSMU [FM], 901 S. National, Springfield MO 65897, NRC-AM via DXLD) The IBOC has been off of WHP 580 for about two weeks. I wrote to the program director to ask if it is off for good. I also asked him why WTKT 1460 discontinued IBOC about two or three years ago. I'm thinking they were interfering with 1440, maybe the callsign is WGLD owned by Cumulus. Cumulus probably has enough influence to get the IBOC on WTKT turned off. Another possibility might be that the WTKT IBOC was interfering with 1470 Allentown. Both stations are owned by Clear Channel. WHP ran IBOC only during the day. The night directional array would take too much modification to pass IBOC. I did notice a few times that the analog audio on WHP would start breaking up when the station switched from night pattern to day pattern. Perhaps they're just waiting to get the IBOC repaired. Anyway, I'll pass along any comments I get from the WHP program director (Tom Dimeo, ibid.) I have a local, WTAG 580 that shuts off the noise every once in a while too, it is annoying but I've learned that they are going to keep it on no matter what until and when this whole digital fiasco comes crashing down. I don't know if you've ever listened to AM IBOC but I have, and enhance is not the word that comes to mind for me, something more like shrill and artifact-laden describes what I hear; AM IBOC is unlistenable to me (Bob Young, Millbury, MA, ibid.) I like Bob Foxworth's suggestion of writing to the offending station and complaining of how their IBOC destroys the signals of nearby locals but I'm thinking of writing WBCB and telling them what it's doing to them. Their morning program of old records is directed to an audience of senior citizens and there are a lot of commercials on it. I would think they have a listening audience in the northeast part of Philadelphia as well as in most of Bucks County. WDAS is a Philadelphia station (Ben Dangerfield, Wallingford, PA, ibid.) Where I am, I'm closer to WDAS than to WBCB, but neither is really strong and neither IBOC interferes with the other station. I know it's there, but either is listenable by day, should I want to. Technically, you're outside of WBCB's primary coverage area. Somebody - perhaps René Tetro - provided me with a plot of the contours for the two stations, showing where they might overlap, but I'm unable to find it right now. While I expect WBCB will be sympathetic, there's really not much they can do (Russ Edmunds, 15 mi NNW of Philadelphia, ibid.) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ BREAKING UP VHF/UHF ANTENNA Glenn, I saw your message about the Antennacraft C-490 which had the longer VHF low band elements damaged by the ice build-up. You can detach the UHF section and use it separately if you want. If you leave the antenna together, it will receive both UHF and VHF high band since only the longer VHF elements were damaged. Try it the way it is to see how well it receives VHF and UHF signals. You might be surprised to see how well it works except for VHF low band channels. I guess the antenna lead-in connections are at the UHF receiving element(s). The other elements connect to the the UHF receiving element to pass along the VHF signals (Bob Seaman, DX LISTENING DIGEST) BLAW-KNOX ANTENNAS, SPECIFICALLY WLW`s; KOA EX-TRANSMITTER SITE Knowing how cheap channel works, it wouldn't have surprised me if they had torn down the Blaw-Knox and sold the land to developers, diplexing WLW as a graveyard station on one of their other towers in the area. After all, the salvation of AM is a 250 watt FM translator, so that should easily make up the difference (Kit W5KAT, May 16, ABDX via DXLD) In fairness to CC (and yes, I note the smiley face at the end of your first paragraph), they're actually one of the better large group operators when it comes to investing money in AM. I remember visiting the WLW site under the previous owner, Jacor, and it was a dump. The carcass of the 500 kW transmitter in the back room was buried under a mountain of miscellaneous engineering junk and the grounds were looking quite ragged. After CC took over from Jacor, the WLW engineering team got the resources it needed to restore the 500 kW rig (cosmetically, at least; it had been gutted enough internally that it will never run again). Last summer, they spent big bucks replacing the guy wires on the Blaw-Knox for the first time since it went up in 1932. In Memphis, they dropped very serious money on rebuilding WDIA after the massive flooding there. Here in Rochester, they'll be spending money later this year to build the first off-site backup transmitter WHAM has had since it went on the air 90 years ago. CC is, as best I can tell, the last of the big groups that still has an engineering team specifically dedicated to AM. John Warner spends most of his time on the road traveling from one CC AM project to another, helping to keep these stations alive and updated, and he's backed up by a team of allocations and facilities experts in Cincinnati and Tulsa. I've seen a lot of other big operators treat their heritage AMs with much less respect. Look at how Citadel/Cumulus has let KAAY rot away to such an extent that it was off the air for a while, or how Cox has shifted its AM news-talk formats over to FM and left the AMs to molder. As you may be able to tell, I have a lot of respect for the engineering team at CC; even if their corporate bosses don't always have their heads screwed on straight. s (Scott Fybush, NY, ibid.) I would like to have seen the guy wire replacement on the Blaw-Knox. That must have been a delicate procedure. Did anyone get photos or video? I have never toured the WLW facility, but I did have the good luck to get in on an SBE tour of the VOA facility down the road while it was still operating. The last I heard, the City of Westchester (where it is located) was planning to preserve the remains of it as a museum, and I hope that has happened. That area is all caught up in the urban sprawl of yuppiedom, so I hope they didn't cave in to the developers and let it get turned into condos and shopping malls. Locally, I don't know what CC has done with KOA because it is located way southeast in Parker, and I am way northwest, so I rarely get down that way. Given metro Denver traffic, that is an all day drive most days. The KOA site is a real disappointment compared to WLW or WSM. For the size of the signal KOA has, their tower seems tiny. The most impressive site around here would have to be WWV. I went on a tour there in the late 60s. Unfortunately, they quit giving tours many years ago. 73, (Kit W5KAT, ibid.) No WLW is on the historic register, and a no, 250 watt translator won't give the coverage of WLW. A class C even does not give the daytime coverage as WLW (Powell E Way III, SC, W4OPW, ibid.) The area immediately surrounding the big Blaw-Knox has been built up with $250-300K houses. I have to wonder why somebody with that much to spend on a house would want their property to back up to that site. One thing for sure, if they listen to AM, I can pretty well guarantee which station they listen to! It probably comes in on everything in their house from their toaster to their toilet seat. In some respects it would be sorta neat to have that tower in your back yard. It would make it real easy for people to find your house, but for a DXer it would mean having to find a new hobby or take a lot of road trips. 73, (Kit W5KAT, ibid.) > I would like to have seen the guy wire replacement on the Blaw-Knox. > That must have been a delicate procedure. Did anyone get photos or > video? There were some photos floating around. Let me go digging... Nope - the site ended up as a park http://www.westchesteroh.org/CSParksVOA.cfm and the former transmitter building ended up as a museum http://www.voamuseum.org They did right by the whole place. KOA: It is tiny - in part because it's much newer than most of the big clears. The old KOA 50 kW site was out on the far east side, way out Colfax Avenue on the edge of town. It turned into (and I believe is still) a state police barracks, though the old tower out back is gone. The current site dates only to the 1960s or even early 1970s, if memory serves. KOA, too, is getting an off-site backup. In the event something happens to the Parker site, they're building a separate KOA facility that would diplex on one of the KKZN-760 towers. > The most impressive site around here would have to be WWV. I went on > a tour there in the late 60s. Unfortunately, they quit giving tours > many years ago. On an official, scheduled basis, yes. But, if you know who to ask and you catch them on the right day, they're still happy to show the place off. I toured it in 2005 or thereabouts. The really impressive part is the WWVB side of the complex - the WWV transmitters are old and rather shabby these days, and the WWV antennas are of course fairly tiny compared to a MW or LW rig. s (Scott Fybush, ibid.) The ASR shows 4/27/78 as the construction date for the current tower. I don't remember ever seeing the old tower. Do you know what the height was? I have been to a CDOT complex on Colfax, I think at Chambers Rd. Could that have been the old site? That would have been out in the boonies back in the day, but it is now part of Aurora. (Kit, ibid.) About a mile east of Chambers, actually, at (of course!) Tower Road: http://www.colfaxavenue.com/2012/04/koa-building.html The street address is 18500 East Colfax. Patrick Griffith's archived web page about it says KOA moved to Parker in 1959: http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!AB!A2!A541EBE39068/N0NNK/KOA850/ I think the tower came down when KOA moved. Patrick says it was 475' high. That seems awfully short to me for a station on 830/850. I wonder if they moved because they couldn't get any more height at that Colfax location due to nearby airports. s (Scott Fybush, ibid.) That's pretty wild because I was in that building in the early 90s, but I had no idea that it was ever KOA's location. My guess is that you're right about it moving to Parker long before 1978 because I was over in that area a few times in 1977 and never saw a tower near there. As for Tower Rd., I always figured it was named in reference to the control tower at Front Range Airport, but maybe it was for KOA. I will have to look into that. The next time I am out that way, I will stop in at the building to see what I can find out. It will be interesting to see if the tower base is still there. I would also guess that you are right about the tower being shorter because of the close proximity to Buckley AFB and Stapleton. Thanks for the info! (Kit, ABDX via DXLD) ABC LIVE TV, AND WCBS-TV STREAMING: see INTERNATIONAL INTERNET WHO NEEDS RADIO? I'LL TAKE THE WEB Technology has encroached on the audience for AM/FM radio. Editor's note: Jordan Valinsky is a staff writer for Betabeat, the tech blog for the New York Observer. (CNN) -- Listening to the radio was something I did -- when I was a teenager... http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/17/opinion/opinion-valinsky-radio-internet/ (via Kevin Redding, ABDX via DXLD) Do you remember rock 'n' roll radio? http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/17/showbiz/hfr-music-radio/index.html?hpt=hp_c4 (via Terry Krueger, FL, May 17, DXLD) Here is what I posted over at CNN in response: A lot of the problem can be traced to the change in ratings system from diaries to PPM. All of the sudden, formats that had been profitable for years such as oldies and smooth jazz plummeted in the new ratings system, and were deemed unprofitable by the big corporations. PPM seems to support bland cookie cutter voice tracked formats - big surprise, the big radio corporations dreamed up the system. Every focus group they do is loaded so they can confirm their pre-conceived notions of what the public wants. They blindly say that the technically flawed HD radio system will solve everything - while consumers reject and are almost completely ignorant of HD radio. AM has long since been abandoned to talk, sports, and foreign language programming - and the FCC refused to protect AM against sources of interference. Now, the FCC is repeating its biggest mistake - allowing too many stations on the AM band - on FM. Ridiculous numbers of translators are being licensed for AM broadcasters eager to abandon the dying band, making higher levels of interference on FM as well. One has to only turn on an AM radio at night and tune to any non-local frequency to hear a cacophony of interfering stations, soon FM will sound the same. So the FCC is also to blame for abandoning its original mandate - to prevent interference on the radio - and concentrates instead on irrelevancies like ownership rules. All of this incompetence on the part of the FCC and large radio corporations have left radio listeners with little to listen to on either band - and the defection to satellite, streaming, and iDevices is the result. At this point, the damage may be irrevocable. The big radio corporations will depart, selling stations for pennies on the dollar to brokered programming services. HD radio will go the way of AM stereo, the PC Junior, Microsoft "Bob", new coke, and the cue cat. Radio stations will continue on the air for decades, but the bands will increasing be the domain of infomercials and traveller information services. Radios will disappear from new car dashboards, tuner sections will disappear from home theater receivers, and there will be more and more internet enabled "radios" in cars and home systems. The radio industry - and the FCC are to blame (Bruce Carter, TX, ABDX via DXLD) I can agree to most of that. I don't think there is going to be any "fixing" it, either. Please let's all take a look at the big picture in a different light. Here is what I see. I see people coming up to the studios and actually hearing out air signal right off the Motorola C-quam monitor. They can't believe what they hear; they can't believe that's AM. If their AM radio sounded that good, would they listen? Yes, they say they would. But of the millions and millions of radios out there, there is NO WAY to make THOSE radios sound any better on the AM side. Yes there are niche formats and yes a few people will flock over and listen if it's something they can't get elsewhere, but that's such a small percentage of the general population that that theory will work for. Honestly maybe the FCC could have done something about it back in the 70s when FM started taking off --- hike up the standards for AM receivers so that they all would go out to 10 khz and sound just about as good as FM. That could have helped. Even myself, born in 1969, I was a kid of the 70s and the 80s. I can tell you what I experienced. I started listening more and more to FM. Why? Because it SOUNDED better. It was clearer and didn't have all the static. People older than me were still listening to AM and there was still music formats to listen to on AM in the 80s. But when I was a teen-ager growing up in the 80s, I had MTV and FM. In the 70s, AM receivers started heading downhill, getting worse and worse for bandwidth. By the time the mid 80s came along, AM just started to have that "sound". That "AM SOUND" as people have still referred to it to this day. So many of the radios are crap. So me? I blame the manufacturers. The sound went downhill and FM sounded better. Part 2 of this. The migration to everything else. Before I even mention anything, remember this. We DID listen to radio. All of us. WE HAD NO CHOICE. Even in the mid and late 80s I would record songs off the radio so I could play them back on cassettes and make mix tapes. But OK, you had cassettes. Back then there really weren't a whole lot of other options! Today there are SO MANY options. Can you blame everyone for choosing them over radio? Radio in general, not just AM, what`s the next biggest complaint? COMMERCIALS! !!! And I'm sorry, but I don't know how radio would exist without commercials. With today's kids and young adults (even my 33 year old wife) commercials are a MAJOR turn-off so why the hell wouldn't you go with satellite radio or your own MP3 player or CD's? Plus once all these new options became available, they started becoming PORTABLE. PORTABLE cassette players, then PORTABLE CD Players and now PORTABLE MP3 players and I-pods and even portable internet radio. Get the app for your cell phone, there are hundreds of them, and just about all of us have internet plans on our phones. Back then in the 70s only radios were portable. And yeah, they had some portable 8-track units and cassette units but it was just easier because a transistor radio was so nice and smaller than any of those. It's nobody's fault that all these other things got invented. And I'm sure all these things didn't "mean" to kill radio, but they did. You can take just about any radio listener or former radio listener and their biggest complaint is gonna be the damned commercials. Now everyone has alternatives and radio will ALWAYS have commercials. It HAS to. It's the way it works! I can not tell you how many radios I've bought my kids (who are now 10 and 12) over the last 10 years trying to get them into listening to radio. They don't want it! They have MP3 players that my wife loads with their favorite music. There is no station to tune. There is no commercials. There is no losing the station if you turn your body the wrong way or having to worry about what part of it is the antenna and don't go near the microwave or the TV when it's on; press play and have music. I hear SO much about "well if they hadn't allowed so many stations" and "if there wasn't so much interference." BLAH BLAH BLAH --- even IF those things wouldn't have happened, I am 99% sure we'd be in the same situation because you'd still have MP3's and satellite radios and internet radio. People would still be listening less and less to radio. If there is a way listeners can have no commercials and more control of what they are listening to, that's the road they are going to take. We didn't have the kinds of options people do today. I work in radio. I LOVE radio. I especially love AM RADIO and AM STEREO. I always will so I will always be a radio listener. I will never PAY for radio. I don't have satellite radio and I don't want it. But that's ME. There aren't a lot of ME's out there. Especially not compared to all the other folks listening to their satellite radio and their IPODS and so forth. I don't think there is much the FCC or manufacturers could have done to make the outcome any different. WE, the older generation, might still be listening to radio and it would sound better to us but the younger folks still would be doing exactly what they are doing today. The only thing I can see making a difference is if the government paid for radio stations to be on the air and paid the operating costs and nobody had to run any commercials or sell any ads. But that'll never happen. There will always be a portion of the population that will be tuning in to radio but I think it will continue to grow smaller. I'm sure I'll have a lot of you disagreeing. We are all entitled to our opinions. :) (Michael n Wyo Richard, ibid.) Michael, Radio needs commercials if its going to be free. BUT! Many stations have as much as 23 minutes of ads per half hour. Who wants to hear that crap? The commercials have to be less in number and the buyer will have to pay more for each ad to make it work. No one is going to listen to most of the hour as ads. This has forced me to ONLY listen to NPR just to get away from the ads. I even send money just so I will not hear ads. That said, its not the commercials that turn me off as bad as my main complaint. The programming. IT SUCKS. It`s horrible. Here in Tennessee if you hear a song that is less than 10 years old, it`s a miracle. Its all watered down generic mass pablum and every station plays the same stuff. You have Country, Gospel, Rock, Rap, Extreme Right Wing Politics and Sports. Every station has exactly the same play list. It sucks so badly I do PAY not to hear it. If every station did not play the same stuff, I would listen to terrestrial radio a lot more. Right now, it`s only DX for regular radio for me; I abhor the generic stuff on the airwaves. I don't know who will do it, but unless there is some real ballsy people who do some real innovation, radio is going to die. I loved radio and still want to love it again but something has to change for me to come back (Kevin Redding, Crump TN, ibid.) Michael, Have you ever heard (or heard of) public radio? No commercials! Well, strictly speaking, tho `underwriting` is necessary. Wonderful programming, long form, all kinds of music including serious. Surely Wyoming PR can be heard where you are, plus several from Utah. And the more government support it gets, the better. 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) The only problem I have with NPR is that it is a far cry from classic top-40 from the 60's like I remember on AM. When I'm in a mood for classical music, a few NPR stations play it. Houston also plays a rock format if you can stand HD-3 compression. Some NPR stations play smooth jazz, which is OK when I have a mood for it. But talk - any talk - right wing / left wing / sports wing bores the ____ out of me. And most NPR stations have a bunch of talk. I make up my own mind about things without any help from people obviously less intelligent than myself (Bruce Carter, ibid.) Ha! A lot of the ``talk`` you decry on NPR is really the finest objective journalism = news we have (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) OFF-FREQUENCY TRANSMITTER QUESTION I have been bothered by this question for more than two years. Those with a special interest in transmitters may be able to chime in. Or perhaps not. I've posed the question before, but it's just now intensely spiking my curiosity. DXing mainland China stations, most stations are received on very precise frequencies. 91.50, 101.75, 107.45, etc. Frequency space in China is close -- 106.7, 106.8, 106.9 (as assigned anyway), etc. However, it seems most stations are not exactly on par with their frequency. 104.4 is heard exactly on 104.30 (one of two instances where they're so far off). 106.8 is on 106.75. However, 106.7 is right beside it on 106.7, with 106.6 on 106.65. A different 106.6 broadcasts on 106.60. The pros of this: well, if I hear 106.65, I almost always know exactly what station it is. It's different from 106.60. Different from 106.70. In the case of today (the con), 106.65 was bleeding onto both frequencies, all of which were occupied by different stations side by side. For those who are transmitter-saavy, I must ask: why do you think this situation presents itself? Even distant Korean stations are right on the frequencies (our band uses the American spacing plan). My North Korean locals, although they like to overmodulate themselves like crazy (97.8 can be heard from 97.35 straight up to 98.1), are also right on center. Is there a technology difference, maybe even a difference in how Chinese radios are built? I'm sure many of our transmitters in the US are probably made in China these days. It can't be that different. When station-owners set the transmitters up for their specific signal, do they set it up for a specific frequency? How might that affect the odd outcome of these frequencies when I tune in? For signals that come in especially strong, such as local quality, the signal does spread out and occupy the whole frequency as I'm sure it does in its local coverage area. When it does, I can still usually find the center of the signal by listening for the least distortion (now and then it's distorted no matter what frequency) and on which adjacents it spreads out onto. However, most of the signals, although often strong and even local-like, are distant and can be heard ONLY on the EXACT frequency the station is centered on. So who would center their signal off their frequency, and why? Perhaps with the short spacing, stations center slightly off to avoid interference of other nearby adjacents? Your guess is as good as mine. (Which is why I'm asking). Many DXers haven't a clue what I'm speaking of, although I'm guessing not many can tune those exact in-between frequencies as I can on my MP3 player. Without them, most of my catches would be distorted audio or even lost in the land of the in-between (Chris Kadlec, Seoul, Korea, 22 May, WTFDA via DXLD) First off, I don't know of any Chinese-made transmitters that have won FCC approval for broadcast use in the US. The vast majority of higher-powered transmitters used in the US were built in the US, most of them by large firms such as Harris (Quincy, IL), BE (also Quincy) and Continental (Dallas). In recent years, Nautel (Peggy's Cove, NS, but also with a factory in Bangor, ME) has come into favor for many high-power FM operations. For low- and medium-power use, many of the popular lower-priced transmitters come from Italy, believe it or not. Companies such as Bext, Elenos and Crown rebrand Italian-made transmitters for the US market. But I can't recall seeing ANY Chinese-made product on the floor at an NAB show (Or even Japanese, these days, though there was a time when NEC made TV transmitters for the US market). I digress: as for the center-frequency question, most transmitters these days use digital exciters. An exciter is actually a low-powered transmitters (usually in the range of 30-50 watts) that generates and modulates a signal on a precise frequency, and that lower-powered signal is then amplified by a high-powered transmitter. In North America, the relevant regulators (FCC, Industry Canada, COFETEL) mandate very precise frequency control by an FM exciter. If you're licensed to operate on 95.1 MHz, the center of your FM signal has to be within 2000 Hz of 95.1 - so it can't be any higher than 95.102 MHz or any lower than 95.098 MHz. (The relevant rule is 73.1545, which states "(b) FM stations. (1) The departure of the carrier or center frequency of an FM station with an authorized transmitter output power more than 10 watts may not exceed ?2000 Hz from the assigned frequency.") In the US, we space our FM channels at 200 kHz intervals. Other countries space them closer; in particular, it's not at all uncommon in Europe to find 50 kHz spacing, under which "106.65 MHz" is a perfectly valid channel. I don't know much about China's FM allocations policy, but my strong guess is that China allocates under 50 kHz spacing and that the stations you're listening to are intentionally transmitting at 106.65 or what have you. That seems much more plausible than the idea that a transmitter/exciter would be drifting by as much as 50 kHz. ``So who would center their signal off their frequency, and why? Perhaps with the short spacing, stations center slightly off to avoid interference of other nearby adjacents?`` Yup - that's why it's done that way in Europe. s (Scott Fybush, ibid.) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ KILOMILE FM TROPO TO TAIWAN: See JAPAN KILOMILE DTV OVERLAND UHF TV TROPO, TX to IN: See USA: KENS, etc. 5000, May 19 at 0518, WWV propbotess intones: SF 132, Ap 21, K 4 at 03; minor, G1, S1; next 24 hours forecast: G2, S1, R1. That explains why not much to report this time on SW: horrible conditions (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) SOLAR MAX NOW? BTW, does anyone know where we stand exactly with the solar cycle? It would be nice to get some F2 action later this year (Charles Gauthier, QC, WTFDA via DXLD) There were some trans-Atlantic amateur F2 contacts showing up on the DX Sherlock maps at midday. In theory, the peak is now predicted for late this Fall, with some folks suggesting even a further slip into 2014. The trouble is that over the past couple of cycles, predictions based on prior historical patterns don't seem to be accurate (Russ Edmunds, WB2BJH, 15 mi NW of Philadelphia, May 20, ibid.) This is, after all, the peak of the current solar cycle, or close to it, so no surprise that solar indices are up. But based on past solar cycles, many of us expected more. The latest forecast predicts a peak for this cycle in Fall 2013, but of course that will be determined afterward, and based on a long running average of sunspot numbers. So don't miss this one. Don't wait until a year after the peak, then lament not being on back when. Today may have the best Spring propagation for a long time. The past week saw average daily sunspot numbers increase by more than 34 points to 156.1. Average daily solar flux was up by nearly three points to 140.1. On Wednesday, May 15 the daily sunspot number was 186, the highest number since January 6-7, when the sunspot numbers were 186 and 196 (QST de W1AW, Propagation Forecast Bulletin 20 ARLP020, From Tad Cook, K7RA, Seattle, WA May 17, 2013, To all radio amateurs, via Dave Raycroft, ODXA yg via DXLD) NOTE: this log report covers two days instead of one: mainly because I had so little to report May 20, due to poor SW conditions, preoccupation. WWV reported at 1418 UT May 20: SF 135, Ap 12, K 1 at 12 UT; past and future spaceweather minor; R1 blackouts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2013 May 20 0139 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # Product description and SWPC contact on the Web # http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/weekly.html # # Weekly Highlights and Forecasts # Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 13 - 19 May 2013 Solar activity reached high levels during the week, in fact the highest levels of activity since 2013 began. Between 13 and 14 May, newly-numbered Region 1748 (N11, L=296, class/area=Eki/310) produced an X2/1n flare at 13/1605Z and an X3/2b flare at 14/0111Z. Both events produced several radio emissions. Three Tenflares were observed at 14/0115Z (640 sfu), 14/0141Z (190 sfu), and 14/0203Z (370 sfu). A Type-II radio sweep was observed at 14/0107Z with an estimated velocity of 1514 km/s, in conjunction with a Type-IV radio sweep at 14/0113Z. SDO/AIA 193A showed a flare on the East limb at N12 from 14/0009-0154 and 14/0206-0224Z. A dimming and wave was observed over the east hemisphere and North Pole. Two distinct halo coronal mass ejections (CMEs) were subsequently observed on LASCO imagery. The first appeard in C2 coronagraph imagery at 14/0125Z and grew to a full HALO CME by 14/0224Z. The second event appeared at 14/0200Z with loop edge over the East and expanded to a partial HALO 280 degrees in width. Solar activity remained at high levels on 15 May. Region 1748 grew to a Dki/beta-gamma-delta and produced an X1/2n flare at 15/0148Z associated with a Type II radio sweep (estimated shock speed 501 km/s), a Type IV radio sweep, a 440 sfu Tenflare; and a fast, assymetric halo CME. The CME speed was observed in LASCO C2 coronagraph imagery at 15/0148Z and expanded to a full HALO CME by 15/0248Z. SDO/AIA 193/211/304 showed the flare at 15/0124-0212Z which produced a faint dimming in the Northeast and North direction and a wave over the East hemisphere. The CME had and earthward component and its western flank reached Earth on 18 May at 0112Z. Activity declined to moderate levels on 16 May with a single M1 flare from Region 1748 at 16/2153Z. Moderate levels continued through 17 May when Region 1748 produced an M3/2b flare at 17/0857Z. Type II (376 km/s) and Type IV radio bursts, as well as a 420 sfu Tenflare, were observed with this event. At 17/0912Z, LASCO/C2 coronagraph imagery observed a CME erupting from the east limb. It grew to a full halo CME by 17/0948Z and was estimated to be moving at approximately 1498 km/s. The CME reached Earth on 19 May at 2221Z. The remainder of the week was dominated by low levels of activity as Region 1748 shrank to less than half its largest extent. The largest flare of the latter part of the week was a C9 observed on the east limb at 19/1750Z. The other regions on the visible disk throughout the week were relatively inactive, producing only low-level C-class activity. A 10 MeV proton flux greater than 10 pfu at geosynchronous orbit event began at 15/1325Z, reached a maximum flux of 41 pfu at 17/1720Z, and ended at 18/1445Z. The 10 MeV flux remains enhanced at the time of this report. The event was attributed to the X1/2n flare at 15/0148Z. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at normal to moderate levels all week. Geomagnetic field activity ranged from quiet to minor storm levels with the arrival of two CMEs during the week. The first CME, which was observed leaving the sun on 15 May, passed the ACE spacecraft at 18/0023Z and arrived at Earth at 18/0112Z with a 31nT sudden impulse. Activity reached minor storm levels by 18/0300Z and remained there through the end of the 0300-0600Z synoptic period. Activity then dropped to active, unsettled, then quiet levels during the subsequent periods. The following evening, active levels were observed during the 0000-0300Z synoptic period. The second CME, which left the sun on 17 May, passed the ACE spacecraft at 19/2221Z and arrived at Earth at 19/2306Z with a 29nT sudden impulse. Activity increased to active levels during the 2100- 0000Z synoptic period. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 20 MAY - 15 JUNE 2013 Solar activity is expected to be low to moderate throughout the forecast period. High levels of activity are possible through 25 May and again after 7 June associated with Region 1748. There is a chance for proton events at geosynchronous orbit, particularly through 25 May and again after 7 June associated with Region 1748. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at high levels from 24-31 May associated with a recurrent coronal hole high speed stream. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to reach minor to major storm levels on 20 May in response to the 17 May coronal mass ejection. In the absence of any Earth-directed coronal mass ejections, the remainder of the forecast period is expected to be characterized by quiet to unsettled levels of activity with the possible exception of 28 May, when another geoeffective coronal hole high speed stream becomes geoeffective and brings active levels. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2013 May 20 0139 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # Product description and SWPC contact on the Web # http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wwire.html # # 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table # Issued 2013-05-20 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2013 May 20 135 27 6 2013 May 21 130 8 3 2013 May 22 125 15 3 2013 May 23 125 12 3 2013 May 24 125 8 3 2013 May 25 120 5 2 2013 May 26 115 5 2 2013 May 27 110 5 2 2013 May 28 105 15 4 2013 May 29 105 10 3 2013 May 30 100 5 2 2013 May 31 100 5 2 2013 Jun 01 105 5 2 2013 Jun 02 110 5 2 2013 Jun 03 120 5 2 2013 Jun 04 120 5 2 2013 Jun 05 120 5 2 2013 Jun 06 125 5 2 2013 Jun 07 125 5 2 2013 Jun 08 125 5 2 2013 Jun 09 130 5 2 2013 Jun 10 135 5 2 2013 Jun 11 135 8 3 2013 Jun 12 140 12 3 2013 Jun 13 140 8 3 2013 Jun 14 135 5 2 2013 Jun 15 125 5 2 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1670, DXLD) P.I.G. Bulletin 130519 Solar & Geomagnetic activity forecast the period May 21 - Jun 16, 2013 Solar activity will continue to fluctuate at solar flux levels between 100 - 145 s.f.u. during next few weeks. Occurrence of isolated C class flares is expected, isolated M class flares are likely, X flares are exceptionally possible. Geomagnetic field will be: quiet on May 25 - 26, 30, June 4 - 8, mostly quiet on May 24, 27, June 2, 9 - 10, 15 - 16, quiet to unsettled on May 22 - 23, 29, 31, June 1, 3, 14, quiet to active on May 21, June 11, active to disturbed on May 28, June 12 - 13. Growing in solar wind may cause remarkable changes in magnetosphere and ionosphere on May 22 - 23, 25 and June 2, 5, 12. 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) ###