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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/ ** ALGERIA [non]. FRANCE, 7295, 0403-, Radio Algerienne Chaîne 1, May 22. Very good reception with a lengthy instrumental anthem. Into Arabic programming. I had thought that there might be some French, but no luck. I'm hearing a slight echo, presumably from short/long path propagation. Into Qur`anic sounding chants at 0407 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7295, May 26 at 0458, no signal from RTA via FRANCE! South Africa 7285 and Tunisia 7275 are audible as usual; other RTA relay on 9535 is going with Qur`an. At 0459, 7295 is back on with tone test, 0500 join Arabic in progress, poor signal, not // 9535. Altho HFCC shows 7295 at 0400-0500 on 162 degree antenna, and 0500-0600 on 194 degrees, Aoki shows a break at 0458-0500 but both before and after on 162 degrees. Another good example of putting together info from two or three different sources to get the full, correct picture, i.e. they do take a break for the antenna change (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS. 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 13-21) Unfortunately this update arrived too late to include on WOR 1670`s very first item (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANGOLA. Radio Nacional de Angola - Luanda - 4950 - Ondas Tropicais Pessoal, Segue um pequeno vídeo de uma escuta da Radio Nacional de Angola em 4950 kHz – Ondas tropicais em janeiro ultimo, quando as condições estavam razoavelmente boas para a Africa. A escuta dessa emissora de Luanda (Mulenvos) é difícil e o áudio chega sempre baixo. Pela internet é fácil escuta-la, é so digitar no Google. Recentemente não tenho escutado mais essa emissora! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXJl1TfmSD4&list=UUSPPkEk74_G3q1wVP1aUuWg A esculta foi em Caicó/RN. Receptor utilizado foi sony 7600gr e loop´blindada caseira. 73 (Marcelo Pera, PY2AE, Valinhos/SP, Radio – IC 756 PRO III, Antena – 40 metros directional PP5UA – 15 mts de altura, Slopper 80 metros, May 26, radioescutas yg via DXLD) 4949.8, RNA-Canal "A", Mulenvos, 2150-, 24/5, canções e música; 35321. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I assume the O=1 is influenced by low modulation to boot? (gh, DXDLD) 4949,751, May 25 2100, Luanda, Angola nu med bra modulation. Prat PP. 3+ SA 4949.751, May 25 2100, Luanda, now with good modulation. Talk in Portuguese. 3 + (Stig Adolfsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin May 26, translated by editor Thomas Nilsson for DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4949.75, 25/5 2338, Rádio Nacional Angola, nice songs, fair (Giampiero Bernardini blog, QTH: Pescia (Pistoia) Toscana, RX: Excalibur Pro - ANT: 30 meters wire, 60 meters windom by A. Capra; Accessori: 2 way antenna splitter RF-Systems SP-2; via dxldyg via DXLD) Rádio Nacional, 4949.74, Mulenvos. May 29, 2013 Wednesday. 0159-0210. Portuguese talk and pop music. Time pips at 0200, At 0203 (twice) ID “Rádio Nacional d'Angola”, into more talk and brief music, another ID at 0204, also mentioned “Luanda” then into Portuguese song. Fair. Jo'burg sunrise 0446 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARCTICA. 15476.0, [Wed] May 15 2015, Tentative LRA36. A weak carrier was also noted here in Ängelholm. There was a break in the transmission between 2025 to 2048. Almost no audio detectable (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin May 26 via DXLD) [non]. 15476, 1820-, LRA36, May 22, Hoping to hear this station, but nothing noted hear at this time. At same time BBC via UAE in Arabic at good level on 15480 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [A-DX] Log: LRA 36, Base Esperanza, Antarktis, 15476 kHz, 1935 UT, May 23, SIO 242. Heute ist zumindest wieder einmal der Träger aus der Antarktis zu sehen. 73 (Christoph Ratzer, Austria, http://remotedx.wordpress.com A-DX via Wolfgang Büschel, WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DXLD) only a carrier is visible, says he ANTARCTIC ARGENTINE, 15476.006 kHz, LRA 36, Base Esperanza, May 27 [Monday], 2030-2045 UT, Andean Latin American music in Spanish. S=5-6 signal in Perseus network receiver unit. Frequency is not stable tonight, signal wandered from x.005 to x.009 kHz during 20 minutes. TX OFF exact at 2102:42 UT. Frequency wandered on this hour from 15476.005 to 15476.009 kHz, back to x.007 kHz and forward to x.009 kHz again. On adjacent channel BBC Arabic from Oman relay was fluttery on 15480 kHz, only S=6 same level like LRA36. 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Heute Abend gegen 1930 UT durchaus hörbares Signal aus der Antarktis. 73, Christoph Ratzer, Austria, Tuesday May 28, via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) BBC Oman 15480 stärker als gestern, LRA36 gleich schwach oder schwächer als gestern, heute auf 15476.002 kHz um 2047 UT May 28. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, A-DX via wb, DXLD) Message from LRA36 Antarctica base self yesterday: "We are back on air from 1800 to 2100 UT on 15476 kHz." Gr[eetings]. 73, (Maurits Van Driessche, Belgium, May 28, WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENING DIGEST) LRA36 off today. LRA36 erst morgen wieder auf Sendung. Heute am 29.5. ist Feiertag der argentinischen Armee. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Wednesday, Viz.: Subject: Hoy no hay TX de LRA36 Wolfgang, esto aparece hoy en el Facebook del programa de LRA36 Junto A Vos: "Muy buenos dias!! le comunicamos que hoy miércoles 29 de mayo, no salimos al aire, por ser el Día del Ejercito. Mañana retomaremos nuestra transmisión como todos los dias de lunes a viernes de 15 a 18 hora argentina y de 18 a 21 UT. Gracias" Atte. (CE3BBC, Hugo López C., Santiago de Chile, May 29 via Wolfgang Büschel, WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RR to juntoavosant@yahoo.com.ar or via their Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/junto.avos.756 On May 29 (yesterday), they were off the air since they commemorated the Day of the Argentine Army ("Día del Ejército Argentino"). Nice photo of the female personnel from the "Junto Vos" Facebook profile: http://i.imgur.com/XQ7yoxJ.jpg Gloria Boni, Analía Soledad Correa, Gladys Acuña, Gabriela Bruzzo in Esperanza Base, Antarctica. Direct link to photo: http://i.imgur.com/XQ7yoxJ.jpg http://i.imgur.com/hHpklOu.jpg Direct link to photo: http://i.imgur.com/hHpklOu.jpg (info via their FB page, via Nigro, Uruguay, may 30). 73 & dx DE (Horacio Nigro Geolkiewsky, Montevideo, Uruguay, Mi blog: "La Galena del Sur", DXLD) Per TLC with the operator at Base Esperanza, Sergio Lucero, he confirms the sked of LRA36 as M to F 1800-2100. The 10 kW original transmitter has been repaired but due to power restrictions (a small power generator) the current output is 1.2 to 1.5 kW (Alejandro Álvarez, LU8YD, Neuquen, Argentina, in Condiglist YG, May 30 via Nigro, Uruguay, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. Dúvidas --- amigos, estou escutando há dias em 1670 a noite a R Rubi(?) em espanhol mas não consigo entender e eles repetem muito pouco de onde ela é. Pela posição da antena pode ser do Paraguai. Algum me dá uma ajuda. Outra, hoje de manhã 5 horas local a Rádio Gaúcha chagava bem limpinha e forte. Vou passar tudo em log daqui uns dias. Quem me ajuda na 1670 kc? Abraço (Xico Luiz, Fazenda Alto Alegre - Campos Belos (Inhuporanga) -Caridade - CE, 4 5' 43'' S, 39 2' 46'' W, Icom R75, Quantum Phaser com antena unifilar de 80m, May 27, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Xico, Essa rádio é de Rafael Castillo, região metropolitana de Buenos Aires, Argentina. É especializada no gênero musical "chamamé", muito popular no cone sul da América. A Rubi tem chegado bem para mim em Manaus nos últimos dias. Nessa época, temos boa abertura para Argentina e Paraguai aqui no Norte do Brasil. 73 (Arthur Antonio Raimundo, Manaus AM Brasil, 03º05'41" S, 60º01'57" W, FI96XV, ibid.) La Matanza, Argentina (Sarmento Campos, Brasil, ibid.) Tenho notado, pelos logs frequentes, que as emissoras da Argentina e Paraguai tem entrado bem no centro, norte e nordeste do país e parece, melhor que no Rio Grande do Sul. Outra particularidade que se nota é a facilidade com que se sintoniza as emissoras da banda X, 1600 a 1700 kHz. Faz lembrar-me os relatos de minha mãe que me dizia que sintonizava muito bem em Pelotas, no extremo sul do Rio Grande, emissora do Rio (Radio Clube) e outra poucas do Brasil, Uruguai e Argentina, (não passavam de meia dúzia) e isto de dia ou de noite. A potência das emissoras eram muito pequenas e os receptores, muitos "regenerativos"; eram também sofríveis. Qual a explicação? A propagação era outra? O ar (éter) era limpo com apenas algumas emissoras? Parece que era a pequena quantidade de emissoras irradiando, como é o caso hoje, da banda X que me parece, existir somente na Argentina na América do Sul. 73 (Sergio Diogo Senna, PU3WWW Porto Alegre RS, ibid.) Efectivamente Sergio! Argentina tiene la mayor actividad en la XBand. Desafortunadamente, las emisoras activas en este segmento de la banda son en su mayoría no autorizadas y de contenido religioso. Asimismo tienen equipamiento precario y por eso vas a observar frecuentes cortes de transmisiones. La mayoria no verifican ni tienen interés alguno en los reportes. Si escuchas cualquiera, no dudes en consultarme y con gusto te ayudaré a determinar de qué radio se trata. Naturalmente hago extensivo este ofrecimiento a todos los colegas Radioescutas. 73s Enviado desde mi BlackBerry de Personal (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, ibid.) ** ARGENTINA. 13363.6, LTA Armed Forces, Buenos Aires, 2045 26 May, LSB mode program relay, 23333 (Mauro - Giroletti -Swl 1510- -IK2GFT- - JRC525Nrd - Lowe HF150- Filter PAR Electronics - BCST-LPF + BCST-HPF- DSP 9 -Eavesdropper SWL Sloper 11mt to 120mt Band- Loop ALA 100 M; - Lat. 45 25'0" N Long. 9 7'0" E -Locator grid. Jn 45 Nk- bclnews.it yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DXLD) 13363.5-LSB, UT Monday May 27 at 0058, LTA with play-by-play in Argentine Spanish of something involving a pelota, at least two very excited announcers, still going past 0102. First time heard in several weeks, as I seek this every evening along with my Chaski-chex on 5980. 15345v LRA also audible in AM on its Sunday night extension (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. 6060, RAE, Mayo 29 a las 2245 UT. Relato de fútbol con sobre modulación en español y con fading. Además es una programación completamente distinta a 15345; probablemente es un feed de RN de Argentina, pero no RN Buenos Aires de 870 de Onda Media a aquella hora y que produce armónicos [sic; espurios] desde los 5920 hasta los 5990 aproximadamente que impiden escuchar todo en aquel intervalo. SINPO: 54341. 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) [and non]. 11710.8, RAE, Mayo 25 a las 0400 UT, vía General Pacheco (BUE). Al comenzar la transmisión en chino existe un pitido suave que no tapa la señal, pero a veces molesta la audición por lo demasiado agudo. A las 0403 comienza el saludo completamente en chino y comienzo de noticias en el mismo idioma matizada con música folclórica y pop de Argentina y Latinoamérica. Como comentario técnico, se puede decir que: existe cada cierto tiempo un siseo proveniente de 11715 R. Vaticano vía Santa Maria di Galeria, además de mucho ruido atmosférico, un pitido suave y modulación un poco baja. SINPO: 33333 (Claudio Galaz, Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Coaxial de 5 Ohms de 20 Metros, Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) 15344.77, 24/5 2114, RAE, German program, good (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Italy, Qualche ascolto a Pescia in Toscana, RX: Excalibur Pro; ANT: 30 meters wire, 60 meters windom by A. Capra; Acc: 2 way antenna splitter RF-Systems SP-2, playdx yg via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. 1611, 1255-, unid, May 23. At least 4 carriers noted here: 1611.005, 1611.016, 1610.909, and 1610.921, so unable to make out much audio! 1674.034, 1246-, Vision Radio Network, May 23. Surprisingly good reception of the X-band at my local dawn with American accented preaching. Another carrier on 1673.999, but unable to hear anything on that carrier (slightly weaker than Brisbane). 1683.273, 1249-, Radio Club AM, May 23. Presumably them with good reception, but with deep fades with Greek sounding music. 1701.062, 1251-, ?Radio Brisvaani, May 23. Two stations seen here, measuring 1701.062 with Hindi sounding music, so perhaps Radio Brisvaani in Brisbane. Another carrier, almost as strong is on 1701.024. Perhaps the two stations are mixing their audio, so a little difficult to be certain! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 2368.484, 1216-, Radio Symban, May 23. Listened about an hour ago, and signal was just barely there. Quite listenable now, with talk in presumed Samoan (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 2325 kHz, 1135-, ABC Tennant Creek, May 23. Fair level with talk about US entertainment news. Parallel 2485 Katherine is much stronger. 4835 Alice Springs very good, with 2001 A Space Odyssey's theme song at 1138. 2325, 1309-, ABC Northern Service, May 23. ID for ABC Alice Springs. Talk show about electric cars. Good/very good reception, well after my local dawn (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 2485, VL8K Katherine NT, 1010 to 1030 with music, threshold signal on 22 May. 1030 to 1040 with audio on 18 May (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, Icom 746Pro - Drake R8, 25 May, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 4835, ABC Alice Springs NT, 1158, May 25 with live coverage of the Richmond Tigers vs Essendon Bombers AFL matchup; // with RA on 5995, 6080, 6140 (via Singapore ), 6150, 9580 and 12065; RA cut away for ID and news at ToH and after that back to live coverage; ABC continued with coverage at ToH; game ended at 1217 (Ron Howard, CA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA [and non]. May 23 had repeat of the same RA message as heard yesterday. https://www.box.com/s/xebko4fghc1wmfwvf6vr contains brief MP3 audio (Ron Howard, CA, May 23, ibid.) 6150, May 24 at 1240, R. Australia with classical piano music instead of usual programming; except for WTWW 5830, it`s the SSOB, well atop RHC Spanish collision until 1300*. Before then I hear the same music // on other RA frequencies, 9475, 11945, 12065; 1254 announced as Beethoven`s Op 2, No 2 played by Arrau, time 5<11 on ``ABC Classic FM``, then choral piece; 1300 no RA IS or theme, or even news, but switch to `Jazz Up Late`. Announcer mentioned several platforms but NOT RA or SW! Not even aware of his suddenly acquired worldwide audience? Starts with music from a festival sponsored by WKCR in NY. At 1313 I find this also replaces RA Chinese on 11665 (now clashing with Malaysia), and clear but delayed at 1338 check via PALAU on 9965, so presumably also on 9475 now blocked by 9479 WTWW. I was checking this because on May 22 and 23 at *1259, Ron Howard had been hearing R. Australia announce this on 11665: "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". Affects not only English but Chinese; no other languages scheduled until 2200-2330 Indonesian on 9695 via UAE, 11695 Shep, presumably also to be replaced. What in the world is going on? A planned strike at RA? Melbourne studio down for maintenance? Experiment with new programming format?? Website does not explain it, but correctly shows current programming as from ABC Classic FM, altho elsewhere still linx to the RA/National programs which are ordinarily carried. The approx. span for this anomaly converted to UT would be: 1230 UT Friday to 0200 UT Saturday. Here`s the Classic FM website: http://www.abc.net.au/classic/ And the Saturday program schedule: http://www.abc.net.au/classic/programs/saturday.htm Check after 7 am Saturday = 2100 UT Friday on 21740. `Weekend Breakfast` is on until 2300: ``There's plenty to enjoy on my weekend breakfast menu - from Bach to Broadway, chamber music to comedy.`` Starting at 2100 with Rustic Dance by Percy Grainger. http://www.abc.net.au/classic/program/weekendbreakfast/ And at 2300-2400 when 19000 is also on, `Keys to Music`: http://www.abc.net.au/classic/program/keystomusic/ A Bach cantata, and part of Britten`s War Requiem. At 0000-0200, `Your Requests`. 21740 goes off at 0100. It`s great to hear classical on SW (jazz already existed in small doses on RA, VOA), and RA ought to divvy up its multiple frequencies so some of them keep with ABC Classic FM after this anomaly. Dream on (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I also sent the above item directly to Nigel Holmes on May 24, and got this auto-reply already! ``YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE Radio Australia Transmission Management will cease at 0500 UT Friday 7 June 2013. E-mails sent to holmes.nigel @ abc.net.au will not be read after this date. After this date all operational and day-to-day enquiries concerning Radio Australia HF (shortwave) matters should be directed to Gary Baxter e-mail) baxter.gary @ abc.net.au tel) +612 8333 4623 Matters concerning RA distribution policy, contract management and RA relay partnerships should be directed in the first instance to Anne Milne e-mail) milne.anne @ abc.net.au tel ) +612 8333 1162 For urgent on-air matters requiring immediate assistance please contact MCR + 613 9626 1334.`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Notice that the phone numbers are in Sydney except the immediate assistance one which is in Melbourne. Looks as if programming will now come from Sydney and not Melbourne. I heard whispers that there was a complete management cleanout in Melbourne. Also the days of RA Asian stream are numbered at least on HF (Robin Harwood, Tasmania, VK7RH/VK7002SWL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn - As of June 7, Radio Australia is being merged into Australia Network, the international division of the ABC which previously operated only the international television network. John Westland, Roger Broadbent and Nigel Holmes are either retiring or will have been made redundancies as of that date. Radio Australia ceases to exist as an independent entity within the ABC, as I understand things. As to the programming anomalies, your guess is as good as mine. It may be due to the transition in responsibility taking place at Shepparton- - and I think this is the most likely reason. But it could also presage a much larger transition within RA itself, including its programming. As a regular listener via both HF and the internet, I can say that there has been no announcement whatsoever within RA's regular programming of any changes coming at all. Unfortunately, as we've witnessed all to often, managements today seem to feel they have no responsibility whatsoever to inform their clientele -- employees or listeners -- ahead of time of what they are planning. I'll see if any of my contacts at RA that remain (however briefly) can shed any further light (John Figliozzi, May 24, WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11665, ABC Classic FM via RA, 1325-1358, May 24 (Friday). As already announced for the last few days, RA programming was pre-empted today with special music show; non-stop jazz with ID at 1356 for “ABC Classic FM”; poor (mixing with strong signal of Wai FM). Noted // 6150 (good), 9580 (good) and 12065 (fair) (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn - What we may have been experiencing is a switching error somewhere within the bowels of RA or the ABC. I've been listening to the RA Pacific Service internet stream this afternoon and -- all of a sudden-about four minutes ago, what sounds like the usual RA programming is now overlaid on the ABC Classic FM classical music program. As I mentioned, there are a lot of personnel and other changes taking place at RA -- including at the Shepparton transmitter station. To put it in Australian parlance, this just might be a giant cock-up brought on by either the usual poor planning we seem to experience more and more today in broadcasting OR some sort of surreptitious job action by some not at all enamored with the changes in place and coming. I won't be able to hear 21740 until 2100 here, so another hour to wait to hear how this is going over on HF (John Figliozzi, NY, 1959 UT May 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) It's not the RA Pacific stream that's overlaid, it's the ABC Grandstand feed that is relaying ABC Victoria. The Classic FM stream is still on there too. What a mess. Can't wait to hear what 21740 sounds like (Figliozzi, 2012 UT May 24, ibid.) Hello? Isn't anybody minding the store at RA? I'm getting two feeds overlaid on one another --- Classic FM and Melbourne Local Radio -- on the RA Pacific stream and nothing on the RA Asia stream. Can't believe no one is charge of monitoring the output. Waiting for 21740 to sign on at 2100 to hear what's going out over HF (John Figliozzi, Halfmoon, NY, 2019 UT May 24, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I have a weak signal on 15515 at 2045. Hearing classical music apparently without the ABC Local Radio pile-up noted on the RA Pacific internet feed (John Figliozzi, Halfmoon, NY, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Here's the situation at 2120 UT from my monitoring: On HF: 21740 and 15515 in parallel with a relay of ABC Classic FM. On Internet: Both RA Pacific stream and RA Asia stream with a clashing mix of ABC Classic FM and ABC Victoria (Local Radio) I also received a reply (apparently automated since it is early morning Saturday in Australia) from Anne Milne, COO of ABC International, one of the responsible parties referenced from Nigel Holmes' final e-mail reply, to my e-mail informing about the anomalies in RA's HF and internet transmissions. It stated: "Dear Mr Figliozzi Thank you for your feedback and interest in Radio Australia. Kind regards Anne Milne Chief Operating Officer ABC International" (John Figliozzi, Halfmoon, NY, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 21740, May 24 at 2214, ABC Classic FM via R. Australia, enjoyed while we could, in substitute for usual programming, something from Orfeu ed Euridice concluding, later Respighi. Seems this wake-up show plays only short pieces. Still classical at recheck 0055 a few minutes before closing when 19000 is also on. Keith Perron explains, ``As we relay Radio Australia mornings and afternoons on our local FM relay in Taipei, I just discovered an email that came in from Radio Australia distribution saying there was a major electrical fault at the South Bank Studios and that all scheduled Radio Australia programming will be changed all day Saturday. Nigel Holmes is retiring from Radio Australia. John Westland is also retiring from Radio Australia. In July a new program schedule will be coming out. The RA Transmissions department is being merged with ABC International [Television]`` [WORLD OF RADIO 1671] Brace yourself for further shakeups in Radio Australia transmissions and programming! As in previous auto-reply, June 7 appears to be the effective date for the end of RA as its own station. Anyhow it was only Classic on 21740 by the time I tuned in (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) That explains it, Keith. All back to normal when I checked again at 0220 UT Saturday (John Figliozzi, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Things seemed normal this morning for RA. Heard them on 21740, 19000 & one of the 15 MHz frequencies (15415, IIRC) in the early hours of May 25 UT around 0000. 19000 was the best. Coming in strong and solid as usual on 9580 from 0700 until they faded out around 1430Z (Greg Putrich, Minneapolis, MN, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11665, RA at 1321 on May 25 with “Saturday Night Country” in English with C&W songs; mixing with Wai FM (Malaysia); pre-empted their normal Chinese service; // with other RA frequencies (6150, etc.) (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Australia / Australia Network merger Let me remind of the background of all this: The ABC has won the contract to operate the external TV service, called Australia Network, and will merge it with Radio Australia. Cf. http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/2012-08-31/government-confirms-funding-for-newlook-australia-network/1009166 So it was to be expected that they wind up the ABC International management in its previous incarnation at Melbourne. For now Radio Australia programming apparently still originates there ("For urgent on-air matters requiring immediate assistance please contact MCR" and Melbourne phone number for master control room, Melbourne control room or something like this), but under these circumstances presumably indeed not for much longer. And of course one can imagine the role of radio in the future "integrated multimedia service". If not: Just take a look at Deutsche Welle (Kai Ludwig, Germany, May 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, it would seem -- most sadly -- that the philistines* are now fully in charge. (*Merriam Webster def.: "a : a person who is guided by materialism and is usually disdainful of intellectual or artistic values b : one uninformed in a special area of knowledge".) (John Figliozzi Halfmoon, NY, May 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGESET) Re: why Classic FM? G'day Glenn, We had a planned mains power shut-down at ABC Southbank Centre (home of RA & Victorian domestic ABC TV & Radio). It was suggested that RA could take Radio National (RA carries a fair bit of their programming anyway), but the Power That Be decided Classic FM would do nicely thank you. Good listening. All the best (Nigel Holmes, RA, May 27, WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Nigel leaves Radio Australia [his own subject line] It's the old conflict between TV & radio - plus the modern broadcasters' mentality that web stream & mobile platforms rule the roost. => "old school broadcasters" - even relatively young ones like me... - don't understand the new scene and need to be swept away. I can't complain, after 20+ years in RA I need to be refreshed. I will still be found on the HF scene. Maybe not broadcasting, but an allied area. I'll send you my new work e-mail shortly. I intend to join ARDXC. Kind regards, (Nigel Holmes, RA, May 27 to gh via WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENNG DIGEST) 6132 & 6168 approx., May 28 at 1148, very distorted matching spurblobs, can`t tell language, but likely out of RHC 6150 midway between them --- NO, not // 9850, but instead // 9580, so it`s Shepparton which is out of order. RA fundamental 6150 sounds OK, atop QubaRM. In organizational shakeup, longtime RA personnel including Nigel Holmes are leaving as of June 7, so expect a downgrading in technical support (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6150, May 29 at 1208, only RHC is audible here, no R. Australia (unless it`s an open carrier mixing, virtually zero-beat as normally the case); following yesterday`s spur-spewing plus and minus 18 kHz: maybe under repair. RA still audible weakly on 6140 via Singapore, and on 5995-AM, not DRM via Brandon. Also before 1200 heard it on 9560, a former frequency, but that must have been a leapfrog in the receiver due to overload, 9580 over CRI/Cuba 9570. At 1230-1300 Wednesday May 29, on VG 12065 and 9580, listened to RA with `Law Report`, interesting discussion about class-actions against airlines following crashes, e.g. Myanmar, with a London lawyer specializing in those. Bottom line: buy your tickets in a first-world country where you have better settlement rights in the fine print, but it`s all very complex and murky (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Nigel, In case you are not aware, you have a big problem with 11665 after 1300 UT, since Malaysia has already been running a 100 kW service from the west back to Sarawak for some time. I believe it`s 24 hours. Why did you move off 11660, China? Anyhow, somewhere else is needed. Regards, (Glenn Hauser, May 22, to Nigel Holmes, via DXLD) Hello Glenn, Thanks again. We are going to try another 11 MHz. My replacement will be handling it. Cheers, (Nigel, RA, May 29, WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 15400, 2342-, HCJB, May 22. Much weaker than the 2230 transmission in Mandarin on 15525. Just above threshold level. No IS anymore from HCJB, just some relaxing music, and IDs interspersed. 15525, 2229-, HCJB, May 22. English and Chinese announcements. Good morning and welcome to HCJB Global. About an S5 signal, but in the clear. Following the English ID, into Mandarin programming (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15400, HCJB, Mayo 29 a las 2345 UT, Comienzo de la programación en idioma indonesio con música instrumental y reflexiones en el mismo idioma. A las 2355 comienza una pequeña predicación que dura hasta las 2359. La señal es estable aunque con baja modulación. SINPO: 34434. 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) ** AUSTRALIA. BIG SWITCH OFF IS HERE AS TV INDUSTRY MOVES TO DIGITAL AGE --- Kiri Ten Dolle 28th May 2013 6:00 AM http://www.qt.com.au/news/mammoth-tv-switch/1884274/ AS ANALOG television signals are switched off today, Ipswich antenna technicians are preparing for the biggest change in television transmission history. Ipswich and Brisbane TV station frequencies will be reshuffled on June 27 in the final step in moving Australia to digital-only television. Channels will be restacked to free up 126 megahertz of broadcasting spectrum, known as the digital dividend, to make way for the next generation of communications, including super-fast mobile broadband on the 4G network. UHF/VHF Antenna Installations technician Gordon Jamieson said all SBS and community TV services, including Bris31, in Ipswich and Brisbane would be affected. "On June 27, some TVs will come up with a notice to say you have new channels available, push OK and it will come up automatically," he said. "Others will wake up in the morning and there will be nothing there. "They need to go into menu using the remote control and retune their digital TV, set-top box or digital TV recorder by following the prompts." He said he expected more channels to become available now the digital switchover had been completed as it allowed more than one broadcaster to use the same frequency. Lady on the Roof antenna technician Cheryl-Anne De Lima said the television restack was "the biggest change to television transmission in history". The first of the high-frequency digital dividend spectrum 700MHz and 2.5GHz bands were auctioned on May 7 to Optus, Telstra and TPG Internet, generating nearly $2 billion in revenue for the Federal Government. Ms De Lima said the ultra-high frequency spectrum, previously used for broadcasting services, was highly valued for delivering wireless communications services. The top end of the spectrum will be cleared to make way for a once-in- a-generation opportunity to improve communication services. "We're expecting to be busy in the coming months with those who have left it to the last minute to make the digital switch, and more so with reorganisation of some stations," she said. "It is still unknown whether internet and broadband devices to use the spectrum could interrupt television signals." Australian Communications and Media Authority chairman Chris Chapman said the reallocation of radio frequency bands would allow telcos Optus, Telstra and TPG to use the spectrum for wireless broadband services. He said the digital dividend was able to carry signals over long distances, penetrate buildings and carry large amounts of data. "By making spectrum previously required for analog television transmissions available to meet rising demand for high-speed wireless broadband, the digital dividend auction will well position the Australian telecommunications industry to deliver fast, ubiquitous and symmetrical mobile broadband connectivity to consumers and industry," Mr Chapman said. The retune is due to be completed nationally by December 31. For details about the retune, or to sign up for an SMS or email reminder, see the website at digitalready.gov.au/retune or call the Digital Ready Information Line on 1800 20 10 13. TV SWITCH-OVER 92% of households in the Brisbane switch-over region have converted to digital TV. By the end of 2013 analogue free-to-air TV signals throughout Australia will be switched off and free-to-air TV will be broadcast in digital-only (via Blaine Thompson, IN, May 27, WTFDA via DXLD) TV station BTQ switches off analog with nifty tribute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2J0VNauRP0 (via Blaine Thompson, May 27, ABDX via DXLD) [From MEXICO below:] Since Mexico, like Australia, has this absurd tradition of naming its national networks by the original channel number occupied in the source city, and remapping is now in the offing, will those start displaying the original network brand channel; or the former RF channel of the ex-analog relay transmitters, which have always been incidental and different in every city? Some of the networks have been getting away from this, but Azteca remains branded to ``13`` and ``7``. It would be as if network TV in the USA had become known as ``2`` for all CBS affiliates, ``4`` for all NBC, and ``7`` for all ABC --- even tho that setup hardly extended beyond NY and LA, already nonsensical in Third City = Chicago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Well, in Aussie's case if you go back far enough before "network" TV, you might appreciate why. The major state capitals (sorry, Hobart) are geographically far enough apart to allow the use of same-channel assignments for matching services: the ABC and (initially two) commercial outlets, Ch 2 for ABC, 7 & 9 for commercial operators. But why does it matter? You can't tune/watch Oz TV. The world doesn't have to revolve around North American sensibilities (Theo Donnelly, BC, ex-NZ, DX LISTENING DIGEST) So that`s how it started. There you go again, accusing me of provincialism. I am being rational and logical. It makes no sense anywhere to name an entire network for an originating channel number when it will necessarily appear on other channels in various parts of the country. Oh, so I have to be able to pick up a service in order to comment upon it? The remapping thing remains an intriguing possibility for realigning numberclature. (Glenn Hauser, ODXA yg via DXLD) Er, accusing you of what? You expressed an opinion of an "absurd tradition"; I offered a reason of why the factual situation exists (TD, ibid.) ``North American sensibilities`` == provincialism (gh) ** AZERBAIJAN. 9677, Talyisistan or Justice are not received here or they just stopped transmissions? (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, Sunday 26 May, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BAHRAIN. 9745, 24/5 2233, Radio Bahrain, songs, USB only modulated [with] carrier, fair/good (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Italy, Qualche ascolto a Pescia in Toscana, RX: Excalibur Pro; ANT: 30 meters wire, 60 meters windom by A. Capra; Acc: 2 way antenna splitter RF- Systems SP-2, playdx yg via DXLD) ** BANGLADESH. 15505, 1357-, Bangla Desh Betar, May 23. Tone from 1357, followed by south Asian IS. Noticeable transmitter hum, but generally a very good signal. Time pips, 30 seconds early, and ID. Mentions of Bangla Desh, Pakistan, and Urdu. Measured a bit off- frequency at 15505.030 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15505, May 27 at 1359, BB IS is JBA with flutter; enough to make out the timesignal ending at 1359:41.5, way early as usual. Had not been audible at all for a few days. The ionosphere is behaving as if we are at solar max. 15505, May 28 at 1359, BB IS with hum is JBA; should have been sufficient to audiblize off-timesignal, but none detected by 1359:40 when announcement starts and theme music. 15505, May 29 at 1358, BB IS on VP signal, but enough today to detect the timesignal ending at 1359:33, a bit earlier than usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BENIN. Audible carrier here in Victoria on 1566.000 kHz, smeared over a couple of Hertz; so [TWR, Parakou] Benin is back for its tantalizing midsummer visits? Anybody else hearing this? Best wishes, (Nick Hall-Patch, Victoria BC, UT May 28 IRCA via WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DXLD) Oooo, I have a 0500z recording (local midnight here) from Mon morning on the east broadside array. This has just over a 60 degree beamwidth at 1566 at very low angles and should be perfect for Benin. Conditions were good to the east that night with NYC in decently on 1280 and 1600 and Montreal 1410 in again, so at least the first hop was working well. 73 KAZ Barrington IL (Neil Kazaross, ibid.) OMG, big carrier and some weak audio from 0500:30 to 0501 !!! I have some other recordings but most are from earlier as on other days and no trace on any 0300 recording. Not new here as I has some religious audio and talk a few years ago in March in good high end conditions. Never had any TA audio here in IL before between mid May and late Aug. OK, it`s official; I am sold on superb directivity. From WI I've had TA audio in every month, but that site overlooking Lake Michigan is way better towards the east than here. 73 KAZ, Perseus and Broadside array of two Double KAZ (each 21 ft x 120 ft) spaced 260 ft and aimed east from Barrington IL (Neil Kazaross, ibid.) With thanks to Nick H-P for alerting me last night to this "annual" event; I'm watching 1566 this evening, having begun about 0410 UT. Using Jaguar's "Tractor" magnified spectrum timeline (like Zoom tool in Perseus but with an extended time history), I'm seeing a blurred trace at about 1565.995 kHz (after calibration). It seems to be very slowly strengthening. Last year this time, Ilpo Parviainen in Finland reported that he found Benin hovering mostly around 1565.998 (Guy Atkins, Puyallup, WA, May 29, IRCA via WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DXLD) I checked it at 2230 close-down, it was very close to nominal, I'd say not lower than 1565.9998 kHz. 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, May 29, IRCA via DXLD) The carrier was faintly audible again tonight Mauno, 0415 UT, about 10 minutes after local sunset. It's a little less smeared this evening, spread only over about 1 Hz, and centered about 1566.9997, but I'd guess my accuracy is +/- 0.2 Hz at best, so pretty much spot on the channel for all intents and purposes. Unfortunately, it faded out by 0430, so my attempt to see if it fades at Benin sunrise may not be successful. Best wishes, (Nick Nall-Patch, BC, UT May 30, ibid.) Quite visible and audible het here at 0435, carrier about 18 db above the floor. 73 (Don Moman, VE6JY, Lamont, Alberta, ibid.) Nick, I've been watching the carrier for the last 1/2 hour or so (now 0436 UT). It's visible on my Perseus but just very weakly. Far away from audio in any case. Seems to be gradually getting stronger. I'm seeing it only with my north directed corner fed loop. Nil on the west facing loop, and the ALA 100 LN loop. Spoke too soon, now visible on the ALA as well (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria BC, ibid.) I'm seeing a weak carrier at 0446 on 1566.000, as near as I can tell. It's very irregular, poking up out of the noise like a prairie dog, then diving back down. About 10 db above the noise at best (Bruce Portzer, Seattle WA, ibid.) Noted in Puyallup at 0510 UT with a much better signal than last night, and right at 1566.0000, after resetting calibration in Jaguar. Antenna used is a Wellbrook ALA1530S+. 73, (Guy Atkins, Puyallup, WA, ibid.) Well, it's 0525, and the 1566 carrier is pretty much inaudible, a few blips of signal left in the Spectran display, and that's it. But a few minutes before, quite a definite carrier on the channel. Best wishes, (Nick Hall-Patch, ibid.) Yes, it pretty much disappeared here too by 0525. 73, (Guy Atkins, Puyallup, WA, ibid.) Zilch now at 0610, so not surprising. I measured exactly 1566.000 on the Perseus as well. 73 fellas (Walt Salmaniw, ibid.) So these guys are getting it in the Pacific northeast – should be no less audible further east, right? Not on ordinary equipment, but I checked anyway around 0500 one night. WRTH says morning broadcast starts at 0315, until 0555, with 100 kW. Parakou is in central Benin, well north of Cotonou. The direct path to Victoria exits Africa circa the Morocco/Sahara border, across Açores, enters North America across mid-Labrador, misses USA entirely. The bearing of Parakou from Victoria is 56 degrees (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENING DIGEST) As usual I say a lot more here than I have time for on WOR, but part of the above was mentioned (gh, DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 3310, R. Mosoj Chaski, Mayo 26 a las 0120 UT. Mujer habla en quechua con música tradicional de Cochabamba; la voz está con baja modulación. No obstante, la música se encuentra con una modulación más alta y con mucho ruido ambiental. SINPO: 33233 (Claudio Galaz, Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Coaxial de 5 Ohms de 20 Metros, Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 4451.1 Bolivia, Radio Santa Ana, Santa Ana de [sic] Yacuma, 2355 to 0025 fair to sometimes good signal in South Florida. Might be better elsewhere. Good Listening! Best 73, (Bob Wilkner, SFL, 0031 UT May 29, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Not making it up here in Massachusetts. Faint wave sine on the Perseus but no audio whatsoever. Pio Doce on 5952.45 putting in a good signal at 0042 (Stephen Wood, Harwich, Mass., dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4451.1, May 29 at 0055, JBA carrier on this WOOB off-frequency, following tip from Bob Wilkner, FL. Really too early here in Enid, sunset not until 0141. BTW, it`s ``del Yacuma``, must be named for the understood river (masculine) rather than the province (feminine) in Beni Dept. The name Yacuma also Googles to an Ecolodge in Tena, Ecuador (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4699.94, 25/5 2350, Radio San Miguel, songs, weak (Giampiero Bernardini blog, QTH: Pescia (Pistoia) Toscana, RX: Excalibur Pro - ANT: 30 meters wire, 60 meters windom by A. Capra; Accessori: 2 way antenna splitter RF-Systems SP-2; via dxldyg via DXLD) 4699.97, R. San Miguel noted in passing with talks, fair (David Sharp, NSW Australia, experimenting with my EWE's and trying to overcome the severe QRM plaguing my QTH. Some success! QUICK BANDSCAN 28/5/13, 1100-1200 UT, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4716.6, R. Yatun Ayllu, Mayo 26 a las 0130 UT. Avisos por parte de un locutor con baja y mala modulación en castellano. No obstante la música tocada, mescla entre pop juvenil y neofolklor se puede identificar. SINPO: 33333 (Claudio Galaz, Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Coaxial de 5 Ohms de 20 Metros, Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 4795.8, Radio Lípez, Uyuni, 1010 to 1040 in Spanish and language?, weak on 22 May. Seems off on Saturdays same time (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, Icom 746Pro - Drake R8, and XM, Cedar Key, South Florida, NRD 525D, R8A via Wilkner, 25 May, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 5952.4, Pio XII, Siglo Veinte, 1045 to 1055 YL with clear signal, no pulsating jamming 18 May (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, Icom 746Pro - Drake R8, 25 May, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Emisora Radio Pio XII, Siglo Veinte on 5952.455 at 2211 UT with nice Bolivian music and comments by male and female. Audio coming just above the noise. 73, (Maurits Van Driessche, Belgium, May 25, Hard- Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA [and non]. 6105.499, May 18 -2205*, R Panamericana, noted with ID 2203 just before sign off. Weak signal. 6104.69, May 16 2154, R Cultura Filadélfia [BRAZIL] wandering about. Both May 12 and 16 noted this low. On May 18 back on 6105.075 (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin May 26 via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 6134.83, 26/5 0105-0109*, Radio Santa Cruz, end bc with Radio Santa Cruz songs, fair (Giampiero Bernardini blog, QTH: Pescia (Pistoia) Toscana, RX: Excalibur Pro - ANT: 30 meters wire, 60 meters windom by A. Capra; Accessori: 2 way antenna splitter RF-Systems SP-2; via dxldyg via DXLD) [and non]. 6134.825, May 19 0103, R Santa Cruz with a super strong signal. Good ID noted. TN 6135.114, May 21 0057, Tentative R Aparecida [BRAZIL] here with a carrier. Not easy to hear anything due to a super strong R Sta Cruz (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin May 26 via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 6154.931, May 19 0101, Radio Fides with a nice ID at 0101 (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin May 26 via DXLD) 6154.96, Radio Fides, La Paz, 1021 UT, May 25, Aymara/Spanish, communications with a small town in Los Andes province, program conduced by female named: “Saratasiñani”, announcement: “buenos dias, las seis de la mañana, 22 minutos, 37 segundos. Recordamos el Dia de la Mamá…”, 33433 (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) 9624.94, 24/5 2208, Radio Fides, long conversation, ID, slow drifting, weak/fair (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Italy, Qualche ascolto a Pescia in Toscana, RX: Excalibur Pro; ANT: 30 meters wire, 60 meters windom by A. Capra; Acc: 2 way antenna splitter RF-Systems SP-2, playdx yg via DXLD) ** BOTSWANA. VOA relay. 909 kHz, Selebi-Phikwe // 4930 (same source). May 29, 2013 Wednesday. 0308-0325 and listening. Daybreak Africa, with news. Thank goodness for the VOA in the early mornings (local) now that the BBC WS has dumped southern Africa at this time. It feels like cheating to listen to the BBC WS relayed on the local 1485 Radio Today, and that ends at 0400 anyway. Besides which it is only 1 kW so really limited to Jo'burg listeners. 909 very good, 4930 very poor. Jo'burg sunrise 0446 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Brazilians from Cape Cod yesterday (audio clips) --- Here are a few audio clips from (EDT) 28 May / (UT) 28-29 May 2013 as I DX'ed in the car at local sunset from the Fort Hill Park DXpedition site at Eastham, Cape Cod, MA, USA (GC = 41.8181 N / 69.962 W, description = http://takeadaytrip.com/great-places/massachusetts/cape-cod-national-seashore-fort-hill/ 1220, ZYJ258, R. Globo, Rio de Janeiro (UT: 28 May at 2358) This one got loud several times, beating back WWSF-ME and WHKW-OH. http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/audio1/globo-1220_20130528_2358z.mp3 840, ZYK687, R. Bandeirantes, São Paulo (UT: 29 May at 0029) Talk mentioned futebol, then "I've Been Working On the Railroad" march instrumental, pips. http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/audio1/brazil-840_20130529_0029z.mp3 1100, ZYK694, R. Globo, São Paulo, over WTAM-OH (UT: 29 May at 0029) http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/audio1/globo_over_wtam-1100_20130529_0029z.mp3 1000 (likely), ZYK522, R. Record, São Paulo, (UT: 29 May at 0101) This would have been better without all the IBOC around the channel. http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/audio1/brazil-1000_20130529_0101z.mp3 [and non] 860, ZYJ459, R. CBN, Rio de Janeiro, and VON St. Kitts-Nevis (UT: 29 May at 0000) Portuguese talk first atop, then VON up with ID in English http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/audio1/brazil_and_von-860_20130529_0000z.mp3 700, ZYK686, R. Eldorado AM, São Paulo, (UT: 29 May at 0030) Slugging it out with WOR's useless IBOC. http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/audio1/brazil-700_20130529_0030z.mp3 760, ZYH588, R. Uirapuru, Fortaleza Noisy but dominating the channel. http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/audio1/brazil-760_20130529_0030z.mp3 940, ZYJ453, Rio de Janeiro, and WIPR, San Juan, Puerto Rico (even dogfight) http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/audio1/brazil_and_pr-940_20130529_0001z.mp3 Receiver: Microtelecom Perseus. Antenna: cardioid-pattern Micro- SuperLoop on car roof, square, 2 m per side, with Clifton Laboratories Z10130A amp on east bottom corner to speaker wire to 2:1 transformer to W7IUV amp, and 9:1 transformer on west corner to speaker wire to 500 ohm null-adjust potentiometer (Mark Connelly, ABDX via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 1570, Emisora no identificada en português, indudablemente brasileña que por momentos tapaba totalmente a Radio La Morena de Itatí (Grand Bourg, Pcia. de Bs. As, R.A.). Viendo el Listado de emisoras de Onda Media del Brasil que facilita el DX Clube de Brasil en su página http://www.ondascurtas.com/listaom/ podría tratarse por ubicación y potencia de Radio ABC, Santo André, SP o Radio Metropole, Cachoeirinha, RS (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) [while BOLIVIA in this issue manages to arrange all logs by frequency, there are so many multiple Brazilian logs by several reporters, that here they are in distinct groups by source, then frequency. After that individual logs in another list starting over by frequency --- gh] ** BRAZIL. BRASIL, 3355, R. Educadora 6 de Agosto, Xapuri AC, 2305- 2316, 23/5, texto; 25331. 4754.9, R. Imaculada Conceição, Cp.º Grande MS, 2135-2141, 24/5, progr. de propag. relig.; 25331. 4785, R. Caiari, Pt.º Velho RO, 2155-2209, 24/5, recitação do terço, texto, pelas 2200, música, e não a retransmissão de A Voz do Brasil, 2200-2300; 25331. 4845.2, R. Cultura Ondas Tropicais, Manaus AM, 2201-2212, 25/5, relato de jogo de futebol; 34432, áudio com qualidade de "linha telefónica", baixo, QRM adj. de CODAR. 4876.85, R. Roraima, Boa Vista RR, 2139-2147, 24/5, canções; 24331; QRM de CODAR. Em 25/5, pelas 2200, on sinal foi melhor, 44433, e houve um desvio na freq., para 4876.95. 4915 R. Dif.ª, Macapá AP, 2144-2155, 24/5, canções, retransmissão de A Voz do Brasil, às 2200; 43432, QRM da R. Daqui, B. 4915, R. Daqui, Goiânia GO, 2145-2154, 24/5, texto, retransmissão de A Voz do Brasil, às 2200; 43421, QRM da R.Dif.ª, B. [Is there an echo since both are carrying the same program, or exactly synchronized? gh] 4925.2, R. Educação Rural, Tefé AM, 2147-2158, 24/5, noticiário regional, ainda no ar pelas 2200, e não houve retransmissão de Voz do Brasil, às 2200; 25321. 5025, R. Aparecida, Aparecida SP, 2134-2148, 23/5, canções infos. horárias; 35332. Melhor desempenho em 25/5, pelas 2210, durante o programa DX. 6104.7, R. Filadélfia, Foz do Iguaçu PR, 2112-2122, 24/5, A Voz do Brasil, 1.ª parte; 44433, QRM adjacente. 6120, SRDA, São Paulo SP, 2138-2153, 23/5, canções e propag. relig., texto tanto em português como em castelhano; 34432, QRM adjacente. Em 24/5, 2113-2124, durante a retransm. de A Voz do Brasil, SINPO de 44433, QRM adjacente. 9664.75, R. Voz Missionária, Camboriú SC, 2135-2151, 23/5, rubrica Musical Voz Missionária; 45444. 9819.2, R. 9 de Julho, São Paulo SP, 2115-2145, 24/5, entrevista, anúncios informativos, Oração Final, às 2128, noticiário, às 2130; 43442, QRM adj. da China, em 9820. 11735, R. Transmundial, St.ª M.ª RS, 1008-quase desvanecimento total 1220, 26/5, canções folclóricas, progr. de propag. relig., às 1115, música; 24432, QRM adjacente. 11764.8, SRDA, Curitiba PR, 2217-2226, 25/5, David Miranda escutando testemunhos de curas...; 45433. 11764.86, idem, 1009-quase desvan. total 1155, 26/5, entrevistas com "curados",..., D-. Miranda em port. e cast., às 1120; 35433. 11815, R.Brasil Central, Goiânia GO, 2207-2223, 24/5, A Voz do Brasil, 1.ª parte; 44433, QRM adj. da Arábia Saudita, em 11820. 11815.07 idem, 1013-1158, 26/5, canções folclóricas, infos. horárias; 35443, em perda, QRM da REE via CTR, às 1200 [WORLD OF RADIO 1671] 11854.9, R. Aparecida, Aparecida SP, 2133-2149, 23/5, canções, infos. Horárias (v. // 5035); 35433. Ignoro ou não me recordo do nome do programa que costuma passar neste horário. 15191.3, R. Inconfidência, Belo Horizonte MG, 2112-2136, 23/5, programa A Hora do Fazendeiro, com canções, infos. horárias, cotações de bens agrícolas, informações; 35544. 15191.3, idem, 1122-, 26/5, texto, recordações musicais, anúncios de programação, tudo na rubrica Anos Dourados, e, mais tarde, pelas 1215, Homenagem,..., pelas 1400, a rubrica Ronildo (?) & C.ª; 25543. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4876.84, 25/5 0005, Radiodifusora Roraima, talks & songs, fair 4914.996, 24/5 2134, Rádio Difusora do Macapà, songs & talks, fair 5939.86, 24/5 2310, Voz Missionária, Camboriù, Bible Isaia talks, fair // 9665 9645.39, 24/5 2220, Rádio Bandeirantes, talks, QRM CRI, poor 9664.73, 24/5 2225, Voz Missionária, Florianópolis, A Voz do Brasil (// RN 11780) fair 10000, 24/5 2203, Observatório Nacional, usual IDs & time, fair 11764.83, 24/5 2250, Rádio Deus é Amor, Curitiba, A Voz do Brasil program, good 11815.03, 24/5 2229, Rádio Brasil Central, Goiânia, A Voz do Brasil program, weak 11854.93, 24/5 2255, Rádio Aparecida, Aparecida, A Voz do Brazil till 2300, ID Aparecida, fair 15191.27, 24/5 2110, Rádio Inconfidência, songs, talks, fair (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Italy, Qualche ascolto a Pescia in Toscana, RX: Excalibur Pro; ANT: 30 meters wire, 60 meters windom by A. Capra; Acc: 2 way antenna splitter RF-Systems SP-2, playdx yg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 4765.01, UnID here, possibly R. Rural with talks by a man. 4865.03, R. Verde[s] Floresta[s], presume the one with Portuguese talks 4878.25, R. Dif. Roraima, very good with Brasopops (David Sharp, NSW Australia, experimenting with my EWE's and trying to overcome the severe QRM plaguing my QTH. Some success! QUICK BANDSCAN 28/5/13, 1100-1200 UT, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Horário UT: 4815, 2019, R Difusora Londrina - PR, S32332, Igreja Davi Miranda vendendo "fronha ungida" por R$100,00 (alguém se habilita?) Igreja Jerusalém CEF Ag 1546 cc 833392-8 - Faça um voto a Deus. 4845, 2025, R Meteorologia Paulista - Ibitinga - SP S33322 - Mx caipira - depois Px Rotativa no Ar - Magazine São João 4865, 2040, R Imaculada Conceição, Campo Grande - MS S32211 - Locutores Fernando e outro - propagandas Milícia da Imaculada e mx católica. Detalhe: na minha tabela de frequências, consta 4950 kHz. 4775, 2100, Rádio Congonhas - Congonhas - MG S44232 - Hora do Ângelus, adoração e reza do terço. Esta tx estava meio sumida por aqui. 4905, 2109, Rádio Relógio - RJ - Reflexão bíblica sobre Abraão e sacrifício. Bela reflexão. S44343 - Ótimo sinal 4895, 2118, Rádio Novo Tempo, Campo Grande - MS - S33232, Px Tempo de Refletir - Anúncio da esperança - Pastor Ivan. RX SONY ICF-2010 + antena carretel Sony 6 mts. Escutas realizadas na minha residência (Márcio Dias - Divinópolis[!] - MG, 2201 UT May 28 [presumably also the dates just logged], radioescutas yg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. Amanecer Brasileño --- Entre las 0830 y 0900 UT, buenas señales en 31 metros desde Brasil: 9565.12, Super Rádio Deus é Amor 9630.00, Rádio Aparecida 9645.40, Rádio Bandeirantes 9664.74, Voz Missionária 9819.20, Rádio 9 de Julho (Rafael Rodriguez R., Bogotá D.C. - COLOMBIA, 0932 UT May 25, http://dxdesdecolom bia.blogspot.com/ condiglista yg via DXLD) [now the individual logs resuming by frequency:] ** BRAZIL. 3375.1, Brasil, Rádio Municipal São Gabriel da Cachoeira, 0940 "...Bom Dia" by OM at tune-in, then into music off and on to 0940, fair to good signal on 13 May. Noted at 0000 to 0025 with locutor em português, weaker signal on 18 May (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, Icom 746Pro - Drake R8, 25 May, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4754.9, Rádio Imaculada Conceição, Campo Grande, MS, 1006 UT, May 25, Portuguese, messagge “Conferência Pastoral da Comunicação”, Complete identification with all stations named RIC. Local time as: “seis horas, seis minutos”, religious announcement, 25442 (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL [and non]. 4774.992, May 18 2155, Tentative R dif de Congonhas alone here. Checking the frequency again at 2256 R Tarma on 4774.987 is the strongest signal (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin May 26 via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 4784.99, 26/5 0010, Rádio Caiarì, Porto Velho, songs, talks, weak (Giampiero Bernardini blog, QTH: Pescia (Pistoia) Toscana, RX: Excalibur Pro - ANT: 30 meters wire, 60 meters windom by A. Capra; Accessori: 2 way antenna splitter RF-Systems SP-2; via dxldyg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 4865.028, May 19 0056, R Verdes Florestas starts their transmission on 4865.010 and then drifting upwards to a final 4865,028 (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin May 26 via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 4876.84, 25/5 0005, Radiodifusora Roraima, talks & songs, fair (Giampiero Bernardini blog, QTH: Pescia (Pistoia) Toscana, RX: Excalibur Pro - ANT: 30 meters wire, 60 meters windom by A. Capra; Accessori: 2 way antenna splitter RF-Systems SP-2; via dxldyg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 6010.1, 27/5 2240, Rádio Inconfidência, Belo Horizonte, Voz do Brasil, fair, some QRM, better in USB, IDs after 2300, unusual propagation tonight (Giampiero Bernardini blog, QTH: Pescia (Pistoia) Toscana, RX: Excalibur Pro - ANT: 30 meters wire, 60 meters windom by A. Capra; Accessori: 2 way antenna splitter RF-Systems SP-2; via dxldyg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL [and non]. 6104.69, May 16 2154, R Cultura Filadélfia wandering about. Both May 12 and 16 noted this low. On May 18 back on 6105.075. TN 6105.499, May 18 -2205*, R Panamericana, [BOLIVIA] noted with ID 2203 just before sign off. Weak signal (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin May 26 via DXLD) ** BRAZIL [and non]. 6135.114, May 21 0057, Tentative R Aparecida here with a carrier. Not easy to hear anything due to a super strong R Sta Cruz. 6134.825, May 19 0103, R Santa Cruz [BOLIVIA] with a super strong signal. Good ID noted (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin May 26 via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 6180.02, R. Nacional da Amazônia, 0800, very good with full ID by a man, then into extended talks. Very good (28/5 David Sharp, NSW, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 9645.39, 24/5 2220, Rádio Bandeirantes, talks, QRM CRI, poor (Giampiero Bernardini blog, QTH: Pescia (Pistoia) Toscana, RX: Excalibur Pro - ANT: 30 meters wire, 60 meters windom by A. Capra; Accessori: 2 way antenna splitter RF-Systems SP-2; via dxldyg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 9664.73, 24/5 2225, Voz Missionaria, Florianópolis, A Voz do Brasil (// RN 11780) fair (Giampiero Bernardini blog, QTH: Pescia (Pistoia) Toscana, RX: Excalibur Pro - ANT: 30 meters wire, 60 meters windom by A. Capra; Accessori: 2 way antenna splitter RF-Systems SP-2; via dxldyg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL [and non]. 11735, RTM BRASIL, Mayo 25 a las 1222 UT. Música cristiana en idioma portugués con fading y SINPO: 54434 y con interrupciones continuas de VOK con un locutor que habla incesantemente en idioma coreano con proclamas patrióticas, vía Kujang en la misma frecuencia con SINPO: 43333 (Claudio Galaz, Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Coaxial de 5 Ohms de 20 Metros, Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL [and non]. 11815, May 24 at 0057, poor signal in Brazilian Portuguese, no doubt R. Brasil Central. I never hear this later at night when other ZYs are propagating on 25m, so presumably signs off sometime. DRM from REE/Costa Rica is scheduled 00-01 to S America, but must have closed a bit early if on at all this date. This of course is yet another scandalous instance of frequency mismanagement, a major international broadcaster ignoring the previous presence of a domestic SW station in the target area; but Brasil is also to blame for refusing even to take the minor step of registering all its SW frequencies with HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also Gonçalves logs above ** BRAZIL. 28415-USB, May 25 at 1847, 5-kHz stepping thru 10 mb, the only USB signal found is this speaking Brazilian, PY2PJ in São Paulo contacting someone in Rio Grande do Norte. Not positive of call: there may have been a third letter but QRZ.com fits: PY2PJ PEDRO IANNI JUNIOR Rua Angelo Steck, 104, casa 82 - Centro Louveira, SP 13290000 Brazil Apparently very selective opening; nothing had been heard on 12m, and then hardly anything on 15m except Puerto Rico, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Conhecendo o meu dial [São Paulo FM bandscan] Amigos, eu fiz uma gravacão mostrando como é o dial de 87.5 a 108 MHz aqui da zona oeste da cidade de São Paulo, fiz a gravação no sábado 25/05 por volta de 23:00 horario de Brasilia [0200 UT]. A propagação estava normal; usei o Sony XDR F1HD e antena interna, dividi em 3 videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv7DTkVXmZs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBats3tEz3g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y39Ti13O6TI OBS: Por aqui o dial é muito saturado, muitas emssoras juntas provocando interferencia uma nas outras. O Sony XDR é muito bom; consegue atenuar em parte esse problema. Tenho melhor desempenho usando uma antena dentro de casa. A Jovem Pan Campinas 89.9 MHz chega muito bem por aqui em qualquer horário; deve estar transmitindo de um lugar muito bom ou com muita potência. A Energia 97 São Paulo, 97.7 MHz, deve estar fazendo testes com um sistema digital com outro sistema já que não está identificando e o sinal HD fica picando apesar do sinal muito forte da emissora. 73's (Fran - São Paulo SP, May 28, radioescutas yg via DXLD) ** CAMBODIA. CAMBODIAN ACTIVIST MAM SONANDO TELLS VOA HE WON'T GIVE IN TO PRESSURE WASHINGTON, D.C. - Cambodian activist and independent radio station owner Mam Sonando, who was recently released from jail, told VOA Monday that Beehive Radio will continue to air stories on sensitive subjects, despite pressure from authorities. Speaking in Washington on the Cambodian language program, Hello VOA, Mam Sonando said, "We have a clear target, which is to protect the freedom of expression, making sure that people are able to have access to news on Beehive Radio, a station that is independent and promotes democracy in Cambodia." Mam Sonando, who has been arrested on three separate occasions, was jailed in July 2012 for allegedly leading a secessionist plot. He was released in March, following an Appeals Court ruling. "He is extraordinarily brave to speak his mind on the need for democracy and human rights - to fight against corruption - and to continue to do so even after being jailed on trumped up charges," said VOA Director David Ensor after meeting with Mam Sonando. Beehive Radio is one of the few remaining independent broadcasters in Cambodia and airs programming from the Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, Radio France International and others. The station often reports on government corruption and other sensitive issues. During his VOA interview, Mam Sonando took questions by phone from the audience in Cambodia and through Facebook. He said the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party must change its own tactics, stop giving in to intimidation by the ruling Cambodian People's Party, and stand up for the rights of the people. "When the government does things that are unlawful, we have to hold a demonstration, but not violently," he said. "We have to hold demonstrations within the framework of the constitution. We don't need to beat others; we'd rather let others beat us. We'd rather go to jail and let them shoot at us, so that we can achieve our goals." Mam Sonando expressed doubt over the fairness of the upcoming national elections in July. That's in part due to the National Election Committee, he said. VOA's Khmer Service is one of the most popular independent sources of news in Cambodia. For more information about this release, contact Kyle King at the VOA Public Relations office in Washington at (202) 203-4959, or write kking @ voanews.com For more information about VOA, visit the Public Relations website at http://www.insidevoa.com or main news site at http://www.voanews.com This release was originally published on http://insidevoa.com (VOA PR via DXLD) ** CANADA. 6069.94, CFRX Toronto, 0820, fair with local ads, into talk-back or similar. (28/5 Sharp, NSW) 6159.97, CKZU Vancouver, 0804, CBC news, het high side (6160.6 and presumed CKZN but no audio pulled). (28/5, David Sharp, NSW, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. Just heard today May 24 2013 at 1745 Local time [CDT = 2245 UT] CKMW testing their new transmitter on 88.9 FM. This will replace the old 1570 AM signal once it is up and running. They are asking for reports if they are interfering with any other stations. No info on when they will sign on given. 73 Best of DX (Shawn Axelrod, VE4DX1SMA, VEPC4SWL, Winnipeg MB, amfmtvdx at qth.net via DXLD) ** CANADA. Channel A2, May 26 at 1530 UT, with antenna south expecting Mexico, some NTSC video fades in via sporadic E; graphic says In Touch, and then an apparent preacher at a lectern in and out. Could it be XHRIO, Matamoros? [NO: that has switched from US Fox network in English to Mundo Fox] Still showing at 1615; 1622 audio fades in mentioning Global, so antenna rotated north! Discussion of the Ford Brothers in Toronto and allegations of crack. 1627 outro show as `Stand By` with Tom Clark; 1628 black/silent for a minute! 1629 series of ads/PSA, including McDonald House, Manitoba teachers; 1630 ``good evening``, and `Focus Manitoba` about sports, stadium. More or less gone after 1700 UT. So it`s CKND-TV-2, 100 kW satellite of Winnipeg at Minnedosa, still on the air in analog, but its days are allegedly numbered, with plans to move to hiband for DTV. At ideal E-skip distance, a regular here which will certainly be missed. Later jumping thru the hoops at TV Guide, we find that Minnedosa is not even listed among itty bitty towns with cable providers, so back to Winnipeg, Shaw: CKND cable 12 confirmed at 10:30 am Sunday emitting `In Touch with Dr Charles Stanley`, but the 11:00 am program is listed as `West Block`. At 1625, MUF briefly reached ch 4, something religious in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Another big skip target going away: CKND-TV-2, ch. 2 Minnedosa, Manitoba today filed to go digital on channel 9 (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, April 2, WTFDA via WORLD OF RADIO 1664, DXLD via WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DXLD 13-22) ** CANADA. Large Es opening across Midwest USA on 6m, but only this on TV: May 27 at 2326 UT, weak northerly video in English on ch A2; by 0024 UT May 28, peaking more from the NE, ad grafix in English; probably Ontario (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHAD. 6164.962, May 23 2030, R Tchad also strong here (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin May 26 via DXLD) 6165, RD Nationale Chadienne, Gredia, 1901-1935, 24/5, francês, anúncios de programação, música pop' africana, notícias; 45433, várias falhas repetidas, no sinal, por volta das 190573 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 15000, BPM, Lintong. 1029 May 13, 2013. Presumed the one with CW in the 1029-1030 range, unable to copy with my poor CW skills though. Didn’t notice any female voice after. But the WRTVH lists this channel as 0100-0900. So if BPM, are they 24h or at least extended now? (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) BPM in CW: -... .--. -- (gh, assuming MS Word can be prevented from running these together or transforming into emoticons, DXLD) ** CHINA. Firedrake May 23 before 1400: 13795, JBA at 1356; as usual all the rest replaced by CNR1 jamming: 13920, fair at 1356 14750, poor-fair at 1367 14870, JBA at 1356 15800, poor at 1357 15970, fair at 1358 16360, fair at 1358 16920, very poor at 1358; none in 17s, almost deadband except weak Kashgar, Habana. Firedrake [non], CNR1 jamming May 24 before 1400 with very poor propagation: 17170, very poor and choppy at 1340 16920, JBA at 1341 14750, JBA at 1342 14700, JBA at 1342; none in the 13s or 12s Firedrake [non], CNR1 jamming May 25 circa 1330 with poor propagation: None in the 17s, 16s, 15s 14750, poor at 1329, timesignal at 1330, another clew it`s NOT SOH 14700, very poor at 1329 13970, poor at 1330; none in the 12s Firedrake [non] CNR1 jamming May 27 with continued poor propagation: 11500, poor at 1326; it`s // CNR1 on 11785, but about 2 seconds behind it; so not to be misassumed as Sound of Hope which is only the target 13920, fair at 1329; none in the 12s or 14s 13970, poor at 1329 // synchro with 11785 jammer 15115 & 15195 CNR1 also audible at 1330 as usual, none in 16s or 17s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) No Firedrake on 13795 kHz this morning at 1250 GMT here in the Midwest USA. Checked and also not being heard this morning in Hong Kong or in the Philippines. I was traveling for the holiday and my last Firedrake logging was Thursday May 23rd in the 1200-1400 block on 13795 kHz. Has anyone heard Firedrake on any frequency since? If so when was the last time? Thanks (Steve Handler, May 28, ODXA yg via DXLD) See Ron Howard log below, 6110 // 9845 May 24 ** CHINA [and non-logs]. 6110 // 9845, Firedrake music jamming and CNR1 jamming of VOA with quick check at 1349 on May 24. 6035, PBS Yunnan on May 24 with brief check at 1243 in Vietnamese; above average reception. No sign recently of BBS/Bhutan. 6060, Sichuan PBS-2, 1301, May 24. Continuing with ToH IDs: “Nationality Channel. This is the People’s Radio Station. SW 6060, 7225, FM 88.1”; fair. 6185, China Huayi BC, quick check at 1322 on May 24 with start of a phone conversation; the Chinese answer the phone with “Ni Hao” - pronounced: Nee HaOW. 9410, CNR5, May 24 continues to be off the air, as also noted yesterday (down for maintenance?); 1210 and subsequent checking, but today did not have any reception of Fu Hsing BS (Taiwan), which is clearly broadcasting erratically - not on every day. 9800 and 12000, Lushan Emergency Radio. Seems they have ended their special post-earthquake broadcasting; not on the air at all at 1221 through subsequent checking on May 24 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 7325, CRI. They are back again! May 25 heard with strong signal at 1149; so no longer any possibility of hearing Wantok Radio Light (PNG) during CRI scheduled 1000 to 1257 broadcast. Was great fun while it lasted! (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7325, CRI, Mayo 25 a las 1205 UT, vía Jinhua-Youbu 831. Se transmite una clase de chino en idioma japonés con SINPO: 54544 y, con programación distinta a la otra frecuencia en japonés de CRI, vía Xi’an, a aquella hora que está en 11620, que transmite música y se nombra mucho a Pekín. SINPO: 54555 (Claudio Galaz, Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Coaxial de 5 Ohms de 20 Metros, Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) 7325, May 26 at 1242, CRI Japanese service is back with song and announcement, still a fair signal tnx to 500 kW, 59 degree beam also USward from Jinhua-Youbu 831 site, despite having lost more nightpath during the weeks of maintenance silence which also allowed us barely to hear Wantok Radio Light, Papua New Guinea, now totally blocked again here, and surely in most of PNG too. Ron Howard confirmed that CRI resumed May 25, as promised via Japanese monitors. Aoki shows we may now anticipate another long maintenance break during the following 13-14 UT Japanese hour on 7325 via a different site, Xian, from June 17 to July 29, not that that will be of any help this deep into North America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 11600, Sat May 25 at 1837, poor signal with flutter in Chinese, not Arabic – blocking another attempt to hear LIBYA`s only SW frequency here. Neither is in HFCC, but in Aoki: 11600*R.FREE ASIA 1800-1900 ......7 Chinese 100 325 Agignan Point MRA 1507N 14541E IBB/RFA1 a13 Apr.27 Ha! I picked the one hour per week when RFA is on 11600, and consequently ChiCom jamming, presumably with CNR1 programming. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [non]. 15120, CRI, Mayo 30 a las 0005 UT. Programa “Estilo Mundo” con entrevista a Andrea Solano sobre los lugares turísticos y comidas regionales de Costa Rica en el servicio español y la revista “Punto CN” vía La Habana, Cuba con señal muy fuerte. SINPO: 55555 en comparación con 5990 sólo con portadora abierta, sin TX; 9800 con SINPO: 54454, 9590 con SINPO: 45444 ambas vía Kashi-Saibagh, China. 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) ** COLOMBIA. 5909.92, Alcaraván Radio, 0700+, just booming in, so left it on as "background music." Scant announcements by a man, including full ID's around the half-hour. Booming in by 0900. (18/5 David Sharp, NSW, 0326 UT 29/5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) means 28/5? (gh) In peaks at S=7 level on remote SDR units in US. Footprint exact 5909.912 kHz. 0534 UT May 29. wb (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) This station is so common here that I rarely bother to log it; also may serve as background music (gh, OK, ibid.) ** COLOMBIA. 14960, the single log of Salem Stereo from the UK in April has yet to be confirmed by any other reports of it, and never anything heard here at random chex. I might ask the pastor-in-charge but he never replied to my inquiry when it disappeared last September; busted? (Glenn Hauser, May 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA. 6 TARJETAS QSL COLOMBIANAS - DÉCADA 1930 --- Por fin una nueva entrada a mi blog diexista, ya me hacia falta publicar algo; espero la disfruten http://dxdesdecolom bia.blogspot.com/ Buenos DX (Rafael Rodríguez R., Bogotá D.C. - COLOMBIA, May 26, condiglist yg via DXLD) Three of them with ham-like calls, two addressed to one Frank Petch in Ontario, Canada; direct link: http://dxdesdecolombia.blogspot.com/2013/05/tarjetas-qsl-colombianas-decada-1930.html (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** CUBA. 1140, Radio Surco, unknown [city], Ciego de Ávila. 0025 May 26, 2013. Traditional Cuban vocals, male canned, “CMIP, Radio Surco… capital de la ciudad de…” into 8:30 p.m. time check, back to vocals. Excellent on the car radio while departing Tropicana Field (Rays vs. NYY). Rebelde with presumed baseball and a growingly stronger Radio Musical Nacional (parallel 590) with classical music overtaking and loudly dominating by 0035. My list shows Surco was first spotted here by David Crawford in October, 2011. [and non] There’s also an unidentified Mexican briefly popping through some evenings closer to 0000 GMT, maybe XEMR Radio Esperanza, but if so it’s not parallel their audio stream and does not appear to be Christian-themed as I presume the slogan implies (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ- 180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 5040, 6000 and 6165, May 23 at 0058, RHC all in open carrier/dead air, which is understandable on the 6`s prior to English from 0100, but 5040 should have been going from French to Spanish. 15180-15330 approx., May 23 at 0258, extent of the big buzz spewing out of the RHC 15230 transmitter, gradually weakening out to the edges. Could not detect it, however, to equal range on low side which would have been 15130. 11840, May 27 at 0452, RHC with good signal level but distorted, ruining Cuban music, which is just fine on // 11760. 9790, May 27 at 0454, CRI relay is still on with huge unmodulated carrier, causing desensitization on the FRG-7 out to plus/minus 35 kHz or so. This thing must be aimed right at us with 250 kW and high-gain curtain. Yes, the only HAB entries in HFCC are relays of CRI, provided by the source station: 9790 is 250 kW, 305 degrees at 03-04 in English, 04-05 Chinese. Why was modulation already over at 0454? Carrier often stays on beyond 0500 too. 15200-15260, May 27 at 1319, approx. range of buzz emanating from defective 15230 RHC transmitter, which is not especially strong itself. 6060, May 28 at 0518, RHC English is VG here, instead of usual weakest signal aimed up the east coast toward Europe, so I assume it`s instead on a westward antenna. It`s better than HJ-hetted 6010, equivalent to 6165, with 6125 undermodulated as often the case (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Arnie on 6010 kHz in progress with tremendous S=9+45dB signal towards San Francisco [sic] -- less strength on 6060, and tiny low modulated on 5040, 6125 and 6165 kHz. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, 0534 UT May 29, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11760, May 29 at 0510 and 0533, RHC Spanish is still on with music, VG and not // all the English frequencies. No Spanish is supposed to surpass 0500; forgot to turn off transmitter? Sometimes the extension is in English. 6060, once again tonight, May 29 at 0514, RHC English with bigsig here equivalent to 6010 level, and better than 6165 & 6125. Wolfgang Büschel in Germany also noted at 0534 that 6010 was much stronger than 6060, as we think they have swapped azimuths around, perhaps by mistake (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 9330, ATTENTION CUBAN SPY NUMERS STATION, Mayo 29 a las 0745 UT. Lectura de números en idioma español con baja modulación y con transmisión de datos. La portadora sale del aire a las 0757 UT. SINPO: 33333. 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) ** CUBA [non]. 7210-LSB, May 28 at 1151-1156+, instantly recognizable voice of Nelson Roig, Pennsylvania, N1NR, with his anti-Castro, counter-revolutionary, anti-communist ranting, on his favorite, only frequency. Wow, can this guy extemporize for hours and hours any morning, or does he have a script, and thus a pseudo-broadcaster? Occasional QRM from another voice, and carriers on and off, but ineffective. Names like Roig, BTW are of Catalan heritage, pronounced Roch. And another one, related? Pedro, has been involved with R. Martí. There is also a very weak broadcast carrier on 7210, but not enough to demodulate him here without additional BFO. Per Aoki that could be either of two 20 kW non-direxional transmitters: PBS Yunnan, Kunming, in Kachinic, or VOV1, Daclac in Vietnamese (don`t they bother each other?). (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non]. 7365, May 23 at 0253, R. Martí with silly baseball game, atop the jamming. RM carries a lot of béisbol, no doubt a big draw among dentro-Cubans. One team was obviously Miami, and they referred also to ``los indianos``, but there are no Indians (or Indianans) in the same league as Miami per http://mlb.mlb.com/team/index.jsp According to Marlins` calendar the May 22 game was really vs Filadelfia, not that it matters (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Martí, 7365, Greenville, May 29, 2013 Wednesday. 0225-0237. Spanish, OM's with a sports commentary, sounded like a mention of “Miami” at 0231, sounded like somebody scored at 0232. Then apparently a brief break in the commentary. Mentioned “Cuba” at 0234, back to commentary at 0236. Fair-poor. Jo'burg sunrise 0446 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9565, R. MARTI. Mayo 29 a las 2302 UT. Transmisión de béisbol de las grandes ligas de USA, Mets contra Yankees con perfecta modulación, con muy poco fading y siseo poco constante de S. R. Deus é Amor vía Curitiba, Brasil que se encuentra en la misma frecuencia. SINPO: 54434, aunque 11930 con SINPO: 55444. 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) ** DODECANESE ISLANDS. 2624 kHz, 24/5 2328, Rhodos Radio, Greece, maritime warning, fair (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Italy, Qualche ascolto a Pescia in Toscana, RX: Excalibur Pro; ANT: 30 meters wire, 60 meters windom by A. Capra; Acc: 2 way antenna splitter RF-Systems SP-2, playdx yg via DXLD) AM mode presumably? See also ITALY ** ECUADOR. 4781.68, R. Oriental, fair to good with Spanish talks, some CODAR QRM (David Sharp, NSW Australia, experimenting with my EWE's and trying to overcome the severe QRM plaguing my QTH. Some success! QUICK BANDSCAN 28/5/13, 1100-1200 UT, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR [non]. ALEMANIA [non], 9835, HCJB BRASIL. Mayo 29 a las 2320 UT. Cantos religiosos interpretados por coro de niños en alemán, a las 2325 UT se da la dirección postal de la emisora y sus horarios. A las 2329:54 UT ID como desde “Nauen, Alemania transmitió HCJB” en alemán y fin de la portadora. SINPO: 54544. 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) ** EGYPT. 11890, 2139-, Radio Cairo, May 22. Mostly an empty, reasonably strong carrier, with just a hint of audio is all that's showing of Radio Cairo's English service to west Africa. A real shame! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) EGIPTO, 15545, RADIO CAIRO, Mayo 25 a las 1520 UT, vía Abu Zaabal. Mujer comienza a hablar en Pastún con música típica en árabe de fondo, y a las 1126 UT lo realiza un hombre. Señal estable con buena modulación, aunque menor en relación a la música. SINPO: 44444 (Claudio Galaz, Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Coaxial de 5 Ohms de 20 Metros, Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [and non]. JAILED EVANGELIST TONY ALAMO MOVED TO OKLA. FACILITY; AFFIDAVIT ALLEGES HE CONTROLS MINISTRY By Associated Press 8:30 a.m. CDT, May 27, 2013 TEXARKANA, Ark. (AP) — Officials say jailed evangelist Tony Alamo (uh- LAH'-moh) has been moved from a federal prison in Marion, Ill., to a Bureau of Prisons Transfer Facility in Oklahoma City. Alamo is serving a 175-year sentence after he was convicted in Arkansas for taking minor girls across state lines for sex. The Texarkana Gazette reports http://bit.ly/15bI9Ye Alamo has been housed in several prisons since his 2009 sentencing. According to an affidavit filed by an FBI agent, investigators allege that Alamo is still controlling his ministry from behind bars. The affidavit says three or four of Alamo's "wives" relocated to the Tucson, Ariz., area while Alamo was imprisoned there. The affidavit alleges Alamo was moved to the prison in Illinois and the women followed him there so he could continue to run his ministry. __ Information from: Texarkana Gazette, http://www.texarkanagazette.com (via kspr.com via WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DXLD) HEARING SET CONCERNING EVANGELIST TONY ALAMO'S PROPERTY 5:39 AM, May 28, 2013 | The Associated Press TEXARKANA, Ark. (AP) - A hearing is set to determine which properties owned by evangelist Tony Alamo can be sold to satisfy a $30 million judgment in a civil lawsuit. Last month, U.S. Magistrate Judge Barry Bryant ruled that six properties in Fort Smith can be sold to partially satisfy the judgment that Alamo owes to two men who were raised in his ministry. A hearing is set for Thursday to determine which properties might be sold. In April, the U.S. Supreme Court denied to hear an appeal of a civil lawsuit in which Alamo was ordered to pay Seth Calagna and Spencer Ondrisek. A federal jury found that Alamo abused the two when they were children. The judgment was reduced to $15 million each by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (KTHV Little Rock via DXLD) Why isn`t this monster held, wherever, incommunicado? Why Equatorial Guinea? Currently inactive R. Africa was the last SW station still carrying his old huxterage tapes; had been on several US SW stations. To keep up with Tony Alamo news, bookmark: http://www.tonyalamonews.com/ (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ERITREA [non]. BULGARIA, New updated schedule of Radio Shorouq / Radio Sunrise: 1600-1700 11610 SOF 070 kW / 195 deg EaAf Arabic Mon-Wed, ex Mon-Fri (DX RE MIX NEWS #783 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 28, 2013, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA. ETIÓPIA, 5950, Voz da Revolução do Tigrê, Geja Jawe (ou Geja Dera?), 1724-1742, 24/5, dialecto local, texto, entrevistas; 45333. Inviável a recepção em // 1359 Mekelle, pela hora. 6110, R. Fana (=R. Estandarte), Geja Jawe (ou Geja dera?), 1729-1745, 24/5, programa em língua oromo (segundo listas), texto, música; 4533373 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUROPE. 4890.027, 24/5 2143-2201*, Radio 76, pirate, oldies like "Message in the bottle", ID also in many languages, also in Italian, and sign-off at 2201, fair/good (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Italy, Qualche ascolto a Pescia in Toscana, RX: Excalibur Pro; ANT: 30 meters wire, 60 meters windom by A. Capra; Acc: 2 way antenna splitter RF- Systems SP-2, playdx yg via DXLD) Maybe 3 x 1630v (gh) ** EUROPE. Friday Eve Special Quest [sic] in Spaceshuttle studio! Hi, Mr. Artem from Moscow is visiting Radio Spaceshuttle studio this evening! Our special "Full Pull" Friday show starts 1400-1600 UT on 15880 kHz USB. Hoping best possible propagation to our short show to Eastern, Central and Southern Europe. All correspondence welcome to our mail: spaceshuttleradio @ yahoo.com Happy Friday evening with best radioprogrames and few beers and hot saunagirls. Dick and Artem (Dick Spacewalker, 1229 UT May 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Saw too late here ** FINLAND. Ute, 25000, Mikes, ESPOO, 1325-0800 [sic] 18-19 May, time signal" bip bip....", 333 (Mauro - Giroletti -Swl 1510- -IK2GFT- - JRC525Nrd - Lowe HF150- Filter PAR Electronics - BCST-LPF + BCST-HPF- DSP 9 -Eavesdropper SWL Sloper 11mt to 120mt Band- Loop ALA 100 M; - Lat. 45 25'0" N Long. 9 7'0" E -Locator grid. Jn 45 Nk- bclnews.it yg via DXLD) ** GERMANY [and non]. New official updated A13 Media Broadcast schedule http://www.media-broadcast.com/fileadmin/user_upload/Downloads/A13_operational_240513_MBR.pdf (via Akbar Indra Gunawan, May 25, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) So it is, dated 24 May (gh, DXLD) See USA [non] WRMI ** GERMANY. Re: AFN 873 to close 31 May --- I don't know how long this situation already persists, I noted it yesterday: The modulation of the 873 kHz transmitter is badly distorted, also during NPR programming where the original source is beyound doubt. And I found the signal at Erfurt not as strong as I expected it; pretty weak, only the sixth one in the current groundwave hierarchy, preceded by 756, 549, 693, 990, 828. [Standard remark about recently gone signals. kl] Btw, amongst the radio channels available on a hotel TV set there are, besides various German ones, also "BBC Arabic" and "BBC World News (Engl.)". Obviously taken from Hotbird transponder 50, and it clearly demonstrates how the "BBC World Service" brand has been sent to the bottom (Kai Ludwig, Germany, May 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re 873 Final closure of mediumwave AFN Frankfurt Germany installation. 872 kHz, Frankfurt Weisskirchen was my favorite radio station on my highschool era in around 1957 year, when I used a single-TUBE small radio set... (wb, May 21) Hello Wolfgang, This station was never easy to listen to here due to Spanish co-channel and sidebands from BBC Wales on 882 kHz, despite the signal being a good one. In the "good old days" I listened to AFN either via Munich Ismaning 548 or Stuttgart Muehlacker 1106 kHz. When DLF took over 548/549 kHz, and 1106/1107 kHz reduced power, the station was usually lost to interference. I used to enjoy many of the American comedy shows and musical programmes when they played "real" music. Germany is soon going to be a difficult country to hear in AM on MW, but I don't think the three LW stations are going to close any time soon - are they (Noel R. Green-UK, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 22) re 873 AFRTS Frankfurt, Wolfi, sorry to hear that the AFN Frankfurt station has ceased operation, but it's not surprising. I did inspect the antenna system on two different occasions. I am convinced that the recent (last couple of years) reports of low signal are because the directional antenna was actually in operation with more or less the correct pattern for the first time in at least 20 years. Ever since an ill-advised change in the antenna phasing and power division equipment back around 1990, the station had not operated with anything like the correct parameters. It's an odd story, but came about at the time of the change from the original CEMCO 150 kW transmitter to the new Nautel one (Ben from Oregon Dawson, May 22, to wolfi, all: wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 24 via DXLD) ** GERMANY. WORLD OF RADIO on HLR: see U S A [non] ** GERMANY [non]. The Rhein-Main-Radio-Club(RMRC) of Frankfurt in Germany will broadcast a special program on Sunday, June 2 via Radio Miami International 0300-0400 on 9955 RMI 050 kW / 160 deg to CeAm German/English, http://www.rmrc.de (DX RE MIX NEWS #783 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 28, 2013, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. Frequency changes of Deutsche Welle from June 1: 0500-0530 NF 15275 KIG 250 kW / 295 deg to WeAf English, ex 12045 0530-0600 NF 15275 KIG 250 kW / 295 deg to WeAf English, ex 12045 0600-0630 NF 15275 KIG 250 kW / 295 deg to WeAf English, ex 12045 0600-0630 NF 15440 KIG 250 kW / 280 deg to WeAf English, ex 15275 1200-1300 NF 12070 KIG 250 kW / non-dir to WeAf French, ex 9800 1600-1700 NF 12070 KIG 250 kW / 030 deg to EaAf Amharic, ex 9800 2000-2100 NF 15275 KIG 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAf English, additional frequency (DX RE MIX NEWS #783 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 28, 2013, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GHANA [non]. AUSTRIA: 11955, Adventist World Radio; 2120-2129*, 29- May; English religious program; 2127 close IDing as Adventist World Radio Ghana with Accra addy/phone. SIO=353- (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE [and non]. 15650, V Greece with music and a phone interview by YL of a YL in Greek. In well, 3+5454 -- 19 metres was WIDE open -- we must be near sunspot maximum or something! //s also good: 7475 was 44+44+3+ and 9420 was best 554+54+. As Jack A. said, seems odd that a country with such financial issues is still on SW but others in much better shape like Canada and the Netherlands decide to dump SW completely. Makes me think there is something other than just money involved despite protests from e.g. the CBC that it really is just all about the bucks! At any rate, I really like the music on this station -- I hope they DO continue to find money to stay on the air! 0210-0215 18/May (Kenneth Vito Zichi, MI, MARE Tipsheet 24 May via DXLD) See also DODECANESE ISLANDS, we like to consider separate radio country ** GUAM. [Re 13-21, KTWR DRM test May 24-25:] KTWR Guam Test on 15570: Here in Romania at around 1229 I got a SNR of 15 dB and clear sound for a few seconds. Then a strong Chinese station started on the same frequency, making decoding impossible. I think it's a CNR1 jammer. I can still hear the loud DRM noise when in AM mode, and the DR111 is able to display the station ID (TWR-GUAM) but no decoding at SNR of only 7 dB, "thanks" to that Chinese jammer (Tudor Vedeanu, (Gura Humorului, Romania), drmna yg via DXLD) Jammer is gone at 1245! Good signal from KTWR, 15 dB SNR. Short joy, jammer back on at 1247 UT. Tudor and DRM crew worldwide, I have not spent much time trying this, but I know DR111 will decode DRM OK, being a few kc off of center frequency. Do you think there is any value in trying to tune away from the offending signal to see if you can escape some of the jamming, or is it on the same center frequency as KTWR? This begs the question - should we discuss with CDNSE/Newstar the value of offering a narrower DRM passband such as a DRM-QRM mode? If indeed the DR111 can decode 20 kc DRM (I do not know if it can), switching it narrower somehow may help with adjacent interference issues. No copy of the KTWR test here in Oregon, USA. I am still a bit excited from getting the Galbeni EM2 test last night though :-) (- fibber, ibid.) Too late now, the broadcast ended. Here is a video I made during the test: http://youtu.be/770kiB5Aq9Q (Tudor, ibid.) Yes, tuning off to the side might help. Doing that and/or narrowing the bandwidth (i.e. passband) works as long as you don't lose data bits in the process (Mike, Twin Falls, ID, ibid.) Good catch; I'm 180 km away from Galbeni and I've yet to catch one of their DRM broadcasts. I'm probably in the skip zone. :) (Tudor, ibid.) Yes, you probably are, indeed. I know that exasperated feeling myself. (Mike, Twin Falls, ID, ibid.) The reception is good in eastern China, no interference at all. WiNRADiO G33DDC, Wellbrook ALA1530+ (Terence Lan, May 25, ibid.) Great job, Terence !! You guys are all up while I am sleeping. LOL I did try something yesterday that may seem odd. I have been testing out a unit called Signal Hound. It is an SDR type unit, and feeds the computer via USB (it`s a spectrum analyzer). Anyway, I turned on Dream after booting the SDR and am trying to make that play. It does get a signal via the internal pipe and shows up on Dream. Now all I need is a "for sure" DRM signal. The down side is that it crashes eventually. I suspect the computer doesn't appreciate the conflict via the internal pipe. More later. Have a great weekend, everyone (Mike, ibid.) I believe, but have not hooked the cable up, but there appears to be a DRM signal on 15560 with a very decent S-9 signal. I didn't hear anything on 570, and I have a good path, usually, to the south Pacific (Mike, Twin Falls, Idaho, time: 17:07z May 24, ibid.) Not much luck today either. Same problem with the Chinese jammer, which apparently is targeting Voice of Tibet on nearby frequencies (15567, 15568). Tuning a couple of kHz away did not help decoding the DRM signal (Tudor, Romania, ibid.) more reports about this: http://www.drmrx.org/forum/showthread.php?s=56af14fe37a9a637d5b2c25d40a7b316&t=2495 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. 13362, AFRTS Barrigada, 2030 12 May/26 May, relay in English in USB mode, 33333 (Mauro - Giroletti -Swl 1510- -IK2GFT- -JRC525Nrd - Lowe HF150- Filter PAR Electronics - BCST-LPF + BCST-HPF- DSP 9 - Eavesdropper SWL Sloper 11mt to 120mt Band- Loop ALA 100 M; -Lat. 45 25'0" N Long. 9 7'0" E -Locator grid. Jn 45 Nk- bclnews.it yg via DXLD) ** GUATEMALA. LOCAL CATHOLICS ARE PUSHING CHURCH TO RECOGNIZE FIRST OKLAHOMA MARTYR, SAINT === By Dale Denwalt, Staff Writer Enid News and Eagle May 22, 2013 http://enidnews.com/localnews/x609260770/Local-Catholics-are-pushing-church-to-recognize-1st-Oklahoma-martyr-saint ENID, Okla. — Oklahoma native Stanley Rother was a Catholic priest assassinated by a suspected Guatemalan government death squad in 1981, a pastor who is pushing for Rother’s inclusion among the faith’s saints told Enid parishioners Wednesday evening. The cause for Rother’s martyrdom is being boosted by a group of local Catholic leaders, with the hope of pushing Rome to recognize Rother first as a martyr for the faith, then as a saint of the church. The Guild, as the group is known, is based in the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City and led by Prague pastor M. Price Oswalt. Oswalt spoke Wednesday at a special mass at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church. He told the congregation Rome is close to recognizing Rother, who was born in Okarche, as a martyr. If it does, Rother would become the first Oklahoma-born martyr and saint, Oswalt said. “I think we’ll see his beatification next year or so. With the cardinal (handling beatification) already knowing who he is and saying we have a good shot at martyrdom, that means he’s going to promote it,” Oswalt said after the mass. Sainthood would come next, but not before the church recognizes a miracle stemming from someone praying to Rother for help. “That could take years,” Oswalt said, noting Mother Teresa of Calcutta has yet to be named a saint. “Some beatifides ... have gone centuries. The cause has been dropped because no one’s produced it. It could be a few years. It could be tens of years.” After he is named a martyr, The Guild will push for followers to pray to Rother as an intercessor, someone who has God’s ear. If a person receives a favor, Oswalt said they should contact The Guild. The Vatican already has eight boxes of testimonials and interviews from people who knew Rother, and an account of his death from a man who witnessed it. The boxes also contain about 20 letters Rother wrote. In those letters is an explanation of why Rother returned to Guatemala after receiving death threats, Oswalt said. His final writings are compiled in a book named after an excerpt, in which he says, “A shepherd cannot run.” Oswalt said he believes the church’s selection of a Latin American pope will help in Rother’s canonization to become a saint. “I personally think the Holy Spirit gave us Pope Francis, who’s from South America, cares for the poor, understands what the way of life was in Central America in the ’80s,” he said. “Stanley (Rother) served the poor. He took care of those who were being persecuted. It fits Francis’ bill.” Rother was killed inside his mission on July 28, 1981, by three men who are believed to have been supporters of Guatemala’s military government, according to a 2007 in-depth article appearing in the Oklahoma Gazette (via WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DXLD) That article is linked in one of the previous DXLD items about the Saint Stanley case: http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld9083.txt http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1217.txt under GUATEMALA As well as a half-hour documentary which has appeared from time to time on OETA, wherein is revealed Rother`s involvement with ex-SW station La Voz de Atitlán, 2390 (which I visited years ago). Since Rother`s sanctification depends on a miracle being ``documented`` tnx to his intercession, here`s a great opportunity for DXer participation in this process. Pray to him that a long-missing QSL for LVA will appear in your mailbox, perhaps even signed by himself! Or even try a follow-up, but what`s his heavenly address? Here`s info about a 1997y QSL signed by someone else, probably close to the last year it was on the air: http://www.schoechi.de/ac-gtm.html#La%20Voz%20de%20Atitlan (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENING DIGEST) SAINT STANLEY --- THE REV. STANLEY ROTHER’S CANONIZATION SHOULD BE PROMPT --- Enid News & Eagle May 29, 2013 We’re pleased by continuing efforts to recognize Okarche native Stanley Rother as Oklahoma’s first saint. The Rev. Rother, an Okarche native and farmer, served parishes in Tulsa, Durant and Oklahoma City before going to Guatemala as a missionary for the impoverished, indigenous Mayan people called the Tzutujil. Three gunmen assumed to be a right-wing death squad assassinated Rother on July 28, 1981, in the parish rectory, but the unknown killers have never been brought to justice. Prague pastor M. Price Oswalt, leader of a Guild based in the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, spoke at a special mass last week at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church. Oswalt said Rome is close to recognizing Rother as a martyr. “I think we’ll see his beatification next year or so,” Oswalt said. “With the cardinal (handling beatification) already knowing who he is and saying we have a good shot at martyrdom, that means he’s going to promote it.” Sainthood would come next, but not before the church recognizes a miracle stemming from someone praying to Rother for help. “That could take years,” Oswalt said, noting Mother Teresa of Calcutta has yet to be named a saint. “Some beatifides ... have gone centuries. The cause has been dropped because no one’s produced it. It could be a few years. It could be tens of years.” We hope the church’s selection of a Latin American pope will help expedite Rother’s canonization to become a saint (Enid Eagle main editorial in May 30 print issue, via DXLD) Rother is also mentioned, but not his assassination, in Don Moore`s article: http://www.pateplumaradio.com/central/guatemala/atitlan.html which references REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING, and something called the New York Times. There are other articles about this station and many others at pateplumaradio.com well worth exploring! (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUATEMALA. 4055, Radio Verdad, 1030 to 1035 OM in indigenous language - local signal strength on May 25 (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, Icom 746Pro - Drake R8, 25 May, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HAWAII. 940 kHz, 1220- UT, KKNE, May 23. Not bad reception as we get to dawn. Lots of KTKN [930, nearby Ketchikan AK] splatter, but the Hawaiian music comes through fine (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HAWAII. Logged on the EWE aerials with my Quantum Phaser: 1500, KHKA Honolulu, 0832, tentative with ads or similar by deep- voiced man, quick fade into mush, 28/5 1570, KUAU, Haiku, 0827, fading up nicely with sermon, invitation to worship at local church, 28/5. 73's (David Sharp, NSW, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) in English presumably? (gh) ** HONG KONG. 8828-USB, Cape d'Aguilar - 1045 to 1050 weather information 25 May (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, Icom 746Pro - Drake R8, 25 May, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13282, 24/5 2121, Hongkong Volmet, USB, airports info, weak (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Italy, Qualche ascolto a Pescia in Toscana, RX: Excalibur Pro; ANT: 30 meters wire, 60 meters windom by A. Capra; Acc: 2 way antenna splitter RF-Systems SP-2, playdx yg via DXLD) ** ICELAND. ISLÂNDIA, 189 RÚV, Gufuskálar, 1240-1410, 24/5, texto, música; 33452, QRM adj. da Alemanha, em 183. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Note: daytime log (gh) ** INDIA. AIR KOHIMA YEAR LONG GOLDEN JUBILEE CELEBRATION Our Correspondent Kohima | May 24 As part of its yearlong golden jubilee celebration, the All India Radio (AIR) Kohima organised Musical Concert of Naga Modern Songs here at The Heritage on Thursday. The Musical Concert, with a theme “Tunes from the Hills” was participated by the sixteen tribes of Nagaland, including Naga musician Methanelie Jutakhrie. In his Introductory Speech the Director Engineering and in-charge of Station Director K. K. Rengma informed that the All India Radio Kohima station is the only Radio Station of the Country, may be in the world, from where altogether 17 bulletins are being broadcasted daily with 15 Dialects, Nagamese and English. He also informed that the in the midst of political unrest in Nagaland, the AIR, Kohima was commissioned on 4th January, 1963 with a small make shift set up consisting of a secret studio, with a Receiving Center and 1 KW Micro-Wave Transmitter in a hired building. Since then the AIR, Kohima is striving to give exposure of ethnic Naga culture, traditions and songs to the other parts of the world. In his concluding remark, the Auditor General of Nagaland R. Naresh said that “music is the vehicle of peace and love” and it was the AIR, Kohima, which has always striving for peace, love, unity and giving good exposure of the rich tradition and culture of the Nagas to the entire world. He also surprised to note of 15 dialect news being broadcasted by the AIR, Kohima, which he had no knowledge about the huge number of bulletins being broadcasted by this Radio Station. He opined that the artists of Nagaland are really gifted as it is not possible for everyone to sing or dance and said that the rich traditions and cultures of the Nagas are being carried on with their own talents. Prizes were distributed by Rengma at the end of the programme. http://www.morungexpress.com/local/95724.html (via Alokesh Gupta, May 25, dx_india yg via DXLD) So, will this mean more activity of the 4850 transmitter?? (gh, DXLD) ** INDIA. 9870, May 24 at 1250, AIR VBS good but fadey with pop Hindi songs, but only in the clear before 1300 when CCCCI starts, i.e. CRI English. Hey, whatever happened to AIR`s announced plan to convert 9870 to DRM, at least part of the time experimentally; did they ever try it? I hope not. O, Alokesh says installation of the new transmitter is delayed until the end of May, so now? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. All India Radio on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/akashvaniair Doordarshan http://www.youtube.com/user/DoordarshanNatio nal1 Ministry of I&B http://www.youtube.com/user/INBMINISTRY --- (Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, May 28, dx_india yg via DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 3325, 1144-, RRI Palangkaraya, May 23. Strongest station on the 90m band this morning. Good to very good reception. No sign at all of the PNG station (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 4869.92v, RRI Wamena. Per Atsunori Ishida, this has only been on the air this month, before today, on the 4th and 19th. Heard May 25 with a lot of monitoring between 1203 and 1333. Did not carry the Jakarta news relay; instead had a non-stop special music program; two jovial OM chatting and playing what seemed like just the songs of one particular singer till 1312 when they interviewed YL and played some of her songs. Audio had slight echo effect as if in an auditorium? Mostly fair, but with QRN. Slight drift in frequency (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. An excellent listener, Lenildo da Silva from the city of São José de Piranhas in the state of Paraíba, Brasil. The Voice of Indonesia in Spanish. Via page Facebook "No mundo do dexismo". 9525 [sic] kHz, Voz da Indonésia, espanhol para a Europa e América Latina (via transmissor de 250 kW, localizado em Jacarta, Indonésia), 1759-1801 (UT), terça-feira, 28 de maio de 2013. Encerramento da emissão em língua espanhola; antes, porém, um locutor identificou a estação e divulgou as frequências em ondas curtas. Dentre outras coisas ele disse: «La Voz de Indonesia, el Servicio Internacional de la Radio República Indonesia, en Yakarta, les presenta noticias y informaciones actuales y entretenimientos. Ustedes pueden sintonizar nuestra emisión todos los días en la frecuencia onda corta: 15150, 9525, 11785 kHz, el programa en el idioma español». Ademais, ele informou a página web e o endereço postal do depto. em espanhol da emissora. SINPO: 35422. Se desejarem, podem ouvir a gravação dessa escuta através do site de compartilhamento de vídeos Youtube, pelo link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCJ1KiqZhno 73 (via Jorge Freitas, Brasil, dxldyg via DXLD) ** INDONESIA. INDONÉSIA. 9680.4, RRI, Cimanggis, 1001-desvanecimento total 1205, 25/5, indonésio, texto, canções, 3543373 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ?? When I hear it around 1200, it`s very close to 9680.0 China/Taiwan, no 400 Hz het. Did you mean 9860.04? (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL WATERS [non?]. 8137-USB, Dominican Republic, 1155- 1158, sailing vessel with weather condition check 20 May. 8137-USB, Bermuda, 1200 sailing vessel with position and check on weather 20 May (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, Icom 746Pro - Drake R8, 25 May, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [and non]. 9550, Mayo 26 a las 0215 UT. Vía Kamalabad. Comienzo de las noticias de América Latina de Hispantv con acento en la anulación de la sentencia al ex dictador Ríos Montt y del posible cierre de Guantánamo. Señal con buena modulación, estable, aunque con un poco de QRN y sin R. Boa Ventade. SINPO: 54344. No obstante, 11760, también vía Kamalabad, es interferida por RHC en la misma frecuencia, idioma y zona de servicio (Claudio Galaz, Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Coaxial de 5 Ohms de 20 Metros, Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) 13650, 0402-, Voice of Justice, May 23. Not a good frequency choice at all, with cochannel Voice of Korea dominating at 0400 in French. Parallel 15470 at fair to good level (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. Moldova?? Radio Payam e-Doost?? (EiBi), 7460, Maiac near Grigoriopol (EiBi). May 29, 2013 Wednesday. 0244-0302. Farsi?? YL's talking, with brief guitar music that sounded more Spanish than Persian. Also other music that did not sound Persian. But mentioned "Iran" at 0256 (twice) and at 0258. Talk right through TOH with no obvious ID. Fair-poor. Jo'burg sunrise 0446 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See UK [and non] BaBcoCk [WORLD OF RADIO 1671] ** ISRAEL. 6885, 24/5 2107, Galei Zahal, Israel, songs, good, // 15850 weak (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Italy, Qualche ascolto a Pescia in Toscana, RX: Excalibur Pro; ANT: 30 meters wire, 60 meters windom by A. Capra; Acc: 2 way antenna splitter RF-Systems SP-2, playdx yg via DXLD) ** ITALY. 1888 kHz, 24/5 2324, Civitavecchia Radio, maritime warnings, good 2642, 24/5 2326, Genova Radio, maritime warnings, fair (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Italy, Qualche ascolto a Pescia in Toscana, RX: Excalibur Pro; ANT: 30 meters wire, 60 meters windom by A. Capra; Acc: 2 way antenna splitter RF-Systems SP-2, playdx yg via DXLD) AM modes since SSB not specified? (gh, DXLD) ** JAPAN. 6135, 1334-, Shiokaze, May 23. Terrible choice of frequency with numerous cochannels present making it a big hodge-podge! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Taiwan, CNR1 jamming, maybe Madagascar, Yemen? (gh, DXLD) ** JAPAN [non]. UZBEKISTAN, 15735, 1403-, NHK Radio Japan, May 23. Fair/good level in English via Tashkent with business news. I was expecting much better signals on their parallel frequency of 11705 via Palau, but it's just barely audible, being wiped out by adjacent Voice of Korea in French on 11710 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. 2850, Korean Central Broadcasting Station, 1030 to 1055, OM and YL chat on 18 May (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, Icom 746Pro - Drake R8, and XM, Cedar Key, South Florida, NRD 525D, R8A via Wilkner, 25 May, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH KOREA. 13760, 2134-, Voice of Korea, May 22. Very good reception with Stalinist style strident marches. Same grinding jammer sound, with talk in background. Perhaps other Korean transmitters with jamming are bleeding through on to this frequency? Parallel 15245 equally strong, but with same grinding jammer audible. 13760, 1816-, Voice of Korea, May 22. A poor choice of frequencies, with VOK dominating in English, but cochannel listed CRI Kashi in English, at almost equal strength. Within a minute CRI dominated. Either would be at good level/very good alone. Parallel 15245 at good level, but with cochannel grinding jammer, and cochannel audio (difficult to make out language, but I think it's French). 15180, 0419-, Voice of Korea, May 22. Very nice reception, at S9 to S9+ with English broadcast, and sports report, but quickly back to political propaganda. I can hear some weak cross-talk in the background. Mostly though, very clean modulation, and on-frequency. Listening carefully, I could hear that the background talk is an echo, perhaps 1 second behind the main broadcast. Not sure how to explain this. Parallel 13760 also very strong (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. Pyongyang FM sign-off (MP3) With a disappointing lull in Chinese tropo the last few times I ventured out, I decided to waste some time and record a few clips of one of my three local Pyongyang FM affiliates. It had been a year since I bothered with the network. My local Pyongyang FM updated their sign-off a few months ago when they started a new regular program "Echoes of Unity," which is about as boring as watching grass grow. In addition, they also fixed their horrific overmodulation issue at the specific tower site, which was causing distortion for many years, especially with loud music and talk. The signal was re-centered from 97.80 to 97.75, which helps just that much to get around the 97.80 silent jammer in Seoul and with its 350 kW ERP (give or take a hundred) right on the sea, now easily comes in on seek at 100 miles. A little coastal tropo or enhancement (and there has been plenty), and that 97.75 placing can really smother 97.80. The overmodulation on the signal now mimics Kaesong's (weaker) affiliate 20 miles north of Seoul, with clear audio but loud background sound. The clip can be heard here: http://www.beaglebass.com/dx/external/Pyongyang_052613_0858.mp3 The clip includes the end of the program (which is repeated on multiple days, probably recorded weekly, eliminating many hours of live content they used to run and changing the daily schedule as well, taking out some radio dramas and music). The woman makes an announcement before the sign-off, which has been changed to be specific to this program as opposed to the station as a whole, as was always the case. The sign-off can be heard from 1:30 in the clip (most of you can at least understand "MHz" and "kHz" in the clip): "'Echoes of Unity' is broadcasted daily at 7-9 am, 1-3 pm, and 9-11 pm, three times a day on shortwave 3970 and 6250 kHz, 684 and 1080 AM, and transmitted to 97.8 FM" before announcing that it's the closing of this broadcast period. From there, the transmitter is manually switched off (at 3:53 - the time between the end of the broadcast and the signal going off-air varies day by day from 20 seconds to 1 minute or so) and the Seoul- based silent jammer takes over the frequency (Chris Kadlec, Seoul, Korea, May 29, WTFDA via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. Voice of Korea (North Korea) English broadcasts now on WRN. I just came across this on the World Radio Network http://wrn.org But instead of the usual studio quality recordings that are offered for the other stations on this site, the Voice of Korea is an off-the-air recording of a shortwave broadcast. So this is almost as good (or bad, depending on how you look at it, listening- wise, that is) as actually hearing VoK on your radio (Bruce Fisher (New York, USA), May 25, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENING DIGEST) As of today Voice of Korea English broadcasts are available on demand via World Radio Network, recorded from shortwave! http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/05/28/voice-of-koreas-shortwave-broadcasts-now-on-demand/ (Mike Barraclough, UK, May 28, dxldyg via DXLD) No, already May 25 VOICE OF KOREA’S SHORTWAVE BROADCASTS NOW ON-DEMAND 130528-wrn-logo The daily English-language broadcast from North Korea’s international radio station, Voice of Korea, is now available on the Internet. The programme is being carried by World Radio Network, a London-based organization that rebroadcasts material from international radio stations on its own satellite channels and via FM relays in several countries. Most of the WRN programming is received in studio quality via satellite or Internet, but the Voice of Korea programs are a recording from the shortwave broadcasts. That means they come with all the atmospheric interference and fading that is typical of shortwave. For the daily news, the audio clips on the Voice of Korea website http://www.vok.rep.kp/ are better quality, but the WRN recordings are of the full 57-minute broadcast, and include the music and other features that make up the daily programme. These aren’t available via the Voice of Korea website. WRN offers only the English programme. If you don’t have a shortwave radio, or are fed up with transmissions at inconvenient times of day, check out the on-demand recording broadcasts. http://www.wrn.org/listeners/voice-of-korea-north-korea/ WRN says it’s providing the broadcasts as a public service and is looking at the possibility of using the high-quality stream that’s carried alongside North Korean television on the Thaicom 5 satellite (Martyn Williams, CA, Northkoreatech as above via WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 11860, VOICE OF WILDERNESS, Mayo 25 a las 1326 UT. Hombre predica en coreano, nombra mucho a Jerusalén, Pyonyang y a Kim Jung-il con música instrumental cristiana de fondo. A las 1335 UT, se comienza otro tipo de predicación, esta vez sin música y con un ritmo más relajado. SINPO: 54444 (Claudio Galaz, Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Coaxial de 5 Ohms de 20 Metros, Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) 7375, V Wilderness, 1910 talks in Korean by YL S7 (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, Sunday 26 May, DX LISTENING DIGEST) GERMANY, Cancelled program via Media Broadcast - Voice of Wilderness: 1300-1330 17650 NAU 250 kW / 048 deg to KRE Korean Mon-Sat from May 1 1300-1400 17650 NAU 250 kW / 048 deg to KRE Korean Sun from April 28 (DX RE MIX NEWS #783 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 28, 2013, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) But still from other sites? (gh) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. TAJIKISTAN, Frequency change for Open Radio North Korea from May 22: 1230-1430 NF 11565 DB 100 kW / 071 deg to KRE Korean, ex 11550 // 15720 DB (DX RE MIX NEWS #783 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 28, 2013, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. UZBEKISTAN, Additional frequency of North Korea Reform Radio: 1400-1600 NF 9380 TAC 200 kW / 070 deg to KRE Korean // 7590 TAC (DX RE MIX NEWS #783 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 28, 2013, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. CLANDESTINE, 6550, MND Radio, 1040 UT May 25, Korean language, long talk in Korean by male, transmission to North Korea, 24442 (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH. 11810, 2234-, KBS World Radio, May 22. A difficult catch at poor to fair level in English. Not much to hear anymore via shortwave from KBS unfortunately (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) SOUTH KOREA. 15575, 1300-, KBS World Radio, May 23. Very powerful reception at S9+20 with English news at 1301. Nice to hear such wonderful reception! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15575, Saturday May 25 at 1353 tune-in, KBS WR `Listeners Lounge` has already started the Indian DX Report, with news that 4760 & 7390 Port Blair transmitter has failed, but its schedule anyway --- just as outdated as the first item on WOR 1670, as Jose Jacob followed up that it returned the next day. Also some new 10 kW FM transmitters in several cities by Bangladesh Betar, until 1356. Sorry, but I had a hard time understanding the guy, most of all the contact address he gave. Presumably Bharatians will not have any problem. After regional survey of listening conditions for KBS, asks for recordings (tapes, CDs or preferably E-mail) of KBS from many years ago for a documentary being prepared for their 60th anniversary. What? Don`t they have an archive of everything they ever broadcast? Having broadcast all winter to NAm on 15575 at this hour with virtually no reception, now it`s pretty reliable, altho the modulation lacks punch. I wonder if they are still on the last known azimuth for this, 81 degrees really toward Hawaii and southern S America, or have they at least got an antenna now aimed USward? HFCC A-13 now has some KBS entries, but lacking this transmission on 15575! Just 00-04, 100 kW at 81 degrees, 16-22, 250 kW at 290 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. 15540, Radio Kuwait; 1813, 28-May; Ministry of Interior traffic PSA; "Bridges are not for playing--give way." (Apparently playing on bridges is a problem in Kuwait); into English pop music. SIO=3+53 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KYRGYZSTAN. May 18 listened to Kyrgyzstan from 1642 to 1800 UT in Russian. At 1700 program began, "Apta" (translated "Week") to 1725 end of the program, weather forecast, ID. 1757 - ID, anthem. 45444-55555. May 19, 1287 kGts, 1730 UT - ID "Birinchi Radio" program on the Russian - the events of the week. 45544 (Sangean ATS-909X, Dmitri Puzanov, Kazakhstan / "deneb-radio-dx" via RusDX May 26 via DXLD) According to my observations, "Birinchi Radio." Frequencies: 4010 kHz SW and 1287 kHz MW: Evening program at the Russian weekdays is from 1730 to 1800 UT, broadcast news and weather. On Saturdays, apparently, the transmission goes from 1630 to 1800. Go thematic programs, 1700 program "Apta" On Sunday, taking only time to 1730 UT, passed the week's events. I will have to check on the weekend. (QTH: Almaty - 43 15'N, 76 57'E RX: Sangean ATS-909X, Degen DE1103 + MFJ-959C AN: long wire about 10 meters, Degen DE31MS (Dmitri Puzanov, Kazakhstan / "deneb-radio-dx" & "open_dx", ibid.) They and have a website: http://www.ktrk.kg/ru/content/programma?radio=1 There program is specified for the day - there is no possibility to switch to another day (or I have not found). Also, do not specify a language different programs. You can dogodatsya only by the fact the name of the program is indicated by a Russian or Kyrgyz (mean - the name of the clear or not clear ...) For today (Saturday 25th May) the name of the Russian-speaking have here what the program: 10:00-10:05 (0400 UT) on Birinchi News Radio 10:07-10:10 (0407 UT) Radiocouncil 12:00-12:10 (0600 UT) on Birinchi News Radio 13:30-14:00 (0730 UT) Education for All 19:30-19:57 (1330 UT) Summary of the day 19:57-20:00 (1357 UT) Weather 23:30-23:57 (1730 UT) Summary of the day (no programs "advertising") As far as this is consistent with the actual language of the transfer, you can learn only reception. Also referred to the program "BBC", is it from London? today, the 19:00-19:30 (1300 UT), and 21:00-21:30 (1500 UT) By the way, the Kyrgyz TV will be showing today futbolny Munich-match Dortdund. Who knows what will raidostantsiyah match. 73 Eike Leipzig / Germany (Eike Bierwirth, Germany, "open_dx" via RusDX 26 May via DXLD) Eike`s English is fine, but apparently he posts there in Russian if not German, resulting in this awkward conversion (gh, DXLD) ** LESOTHO. Lesotho National Broadcasting Service, Maseru (Lancer's Gap), 639, date/frequency only Katse Dam handwritten QSL card with station seal from Motlatsi Monyane, Chief Engineer in 797 days for English airmail report and 2 IRC, plus follow-up via airmail, and finally, last effort English followup via airmail with US $3 and a National Radio Club "Broadcaster's Guide to DX" brochure. Originally received while I was still at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan one lucky night with Iran off and beneath BBC. QSL arrived 50 days after last follow-up. Mr. Monyane apologised for not responding to earlier communications. I am absolutely ecstatic over the Lesotho QSL. This certainly brings new hope for other stations that are still to answer! (Al Muick, Whitehall PA USA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MADAGASCAR. Thomas Nilsson: Det är nog länge sedan det varit sådan bidragstorka. Bara ett bidrag från Sverige, resten via utbytesex. Stig, tack för tipsetdu ringde in i går kväll på den nya stationen på 5014.04. Spelade in några timmar från 1830z och fram till cd vid 2105* på lördagskvällen. Mest troligt är det R Madagasikara som har fått fart på sändaren. Den gled från 5014,022 upp till 5014,085 vid cd samtidigt som frekvensen vandrade fram och tillbaka en 20-30 Hz. Thomas Nilsson: You have to go back a long time to find such a lack of contributions. Just one contribution from Sweden, the rest through various DX sources. Stig, thanks for the telephone tip last night for the new station at 5014.04. I recorded from 1830z until cd at 2105* on Saturday night. Most likely it is R Madagasikara which has powered up the transmitter. The carrier wandered from 5014.022 up to 5014.085 at close down while the frequency varied back and forth 20-30 Hz. 5014,04v May23 1850 OID men håller en slant på Madagascar. Stängde 1901 efter 4 sek annonsering. Synnerligen instabil bärvåg med hastiga språng på upp till 20 Hz, upp och ner. Även hörd 25/5 med bättre styrka och vad jag tror var ett fotbollsreferat. Besvärande åskQRN dock. 2-3 SA 5014.04v, May 23 1850, UNID but bet a coin for Madagascar. Closed at 1901 after 4 sec advertising. Particularly unstable carrier with rapid jumps of up to 20 Hz, up and down. Also heard on May 25 with better strength and what I think was football commentary. Troublesome thunderstorm QRN however. 2-3 SA (Stig Adolfsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin May 26, translations by editor Thomas Nilsson for WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5014.085, May 25 -2107* Radio Madagasikara? A tip via telephone from Stig Adolfsson alerting me about a new unidentified weak station with unstable transmitter here. I recorded this station from 1830 until sign off. Most of the time football. I believe some of the program at the end was in French but difficult to say due to lightning static. The station drifted upwards to about 5014.085 at sign off and had also a very unstable carrier. See picture above (TN, ibid.) Hello Glenn, The 5014 station is a little bit of a mystery as it is very difficult to get an ID. Henrik Klemetz listened and found only lingo and French but no ID from two days` Perseus recordings around sign off. But antenna direction points towards Southern Africa. Hope to be able to get an ID one of the coming days (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5014.16, R Madagasikara (?), 1846, May 26, presumed the one here playing instrumental jazz to sudden 1906 cutoff. What I suspect was the same station also noted today, May 27, on 5014.05 at 0236 when carrier came on. In the clear on both occasions but weak audio and suffered from drift. Thanks very much to Thomas Nilsson & Stig Adolfsson initially reporting this to SWB (Martien Groot, Schoorl, Netherlands, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DXLD) 5014.23, R Nasionaly Malagasy, Ambohidrano (??), 0316, May 17, possibly this station with male and female speakers in African vernacular, short burst of music on wind instrument, 32422 (Graham Bell, Simons Town RSA, DSWCI DX Window via WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DXLD) Malagasy has been Off the air since Jan 2013, but seems to be back on this Off frequency (Editor Anker Petersen, ibid.) ** MADAGASCAR. [This appeared already in DXLD 13-21 under CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES, NASB report] WCBC SHORTWAVE TRANSMITTER SITE UPDATE 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 kW 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 (May edition of the NASB newsletter - National Association of SW Broadcasters, extract, May 22 via BC-DX 1117 24 May 2013 via Ian Baxter, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) WCBC Mahajanga 3 x 100 kW, 3 antennas 25/265/325 degrees, at 15 43 38.40 S 46 26 45.22 E wb Think we can probably say that transmissions from this site won't be happening in 2013 (at least not for several months at the earliest) (Ian Baxter, ibid.) ** MALAYSIA. SARAWAK (non) [sic: in this case it`s a national service not from or for Sarawak in particular --- gh] 5965a, Klasik Nasional (via RTM) 24, 25 May 1230-1300+ fair signal with similar program both days: brief inspirational chat, drop-in "Klasik-Nasional" jingle, deep-voiced announcer [similar to the guy on Salam FM, but probably just the K-N DJ], qira'ut until :40, then long, big production-stylee Klasik Nasional jingle, MoR/EZL Malay songs, DJ mentioning upcoming RTM net news, one more song, "Radio Malaysia" spoken just before another long K-N jingle, then TOH 1+1 pips, and RTM news feed, // 9835 / 11665 but none of the 3 in synch. On the 24th the K-N pgmming ran thru TOH so only heard the last pip, and on the 25th only one long K-N jingle heard (Dan Sheedy, Swami's Beach, CA, Grundig G5/8m X-to-fence wire via Bob Wilkner, DXLD) ** MALAYSIA. 5965.00, Klasik Nasional, 1204-1217*, *1220-1235, May 29. After so many years of hearing them off frequency (ex-5964.7) was amazed to find them on exact frequency and seemed a significant increase in power; their first day with new tx; good reception; should do wonders for their reception worldwide; off the air from 1217 to 1220, so was glad to hear them come back; in vernacular and played a lot of music; mostly “Klasik Nasional” IDs, jingles and song montage with ID; they also played an old “Radio Klasik” jingle too. Am very pleased with this, as they are one of my favorite stations! MP3 audio of a portion of today’s reception https://www.box.com/s/ntoaho9qi5zap383xyl9 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [Later:] Thanks to Mauno Ritola (Finland) for his confirmation of reception: "Now at 1530 already over co-ch CRI Russian!" (Ron, ibid.) ** MALI. 5995, R. Mali, Kati, 2201-2223, 23/5, programa em dialecto local, texto; 55433, modulação em nível aceitável... mas, em 25/5, pelas 2215, a "música" foi outra, um áudio incrìvelmente débil, roçando a impercepção, o que, aliás, não é de estranhar - tais variações passaram a ser uma "tradição" nesta emissora. 9635 idem, 1234-1423, 24/5, progr. em dialecto local, texto,..., canções tribais, pelas 1409; 25432. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 660, UT Saturday May 25 at 0509, silly pelota game in Spanish loops WSW, and the audio from the stadium is somewhat overmodulated/distorted; 0516 break for PSA from Chihuahua`s Instituto Estatal Electoral, where it seems there will be an elexion on 7 July; ad for Mariscos San Martín, jingle for 98.9 and back to béisbol, a rather late nite game, so it`s obviously XEACB, La Lupe, Ciudad Delicias, 1 kW at nite per IRCA. Also heard ``Camargo`` mentioned a couple times, presumably one of the teams from a nearby town (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 690, MEXICO unidentified. 1050 UT May 13, 2013. Mexi-tunes, national anthem at 1056, ID, mention of, “… Colonia… Grupo Radio Centro…” followed by Mexi-rooster. WOKV Jacksonville semi-problematic. Again 1028 May 19, 2013 with Mexi-tunes, talk, weak trace of anthem at 1059 but otherwise hopeless. Or is it XEN, from the DF, as Glenn Hauser in DXLD 13-21 reported on May 22 at 0505, finishing the choral anthem, full ID as XEN, 100,000 watts, Grupo Radio Centro, ``la 69 es noticias” slogan. But my log isn’t news/talk format. So guessing XEMA, Fresnillo, Zacatecas is the most likely one. Assuming they are a Grupo Radio Centro affiliate though (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 710, May 28 at 1108 UT, Chihuahua state song is ending; trying to outdo the national anthem for militarism (after all, the tierra of Pancho Villa); 1109 full ID for XEDP and XHDP with MW power as 5 kW, which really gets out (WRTH has odd figure of 7 kW), `La Ranchera de Cuauhtémoc`` sung ID, but first: a bit of choral hymn, and `Die Bibel Sagt` in Low German (sorry, I know how to spell that only in High German, if different); preacher keeps asserting past 1121 this day, but fading after 1115 with CCI coming up from KGNC and/or KCMO. Enid sunrise today 1117, to attain 1113 in a biweek (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1410, MEXICO unidentified. 1103 UT May 19, 2013. Bubbled up with probably post-ID talk, mentioning Mexico. XEBS ¡La Más Perrona!, México D.F. was the last Mexican definite ID log here back in November, 2012 (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD- 535; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CUBA 1140 ** MEXICO. 2910, May 28 at 1055 UT, trace of AM talk vs storm crashes which aren`t too severe a few minutes before sunrise; presumed usual XEVT Villahermosa, Tabasco, 3 x 970 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. May 24 at 1705 UT, the 6m Es map shows opening over SW quadrant of USA, so time to aim at BCN and look for lowband analog TVDX, before Mexico turns everything into DTV: According to: http://tvdxtips.com/mexcitylist.html Mexico Analog TV Shutdown Dates by City Shutdown date for Tijuana is by April 16, 2013 Shutdown date for other 2013 is by November 26, 2013 Note the keyword *by*, i.e. deadline, but could be earlier. The other 2013 cities for the latter date are: Mexicali, Juárez, Monterrey, Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa-Matamoros, i.e. the other major border cities, but the list is incomplete, not showing e.g. Nogales, Piedras Negras or Ensenada, where there has been a channel 2: XHENT Azteca-7 50 kW ch 2 Ensenada, still in W9WI.com but not on Danny`s map of logos http://tvdxtips.com/mexlogos.html Altho this is not a complete map, just the ones for which he has local logos. Is Ensenada considered part of the Tijuana market, so already off? XHENT is still shown with net-7 on Bill Hepburn`s channel 2 map, which I hope he is keeping up to date: http://www.dxinfocentre.com/TV2.pdf At 1705 there are traces of NTSC video on channel 2, maybe XHENT. Around 1730 a novela is making it on 2, but direxion is more like SW, not WSW. At 1752 CCI on 2, including a variety show with Gala TV bug in LR, Televisa also, i.e., former Galavisión. The Gala TV bug is now a large swirl, as on the logos page above. Also at 1758 with horoscope nonsense, Gala TV bug again in LR. The channel 2 list at http://www.w9wi.com/web/tv-channels/2.html shows the *only* Televisa 9 = Gala TV station is: ``Hermosillo, SO XHHMA-TV 30,000 Z H 29-04-29N 110-57-35W XLIC S:Televisa 9`` At 1800 on 2, another station audio mentions Sinaloa, so maybe XHI-TV in Los Mochis (not to be confused with the *other* XHI-TV in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, which is related but not //, per Oglethorpe). Channel 4 also shows occasional activity: at 1746 evil-penguin toon from net 5. 1758 again spotted net 5 bug in UR. There are lots of these all over the country, but the most likely in NW Mexico is: ``Mazatlan, SN XHMAF-TV 100,000 Z H 23-15-34N 106-23-11W XLIC S:Televisa 5`` But there are also net-5s on ch 4 in La Paz and Torreón. At 1840, sudden burst of video on ch 2 says 417-4040 / TAXI EXPRESS, and some other phone numbers, full screen, large font --- English?? No, Googling leads right to Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, as in W9WI.com: ``Cd. Obregon, SO XHI-TV 100,000 Z H 27-34-30N 109-56-27W XLIC S:Televisa local`` At 1850 I am finally getting a `bright` signal from WSW on channel 3, which is what I was expecting at the outset: still analog for another semiyear, XHBC Mexicali, since it`s running a PSA for TJE del Estado de Baja California, which once you get past Google and MS Word insistence that you must be typoing THE, means TRIBUNAL DE JUSTICIA ELECTORAL. A novela at 1855, maybe from same. After that the opening dies down, and I hope it stays down since I have to quit for now. At least the short-spaced co-channel XHTJB in Tijuana, on same offset now must be gone --- or DT on 3? At http://www.w9wi.com/web/tv-states/BN.html XHTJB is still listed on ch 3 with no UHF or other DTV replacement, but so is XETV on 6 past deadline (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Tijuana/Tecate analogs were to be off by Apr 15, but the shutoff has been extended to May 28. Best of DX to All (Dennis Park Smith, Santa Bárbara CA, June VHF-UHF Digest via DXLD) Analog TV Ends in Tijuana on the 28th -corrected link http://www.tdt.mx/tdt (Mike Bugaj, Enfield, CT USA, WTFDA via DXLD) ** MEXICO. Watching channel 2 for sporadic E, May 25: 1717 UT fades in with an Azteca-7 bug in UR, from due south, likely regular XHTAU in Tampico. Below 7 logo are temp 27 degrees and CDT = 12:18. Video only so far, seems infomercial; 1721 Soriana (department store chain) ad. Video shows 40 HD Proyecto 40 --- will that be XHTAU`s DTV channel? W9WI.com still does not show any DTV channels for Tampico. The DTV transition deadline for that city is unknown; in fact it`s not shown at all on http://tvdxtips.com/mexstationlist2.html Could that mean: never? Since Mexico, like Australia, has this absurd tradition of naming its national networks by the original channel number occupied in the source city, and remapping is now in the offing, will those start displaying the original network brand channel; or the former RF channel of the ex-analog relay transmitters, which have always been incidental and different in every city? Some of the networks have been getting away from this, but Azteca remains branded to ``13`` and ``7``. It would be as if network TV in the USA had become known as ``2`` for all CBS affiliates, ``4`` for all NBC, and ``7`` for all ABC --- even tho that setup hardly extended beyond NY and LA, already nonsensical in Third City = Chicago. I google the temp in Tampico as 28 degrees, close enough but hardly unique in the subtropix. 1724 MUF rises to color burst and some audio, now real estate commercial; 1734 again and better, now interviewing people outside, with a soccer ball in the lower left. 1803 mentions ``estado de Tamaulipas``. Some video & audio briefly now on ch 4, maybe Tampico too. WWV reports the K-index now at 5, i.e. very disturbed as far as HF is concerned, but maybe unrelated to seasonal sporadic E which would be happening anyway. 6m maps show only a few E- W paths, not N-S, presumably due to the paucity of Mexican 6m ham activity. Channel A2, May 29 at 2124 UT, NTSC video fades in after monitoring snow for hours; sporadic E MUF has ascended. Ad for Danone (?), ``Salud es Belleza`` slogan; seems to peak SSE, so suspect XHY-TV Mérida, Yucatán. 2132 large graphic says TRI>>> / NOTICIAS, with kid voices audible. At 2141, report about HURACAN BARBARA, with weatherYL blocking part of the map/grafix with her body; all I can make out is OAXACA. By the time the XHY-TV webcast boots up, I cannot get a match: it`s playing music videos. This was about when Babs made landfall over Oaxaca heading north, not a threat to Yucatán, but no doubt of interest thruout México. Nothing much further besides some video CCI up to channel 3 at 2140 UT. Our own OK storms to the south are causing lightning crashes, and I have to shoot thru them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MICRONESIA. 4755.53, 1150-, PMA The Cross, May 23. Surprised to still hear them at this late hour, with accented English preacher. Very good, except for strong splatter from 4750. ID at 1153, with announcement to listen daily at 10:00 PM. Gone on recheck after 1200 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4755.5, May 29 at 1158, having acquired a JBA carrier here no doubt from PMA The Cross, I am watching my watch to time exactly when the autoclock cuts it off: 1159:00* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MYANMAR. 5985.7, 27/5 2312, Padauk Myay Radio, usual slow songs, fair/good (Giampiero Bernardini blog, QTH: Pescia (Pistoia) Toscana, RX: Excalibur Pro - ANT: 30 meters wire, 60 meters windom by A. Capra; Accessori: 2 way antenna splitter RF-Systems SP-2; via dxldyg via DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. Digital modes via shortwave broadcast 25-26 May include digital images --- In addition to the usual MFSK text and images this weekend, VOA Radiogram will also experiment with digital images using the EasyPal software. With EasyPal, the picture will either be perfect or nonexistent. Definitely worth a try. http://voaradiogram.net/post/51249124390/voa-radiogram-for-the-weekend-of-may-25-26-includes On The Mighty KBC to North America, 26 May at 0000-0200 UT on 9925 kHz, at about 0133 UT MFSK32 text will be centered on 1000 Hz, and an MFSK32 image on 2000 Hz. At just before 0200, MFSK64 text will be centered on 1000 Hz, and an MFSK32 image on 2000 Hz. Run two instances of Fldigi or other decoding software to decode both simultaneously. Turn off the RxID on the 2000 Hz modes. There will be no Radio Australia digital text tests this weekend, but there will be on 1 and 2 June (Kim Elliott, May 25, dxldyg via DXLD) Mighty KBC May 26, 2013 summary 0000-0200 UTC 9925 kHz via Nauen, Germany: WTWW was on 9930 kHz causing moderate amount of QRM to 9925. Luckily, WTWW went off at 0000. Also, WYFR carrier on 9930 kHz from 0148. Good thing no audio as WYFR carrier not causing any problems. "The Giant Jukebox" with songs, comedy bits, hello to listeners in Australia and New Zealand, "A Day In History", Dutch weather, "Dutch News", "Hello to Listeners" and digital text. Signal was good at beginning, but went to only fair from 0028 UTC. Stayed fair thru remainder of broadcast. Results of the digital text: [garbles sic] **************************************************** 2013-5-26 0133 UTC MSFK32 centered on 1000 Hz. VOA Radiogram continues this weekend, experire…ing with the digital transmission of images using the Ea\npal software from vk4aes.com. VOA news storiea MFSK text modes will also be included in the program.4®mMore information at voaradiogram.net. VOA RadioÖYm transmission schedule (all days and times UTC) Sat 1600-1630 17860 kHz Sun 0230-0300 5745 kHz Sun 1300-1330 6095 kHz Sun 1930-2000 15670 kHz Thanks to The Mighty KBC. **************************************************** 2013-5-26 0133 UTC MSFK32 centered on 2000 Hz. Sending Pic:330x30C; Garbled "VOA Radiogram" image. Only way I know is having decoded the VOA Radiogram programs. see image here http://misc.kg4lac.com\2013-5-26_MightyKBC_9925kHz_0133UTC_MSFK32.jpg **************************************************** 2013-5-26 0159 UTC MSFK64 centered on 1000 Hz. KBC SHOP Tecsun PL-660 Shortwave Receive ee5 VHF Air Band Modes: AM-FM-USB-LSB 2000 MEMORIES SW 1,7-30,0 MHz FM 88-108 M¡N MW 520-1710 KHz LW 100-519 KHz AIR 118-137 MHz Portable receiver for HF/SW cL x¼â, MW, LW, FM and Aircraft Band (AM). Dual conversion for HF/SW, MW and LW. Single side band (SSrd, with USB & LSB Syncronous Detector with BFO control. Telescopic antenna and external ant. jacks. 2000 memoriesadrfXMk0K tuning steps for MW (AM), DX/Normal/Local RF gain. 4 tuning methods : ATS (Auto Tuning Storage), Yn-Scan with 5 sec. pre-listening, manual tuning or direct keypad entry. Large backlighted LCD and digital Signal Meter. Power sources : 4 x AA batteries or DC 6V. Built-in charger for rechargeable batteries. Sleep timer (1-120 min.) and dual alarm clock with auto turn off (1-90 min.). 230VAC adaptor, soft carrying case and wire shortwave antenna included. http://www.k-po.com/TECSUN-PL-660-AM-FM-USB-LSB.2.html **************************************************** 2013-5-26 0139 UTC MSFK32 centered on 2000 Hz. Sending Pic:154x112C; image of the Tecsun PL-660 receiver see image here http://misc.kg4lac.com\2013-5-26_MightyKBC_9925kHz_0139UTC_MSFK32.jpg **************************************************** 73, (Kraig, KG4LAC, Krist, Manassas, Virginia, United States of America, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEWFOUNDLAND. CANADÁ, 6160.8, CKZN, São João da Terra Nova, 2145- 2155, 26/5, texto, entrevistas; 24321, QRM adj. (6155) 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6160.7, 27/5 2304, CKZN St. John’s, Canada, interview, fair/good, fading (Giampiero Bernardini blog, QTH: Pescia (Pistoia) Toscana, RX: Excalibur Pro - ANT: 30 meters wire, 60 meters windom by A. Capra; Accessori: 2 way antenna splitter RF-Systems SP-2; via dxldyg via DXLD) ** NEW ZEALAND. Heard using a barefoot Eton e100 in the early hours (CDT local) of Wed 22 May 2013: 9700 kHz, RNZI 0816 UT "This is RNZI Radio New Zealand International" ID, then into what sounded like a 4- part harmony Maori song. Beautiful!! Heard another ID at 0829 followed by Pacific News. SIO 444. Since I had not verified RNZI from Houston yet, I submitted a reception report using RNZI's online QSL form located at http://www.rnzi.com/pages/qsl.php I was pleasantly surprised to find an email QSL from RNZI in my inbox just 2 short days later!! The QSL was signed by Adrian Sainsbury, Frequency Manager. I was happy!! 73 & Good DX, (Steve Ponder, N5WBI, Houston, TX, May 28, NASWA yg via DXLD) 11725 AM and 11675 DRM, May 23 at 0516 and still at 0531, no signals from RNZI (nor on 15720, 13730). It happens again. If I had kept with it a bit longer, as Ivo Ivanov did in Bulgaria, I should have heard wrong 15720 finally on at *0535-0547, and then right 11725 from 0548 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: Radio New Zealand International: 0535-0547 15720 RAN 050 kW / 000 deg to Pac English, instead of 11725 from 0548 11725 RAN 050 kW / 000 deg to Pac English as scheduled -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Frequency change of Radio New Zealand International from May 25: 1551-1850 NF 9615 RAN 100 kW / 035 deg to Cook Island/Samoa in English, x 9700 -- 73! (Ivo, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Frequency change of Radio New Zealand International from May 25: 1551-1850 NF 9615 RAN 100 kW / 035 deg to Cook Island/Samoa in English, x 9700 (DX RE MIX NEWS #783 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 28, 2013, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15720, 24/5 2104, R. New Zealand Int. DRM, S7 but audio only some times (Giampiero Bernardini blog, QTH: Pescia (Pistoia) Toscana, RX: Excalibur Pro - ANT: 30 meters wire, 60 meters windom by A. Capra; Accessori: 2 way antenna splitter RF-Systems SP-2; via dxldyg via DXLD) More changes of Radio New Zealand International from May 30: 1551-1650 7330 RAN 050 kW / 035 deg AM Cook Isl, Samoa, ex 9615 1551-1650 6135 RAN 025 kW / 035 deg DRM Cook Isl, Samoa no change 1651-1745 7330 RAN 050 kW / 035 deg AM Cook Isl, Samoa, ex 9615 1651-1745 6135 RAN 025 kW / 035 deg DRM Cook Isl, Samoa, ex 7330 1746-1836 9615 RAN 050 kW / 035 deg AM Cook Isl, Samoa, Tonga ex 9700 1746-1836 6135 RAN 025 kW / 035 deg DRM Cook Isl, Samoa, Tonga ex 9630 1837-1950 9615 RAN 050 kW / 035 deg AM Samoa, Niue, Tonga, ex 11725 1837-1950 9630 RAN 025 kW / 035 deg DRM Samoa, Niue, Tonga no change 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA [and non]. 15120, May 28 at 0457 carrier but almost dead air from V. of Nigeria; 0500 African news in English about OAU, good signal but distorted modulation; 0509 dumps off the air uncovering weak Chinese, 0510 back on with hum and distortion. Aoki shows the entire 05-07 transmission collides with CRI in Chinese, 500 kW, 322 degrees from Beijing site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 780, May 25 at 0506 UT, daytimer KSPI Stillwater open carrier is on again, making fast SAH with Pueblo and attenuated WBBM. KSPI had been behaving itself recently until now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 960, May 26 at 0202-0205 UT, open carrier/dead air from KGWA Enid! Another Fox-hole of no news besides the one which usually happens at 0500-0505. Could well be many more at hourtops when I am not looking for them. But this time, nothing significant audible underneath. Next hole at 0502-0505 UT May 26 provides mostly blues music, i.e. WABG Mississippi (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1120, May 28 at 0502 UT, Mexican music audible with KMOX nulled, but very poor signal. Presumed daytimer KEOR Catoosa again; also at 1128 caught an announcement mentioning ``palabra de dios``, Victoria, and a 491- phonumber, but now it`s legally daytime (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 92.1, May 25 at 2033 UT check, KAMG-LP Enid is open carrier/dead air, as it has been for a few days now whenever checked. Not unusual for this, supposed to be plugged into some Spanish gospel- huxter network since the local pastor-founder sold it off. Noticed that the stereo pilot is still on, anyway! 92.1 FM, May 23 at 1524 UT, KAMG-LP Enid continues to transmit dead air all the time, whenever checked, well almost --- there are pops at the rate of 66/minute, but several times per minute there are three quick pops at once. Maybe a neglected receiver is trying to acquire a satellite feed? So much for local radio service. Our next low-power up the dial, 93.1 K226BR, the one which provided straw-sucking-on-almost-empty-cup sounds, has been off for a few weeks now (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. RF 7, May 26 before 1500 UT, KOCO-TV is running continuous crawler that after 10 am, Indy 500 will be on 5.2 so 5.1 can cover Pres. Obama`s visit to Moore/OKC. Extremely unusual for KOCO to make use of 5.2 other than with ME TV. However, from 1500 UT, they are *both* on the silly carace, except 5.2 is in squeeze-o-vision. President does not really touch down at Tinker AFB until about 1645, AF1 first sighted at 1639. Governess Fallin, who snubbed the President the last time he visited Oklahoma, is on hand this time, and has been heard to say she hopes to cut thru red tape to get FEMA aid flowing. What??? From the nasty federal government?!?!?! Channels 27 and 39 are in-and-out of Obama coverage as there`s really not much to show until he gets to Moore later to make a speech, but KOCO stays with it more than the others in the meantime. At 1758 he is on the ground in Moore and starts speaking, when the national cable networks join in for a few minutes. Meanwhile 5.2 KOCO-SD has fixed the squeeze-o-vision, since we cannot change the aspect ratio --- oops, back to SOV, depending on what`s being shown from ESPN. RF ch 40, May 26 at 2300 UT, KAUT, ``Freedom 43`` is very unusually carrying banal NBC network programming, shifted to here since it`s a subsidiary of KFOR 27, pre-empting NBC for the Moore memorial service from a Baptist church for a sesquihour (KAUT had been scheduled with syndicated: Are We There Yet?, Love-Raymond, Friends). Service starts with the pastor bashing non-believers, lauds governess for being an unashamed Baptist, prompting a quick tune-out. Beats me why the Moore victims aren`t railing against god instead of praising it. Also carried live on 7 KOCO, 39 KWTV and 13 OETA. KFOR keeps Antenna TV on 4.2 instead of firing up a 4.3, or pre-empting ATV like KOCO 7 had done with Indy 500 onto 5.2 instead of METV earlier in the day for Obama visit coverage on 5.1. KWTV as usual shifted CBS (only a 60 Minutes rerun) to 9.2 instead of replaying old newscasts. Unlike most of the OKC channels, KAUT itself runs no secondary or tertiary channel, for some reason. Meanwhile during the same hour, RF 51, KSBI 52.1 ran the final college and HS quiz shows of the season as usual; inserting a promo by owner Vince Orza saluting the *other* TV stations in the market for their tornado weather coverage, even with clips of their logos. (KSBI made a brief try at local weather a few years ago, but soon ceded.) The HS quiz has a much better master, but who still slips up on some pronunciations. In my opinion, on both, most of the questions are too hard for the cream of our crop students, but the high-schoolers are usually more impressive (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN. 13600, 0300-, Radio Sultanate of Oman, May 23. Hopeless frequency, with CODAR interference well over a very weak cochannel. Might even be CRI, rather than Oman (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3260, 1139-, Radio Madang, May 23. Fair reception with Tok Pisin by YL. Pretty sure I heard her say, 'Good Night', then into a local song. 3385, 1141-, Radio East New Britain, May 23. Fair/good reception with English ads (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3385, May 28 at 1104, the only NBC frequency detectable on 90m, very poor talk a few minutes before sunrise here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 7324.969, 1132-, Wantok Radio Light, May 23. Fair reception with easy listening music. Difficult to copy talk by YL due to splatter from very strong Magadan on 7320. Extremely disturbed conditions this morning. MW band virtually devoid of TP reception compared to yesterday! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) CHINA q.v. again blocking from May 25 (gh) ** PERU. 3329.5, Perú, Ondas del Huallaga, Huánuco, 1017 to 1040 weak in Spanish 22 May (XM, Cedar Key, South Florida, NRD 525D, R8A via Wilkner, and Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, Icom 746Pro - Drake R8, and 25 May, DX LISTENING DIGEST) On the air now: 3329.5, Perú, Ondas del Huallaga, Huánuco, 0010 to 0015 with stronger than usual signal in South Florida. Best 73s (Bob Wilkner, 0022 UT May 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4747.072, May 25 -2300*, R Huanta 2000 with sign off procedure starting at 2256 and finishing with march music and an abrupt sign off in the middle of the music (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin May 26 via DXLD) contradicted: date or time mixup?? (gh) 4747.06, 25/5 2331, Huanta 2000, long talks & folk songs, fair (Giampiero Bernardini blog, QTH: Pescia (Pistoia) Toscana, RX: Excalibur Pro - ANT: 30 meters wire, 60 meters windom by A. Capra; Accessori: 2 way antenna splitter RF-Systems SP-2; via dxldyg via DXLD) 4747.08, Huanta Dos Mil, booming in with huaynos. 4774.95, Radio Tarma noted with huaynos. [more below] 4789.89, R. Visión, fair religious talk, sometimes noted prior to 0800 4810, R. Logos, fair with huaynos, CODAR QRM. 4826.51, R. Sicuani, fair with huaynos but low modulation. 4955, R. Cultura Amauta, very good with huaynos. 5039.18, R. Libertad, very good despite CODAR with reverb time check by a man (David Sharp, NSW Australia, experimenting with my EWE's and trying to overcome the severe QRM plaguing my QTH. Some success! QUICK BANDSCAN 28/5/13, 1100-1200 UT, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 4774.992, May 18 2155, Tentative R dif de Congonhas alone here. Checking the frequency again at 2256 R Tarma on 4774.987 is the strongest signal (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin May 26 via DXLD) 4774.895, 26/5 0002, Radio Tarma, really nice songs, ID: "Radio Tarma Internacional" fair/good (Giampiero Bernardini blog, QTH: Pescia (Pistoia) Toscana, RX: Excalibur Pro - ANT: 30 meters wire, 60 meters windom by A. Capra; Accessori: 2 way antenna splitter RF-Systems SP-2; via dxldyg via DXLD) 4775.8, RADIO TARMA, Mayo 25 a las 1138 UT. Vía Tarma, ID de la emisora más avisos en idioma español sobre la municipalidad, Fuerzas Armadas y la transmisión de partidos de futbol. A las 1144 UT se vuelve a la programación de música serrana peruana. La señal tiene mucho fading mientras más avanza la hora, aunque la modulación es buena. SINPO: 33333 4790, RADIO VISIÓN, Mayo 25 a las 0500 UT. Vía Chiclayo. Mujer indica la hora en español: “Esta es Radio Visión, la voz de la salvación, siendo las 12 de la noche”; después de ello se transmite a un niño y a un hombre mayor cantando alabanzas evangélicas en idioma español en vivo desde una reunión de exorcismo. La señal es estable y modulación aceptable con SINPO: 44444. (Claudio Galaz, Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Coaxial de 5 Ohms de 20 Metros, Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** PERU. 4810, Perú, Radio Logos, Chazuta, Tarapoto, 1020 to 1100 with time check off by two minutes, enjoyable Peru music, good signal 18 May (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, Icom 746Pro - Drake R8, and XM, Cedar Key, South Florida, NRD 525D, R8A via Wilkner, 25 May, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4826.5, Perú, Radio Sicuani, Sicuani, Cusco, 1030 to 1040 with chat en español on 25 May (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, Icom 746Pro - Drake R8, and XM, Cedar Key, South Florida, NRD 525D, R8A via Wilkner, 25 May, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4826.616, May 26 0100, Tentative R Sicuani. I have checked this frequency often and it is almost impossible to get any audio from this station despite a decent signal (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin May 26 via DXLD) ** PERU. PERÚ [and non]. 4835, R. MARAÑÓN, Mayo 25 a las 1145 UT. Avisos sobre el dengue y otras prevenciones de salud. La señal se encuentra con buena modulación, poco fading y SINPO: 43343. No obstante, se encuentran interferencias de otras emisoras como ABC desde Australia, vía Alice Springs con SINPO: 33343 que produce una mixturas de audios en ciertos momentos. Ninguna de las dos es determinante sobre la otra (Claudio Galaz, Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Coaxial de 5 Ohms de 20 Metros, Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) Otherwise good logs, but unless he heard an ID here, fooled by old listing, as this station disappeared some time ago and the one on 4835 now is La Voz del Suroriente, Quillabamba, Perú, ex-5120, as reported already several times in DXLD (gh, DXLD) 4835, May 25 at 0057-0058, can`t capture any signal from Quillabamba, despite open-carrier, dead air for a minute from 4840 WWCR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4835, 26/5 0035, Ondas del Suroriente, Quillabamba, ID, frequencies, songs, weak (Giampiero Bernardini blog, QTH: Pescia (Pistoia) Toscana, RX: Excalibur Pro - ANT: 30 meters wire, 60 meters windom by A. Capra; Accessori: 2 way antenna splitter RF-Systems SP-2; via dxldyg via DXLD) 4835.031, May 26 0056, A definite ID as “R Ondas del Sur ….. “ noted here. HC music (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin May 26 via DXLD) HC = Ecuadorian ** PERU. 4939.97, 26/5 0045, Radio San Antonio, Atalaya, talks, ID & same songs, weak (Giampiero Bernardini blog, QTH: Pescia (Pistoia) Toscana, RX: Excalibur Pro - ANT: 30 meters wire, 60 meters windom by A. Capra; Accessori: 2 way antenna splitter RF-Systems SP-2; via dxldyg via DXLD) 4939.977, May 26 -0056*, R San Antonio with sign off. Weaker signal than usual (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin May 26 via DXLD) ** PERU. 4954.99, 25/5 0011, Radio Cultural Amauta, Huanta, Perù, music, talks, poor/weak (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Italy, Qualche ascolto a Pescia in Toscana, RX: Excalibur Pro; ANT: 30 meters wire, 60 meters windom by A. Capra; Acc: 2 way antenna splitter RF-Systems SP-2, playdx yg via DXLD) ** PERU [and non]. 5024.905, May 23 2256, R Quillabamba again much stronger than R Rebelde which was dominating half an hour later (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin May 26 via DXLD) 5025, RADIO QUILLABAMBA, Mayo 25 a las 1151 UT. Mujer identifica la emisora como: “R. Quillabamba, Voz del que no tiene voz” con música andina en español con temática de la ciudad de Quillabamba nombrada en canciones y a las 12 UT se da inicio a una serie de avisos de la municipalidad y de conciertos del día Sábado en varios distritos cercanos a Cusco. La transmisión no está interferida por Rebelde u otras en la misma frecuencia, además no está afectada ni por fading, ni por mucho ruido, más allá del normal de la banda de 60 metros a esta hora y con una modulación buenísima. SINPO: 44444 (Claudio Galaz, Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Coaxial de 5 Ohms de 20 Metros, Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** PERU. 5039.22, Perú, Radio Libertad de Junín, Junín, 1020 to 1050 fade, OM with time checks and program en español 25 May (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, Icom 746Pro - Drake R8, 25 May, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5980, May 23 at 0054, carrier from R. Chaski, vs noise level, enough to time the cutoff today at 0100:38, five seconds later than yesterday. 5980, May 24 at 0056, R. Chaski carrier detectable, today not only vs. natural noise on the band but also Cuban pulse jamming, which is ``necessary`` only after 0700 when R. Martí is on 5980. But I can still time the Chaski-cutoff at 0100:44 which is 6 seconds later than last nite (axually more like 5.3 seconds later on average, but hard to split seconds on my watch). 5980, May 25 at 0055, JBA carrier from R. Chaski vs hash, to cutoff at 0100:49*, 5 seconds later than last night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5980, Radio Chaski (tentative), Cusco, 1026 UT, May 25, Spanish, religious program made by Red Radio Integridad, 34443 (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) Interesante saber que Chasqui por las mañanas también transmite a R. Integridad. Saludos! (Claudio Galaz, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) Yo estoy casi seguro que es Chaski. No la pude identificar y encima el programa va en español "neutro" pero casi no albergo dudas (Slaen, ibid.) So I guess he didn`t really hear an Integridad ID either? (gh, DXLD) Es que Chaski nunca se identifica como tal, siempre lo hace como Identidad cuando transmite. Excepto cuando tiene programación propia que se suponía transmitía en las mañanas. Integridad transmite sólo programas religiosos envasados de corte fundamentalista Bautista, al igual que BBN. Más bien, son los mismos. Por ejemplo, BBN transmite un programa propio por la mañana o madrugada y en la tarde lo hace Integridad y Chaski. Saludos! (Galaz, condiglista yg via DXLD) 5980, lo que presumo Radio Chaski, en español, programa religioso, UT 0040, SINPO 33333 (Ernesto Paulero, Argentina, UT May 26, condiglist yg via DXLD) [and non]. 5980, May 26 at 0059, R. Chaski audible better than usual in Spanish talk, maybe because some household noise sources are off, tho as usual monitored from the porch; still has splash from CRI/Cuba 5990 on air past 0100 when English is starting futilely. 5980 cuts off at 0100:54*, which is 5 seconds later than yesterday. 5980, May 27 at 0055, R. Chaski is still making it with some Spanish talk and music; 5990 China via CUBA splash is off by 0100 this time, facilitating capture of the exact second when Chaski turns off: 0100:59* which is 5 seconds later than yesterday. 5980, May 28 at 0100:18*, CRI/Cuban splash from 5990 cuts off late as usual, once CRI has started to open English; so no QRM from that when R. Chaski itself cuts off at 0101:05* which is 6 seconds later than yesterday. 5980, May 29 at 0100, CRI/Cuba is already off 5990; R. Chaski carrier with music audible until its cutoff at 0101:10*, five seconds later than yesterday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. Al momento 0136 UT, llegando la señal de Radio Tawantisuyo en 6173.92 kHz desde Cusco con buenas condiciones y libre de interferencia desde canales adyacentes; presentando una excelente selección de música folclórica (Rafael Rodríguez R., Bogotá D.C. - COLOMBIA, UT May 28, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** PUERTO RICO. 21240-USB, May 25 at 1851, WP4AZT calling QRZ DX in English, quick contest-like 5-9 contacts. Like 10m from Brazil, this was the only SSB signal found on 15m as I stepped thru at 5-kHz intervals, but the bottom end of the band was crammed with CW signals, why? A mostly-CW contest? QRZ.com shows: WP4AZT JOSE A SANTIAGO BOX 61 SALINAS, PR 00751 USA [sic] Yes, 25-26 May: CQ WW WPX Contest CW, http://www.cqwpx.com/rules.htm So almost everyone abandoned their mikes? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** QATAR [non]. AL JAZEERA AMERICA SHIFTS FOCUS TO U.S. NEWS By BRIAN STELTER, The New York Times, May 26, 2013 While it has a foreign name, the forthcoming Al Jazeera cable channel in the United States wants to be American through and through. When Al Jazeera's owners in Qatar acquired Al Gore's Current TV in January, they said that Current would be replaced by Al Jazeera America, an international news channel with 60 percent new programming from the United States. The remaining 40 percent, they said, would come from Al Jazeera English, their existing English-language news channel in Doha, Qatar, that is already available in much of the rest of the world. That plan is no more. Now Al Jazeera America is aiming to have virtually all of its programming originate from the United States, according to staff members and others associated with the channel who were interviewed in recent weeks. It will look inward, covering domestic affairs more often than foreign affairs. It will, in other words, operate much like CNN (though the employees say they won't be as sensational) and Fox News (though they say they won't be opinion-driven). The programming strategy, more ambitious than previously understood, is partly a bid to gain acceptance and give Americans a reason to tune in. It may help explain why Al Jazeera America's start date has been delayed once already, to August from July, and why some employees predict it will be delayed again. Al Jazeera also has yet to hire a president or a slate of vice presidents to run the channel on a day-to-day basis, which has spurred uncomfortable questions about whether earlier controversies involving the pan-Arab news giant are creating difficulties for the new channel. The Arabic-language Al Jazeera was condemned by the American government a decade ago for broadcasting videotapes from Osama bin Laden and other materials deemed to be terrorist propaganda. Others have criticized the Arabic and English channels for being a mouthpiece for Qatar, though the channel's representatives insist that is not the case. Other questions about bias persist; as recently as last week, the Al Jazeera Web site was accused of publishing an anti-Semitic article by a guest columnist. But Al Jazeera America employees profess confidence that they will be able to work free of interference. Some are already rehearsing with mock newscasts. Others are fanning out to report news stories from parts of the country rarely visited by camera crews. Still others are setting up new studios in New York, where the channel will have a home inside the New Yorker Hotel, and in Washington, where it will take over space previously occupied by ABC at the Newseum on Pennsylvania Avenue. New employees are being added to the rolls every weekday from places like CNN, "Frontline" and Time magazine. "We expect to have approximately 800 employees when we launch," said Ehab Al Shihabi, the Al Jazeera executive in charge of international operations, including the American channel. He declined to comment on the delays, but said the channel would start "later this summer." Since January, he and his colleagues' overarching message to lawmakers, mayors, cable operators, and potential viewers has been that Al Jazeera is coming to America to supply old-fashioned, boots- on-the-ground news coverage to a country that doesn't have enough of it. A series of announcements about new hires like Ed Pound, an experienced investigative reporter, and new bureaus in cities like Detroit have bolstered that message. Public relations and marketing firms retained by Al Jazeera, like Qorvis Communications and Siegel & Gale, have worked to limit opposition to the channel and increase support for its arrival. Al Jazeera representatives seem aware that they are confronting an enormous marketing challenge. But they benefit from the public perception that they have boundlessly deep pockets, thanks to the oil and gas wealth of Qatar. Al Jazeera America has been portrayed by some as a giant stimulus project for American journalism at a time when other news organizations are suffering cutbacks. "This is the first big journalism hiring binge that anyone's been on for a long time," said the business reporter and anchor Ali Velshi when he left CNN in April for a prime time spot on Al Jazeera America. Al Jazeera tried and failed for years to get cable operators to carry Al Jazeera English -- a button-down challenger to BBC and CNN International -- in the United States. Acquiring Current TV gave it a new way into the country and many expected Al Jazeera America to be a glorified simulcast of its existing English-language channel, one that would give Americans more access to a world news perspective. But cable operators objected to that idea, saying in essence that they had repeatedly chosen not to carry the existing channel, so Al Jazeera couldn't sneak it onto their cable lineups through Current, according to several Al Jazeera America employees, who spoke on the condition of anonymity in an effort to speak freely about internal matters. (They call the channel "Ajam" -- pronounced like A-Rod -- for the way it's abbreviated.) Another calculation was purely competitive: to compel people to change the channel from CNN or MSNBC, "you can't just plug in someone else's international news," one staff member said. "The filter has to be international news that has an impact on American lives," said another. This realization drove Al Jazeera to rethink the programming mix for the new channel. They set out to hire more Americans than originally planned. Mr. Al Shihabi declined to describe the specific reasons for the changes, but he said Al Jazeera America "will be an American news channel that broadcasts news of interest and importance to its American audience." "The precise split will vary from day to day depending only on what is newsworthy and important," he said. "We expect most days will primarily be domestic news. But Al Jazeera's 70 bureaus around the world will mean that we will have an unparalleled ability to report on important global stories that Americans are not seeing elsewhere. We will do that when it is warranted." The American channel's daily schedule will consist mainly of live newscasts, with some talk shows and taped documentaries as well, according to an internal presentation reviewed by The New York Times. Three Al Jazeera English programs that are based in Washington, "The Stream," "Inside Story Americas" and "Fault Lines," are on the tentative schedule. Its flagship nighttime show was to be titled "Main Street Journal," according to the presentation, but is now "America Tonight." The title is still subject to change. Mr. Al Shihabi said it would be a "five-night-a-week prime-time newsmagazine that will present the day's news in Al Jazeera's typical unbiased, objective, long-form style," including "stories that are not covered elsewhere." The channel has hired Kim Bondy, a former executive producer for CNN, to run the new show, but it has yet to hire an anchor for it. In fact, the only anchor identified by Al Jazeera so far is Mr. Velshi. The news organization has multiple recruiting firms lining up anchors, correspondents and executives, though, and Mr. Al Shihabi said "discussions are well under way for all senior positions." For the president position, Al Jazeera wants a journalist who is also a "statesman," several employees said, owing to the political realities of the job. (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) I predict they`ll never get accepted as long as they don`t change from that wacky Arabic name and logo which only a calligrapher could copy or decipher. How about QTV or Qute TV? (gh, DXLD) ** ROMANIA. 17510, Radio Romania via Tiganeshti in English with "the cooking show", a recipe for roast lamb with spring garlic & onion (it sounded REALLY good--I am going to try it!) then "Through the Looking Glass" with talk of Romanian Inventions, including details about a device called "roboscan" for aircraft security inspections. Then "Roots" with a discussion of wedding traditions in Romania, including mention of the traditional proposal was accomplished by the groom giving the prospective bride an apple wrapped in fine linen and with a silver (or gold) coin inside. (I guess, you don't just bite into the apple to accept the proposal!) Then into DX Mailbag with letters from listeners in places such as Japan, India, as well as the states of OH & FL. They mentioned Flickr, Twitter & Pintrist addresses for RRI as well as the email and website URL. Then the "Radio Romania 85" contest was mentioned, offering a trip to a listener who answered questions commemorating the 85th anniversary of RRI on Nov. 1, 2013. At :55 there was a sign off with schedule info for the next broadcast to each area (Europe and Africa) and the Interval Signal at :56 to carrier off at :57. This channel was best with 4554+4+ but others were also good, 15210 TIG 3+4+454, 15430 GAL 34+554 & 17670 GAL 3+54+4+4(ish) 1127-1157* 18/May (Kenneth Vito Zichi, MI, MARE Tipsheet 24 May via DXLD) [and non]. 9645, 0303-, Radio Romania International, May 23. A difficult evening with poor propagation all around. Nonetheless, good reception from RRI in English with local news. Need to use LSB to avoid Brazilian Radio Bandeirantes in Sao Paulo on 9645.40 at fair/good level. Tonight I could hear no other parallel frequencies for RRI. Except, I was listening to a weak Palau on 17800, and noted an open carrier. At 0309, RRI came alive with English at good/very good level. I then checked 15340 and heard a reasonably loud DRM signal, but too weak to decipher whether this was RRI or not. 17780, 0411-, Radio Romania International, May 22. Incredibly strong broadcast in Mandarin (sounds almost slow Chinese). RRI never ceases to amaze me with the quality of the transmission (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11975, May 25 at 1839, VG signal with disco beat music, YL singer, can`t tell if lyrix in English. Must be RRI, which likes to diffuse stuff like this in its so-called Romanian service, maybe domestic network relay --- yes, per Aoki, it`s Galbeni at 17-20 UT, 285 degrees. Certainly the best if not the only signal direct from Europe at this hour on 25m (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12685, !!!!ARMONIC, R Romania ARMONIC!!!! 1025 26 May, program in French, 33333 (Mauro - Giroletti -Swl 1510- -IK2GFT- -JRC525Nrd - Lowe HF150- Filter PAR Electronics - BCST-LPF + BCST-HPF- DSP 9 - Eavesdropper SWL Sloper 11mt to 120mt Band- Loop ALA 100 M; -Lat. 45 25'0" N Long. 9 7'0" E -Locator grid. Jn 45 Nk- bclnews.it yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DXLD) Nice catch, but not really a harmonic: a leapfrog mixing product, from Galbeni site, 17795 over 15240 another 2555 kHz down. In case the other pair of frequencies, via Tiganeshti, are also doing this, formula: 17785 minus 15380 = 2405. 15380 minus 2405 = 12975. Check it (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** RUSSIA. 8939, 24/5 2127, Rostov Volmet, Russia, USB, in Russian, fair (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Italy, Qualche ascolto a Pescia in Toscana, RX: Excalibur Pro; ANT: 30 meters wire, 60 meters windom by A. Capra; Acc: 2 way antenna splitter RF-Systems SP-2, playdx yg via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. Quick post to let you know that I'm amazed at how strong RWM time signal in Moscow is making it to Montreal tonight. I think it's the first time it actually makes my S meter move to S6 and S7 with the time pips on 14996 in CW mode at 0115 UT. I will tune around the band; conditions seem pretty good tonight. 73 (Gilles Letourneau, Montreal, Canada, UT May 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. UNIDentified station in DRM om May 23: 0630 on 7370 -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) FYI: RUSSIA, 7370, Unidentified tx location, of DRM mode outlet Radio Mayak on May 23 at 0637 UT. ID:1001. btw. ID:1001 seems to be a standard ID label of TransRadio Berlin DRM encoder, appeared also in 2009 and 2010 on Romanian Tiganeshti DRM gear outlet. vy73 de wolfy df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) Viz.: [A-DX] Fw: UNIDentified in DRM. 7370drm. Kann 'wer' mal mit seinem DRM G'lomb hinein hören? oder die ID snapshoot mal eruieren? Danke. DRM Signal ist dünne, scheint also ausserhalb Europa zu kommen. 73 wb (Büschel, 0700 UT 23 May, A-DX via wb, ibid.) Hallo Wolfgang, Wie versprochen hier noch das Bild. Das Signal ist arg schwach. Gehört habe ich bisher nichts. Gruss (Sandro Blatter, Lok.: Schwerzenbach (bei Zuerich), RX: JRC NRD-545DSP, Perseus, Ant.: ALA1530, ibid.) Thanks Sandro in Switzerland for snap of screenshot. Super strong 10 kHz wide frequency block ONLY seen in Finland remote Perseus and on DF3LZ SDR Perseus unit in Hamburg Germany, S=9+15dB signal. NOTHING seen in Australia, Japan, USA, and fairly nothing in England, nothing in western and southern Europe so far. Suggestion seems Krasnodar Armavir tx center outlet? vy73 wolfgang df5sx (Büschel, ibid.) "Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics under contract with the Russian TV & Radio Network (RTRN) will fulfill DRM SFN tests on the HF. Transmissions will be held from 06 UT 21 May to 06 UT on May 22 at the frequencies of 9740 kHz (9820 kHz) and from 06 UT on May 23 to 06 UT on May 24 at the frequencies 7370 kHz (7430 kHz). Also from 06 UT on May 28 to 06 UT on May 29 at different frequencies (9740, 9820, 7370, 7430 kHz). Two transmitters will be used: 1 - Bolshakovo, 15 kW, beam 40 (9.7 MHz, 7.4 MHz); 2 - Krasnodar, 30 kW, beam 347 (9.7 MHz) and beam 337 (7.4 MHz). Every hour the first transmitter will on the air in the first 40 minutes and the second transmitter will on the air in the last 40 minutes. Thus the first 20 minutes you can listen to the first transmitter, middle 20 minutes - both transmitters in SFN, and the last 20 minutes - the second transmitter. The purpose of the study - the detection of network gain (% of decoded audio from the first TX, from the second TX and from the both TX). Synchronization point will be near Moscow. Switching between the frequencies in the same band will be operative to minimize interference from other stations. Transmission may also be heard in the Nordic and Baltic countries. Please send reception reports. Oleg" http://www.drmrx.org/forum/showthread.php?t=2493 (via Alexander Diadischev, Ukraine, dxldyg via DXLD) Does this means that Synchronization will be dynamically adjusted? What are the distances between the 3 points? May 16. On May 21 signal is here on 9740 kHz right on time peaking 30dB SNR. (French operator F1BJB in JN19BL, May 16 / 21) Synchronization point will be near Moscow. From each TX to RX about 1000 km, and delay between TX is not necessary. Another points with different propagation times (until 6 ms) may be OK. [later] May 21 - Thanks for long and informative report. It seems that different propagation delay between TX make decoding impossible when both are on air. I try calculate it later. On 23 May we plan to start at 06 UT on 7370 kHz until (preliminarily) 13 UT, then 7430 kHz until (preliminarily) 17 UT, then 7370 to 19 UT, 7430 to 20 UT, 7370 to 23 UT, 7430 to 24 UT, 7370 to 05 UT and 7430 to 06 UT. We switched TX at 20 min and 40 min of each hour. Difference in propagation delay may be near 5 ms (if one hop from Krasnodar) or near 6ms (if 2 hops from Krasnodar). It may be close to guard interval limit, and TX work not at one, but as interference to each other. You graph is seems to it. You location may be of the border of SFN area. (Oleg V. Varlamov UA3ARI, Moscow-RUS, drmrx May 16/21/23) 0720 UT, Radio MAYAK of 9740 kHz good reception in Russian language, SNR 15 to 21 db, but little fading, very nice reception. (Marcel in NoEaFrance, drmrx May 21) The propagation today May 21 is not very good, so the result here in Stockholm, Sweden is not very stable. Around 6 UT I could not see any traces of a signal but after 0620 UT there was some sound to hear. My log starts at 0630 UT and lasts for 279 minutes. A 207 minutes long second log from 1242 UT. I removed the Doppler to get a clearer picture. Hope that someone can make something out of these logs. May 23 - Good reception during the first 40 minutes of the hour, then a weaker signal during the last 20 minutes without decoded audio. A slight change in Doppler and delay can be seen 20 minutes into the hour, but the 2nd TX was so weak here that the reception was unaffected. The stronger TX was about +30dBuV and the weaker about +10dBuV (Terje in Stockholm-SWE, drmrx May 21/23) Es handelt sich um einen SFN-Test aus Krasnodar und Kaliningrad. ... hier "Radio Mayak", SNR 8,5dB, kein Ton, S7. Robust in Mode B, 4- QAM/SM 16-QAM, 2s Inteleaver, 14,06 kbps; allerdings hier Vierweg- Ausbreitung, wobei sich die zwei staerksten Wege um fuenf (!) Millisekunden voneinander unterscheiden und der Decodierung zu Audio das Genick brechen (Nils Schiffhauer-D DK8OK, A-DX May 23) (all via BCDX 24 May via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. 15670, 1304-, VORWS, May 23. Fair/good reception with English to SE Asia. Parallel 12030 from Vladivostok is stronger, but with quite bothersome transmitter hum (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA [non]. 11635, May 25 at 1837, French mixing with ute blapps and Cuban numbers YL, also making SAH. Per HFCC, the French is Voice of Russia, 16-21 UT, 500 kW, 235 degrees from PRIDNESTROVYE (a.k.a. KCH), i.e. for Africa, not France. And we know that 11635 is a very active Cuban numbers frequency, on the air most of the afternoons here. Without the QubaRM, VOR French would have been quite sufficiently audible. Are the Russians regretting ``encouraging`` their former(?) Commie comrades to engage in espionage broadcasting? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. [Re site for Tatarstan Wave, still Samara?] The answer came from the Samara ORPTS. Dear Alexander. Broadcasting "Voices of Kazan" is still carried away from the territory of Radio center in Samara. On the prospects Radiocenter read in the news, at the time this information will appear. Service information on the prospects of the radio center, I am not authorized to share, even with the media. Please, treat with understanding to my information. Sincerely, Marat Yusupov Rinatovich, chief engineer Branch "RTRS" "Samara radio television transmitting center" 443011, Samara, ul. Soviet Army, 205, (846) 926-24-94, fax. (846) 926-10-30, 272-83-87 mob. e-mail: yusupov@ortpc-samara.ru http://www.samara.rtrn.ru (Alexander Golovihin, Russia / "open_dx" & "deneb-radio-dx" via RusDX May 26 via DXLD) Yesterday sunk rumors unstable, so to speak, the prospects for the FIFA World Cup 2018. Samara, ostensibly can refer the case to Volgograd. If this is confirmed, then to press RC-3 will be no one and no reason (Vladimir Emelyanov, Samara, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx", ibid.) Huh?? See also TATARSTAN [non] (gh) ** RWANDA. 21780, Deutsche Welle, Mayo 25 a las 13 UT. Comienzo del programa en idioma Hausa con noticias y señal estable. SINPO: 43433 (Claudio Galaz, Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Coaxial de 5 Ohms de 20 Metros, Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) Often best 13m signal here then (gh, DXLD) ** SAINT KITTS & NEVIS. [Re 13-21: Is 555 ZIZ gone again?] I have gotten a carrier on 555 several times over the winter, no audio though (Bob Young, Millbury, MA, May 22, NRC-AM via DXLD) Next week I will be in the Bahamas with my wife, granddaughter and two great grandsons. I'll check on 555-ZIZ but St. Kitts isn't very close to there. I haven't heard from 555 in quite a while so not expecting much (Ben Dangerfield, Wallingford, PA, ibid) I`ve listened to ZIZ online and I can swear I've heard their DJ's specifically mention 555 AM, but don't quote me. Also, in liners / station ID's that have specifically mentioned 555 kHz that I know I've heard. [and non] Be forewarned, I've learned that, in talking to several staff at AM stations in the Caribbean, the stations are running lower than "licensed" power. Klassic 540 Grenada is licensed for 10 kW, but only runs 6 kW. ZBVI [780] is licensed for 10 kW but their power output varies between 1 and 5 kW. VON 860: Not sure about them but I suspect they don`t run full power either (Paul B Walker, Jr., ibid.) Thanks, Dave. This confirms what I've noted on Perseus captures made here on Cape Cod over the past few weeks. With WGAN 560 (north of here) nulled with a cardioid-pattern SuperLoop, 555 from the south would be in the clear even at a low power level if it was indeed operating. 550 (WDEV et al.) does not contribute any significant splatter (Mark Connelly, WA1ION, South Yarmouth, MA, ibid.) Also no carrier now at 0625 visible via Florida remote receivers. Also WRTH lists it inactive. 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, May 22, ABDX via DXLD) It`s been a while since I picked up 555 ZIZ - they used to be a regular nightly visitor to PEI during the winter months with a nice, strong signal and programming different enough and fun enough to keep listening. I miss them (Phil Rafuse, VY2PR, Stratford PE Canada, ibid.) Listening to ZIZ Radio online, the live DJ mentioned their FM frequencies along with 555 AM (Paul B Walker, May 29, NRC-AM via DXLD) As of a few weeks back, 555 was off air. I was talking to an amateur radio friend on Saint Kitts and he confirmed it by checking on his broadcast radio. Maybe they are back now or the jock was just doing a standard live promo. I must say that ZIZ is one of my favorite stations from the Caribbean (Dave Marthouse, ibid.) Dave, I listen mainly to "AM stations" from the Caribbean, you know. The "legacy" stations all have their good points and bad points. What I tune into depends on my mood. I can say this, that Caribbean / Bahamian radio is definitely unique. Big on local talk and listener engagement type programming, but a lot of stations have horrible audio and levels that are AOR, all over the road (Paul Walker, ibid.) ** SAINT KITTS & NEVIS. 860, VON recording: see BRAZIL 860 ** SAO TOME E PRINCIPE. IBB Transmitting Station Pinheira, 1530, full data Pinheira Station eQSL card for email report and recording to Ms. Helena de Menezes, Manager's Secretary in 20 days. Actual QSL card was placed in the diplomatic pouch for mailing on this same day according to Ms. Menezes. Reports to hmenezes at sto dot ibb dot gov. This is as listed in the WRTH 2013 (Al Muick, Whitehall PA USA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SARAWAK [non]. 9835, 24/5 2345, Sarawak FM, Malaysia, songs, phone talks, news, good (not // 11665) 11665, 24/5 2340, Wai FM, Malaysia, songs, talks, fair/good (not // 9835) (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Italy, Qualche ascolto a Pescia in Toscana, RX: Excalibur Pro; ANT: 30 meters wire, 60 meters windom by A. Capra; Acc: 2 way antenna splitter RF-Systems SP-2, playdx yg via DXLD) MALAYSIA. 9835, May 28 at 1200, RTM good signal with Qur`an aimed at Sarawak; certainly not // 11665 with the other network in pop music. BTW, as Ron Howard pointed out, I recently typoed that as 11655 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SARAWAK [non]. 15400, Radio Free Kenyalang (via T8WH, Palau) 12, 15, 17-26 May *0858-1000* (but not all days; fell asleep mid-broadcast several times). Except for 21/22 May, RFK had the same 1 hour program of seguéd Iban/Malay pop songs. 21/22 May had "regular" programming with more "traditional" sounding ML/Iban songs, lots of chat / Q&A / discussion (with crowd noises, so possibly recorded live), clear "Radio Free Kenyalang" IDs at 0915, 0925 on the 22nd, with change at BOH to studio chat with a lotta mentions of Sarawak and partial ID at 0940: "studio, Radio --- Kenyalang" and back to chat until 1000 closing. Broadcast opens with OC, then T8WH/WHR ID/info blip (some days full T8WH, Palau ID with WHR reception report info and "Onward Christian Soldiers" theme, some days just random portions of the intro.), long tone before RFK programming begins and occasionally just after the RFK audio shuts off, there's another audio blip from WHR (example from 15 May: "IRN-USA Radio news") before carrier cut. Signal varies as propagation has been a bit squirrelly lately --- anywhere from JBA in the noise to almost fair (if you squint a little and believe really really hard). (Dan Sheedy, Encinitas, CA Grundig G5/8m X wire via Bob Wilkner, DXLD) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 15285, 0416-, BSKSA, May 22. Swahili transmission also extremely powerful with S9+10 to 20 signal strength. Very easy when there is no noise at all, at my very quiet DX site, here in Masset (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SERBIA [non]. 9685, May 25 at 0056, IRS with English frequency announcement, website; good signal but heavy flutter. Not surprising, since WWV reported: ``Geophysical Alert Message Solar-terrestrial indices for 24 May follow. Solar flux 127 and estimated planetary A-index 20. The estimated planetary K-index at 0000 UTC on 25 May was 4. Space weather for the past 24 hours has been moderate. Geomagnetic storms reaching the G1 level occurred. Solar radiation storms reaching the S2 level occurred. Space weather for the next 24 hours is predicted to be minor. Geomagnetic storms reaching the G1 level are expected. Solar radiation storms reaching the S1 level are expected.`` 9665 VOR via PRIDNESTROVYE had similar flutter and usual weaker signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOMALILAND. 7120, May 23 at 0331, JBA carrier vs much stronger CW QRhaM, 0333 trace of music, from R. Hargeisa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH AFRICA. UNID, 15235 since tune-in at 1620 with African music and talk by YL in (possibly French) with regular inserts of OM talking at a meeting or rally. Nothing scheduled in AOKI, EiBi or HFCC, or recent DXLDs, except Channel Africa - but they are scheduled Monday to Fridays only (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, Sat May 25, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Regular registered also on hfcc, MON - FRI only. 15235 1600 1700 46S,47,52 MEY 250 340 416 23456 Fra AFS CAF SNT 15235 1700 1800 46S,47,52 MEY 250 340 416 23456 Eng AFS CAF SNT Also on Aoki Nagoya list?? I don't understand ... so far 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) Now confirmed as Channel Africa, in English at 1700 (in parallel with webcast) - seems to be a special programme in connection with an event celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Organisation of African Unity (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, ibid.) ** SOUTH AFRICA. ZS, SOUTH AFRICA (60m News). The "60m [sic] News" reports that the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA), South Africa's national telecommunications regulator, has approved two 5 MHz frequencies for the South African Radio League (SARL) to carry out propagation research. The frequencies allocated are 5250 and 5260 kHz. These are 'center frequencies', the 'USB Dial' frequencies being 1.5 kHz below this (i.e. 5248.5 and 5258.5 kHz). All modes are permitted (USB/CW preferred) with 3 kHz maximum bandwidth. Maximum Power is 100W (400W PEP) measured at the output of the radio. No antenna restrictions. The 5250 kHz channel is intended for propagation experiments (e.g. SARL News Bulletin transmissions) and 5260 kHz for general contacts (this channel being common to a number of countries). The licence is a pilot licence which has been purchased, so the channels are private and licensed to the SARL who allow their members to use the frequencies. Participating stations, who need to be SARL members, must register. For further information and a list of registrants, visit: http://www.amateurradio.org.za/propresearch.htm (Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin No. 1113, May 27, 2013, Editor Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW, Provided by BARF80.ORG (Cleveland, Ohio), Relayed this week from Murfreesboro, Tenn., via Dave Raycroft, ODXA yg via DXLD) Those frequencies do not match ``60m`` channels in the USA: Sixty Meters became available to US amateurs on July 3, 2003. Beginning March 5, 2012 there have been frequency, power and mode changes. Any US amateur radio operator holding a General, Advanced or Amateur Extra Class license may only transmit USB, CW or Digital Modes on CH1=5330.5, CH2=5346.5, CH3=5357.0, CH4=5371.5 & CH5=5403.5 khz. with an effective radiated power (ERP) not to exceed 100 W ERP ( Effective Radiated Power ). CH5 is the unofficial DX calling frequency! The Common UK/USA frequencies are = 5371.5 - CH 4 & 5403.5 - CH 5. You can also check the "Worldwide 5MHz Frequency and Channel List"! (60metersonline.net via DXLD) ** SPAIN [non]. 9625-9630-9635 at least, May 23 at 0357, DRM noise! Until suddenly cut off at 0401*. Presumably slipshod REE COSTA RICA forgot to turn it off at 0200; HFCC shows 9630 also registered in ``D`` mode, which nonsensically means NOT DRM, at 0200-0600, both 100 kW, 340 degrees to North America. The other night DRM was late starting too after 0000. 11815, Sunday May 26 at 1246, mix of Japanese talk from NHK, and song in Spanish from REE/Costa Rica --- song??? And // 11910 via China. What about `Amigos de la Onda Corta` DX program? Fears soon allayed at 1249 as Antonio Buitrago comes on with mailbag from Cienfuegos, Cuba. Evidently he is now playing music requests or at least inserting music breaks, besides the neat electronic sounders. Now in the background is music from Japan. These two are always colliding here, outside the target of either (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. 12085, AWR, Mayo 25 a las 1230 UT. Al inicio de la transmisión hay cantos de niños, posteriormente hombre y mujer hablan intercaladamente en idioma Bengalí hasta las 12:58 UT cuando corta la transmisión hasta las 13 UT que sale la portadora del aire. SINPO: 54454 (Claudio Galaz, Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Coaxial de 5 Ohms de 20 Metros, Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) And NOT to be followed by PCJ on Sundays as originally planned; see TAIWAN [non] (gh) ** SUDAN. Hallo! Voice of Africa aus Omdurman auf 9505 kHz ist um 1700 UT mit einem Programm in Englisch zu hören. Rx: Perseus. Ant: MK-1. QTH: Leibnitz, AUT[RICHE]. 73, (Patrick Robic, Austria, A-DX May 25, via Eike Bierwirth, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Africa, Sudan, currently in English on 9505 (1718 UT, 25 May 2013). Kind of radio play. At 1720 full ID "This record(?) comes to you from the Voice of Africa from Sudan Radio, ... Omdurman, Sudan". Then African songs. Since 1730 very low modulation. Horrible QRM from Romania on 9500. Better reception on remote Perseus in northern Italy, but still requires the good filters of the Perseus. Thanks to Patrick in Austria for this great discovery. 73, (Eike Bierwirth, Germany, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non]. 15725, Tamazuj, 1522 (S10) // 15150 but language is not Arabic. At 1529 with program from Dabanga (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, Sunday 26 May, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWAZILAND. 4775, TWR, Mayo 25 a las 0430 UT, vía Manzini. Mujer habla en idioma alemán sobre elementos electrónicos y la importancia de la comunicación en la era moderna, además habla del amor de Dios. La señal no tiene mucho ruido y la mayoría es de carácter ambiental. SINPO: 54454 (Claudio Galaz, Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Coaxial de 5 Ohms de 20 Metros, Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** TAIWAN. 9410, Fu Hsing BS on May 23 with a very rare treat to find no CNR5 here, which normally completely overpowers Taiwan; during checks made from 1141 through 1225; in Chinese with some EZL music; // 9774 (moderate-heavy adjacent QRM); by far the reception on 9410 was much better than 9774. Would be very nice if this continues! (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN [and non]. Not to discourage you for checking on SOH, but surely your recording is CNR1 programming used to jam Sound of Hope. CNR1 format is very different from SOH. CNR1 has time pips at ToH (SOH does not) and then ends their jamming for a while, which is consistent with your recording. After CNR1 ends at ToH, it may be possible to perhaps hear SOH. The very good signal strength of your recorded today clearly indicates was CNR1. It takes some monitoring before one can tell the difference between the two. Keep at it! Am sure you will eventually hear SOH. Good luck! (Ron Howard, California, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) It's not SOH, CNR-1 jamming from the Mainland for SOH. The time signal of 6 pips is Mainland. Now operating Xi Wan Zhi Sheng on 15969.90 kHz. No jamming and clear in Japan (S. Hasegawa, 1652 UT May 27, ibid.) Also audible in Romania. Here is a recording I made: http://youtu.be/1HbAYMHDVXg (Tudor Vedeanu (Gura Humorului, Romania, ibid.) At 1800 UT including ID (gh, ibid.) Hi Tudor, Nice recording of SOH! The YL announcer with soft background singing just at 0:30 is often heard on SOH. Also the music at 01:11 is regularly played on SOH. Thanks for posting! (Ron Howard, ibid.) UNKNOWNIA: 15970, Sound of Hope (Taiwan) (presumed); 1753-1800*, 28- May; lite music to M in CC talk o/music; ToH pips/tone & off. SIO = 3+53+; no jamming evident --- Any chance Okeechobee might be involved? (Harold Frodge, MI, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Harold, No, and since there were time pips it must have been CNR1 jamming, not SOH. Ron Howard has described what SOH programming is like and not like, soon in DXLD. 73, (Glenn to Harold, via DXLD) Viz.: 11500, Sound of Hope, 1212, March 28. Spelled out with letters in English: “w-w-w-s-o-u-n-d-o-f-h-o-p-e-o-r-g” followed by “Sound of Hope” in English with a religious song in the background; recorded ID with muffled audio; this ID is given in the middle of the news which has unique musical bridges between items. No CNR1 jamming noted at this time today. The format of the CNR1 program jamming I would call upbeat and contemporary sounding with many varied segments. Whereas it should be remembered that SOH is a religious station promoting and dealing with Falun Gong, so their format is more subdued and refined; often with long segments of monologues, not the variety of CNR1. Also I have found it helps to pay attention to the signal strength of what is being heard on a SOH frequency. If it has good to very good reception, then there is a strong possibility that it is CNR1 jamming, so look for a known CNR1 // frequency. For myself, I find SOH audio a little muffled compared to the sharp and crisp audio of CNR1. https://www.box.com/s/kufip4oa59qgdk804w6g contains a recording of a portion of today’s program, which starts off with the unique musical bridge used with their news and can be heard several other times (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 16980, Sound of Hope Radio Int TWN, 1230 26 May, program local // 17080 kHz + jamming, 33333 (Mauro - Giroletti -Swl 1510- - IK2GFT- -JRC525Nrd - Lowe HF150- Filter PAR Electronics - BCST-LPF + BCST-HPF- DSP 9 -Eavesdropper SWL Sloper 11mt to 120mt Band- Loop ALA 100 M; -Lat. 45 25'0" N Long. 9 7'0" E -Locator grid. Jn 45 Nk- bclnews.it yg via DXLD) ** TAIWAN [non]. 11750 We have a very successful test via Trincomalee- CLN today [May 19] on 11750 kHz. 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 weeks 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 kHz (Keith Perron, via Mike Terry, BDXC- UK yg via BC-DX via DXLD) NETHERLANDS (non), PCJ Radio International (via Trincomalee, Sri Lanka), 19 May *1300-1305, 26 May 1315-1400*, first two (of four) test broadcasts from PCJ doing poorly (19 May) to fairly OK (26 May, mostly cuz i drove down to Swami's Beach to get away from the electrical noise at the gym!). Slight CCI from RHC (PCJ may change frequency for next two test broadcasts; check http://www.pcjmedia.com for more info), otherwise an enjoyable log – Mr. Perron played "On A Wonderful Day Like Today" (a song he recorded in Tokyo with the NHK Big Band) and some requests (song from the Bollywood movie "Kashmir Ki Kali" + "The Olive Tree", "Ma, He's Making Eyes At Me", & "Raindrops"). He also mentioned getting a very good response from the first test and read listeners` names (including Tony Asher in Indo, Ian Baxter in OZ, Jonathan Short in China, Bruce Portzer in Washington state), played a portion of a 16" transcription disc recording of Eddie Startz announcing on the original PCJ in May, 1931 and gave both email (pcjqsl@pcjmedia.com) and snail mail (PCJ Radio International, Attention--Station 84, #47, Lane 31 Sanmin Road, Section 1, New Taipei, Taiwan 220070, ROC) addresses for reports, closed with Happy Station theme and maybe IS/tuning signal (Dan Sheedy, Encinitas / Swami's Beach, CA Grundig G5/8m X wire, via Bob Wilkner, DXLD) 11750, Sunday May 26 at 1259, weak talk station stops, presumably BBC as scheduled via Thailand. A weak carrier continues, and at 1300 IS and sign-on of PCJ Radio International, Andy Sennitt starts, but very poor signal, 1301 RHC brings up Spanish audio, putting an end to it here. These are Sunday-only relays via Trincomalee, SRI LANKA, scheduled to continue another two weeks. Thus Keith Perron gets to QRM a former employer, RHC! As for no good reception in North America, he would probably not care, as not targeted here at all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Or maybe he does? Victor Goonetilleke informed me that PCJ Radio International will use 12085 kHz at 1300-1400 UT next Sunday (June 2). (Satoshi Wakisaka, Japan, May 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) That`s convenient, right after another Trinco broadcast in a gap before 1400 QRM (gh) Keith Perron just posted in PCJ Media and PCJ Radio, May 28, 2013: This week`s Happy Station, Victor Goonetilleke will be on. We also have a surprise guest. Catch us Sunday at 1300 UT. New frequency to be announced later. Also don't forget to catch Andy Sennitt with Focus Asia Pacific (Via Mike Terry, May 28, dxldyg via DXLD) On sending e-qsl, Victor Goonetilleke also informed new frequency for next transmission, 12085 kHz. Regards, (Tony Ashar, Indonesia, ibid.) Keith Perron just posted this on Facebook: Our new frequency from this Sunday is 11835 kHz. For more information check out our home page at http://www.pcjmedia.com/ And just added that it`s at 1300 to 1400 UT (Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) Just a short note to tell you able a frequency change that will take place this Sunday. We are moving from 11750 due to co-channel interference from Radio Havana Cuba in Australia. Our new frequency is: 11835 kHz Time: 1300 to 1400 UT Frequency: 11835 Power: 125 kW Relay station: Trincomalee, Sri Lanka Target region: Southeast Asia and East Asia And questions please contact us at anytime, keith.perron@pcjmedia.com Warm regards, (Keith Perron, PCJ Radio International, May 29, WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENING DIGEST) So his earlier announcement about 12085 is inoperative. What would have been wrong with that? Looked to be clear during that hour. Per Aoki, 11835 should be too as long as CNR2 turns off at 1300; but this could be a problem, with *jamming: 11840*ALL INDIA RADIO 1145-1315 1234567 Chinese 250 65 Delhi (Kingsway) IND 2843N 07712E AIR a13 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENING DIGEST) We were looking at 12085. The problem is we were unable to get 1300. We will see this week. If not we have another one up our sleeve. K (Keith Perron, WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENING DIGEST) New frequency for next hour-long PCJ broadcast via Sri Lanka is 11835 kHz: from http://www.pcjmedia.com/: Due to co-channel interference on 11750 we will change frequency for this Sunday. The new frequency is 11835. Your comments and reports about this new frequency are important. So tune in this Sunday and let us know. June 2nd - 1300 to 1400 UT June 9th - 1300 to 1400 UT June 16th - 1300 to 1400 UT June 23rd - 1300 to 1400 UT June 30th - 1300 to 1400 UT July 7th - 1300 to 1400 UT Frequency: 11835 kHz (25 meter band); Target Area: East and Southeast Asia; Power: 125 Kw (Perron, via BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) Last Sunday's broadcast (1300-1400 26 May) on 11750 was not audible at all here in Caversham - not because of co-channel interference but because it wasn't propagating to here at this time/season/frequency, not helped by poor conditions on the day (Alan Pennington, BDXCUK moderator, ibid.) SRI LANKA 12085? or 11835? kHz confusion. Checked the channels around 1300 UT Wed May 29. 11750 kHz is free in eastern and central Europe. No problem in S Asia, only tiny S=3 signal of tentative. RHC La Habana heard just on threshold level. 11760 Kunming China, but not strong in Europe. 11825 kHz FEBC Tibetan til 1330 UT. 11830 kHz empty channel. 11835 kHz CNR2 tx Xianyang #594 tx OFF at 1302 UT. Empty channel after 1302 UT. 11840 kHz AIR Delhi Kingsway in Chinese til tx-off at 1315 UT, poor S=7 here in Europe. 12085 kHz empty channel (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, May 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Strong CNR-2 on 11835 was interfered by jamming(CNR-1) from China on 11840kHz in Japan, until 1315 UT, jamming for Chinese service of AIR on 11840 kHz. Therefore AIR is not received in Japan (S. Hasegawa, ibid.) Keith Perron writes on Facebook: ``The PCJ Radio International broadcasts for June 9, 16, 23, 30 and July 7, 2013. Are sponsored by Tecsun.`` Not many international broadcasters have sponsors (Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ** TAIWAN [non]. RTI via WYFR A-13: see U S A ** TATARSTAN [non]. The engineering department of the Samara transmitting station confirmed today (24 May 2013) to local DXer Alexandr Golovihin of Togliatti, Russia, that the three daily Tatarstan broadcasts still originate in Samara. Further details about the site's future remain confidential, and will be published "in the news" as the time comes. 73, (Eike Bierwirth, Leipzig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also RUSSIA Who can tell how many listeners there are in Tatarstan itself? Certainly a lot, since the program is on FM and 252 kHz*) there. The shortwave transmissions are meant for listeners elsewhere. In a hurry I can't find exactly when they started, but perhaps at a time when costs for audio circuits were still an issue (this very issue brought an end to Radio Vilnius via Jülich and Radio Belarus via Brovary), thus it was only logical to use Samara. Nowadays things are different, it should be no big problem to arrange something else, with Novosibirsk being a possible option for the target of the 0810-0900 slot. *) http://victorcity.dxing.ru/Foto/kazan252.jpg http://victorcity.dxing.ru/Foto/kazan2521.jpg To the left what I think is a sloping wire antenna for 1521 kHz, often confused with CRI via Urumqi, even leading to wrong assumptions that CRI on 1521 was relayed via Russia, just because Mayak was heard on this frequency as well (Kai Ludwig, ibid.) Hi Kai, Those links to the images no longer work. What happened to the pages of: http://victorcity.dxing.ru ?? (Ian Baxter, ibid.) The site can now be reached at http://www.vcfm.ru/ -- (Aleksandr Diadischev, Ukraine, ibid.) RUSSIA, 15110, 0424-, Tatarstan Wave, May 22. Good reception with Tatar music. Sounds somewhat Asiatic to my ear. Not at all Russian in flavour. A bit disappointing signal, with splatter from Voice of Korea in French (very strong). I've certainly heard them much stronger in the past (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15110, May 28 at 0455, good signal with flutter, nice presumed Tatar music, 0458 announcement, and a little more music, off by 0500. It`s now been confirmed that the transmitter site for this and the two other Tatarstan Wave broadcasts is still Samara, RUSSIA [as above] (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hello, On Tue May 29 totally distorted AUDIO signal heard on 15110 kHz at 0410 UT, when listened to Tatar R Kazan news and native girl singer ... 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENING DIGEST) With clip: only peaks of modulation audible (gh, DXLD) ** THAILAND. UTILITY, 8743-USB, Bangkok Radio, 1045 UT, May 25, Thai, interval signal, announcement by male, traffic, 24442. Not audible on 6765. On the same frequency I listened to traffic in Korean or other language from South East Asia (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) ** TIBET [non]. 15562, TAJIKISTAN (CLANDESTINE), Voice of Tibet, Dushanbe. 1323 May 18, 2013. Chinese female, fill music. Clear, low modulation, presumed (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR- D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TUNISIA. Radio TV Tunisia: 0557-0615 7335 SFA 500 kW / 265 deg to NoAf Arabic, instead 0657-0757 from 0615 7335 SFA 500 kW / 265 deg to NoAf Arabic no signal -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, May 23, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7275 kHz, 24 May 2013, 0453:50 UT: carrier already on, strong signal S=9+10dB in Leipzig/Germany, audio added at 0456:04, into Arabic song. Headlines in Arabic at 0500, song. No QRM, some fading. Reportedly reduced 1-hour service, keep checking. [and non] Only other non-ham stations on band are Algeria-7295 (S=9+20dB), Martí and the Cuban jammer on 7405 (S=7, O=1-2), and the DRM test from Russia on 7430 (S=9) which DREAM decodes pretty well (SNR 20-23 dB, currently from Bolshakovo). Russian talk about the Pope's finances in history on MAYAK. TUNISIA, 24 May 2013, 0705 UT, 7335 kHz: Very weak signal in Leipzig, but strong signal with Arabic pop music via remote Perseus in southern Italy on a Wellbrook 1530 antenna. Parallel on AM 630, also strong in S. Italy, weak on 585 behind Vatican Radio in Italian (with ID heard). Closedown on 7335 confirmed today (24 May) at 0756 UT. 73, (Eike Bierwirth, Leipzig / Germany, Perseus SDR + DX-10 Pro Active Antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. 13635, May 25 at 1257 TRT IS is repeating without pauses, as typical of the Turkish language service; brief announcement and more until timesignal and cutoff at 1300*. This means the following frequency on same 310 degree antenna, 9840, must be a bit late coming up. Tip: IS should play *before* a frequency opens, not after one is closing. Quite good reception: wish English on 15450 were as good. In fact, it`s not bad either, but not checked until 1314 with multi-lingual ID filler, Question of the Month, deadline May 31. I must have just missed the fortnightly DX Corner! (16m is just about dead, even Cuba JBA) 9515, UT Sunday May 26 at 0315 I want to catch last repeat of `DX Corner` on VOT, but since I am at the computer, I instead try to bring up the live stream. Can`t get it. But via TRT WORLD I can play the 25.03 broadcast, including skipping into it, to find that DXC starts at :23 into the hour, presented by Omar with heavy accent, bit of opening theme music `Fanfare for the Common Man` by Copland. He reads the complete NASB press release on the Wewn meeting, and after a music break at :33, two more long stories I`d already read, ending at :44. The 25.03 show was still available past 1700 UT, but altho showing the full 50 minutes loaded, file is finicky when I try to skip to the middle to recall the other two articles; it does play on if I leave it alone. O yes, ``Why radio refuses to die`` (in the US) and ABC/Australia funding cuts. No real DX news on this show! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UGANDA. 4976, R. Uganda, Kampala, 1842-1908, 26/5, dialecto local, texto, canções africanas, noticiário em inglês, às 1900; 35332. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [non]. 15365, May 23 at 0258 open carrier, to become what? 0300 BBCWS news in English, good signal. HFCC shows this hour only is 250 kW, 30 degrees from Kigali, RWANDA; to be followed on 15365 by 04-05, 250 kW, 10 degrees from Oman. Still seems odd to be hearing BBC via a DW site, but why not? Searching the latest A-13 HFCC file for May 22, on RRW BBC BAB, we find only one other such transmission: 17640, 1400-1430 in Hausa, 250 kW, 310 degrees. NB those who try to hear/verify every possible station/relay site combination. 9740, May 29 at 1215, BBCWS via SINGAPORE has fair but sufficient signal despite best efforts to cut North Americans off from SW: live- sounding town-hall with SOS Kerry; moderatress keeps referring obliquely to what is being said on ``social media``; and strangely prompts questions from three audience members at a time, where? Kerry defends drones, much less collateral damage than wanton bombings by terrorists against own people. Closing at 1229 reveals whence: University of Addis Ababa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [and non]. Summer A-13 SW schedule of BBC: 0000-0030 on 5875 NAK 250 kW / 325 deg SEAs Burmese 0000-0030 on 9810 SNG 250 kW / 340 deg SEAs Burmese 0000-0030 on 11700 SNG 250 kW / 330 deg SEAs Burmese 0030-0100 on 5915 SLA 250 kW / 035 deg WeAs Dari 0030-0100 on 7445 SLA 250 kW / 035 deg WeAs Dari 0030-0100 on 9810 NAK 250 kW / 305 deg SoAs Bengali 0030-0100 on 11700 SNG 250 kW / 315 deg SoAs Bengali 0030-0100 on 15310 SNG 100 kW / 315 deg SoAs Bengali 0000-0100 on 5970 SLA 250 kW / 063 deg SoAs English 0000-0100 on 6195 SNG 125 kW / 000 deg SEAs English 0000-0100 on 6195 SNG 125 kW / 090 deg AUS English 0000-0100 on 9410 NAK 250 kW / 290 deg SoAs English 0000-0100 on 9740 SNG 125 kW / 013 deg SEAs English 0000-0100 on 9740 SNG 125 kW / 135 deg AUS English 0000-0100 on 11750 SNG 100 kW / 340 deg SEAs English 0000-0100 on 12095 NAK 250 kW / 275 deg SoAs English 0000-0100 on 15335 SNG 100 kW / 013 deg EaAs English 0000-0100 on 15755 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg EaAs English 0000-0100 on 17685 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg EaAs English 0100-0130 on 6195 SLA 250 kW / 035 deg WeAs Pashto 0100-0130 on 7445 SLA 250 kW / 035 deg WeAs Pashto 0100-0130 on 9410 SLA 250 kW / 063 deg SoAs Hindi 0100-0130 on 9915 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg SoAs Hindi 0100-0130 on 11790 ERV 100 kW / 125 deg WeAs Pashto 0100-0130 on 11995 SNG 250 kW / 315 deg SoAs Hindi 0100-0130 on 15510 NAK 250 kW / 305 deg SoAs Hindi 0100-0200 on 12095 NAK 250 kW / 275 deg SoAs English 0100-0200 on 15310 NAK 250 kW / 290 deg SoAs English 0130-0200 on 6195 SLA 250 kW / 035 deg WeAs Dari 0130-0200 on 7395 SLA 250 kW / 063 deg SoAs Urdu 0130-0200 on 7445 SLA 250 kW / 035 deg WeAs Dari 0130-0200 on 9410 DHA 250 kW / 060 deg SoAs Urdu 0130-0200 on 9835 NAK 250 kW / 305 deg SoAs Bengali 0130-0200 on 9915 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg SoAs Urdu 0130-0200 on 11790 ERV 100 kW / 125 deg WeAs Dari 0130-0200 on 15510 NAK 250 kW / 300 deg SoAs Urdu 0130-0200 on 17615 SNG 250 kW / 315 deg SoAs Bengali 0200-0230 on 7445 SLA 250 kW / 035 deg WeAs Pashto 0200-0230 on 9410 NAK 250 kW / 325 deg SEAs Burmese 0200-0230 on 9895 SLA 250 kW / 035 deg WeAs Pashto 0200-0230 on 11790 ERV 100 kW / 125 deg WeAs Pashto, ex WOF 0200-0230 on 11995 SNG 250 kW / 340 deg SEAs Burmese 0200-0230 on 12095 NAK 250 kW / 355 deg SEAs Burmese 0200-0300 on 15310 SLA 250 kW / 063 deg SoAs English 0200-0300 on 17790 NAK 250 kW / 290 deg SoAs English 0230-0300 on 7445 SLA 250 kW / 035 deg WeAs Dari 0230-0300 on 9895 SLA 250 kW / 035 deg WeAs Dari 0230-0300 on 11790 ERV 100 kW / 125 deg WeAs Dari, ex WOF 0230-0300 on 12095 DHA 250 kW / 070 deg WeAs Hindi 0230-0300 on 15510 NAK 250 kW / 305 deg SoAs Hindi 0230-0300 on 17510 NAK 250 kW / 300 deg SoAs Hindi 0230-0300 on 17870 SNG 250 kW / 315 deg SoAs Hindi 0230-0330 on 7250 DHA 250 kW / 045 deg WeAs Farsi 0230-0330 on 9500 WOF 250 kW / 090 deg WeAs Farsi 0230-0330 on 11855 KCH 300 kW / 116 deg WeAs Farsi 0230-0330 on 13825 SLA 250 kW / 350 deg WeAs Farsi 0300-0330 on 9895 SLA 250 kW / 035 deg WeAs Pashto 0300-0330 on 11790 SLA 250 kW / 035 deg WeAs Pashto 0300-0330 on 11995 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg SoAs Urdu 0300-0330 on 13580 DHA 250 kW / 070 deg SoAs Urdu 0300-0330 on 15310 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg WeAs Pashto 0300-0330 on 15510 NAK 250 kW / 305 deg SoAs Urdu 0300-0330 on 17510 NAK 250 kW / 300 deg SoAs Urdu 0300-0400 on 5875 WOF 250 kW / 140 deg CEAf Arabic 0300-0400 on 9410 DHA 250 kW / 255 deg CEAf Arabic 0300-0400 on 11820 WOF 300 kW / 137 deg CEAf Arabic 0300-0400 on 12095 SLA 250 kW / 335 deg CeAs English 0300-0400 on 15365 KIG 250 kW / 030 deg CeAs English 0330-0430 on 11855 DHA 250 kW / 035 deg WeAs Farsi 0330-0430 on 13825 SLA 250 kW / 350 deg WeAs Farsi 0330-0430 on 15310 TAC 100 kW / 236 deg WeAs Farsi 0400-0430 on 11995 ASC 250 kW / 085 deg EaAf Somali 0400-0430 on 15490 DHA 250 kW / 205 deg EaAf Somali 0400-0500 on 11820 WOF 300 kW / 137 deg CEAf Arabic 0400-0500 on 11945 SEY 250 kW / 285 deg CEAf English 0400-0500 on 12095 SLA 250 kW / 335 deg CeAs English 0400-0500 on 15365 SLA 250 kW / 010 deg CeAs English 0400-0500 on 15420 SEY 250 kW / 270 deg CEAf English 0430-0500 on 6135 ASC 250 kW / 070 deg CeAf French 0430-0500 on 7305 ASC 250 kW / 085 deg CeAf French 0430-0500 on 17640 DHA 250 kW / 190 deg SoAf French 0500-0600 on 3255 MEY 100 kW / 000 deg SoAf English 0500-0600 on 5875 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg WeAf English 0500-0600 on 6005 ASC 250 kW / 027 deg WeAf English 0500-0600 on 6190 MEY 100 kW / 015 deg SoAf English 0500-0600 on 7355 ASC 250 kW / 102 deg CeAf English 0500-0600 on 11945 SEY 250 kW / 285 deg CEAf English 0500-0600 on 12095 MEY 250 kW / 007 deg ECAf Kinyarwanda/Kirundi Sat 0500-0600 on 15420 SEY 250 kW / 270 deg CEAf English 0500-0600 on 15490 MEY 250 kW / 007 deg ECAf Kinyarwanda/Kirundi Sat 0500-0600 on 17880 SLA 250 kW / 260 deg CEAf Arabic 0530-0600 on 6135 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg WeAf Hausa 0530-0600 on 7305 ASC 250 kW / 055 deg WeAf Hausa 0530-0600 on 9440 WOF 250 kW / 170 deg WeAf Hausa 0530-0600 on 12095 MEY 250 kW / 007 deg ECAf Kinyarwanda/Kirundi Sun 0530-0600 on 15490 MEY 250 kW / 007 deg ECAf Kinyarwanda/Kirundi Sun 0600-0630 on 7305 ASC 250 kW / 027 deg WeAf French 0600-0630 on 9655 ASC 250 kW / 070 deg CeAf French 0600-0630 on 9915 WOF 250 kW / 180 deg NoAf French 0600-0630 on 11865 WOF 250 kW / 170 deg NoAf French 0600-0700 on 6005 ASC 250 kW / 027 deg WeAf English 0600-0700 on 6190 MEY 100 kW / 015 deg SoAf English 0600-0700 on 7355 ASC 250 kW / 070 deg WeAf English 0600-0700 on 9410 WOF 250 kW / 170 deg WeAf English 0600-0700 on 9860 MEY 100 kW / 015 deg SoAf English 0600-0700 on 12095 MEY 250 kW / 328 deg CeAf English 0600-0700 on 15105 WOF 250 kW / 158 deg CeAf English 0600-0700 on 15420 SEY 250 kW / 270 deg CEAf English 0600-0700 on 17640 SEY 250 kW / 280 deg CEAf English 0600-0700 on 17880 SLA 250 kW / 260 deg CEAf Arabic 0630-0700 on 9440 ASC 250 kW / 055 deg WeAf Hausa 0630-0700 on 11800 ASC 250 kW / 055 deg WeAf Hausa 0630-0700 on 15515 WOF 250 kW / 165 deg WeAf Hausa 0700-0730 on 11800 ASC 250 kW / 027 deg WeAf French 0700-0730 on 17880 MEY 250 kW / 342 deg CeAf French 0700-0800 on 6190 MEY 100 kW / 015 deg SoAf English 0700-0800 on 11770 ASC 250 kW / 027 deg WeAf English 0700-0800 on 12095 MEY 100 kW / 015 deg SoAf English 0700-0800 on 13660 ASC 250 kW / 055 deg WeAf English 0700-0800 on 15400 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg WCAf English 0700-0800 on 15420 SEY 250 kW / 270 deg CEAf English 0700-0800 on 17640 SEY 250 kW / 280 deg CEAf English 0700-0800 on 17830 MEY 250 kW / 328 deg CeAf English 0830-0930 on 15310 SLA 250 kW / 045 deg WeAs Pashto 0830-0930 on 17870 SLA 250 kW / 035 deg WeAs Pashto 0930-1030 on 15310 SLA 250 kW / 045 deg WeAs Dari 0930-1030 on 17870 SLA 250 kW / 035 deg WeAs Dari 1000-1100 on 6195 SNG 125 kW / 000 deg SEAs English 1000-1100 on 6195 SNG 125 kW / 090 deg AUS English 1000-1100 on 9740 NAK 250 kW / 000 deg SEAs English 1000-1100 on 9740 SNG 125 kW / 013 deg SEAs English 1000-1100 on 9740 SNG 125 kW / 135 deg AUS English 1000-1100 on 15285 SNG 250 kW / 013 deg SEAs English 1000-1100 on 17760 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg EaAs English 1000-1100 on 21660 NAK 250 kW / 020 deg EaAs English 1030-1130 on 15310 SLA 250 kW / 045 deg WeAs Pashto 1030-1130 on 17870 NAK 250 kW / 300 deg WeAs Pashto 1100-1130 on 15530 DHA 250 kW / 205 deg EaAf Somali 1100-1130 on 17780 SEY 250 kW / 295 deg EaAf Somali 1100-1200 on 6195 SNG 125 kW / 000 deg SEAs English 1100-1200 on 6195 SNG 125 kW / 090 deg AUS English 1100-1200 on 9740 SNG 125 kW / 013 deg SEAs English 1100-1200 on 9740 SNG 125 kW / 135 deg AUS English 1100-1200 on 15285 SNG 250 kW / 013 deg SEAs English 1100-1200 on 17760 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg EaAs English 1200-1230 on 17640 ASC 250 kW / 027 deg WeAf French 1200-1230 on 17780 WOF 250 kW / 170 deg NoAf French 1200-1230 on 21630 ASC 250 kW / 085 deg CeAf French 1200-1300 on 5875 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg EaAs English 1200-1300 on 6195 SNG 125 kW / 000 deg SEAs English 1200-1300 on 6195 SNG 125 kW / 090 deg AUS English 1200-1300 on 9740 SNG 125 kW / 013 deg SEAs English 1200-1300 on 9740 SNG 125 kW / 135 deg AUS English 1200-1300 on 11750 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg EaAs English 1300-1330 on 15330 SLA 250 kW / 010 deg CeAs Uzbek 1300-1330 on 17510 SLA 250 kW / 010 deg CeAs Uzbek 1300-1330 on 17735 NAK 250 kW / 325 deg CeAs Uzbek 1300-1400 on 5875 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg EaAs English 1300-1400 on 6195 SNG 125 kW / 000 deg SEAs English 1300-1400 on 6195 SNG 125 kW / 090 deg AUS English 1300-1400 on 9740 SNG 125 kW / 013 deg SEAs English 1300-1400 on 9740 SNG 125 kW / 135 deg AUS English 1300-1400 on 15310 NAK 250 kW / 290 deg SoAs English 1300-1400 on 15420 SEY 250 kW / 285 deg EaAf Somali Sat 1300-1400 on 17790 SLA 250 kW / 063 deg SoAs English 1300-1400 on 17830 SEY 250 kW / 295 deg EaAf Somali Sat 1300-1400 on 21470 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg EaAf Somali Sat 1330-1400 on 5855 NAK 250 kW / 305 deg SoAs Bengali 1330-1400 on 7565 NAK 250 kW / 325 deg SoAs Bengali 1330-1400 on 11730 SNG 100 kW / 340 deg SoAs Bengali 1330-1600 on 17780 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg WeAf Hausa Sat 1345-1430 on 5890 SNG 100 kW / 340 deg SEAs Burmese 1345-1430 on 9585 SNG 100 kW / 340 deg SEAs Burmese 1345-1430 on 11945 SNG 100 kW / 330 deg SEAs Burmese 1400-1430 on 7565 NAK 250 kW / 280 deg SoAs Hindi 1400-1430 on 9395 TAC 100 kW / 131 deg SoAs Hindi 1400-1430 on 9410 SNG 250 kW / 315 deg SoAs Bengali Tue/Sun 1400-1430 on 9510 NAK 250 kW / 300 deg SoAs Hindi 1400-1430 on 9610 DHA 250 kW / 090 deg SoAs Bengali Tue/Sun 1400-1430 on 11730 NAK 250 kW / 305 deg SoAs Bengali Tue/Sun 1400-1430 on 11795 SNG 250 kW / 315 deg SoAs Hindi 1400-1430 on 17640 KIG 250 kW / 310 deg WeAf Hausa 1400-1430 on 17780 ASC 250 kW / 055 deg WeAf Hausa Sun-Fri 1400-1430 on 21630 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg WeAf Hausa 1400-1500 NF 9705 SLA 250 kW / 035 deg WeAs Dari, ex 9810 1400-1500 on 11890 NAK 250 kW / 290 deg SoAs English 1400-1500 on 13660 SLA 250 kW / 045 deg WeAs Dari 1400-1500 on 15310 NAK 250 kW / 290 deg SoAs English 1400-1500 on 15420 SEY 250 kW / 285 deg EaAf Somali 1400-1500 on 17830 SEY 250 kW / 295 deg EaAf Somali 1400-1500 on 21470 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg EaAf Somali 1430-1500 on 7465 SNG 250 kW / 340 deg SEAs Burmese Mon-Fri 1430-1500 on 9585 SNG 100 kW / 340 deg SEAs Burmese Mon-Fri 1430-1500 on 11945 SNG 100 kW / 330 deg SEAs Burmese Mon-Fri 1500-1600 on 6195 DHA 250 kW / 335 deg WeAs Farsi 1500-1600 on 7565 NAK 250 kW / 290 deg SoAs English 1500-1600 on 9410 SLA 250 kW / 010 deg CeAs English 1500-1600 on 9510 NAK 250 kW / 300 deg SoAs Urdu 1500-1600 NF 9705 SNG 250 kW / 315 deg WeAs Pashto, ex 9810 1500-1600 on 11675 SLA 250 kW / 335 deg CeAs English 1500-1600 on 11730 NAK 250 kW / 305 deg SoAs Urdu 1500-1600 on 11890 SNG 100 kW / 315 deg SoAs English 1500-1600 on 12075 DHA 250 kW / 060 deg SoAs Urdu 1500-1600 on 12095 SEY 250 kW / 280 deg CEAf English 1500-1600 on 13660 SLA 250 kW / 045 deg WeAs Pashto 1500-1600 on 15310 NAK 250 kW / 300 deg WeAs Farsi 1500-1600 on 15420 SEY 250 kW / 270 deg CEAf English 1500-1600 on 17790 SNG 100 kW / 315 deg SoAs Urdu 1500-1600 on 17830 MEY 250 kW / 032 deg EaAf Somali Sat 1500-1600 on 21470 ASC 250 kW / 085 deg EaAf Somali Sat 1545-1615 on 9500 SNG 100 kW / 270 deg SoAs Tamil 1545-1615 on 13830 NAK 250 kW / 255 deg SoAs Tamil 1545-1615 on 15690 WOF 250 kW / 092 deg SoAs Tamil 1600-1630 on 7600 NAK 250 kW / 300 deg SoAs Hindi 1600-1630 on 9605 SNG 250 kW / 315 deg SoAs Hindi 1600-1630 on 9700 SLA 250 kW / 063 deg SoAs Hindi 1600-1630 on 15710 DHA 250 kW / 085 deg WeAs Hindi 1600-1700 on 3255 MEY 100 kW / 000 deg SoAf English 1600-1700 on 6190 MEY 100 kW / 015 deg SoAf English 1600-1700 on 7565 NAK 250 kW / 290 deg SoAs English 1600-1700 on 9410 SLA 250 kW / 010 deg CeAs English 1600-1700 on 11675 SLA 250 kW / 335 deg CeAs English 1600-1700 on 11890 SNG 100 kW / 315 deg SoAs English 1600-1700 on 12095 SEY 250 kW / 280 deg CEAf English 1600-1700 on 15420 SEY 250 kW / 270 deg CEAf English 1600-1700 on 17640 ASC 250 kW / 114 deg SoAf English 1600-1700 on 17830 ASC 250 kW / 085 deg CeAf English 1630-1700 on 5865 NAK 250 kW / 325 deg SoAs Bengali 1630-1700 on 7465 SNG 100 kW / 340 deg SoAs Bengali 1630-1700 on 9500 SNG 100 kW / 270 deg SoAs Sinhala 1630-1700 on 9540 SNG 250 kW / 340 deg SoAs Bengali 1630-1700 on 11860 MEY 100 kW / 005 deg ECAf Kinyarwanda/Kirundi 1630-1700 on 13830 NAK 250 kW / 355 deg SoAs Sinhala 1630-1700 on 15690 WOF 250 kW / 092 deg SoAs Sinhala 1630-1700 on 15790 MEY 250 kW / 007 deg ECAf Kinyarwanda/Kirundi 1700-1730 on 5875 NAK 250 kW / 300 deg WeAs Dari 1700-1730 on 7425 SLA 250 kW / 035 deg WeAs Dari 1700-1730 on 13660 WOF 250 kW / 075 deg WeAs Dari 1700-1800 on 3255 MEY 100 kW / 000 deg SoAf English 1700-1800 on 6190 MEY 100 kW / 015 deg SoAf English 1700-1800 on 6195 SLA 250 kW / 335 deg CeAs English 1700-1800 on 9410 SLA 250 kW / 010 deg CeAs English 1700-1800 on 12095 SEY 250 kW / 280 deg CEAf English 1700-1800 on 15400 ASC 250 kW / 027 deg WeAf English 1700-1800 on 15420 SEY 250 kW / 270 deg CEAf English 1700-1800 on 15480 DHA 250 kW / 255 deg CEAf Arabic 1700-1800 on 17795 ASC 250 kW / 055 deg WeAf English 1700-1800 on 17830 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg WCAf English 1730-1800 on 5875 NAK 250 kW / 300 deg WeAs Pashto 1730-1800 on 7425 SLA 250 kW / 035 deg WeAs Pashto 1730-1800 on 13660 WOF 250 kW / 075 deg WeAs Pashto 1800-1830 on 6005 DHA 250 kW / 215 deg EaAf Somali 1800-1830 on 6095 MEY 250 kW / 076 deg SoAf French 1800-1830 on 9410 MEY 250 kW / 032 deg EaAf Somali 1800-1830 on 11785 ASC 250 kW / 085 deg CeAf French 1800-1830 on 11845 MEY 100 kW / 030 deg EaAf Somali 1800-1830 on 15105 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg WeAf French 1800-1830 on 15180 WOF 250 kW / 170 deg NoAf French 1800-1830 on 17885 ASC 250 kW / 027 deg WeAf French 1800-1900 on 3255 MEY 100 kW / 000 deg SoAf English 1800-1900 on 5875 NAK 250 kW / 300 deg WeAs Dari 1800-1900 on 6190 MEY 100 kW / 015 deg SoAf English 1800-1900 on 6195 SLA 250 kW / 335 deg CeAs English 1800-1900 on 7375 SLA 250 kW / 010 deg CeAs English 1800-1900 on 7425 NAK 250 kW / 305 deg WeAs Dari 1800-1900 on 9795 DHA 250 kW / 045 deg WeAs Dari 1800-1900 on 11810 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg WCAf English 1800-1900 on 12095 SEY 250 kW / 280 deg CEAf English 1800-1900 on 15400 ASC 250 kW / 027 deg WeAf English 1800-1900 on 15420 SEY 250 kW / 270 deg CEAf English 1800-1900 on 15480 DHA 250 kW / 255 deg CEAf Arabic 1800-1900 on 17795 WOF 250 kW / 170 deg WeAf English 1830-1900 on 9755 SLA 250 kW / 230 deg ECAf Kinyarwanda/Kirundi M-F 1830-1900 on 11705 DHA 250 kW / 230 deg ECAf Kinyarwanda/Kirundi M-F 1830-1900 on 15790 MEY 250 kW / 007 deg ECAf Kinyarwanda/Kirundi M-F 1900-2000 on 3255 MEY 100 kW / 000 deg SoAf English 1900-2000 on 6190 MEY 100 kW / 015 deg SoAf English 1900-2000 on 11810 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg WCAf English 1900-2000 on 12095 SEY 250 kW / 280 deg CEAf English 1900-2000 on 15400 ASC 250 kW / 027 deg WeAf English 1900-2000 on 15420 SEY 250 kW / 270 deg CEAf English 1900-2000 on 15480 DHA 250 kW / 255 deg CEAf Arabic 1900-2000 on 17795 WOF 250 kW / 170 deg WeAf English 1930-2000 on 11660 ASC 250 kW / 055 deg WeAf Hausa 1930-2000 on 15105 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg WeAf Hausa 1930-2000 on 17885 ASC 250 kW / 055 deg WeAf Hausa 2000-2030 on 11660 ASC 250 kW / 055 deg WeAf Hausa Fri 2000-2030 on 15105 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg WeAf Hausa Fri 2000-2030 on 17885 ASC 250 kW / 055 deg WeAf Hausa Fri 2000-2100 on 11810 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg WCAf English 2000-2100 on 12095 WOF 250 kW / 170 deg WeAf English 2000-2100 on 15400 ASC 250 kW / 027 deg WeAf English 2000-2100 on 15480 SLA 250 kW / 260 deg CEAf Arabic 2100-2200 on 9915 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg WCAf English 2100-2200 on 11810 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg WCAf English 2100-2200 on 12095 ASC 250 kW / 027 deg WeAf English 2300-2400 on 3915 SNG 100 kW / 160 deg AUS English 2300-2400 on 6195 SNG 125 kW / 000 deg SEAs English 2300-2400 on 6195 SNG 125 kW / 090 deg AUS English 2300-2400 on 7490 NAK 250 kW / 045 deg EaAs English 2300-2400 on 9740 SNG 125 kW / 013 deg SEAs English 2300-2400 on 9740 SNG 125 kW / 135 deg AUS English 2300-2400 on 9890 NAK 250 kW / 025 deg EaAs English 2300-2400 on 11850 SNG 100 kW / 090 deg AUS English 2300-2400 on 12010 NAK 250 kW / 020 deg EaAs English DRM transmissions 0400-0600 on 3955 WOF 100 kW / 114 deg WeEu English 0600-0800 on 5875 WOF 100 kW / 114 deg WeEu English 0600-0800 on 7325 MOS 100 kW / 300 deg WeEu English 1400-1800 on 5845 NAK 100 kW / 290 deg SoAs English (DX RE MIX NEWS #783 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 28, 2013, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [and non]. Summer A-13 of BABCOCK Relays: Radio Australia 0000-0030 12005 SNG 100 kW / 340 deg SEAs Burmese 0100-0130 11780 SNG 100 kW / 340 deg SEAs Burmese 0400-0500 17800 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg SEAs Indonesian 1100-1300 6140 SNG 100 kW / 013 deg SEAs English 1300-1430 9965 HBN 100 kW / 318 deg EaAs Chinese 1600-1630 9540 SNG 100 kW / 340 deg SEAs English 2200-2330 9695 DHA 250 kW / 105 deg SEAs Indonesian 2200-2400 9855 DHA 250 kW / 090 deg SEAs English 2300-2330 5955 DHA 250 kW / 085 deg SEAs Burmese FEBA Radio 0000-0030 9390 TAC 100 kW / 131 deg SoAs Bangla 0200-0230 9750 DHA 250 kW / 060 deg SoAs Urdu Sun 0200-0215 9750 DHA 250 kW / 060 deg SoAs Urdu Mon-Sat 0215-0230 9750 DHA 250 kW / 060 deg SoAs Mixed langs Mon-Sat 0230-0300 9790 DHA 250 kW / 045 deg WeAs Dari (Radio Sadaye Zindagi) 0300-0315 9790 DHA 250 kW / 045 deg WeAs Mixed lang 0800-0830 15280 MOS 300 kW / 115 deg N/ME Arabic 1200-1230 15215 DHA 250 kW / 085 deg CeAs Tibetan 1400-1430 11880 DHA 250 kW / 060 deg SoAs Urdu 1430-1445 11880 DHA 250 kW / 060 deg SoAs Mixed langs 1430-1500 9500 TAC 100 kW / 131 deg SoAs Hindi 1500-1530 9390 TAC 100 kW / 131 deg SoAs Bangla 1500-1530 11755 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg WeAs Dari (Radio Sadaye Zindagi) 1530-1600 11755 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg WeAs Pashto 1600-1630 11655 KIG 250 kW / 030 deg EaAf Afar 1600-1630 12125 ERV 300 kW / 192 deg EaAf Amharic Thu-Sun 1600-1630 12125 ERV 300 kW / 192 deg EaAf Guragena Mon-Wed 1630-1700 12125 ERV 300 kW / 192 deg EaAf Amharic 1630-1700 9820 DHA 250 kW / 230 deg EaAf Tigrinya Sun-Wed 1630-1700 9820 DHA 250 kW / 230 deg EaAf Amharic Thu-Sat 1700-1730 6180 DHA 250 kW / 215 deg EaAf Somali 1700-1730 9630 KIG 250 kW / 030 deg EaAf Orominya 1730-1800 7475 ERV 300 kW / 192 deg EaAf Silte 1730-1800 9630 KIG 250 kW / 030 deg EaAf Tigrinya 1800-1930 9550 KIG 250 kW / 030 deg N/ME Arabic 1830-1845 15250 ASC 250 kW / 070 deg CWAf French 2145-2215 11985 ASC 250 kw / 027 deg WeAf Hassinya Thu-Tue Voice of Vietnam 0100-0128 12005 WOF 250 kW / 282 deg NoAm English 0130-0228 12005 WOF 250 kW / 282 deg NoAm Vietnamese 0230-0258 12005 WOF 250 kW / 282 deg NoAm English 0300-0328 6175 HRI 250 kW / 173 deg CeAm Spanish 0330-0358 6175 HRI 250 kW / 173 deg CeAm English 0400-0428 6175 HRI 250 kW / 173 deg CeAm Spanish 0430-0528 6175 HRI 100 kW / 315 deg NWAm Vietnamese 1700-1728 9625 MOS 100 kW / 300 deg WeEu English 1730-1828 9625 MOS 100 kW / 300 deg WeEu Vietnamese 1830-1858 9625 MOS 100 kW / 300 deg WeEu French 1900-1928 9890 WOF 250 kW / 075 deg EaEu Russian 1930-2028 9430 WOF 250 kW / 182 deg WeEu German 2030-2128 11840 WOF 250 kW / 114 deg SEEu Vietnamese Radio Japan NHK World 0100-0130 11590 TAC 100 kW / 163 deg SoAs Hindi 0400-0430 11730 TAC 100 kW / 236 deg WeAs Farsi 0400-0430 12015 ASC 250 kW / 245 deg SoAm Spanish 0500-0530 5975 WOF 250 kW / 140 deg WeEu English 0800-1000 11740 SNG 250 kW / 000 deg SEAs Japanese 0800-1000 12015 ASC 250 kW / 245 deg SoAm Japanese 0945-1030 6140 SNG 250 kW / 140 deg SEAs Indonesian 1000-1030 9695 SNG 250 kW / 000 deg SEAs English 1030-1100 11740 SNG 250 kW / 330 deg SEAs Burmese 1100-1130 11740 SNG 250 kW / 000 deg SEAs Vietnamese 1100-1200 9760 WOF 060 kW / 105 deg WeEu English/Russian Fri DRM 1130-1200 11740 SNG 250 kW / 000 deg SEAs Thai 1200-1230 11740 SNG 250 kW / 000 deg SEAs English 1230-1300 11740 SNG 250 kW / 000 deg SEAs Thai 1300-1330 11740 SNG 100 kW / 000 deg SEAs Vietnamese 1300-1345 11685 SNG 250 kW / 315 deg SoAs Bengali 1315-1400 11705 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg SEAs Indonesian 1400-1430 11705 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg SEAs English 1400-1430 15735 TAC 100 kW / 163 deg SoAs English 1430-1500 11740 SNG 250 kW / 330 deg SEAs Burmese 1500-1700 12045 SNG 250 kW / 315 deg WeAs Japanese 1515-1600 13870 DHA 250 kW / 060 deg SoAs Urdu 1800-1830 11885 MEY 250 kW / 328 deg CeAf English Adventist World Radio 0100-0200 15445 TAI 100 kW / 250 deg Asia Vietnamese Sat Radio Payem e-Doost in Farsi 0230-0315 7460 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg WeAs Farsi 0230-0315 11710 TAC 100 kW / 236 deg WeAs Farsi from June 1 1800-1845 5900 DHA 250 kW / 035 deg WeAs Farsi from June 1 1800-1845 7480 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg WeAs Farsi [WORLD OF RADIO 1671] Radio Okapi, currently inactive, maybe will be resumed from June 1: 0400-0500 11690 MEY 250 kW / 340 deg CeAf French/Lingala EDC Sudan Radio Service Darfur Program: 0400-0530 13720 DHA 250 kW / 255 deg NEAf Arabic 1600-1730 17745 WOF 300 kW / 135 deg NEAf Arabic Radio Damal, currently inactive, maybe will be resumed from June 1: 0400-0700 15700 DHA 250 kW / 205 deg EaAf Somali 1830-1930 11980 WOF 300 kW / 122 deg EaAf Somali 1930-2130 11980 DHA 250 kW / 205 deg EaAf Somali KBS World Radio 0700-0800 9860 WOF 250 kW / 102 deg WeEu Korean 1100-1130 9760 WOF 060 kW / 105 deg WeEu English Sat DRM 1800-1900 15360 WOF 300 kW / 074 deg EaEu Russian 1900-2000 6145 WOF 390 kW / 172 deg WeEu French 2000-2100 13585 DHA 250 kW / 290 deg NEAf Arabic 2000-2100 3955 WOF 250 kW / 114 deg WeEu German 2100-2130 3955 WOF 250 kW / 114 deg WeEu English Radio ERGO 0830-0930 13685 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg EaAf Somali Radio Free Sarawak: 1100-1300 15460 TAI 100 kW / 200 deg SEAs Iban, cancelled from May 12 Eternal Good News 1130-1145 15525 DHA 250 kW / 100 deg SoAs English Fri Trans World Radio Africa 1300-1315 13660 KIG 250 kW / 030 deg EaAf Afar Thu-Sun 1630-1700 11635 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg EaAf Somali 1800-1815 6120 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg EaAf Tigrinya Mon-Wed 1800-1815 6120 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg EaAf Amharic Thu/Fri 1800-1830 6120 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg EaAf Tigre Sat 1800-1830 6120 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg EaAf Kunama Sun 1815-1845 6120 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg EaAf Tigrinya Mon-Fri 1830-1845 6120 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg EaAf Amharic Sun Nippon no Kaze: 1300-1330 9950 TAI 100 kW / 002 deg NEAs Japanese 1500-1530 9975 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg NEAs Korean 1530-1600 9965 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg NEAs Korean Furusato no Kaze: 1330-1400 9950 TAI 100 kW / 002 deg NEAs Japanese 1430-1500 9950 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg NEAs Japanese 1600-1630 9780 TAI 250 kW / 045 deg NEAs Japanese Bible Voice Broadcasting test May 6/7/8: 1530-1730 7485 KCH 300 kW / 116 deg WeAs Farsi 1530-1730 15635 WOF 300 kW / 086 deg WeAs Farsi IBRA Radio 1700-1800 11915 WOF 300 kW / 114 deg N/ME Arabic 1730-1800 11610 MEY 100 kW / 035 deg EaAf Somali 1730-1800 11875 DHA 250 kW / 220 deg EaAf Swahili 1800-1945 12070 WOF 250 kW / 140 deg CeAf Arabic 1900-2000 11875 WOF 300 kW / 182 deg WeAf Fulfulde SW Radio Africa 1700-1900 4880 MEY 100 kW / 005 deg ZWE English/Ndebele/Shona Radio Taiwan International 1900-2000 6185 WOF 250 kW / 140 deg WeEu German 1900-2000 7325 WOF 300 kW / 140 deg WeEu French RTE Radio 1 1930-2000 5820 MEY 100 kW / non-dir SoAf English HCJB Global 2100-2145 7300 WOF 250 kW / 170 deg NoAf Arabic (DX RE MIX NEWS #783 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 28, 2013, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 2670-USB, May 28 at 1057, ``broadcast notices to mariners``, read without much expression, ``break`` between each short item, mentioning bridge schedule in Louisiana, Galveston, Freeport, lights out, destroyed item, unknown submerged hazard, giving geo coordinates down to several decimal places. Another voice QRM in background from same radio room, still going past 1100. Per http://www.hfunderground.com/wiki/Maritime_Weather_Transmissions this is NOY, USCG Galveston TX, scheduled at 1050 UT. Probably supposed to finish by 1103, when next 2670 station scheduled is NMK-2 in Atlantic City NJ, tho now unlikely to QRM each other (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. PRESIDING GOVERNOR LYNTON STEPS DOWN FROM THE BBG BOARD May 23, 2013 Washington, DC - Broadcasting Board of Governors leader Michael Lynton has informed the White House that he is leaving the BBG effective today. "It has been an honor to serve our country by taking part in the work of this board, which was established to oversee an agency with a complex and vital calling," Lynton wrote in a letter to President Barack Obama about his decision. "Time and time again, we have seen that the journalists and other staff of the BBG are dedicated to the agency's mission: to inform, engage and connect people around the world in support of freedom and democracy. They prove it around the clock and against steep odds, in many cases amid some of the most difficult circumstances imaginable. "In an effort to sustain this mission, I was proud to work with fellow board members on promoting long-needed reforms of the agency's structure and governance-- among them, enhancing collaboration between the broadcasters and establishing the position of a Chief Executive Officer with day-to-day operational responsibilities," he continued. "I wish the current members and our successors the very best in seeing these reforms through." Lynton thanked his fellow Governors for electing him to lead the Board in February 2012, adding, "circumstances kept me from taking part in their recent formal meetings, but it is my hope that the BBG board will enjoy a full and productive membership soon." Michael Lynton is CEO of Sony Entertainment, Inc. He is the former CEO of AOL Europe and Chairman and CEO of Pearson plc's Penguin Group. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Lynton serves on the boards of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Rand Corporation, and the Harvard Board of Overseers. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School. Lynton was named the BBG's interim presiding governor following the departure of Chairman Walter Isaacson. He joined the board on July 2, 2010, serving a term expiring on August 13, 2012. By law, any member whose term has expired may serve until a successor has been appointed and qualified. His departure leaves the Board with four members, including Secretary of State John Kerry, who serves as an ex-officio member. Here is the full text of Lynton's resignation letter: May 23, 2013 The President The White House Washington, DC 20500 Dear Mr. President: With this letter, I submit my resignation from the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) effective May 23rd. 2013. It has been an honor to serve our country by taking part in the work of this board, which was established to oversee an agency with a complex and vital calling. Time and time again, we have seen that the journalists and other staff of the BBG are dedicated to the agency's mission: to inform, engage and connect people around the world in support of freedom and democracy. They prove it around the clock and against steep odds, in many cases amid some of the most difficult circumstances imaginable. In an effort to sustain this mission, I was proud to work with fellow board members on promoting long-needed reforms of the agency's structure and governance-- among them, enhancing collaboration between the broadcasters and establishing the position of a Chief Executive Officer with day-to-day operational responsibilities. I wish the current members and our successors the very best in seeing these reforms through. And I'd like once more to thank fellow board members for asking me to take the reins more than a year ago. Circumstances kept me from taking part in their recent formal meetings, but it is my hope that the BBG board will enjoy a full and productive membership soon. Respectfully, Michael Lynton (BBG PR via Dr Hansjoerg Biener, WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DXLD) Candidates sought. What about an expert in international broadcasting like W. G. Hauser... (Biener, ibid.) I didn`t say that, Arnie! (gh, DXLD) WHAT’S BEHIND RESIGNATION OF BBG’S MICHAEL LYNTON By BBGWatcher on 27 May 2013 in Featured News, Hot Tub Blog BBG Watch Commentary http://www.usgbroadcasts.com/bbgwatch/2013/05/27/whats-behind-resignation-of-bbgs-michael-lynton/ The resignation of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Interim Presiding Governor Michael Lynton was long overdue. Lynton has been AWOL from engaging in BBG business since December 2012. He has missed every BBG board meeting for the last five months. Lynton must have been made aware that U.S. media had gotten hold of information about his absences and was about to print articles. Congressional committees were asking questions. At least one Congressman was about to send a letter demanding answers from Lynton about his prolonged absence at BBG meetings. READ: SONY Entertainment CEO Lynton quits BBG board after questions raised about attendance, Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun-Times, May 23, 2013. http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2013/05/sony_entertainment_ceo_lynton_.html The cascade of questions triggered his departure. One such question is how he could reconcile his position as CEO of a private corporation, Sony Entertainment, doing business in Russia and China that depends on the good will of the regimes in these two countries with the BBG’s mission of promoting media freedom, which these regimes find highly objectionable. During Lynton’s tenure on the BBG board, International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) executives, who are the administrative arm of the BBG, tried to silence Voice of America (VOA) radio and television programs to China and VOA radio programs to Tibet. Also during Lynton’s tenure, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) executives, with the support of IBB, fired dozens of Radio Liberty journalists in Russia and eliminated their pro-human rights programs. Lynton reportedly defended the firing of Radio Liberty journalists and objected when BBG Governor Victor Ashe started to ask questions about the circumstances of their firing. Lynton then stopped attending BBG meetings when Ashe and two other BBG members, Susan McCue and Michael Meehan, initiated management changes at RFE/RL designed to bring back the fired journalists. Gary Schmitt wrote in the American Enterprise Institute blog AEIdeas that Michael Lynton’s resignation was not really a surprise. “…he’s reportedly missed every board meeting since the beginning of the year. But the lack of seriousness on the part of the administration and the members of congress responsible for keeping board positions filled is pretty appalling. Both parties like to insist that “soft power” matters, that the “war of ideas” is still a critical element in American statecraft, and that “getting the truth out” is important for the success of defending freedom around the world. But if the continuing dysfunctionalism of the BBG is any indication, that can hardly be the case.” READ MORE: The BBG circus and US soft power, Gary Schmitt, AEIdeas, May 24, 2013. Helle Dale of the Heritage Foundation also reported that “The Chairman of the Board, Democrat Michael Lynton, CEO of Sony Entertainment, has not attended a board meeting since December 14.” READ MORE: U.S. Broadcasting Affected by Obama Administration Culture of Intimidation, Helle Dale, The Foundry, May 23, 2013. … (BBGWatch via DXLD) ** U S A. BROADCASTING BOARD OF GOVERNORS OFFERS BUYOUTS TO AVOID FURLOUGHS --- By Eric Katz 3:22 PM ET The Broadcasting Board of Governors has begun to offer agencywide buyouts as part of efforts to avoid mandatory unpaid leave. “Buyouts are one of the ways we are working to avoid furloughs and absorb the budget cuts under sequestration,” said Tish King, a BBG spokeswoman. The buyouts will be worth up to $25,000 and offered to government employees, though not to grantees. They will be presented to workers across the “whole spectrum” of the government side of operations, King told Government Executive. “Many people are eligible,” she said, unable to elaborate further on the precise number. Eligibility requirements are open ended, she added, with three years in executive service as the only restriction. BBG last offered buyouts in October. The application period runs through Friday, May 31. Accepted employees must depart by June 30. BBG is an independent federal agency overseeing all government- supported, civilian international media and employs about 1,650 workers. The Government Accountability Office recently found significant overlap within the agency. . . http://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2013/05/broadcasting-board-governors-offers-buyouts-avoid-furloughs/63791/?oref=dropdown (via DXLD) ** U S A [non]. BOTSWANA, 12025, 0432-, VOA, May 22. Strong, clean modulation with discussion of Syria, from an American perspective. Modulation is nicer on the ears compared to Kigali on 12045 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. VOA Radiogram reception tonight on 5745 02:30 26 May 2013 VOA Radiogram 02h49 Korean Train MFSK32 image.JPG VOA Radiogram 02h49 Korean Train MFSK32 image.JPG Despite poor propagation conditions, VOA Radiogram was again well heard. MFSK 16 and 32 again was 100% copy, including the images: Inline image 1 No luck, though, with EasyPal digital images. I wasn't able to sync, so the signal was not strong enough, unfortunately. Well, it was worth trying! 73, (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, UT May 25, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Digital images via Greenville A gallery of EasyPal digital images transmitted from Greenville, received in Europe and North America, is here: http://voaradiogram.net/post/51385444401/voa-radiogram-easypal-images-received-100-or-0 Amazing what old analog shortwave broadcast transmitters, heretofore used only for voice and music, can do. Here's one image as received and decoded by Mauro in Italy: [displayed in the dxldyg] (Kim Elliott, May 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1670 monitoring: confirmed first airing on 9955 WRMI, Thursday May 23 until 0359:03, more or less equal to the pulse jamming level; tnx a lot, Arnie! WRMI repeats are Saturday 1500, Tuesday 1100. Next: Thursday 2100.6 on WTWW-1 9479; UT Friday 0330v on WWRB 3195 (if their computer is working again; and/or we hope 5050 with less of a summer storm noise level). UT Saturday 0130v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v CUSB (stay tuned, as AWWW often runs late). Saturday & Sunday 2330v on WTWW-2 9930; UT Sunday 0400.6 on WTWW-1 5830. Tnx to Ted Randall, WOR also appears at variable earlier hours on WTWW-9930: Ed Insinger caught #1669, Wednesday May 22 starting at 1935. Alternates with playbacks of his QSO shows (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1670 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-1 9479, Thursday May 23 at 2100.5, usual excellent signal. Also confirmed on WWRB 3195, UT Friday May 24 at 0328.3, after a respectful pause, after Dave mentioned that his computer is back in service after lightning strike last week, after music fill. Still not on 5050 too or instead. WOR could also appear sometime after 1800 UT on WTWW-2 9930. Otherwise: Next: UT Saturday 0130v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; Saturday 0630 & 1430 on HLR 7265-CUSB; Saturday 1500 on WRMI 9955; Saturday & Sunday 2329v on WTWW-2 9930; UT Sunday 0400.5 on WTWW-1 5830. WORLD OF RADIO 1670 monitoring: special airing on WTWW-2 9930 started approx. 1852 UT Friday May 24, following hokey organ music, presumably `Unshackled`. Confirmed on Area 51 via WBCQ webcast and presumably 5110v-CUSB, UT Saturday May 25 starting at 0133. Confirmed on WRMI 9955, Saturday May 25 at 1520, just barely audible here altho no jamming. Next: Sat & Sun 2328v on WTWW-2 9930; UT Sunday 0400.5 on WTWW-1 5830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Just heard World of radio on WTWW 9930 that just ended; started listening a little late at 2340 but signal was quite good with end of transmission at 2359 UT. Also right now hearing Mighty KBC with excellent signal with ID and Music at 0000 UT, 9925 kHz. Both WTWW and Mighty KBC were received on my Tecsun PL-450 portable receiver with telescopic antenna. 73 (Gilles Letourneau, Montreal, Canada, Sat May 25, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1670 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-2 9930, Saturday May 25 starting at 2328:44, within one second of the same time as previously heard, apparently as programmed into automation now. Also confirmed on WTWW-1 5830, UT Sunday May 26 starting at 0400:30 as usual, both excellent signals. There could also be a variable-time play after 1800 on 9930. Next: Sunday 2328:44 on 9930. WORLD OF RADIO 1670 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-2 9930, Sunday May 26 starting at 2331:11, instead of expected 2328:44 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [non] GERMANY, 7265-CUSB, Wed 0630 HLR, Hamburger Lokalradio World of Radio #1670 heard in USB-mode May 29 till 0659:05 UT. S=9+15dB in central and southern Germany / also in Stuttgart. S=4 tiny poor in Iceland, Finland, Moscow, Italy, Greece. S=6-7 in England. S=7-8 in Austria. S=8-9 in Switzerland. vy73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9370, May 25 at 1836, WWRB is OFF, no Brother Scare here. Continuing to propagate despite K=5 at 18, are 9330 WBCQ, 9479 & 9930 WTWW, 9980 WWCR; 9370 still off at 2115 recheck (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9954.94, 24/5 2239, WRMI, Radio Miami Int., English talks, no jamming, fair (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Italy, Qualche ascolto a Pescia in Toscana, RX: Excalibur Pro; ANT: 30 meters wire, 60 meters windom by A. Capra; Acc: 2 way antenna splitter RF-Systems SP-2, playdx yg via DXLD) ** U S A [non]. Prompted by a new update of the MBR schedule dated 24 May, http://www.media-broadcast.com/fileadmin/user_upload/Downloads/A13_operational_240513_MBR.pdf as tipped by Akbar Indra Gunawan, on HCDX, which shows only one entry for RMI: 11945 1930 2000 46SE 220 500 180 217 1234567 310313 261013 WER 100 RMI I asked Jeff White: ``IIRC that was once Hamada, so is it on the air again? And what about República, is it off 9490? I haven`t checked for it the last few evenings. June 1 is almost here. May we still anticipate the departure of Brother Scare from 9955, and resumption more or less of the previous program schedule (but back to turning off SW during weekdays?), or what? 73, Glenn`` --- He replies: ``Glenn: Still no word on whether Hamada will return or not. No plans at the moment. República is still on the same schedule. No changes there. Brother Stair's contract ends May 31. We'll probably start making changes next week -- maybe not the same schedule as before, but probably a lot of similarities. Jeff`` So MBR`s own schedule contains imaginary listings (and what others??), while skipping some which do exist (what else?), i.e. R. República at 00-02 on 9490 via FRANCE. I checked this May 28 at 0058, and it was very poor but apparently present beneath wall-of-noise jamming. With better conditions, that can equal or even overcome the jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7506.4, WRNO with pop/rock music such as "Carry on Wayward Son" and other good stuff. They still announce 7505 despite being on this rather odd 'off' frequency for many months. Wonder if they will ever fix the transmitter? If not will the FCC fine them? Inquiring minds want to know! 55555 0215-0220 18/May (Kenneth Vito Zichi, MI, MARE Tipsheet 24 May via DXLD) ** U S A. 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 (Jeff White, NASB convention report in DXLD 13- 21, via DXLD 13-22) ** U S A [and non]. Updated A-13 schedule of WYFR Family Radio: 1100-1200 on 6220 HUW 100 kW / 265 deg to SEAs Burmese 1100-1200 on 11520 BAJ 100 kW / 180 deg to SEAs Tagalog 1100-1300 on 6240 BAJ 100 kW / 310 deg to EaAs Chinese 1100-1300 on 9280 PAO 100 kW / 335 deg to EaAs Chinese 1300-1400 NF 7485 TAI 100 kW / 250 deg to SEAs Vietnamese, ex 7580 2230-0300 on 6115 YFR 100 kW / 355 deg to NoAm English Cancelled broadcasts from June 2 and deleted from HFCC database: 2200-2245 on 17575 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg to SoAm Portuguese 2300-0045 on 13695 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to SoAm Spanish 2300-0100 on 11565 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg to SoAm Portuguese 0000-0145 on 5945 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg to SoAm Spanish 0100-0145 on 15440 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to CeAm Spanish 0100-0200 on 11825 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to SoAm Spanish 0200-0400 on 6875 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to CeAm Spanish 0200-0400 on 9930 YFR 100 kW / 222 deg to CARB Spanish And summer A-13 of Radio Taiwan International via Okeechobee: 2200-2300 on 15440 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to CeAm English 2300-2400 on 9690 YFR 100 kW / 222 deg to CARB Spanish 2300-2400 on 15440 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to CeAm Chinese 0000-0100 on 15440 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to CeAm Cantonese/Hakka 0100-0200 on 11565 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg to SoAm Spanish 0300-0400 on 6115 YFR 100 kW / 355 deg to NoAm English (DX RE MIX NEWS #783 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, May 28, 2013, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 690, May 27 at 0502 UT, taps just ending from KGGF Coffeyville KS, sign-off but not carrier-off. KTSM El Paso continues, making SAH with Fox `News` Radio. This isn`t really the purpose of taps, but KGGF keeps doing it instead of playing the National Anthem. An item about taps, with the traditional lyrix rarely sung, fortunately, since they violate Separation of Church & State: http://enidnews.com/archive/x609263698/While-Taps-comes-from-the-Civil-War-modern-technology-has-caught-up-with-it Also, this story reveals the significance of the multiple triangular folds in a US flag at a military funeral, also violating Separation of Church & State. Happy Memorial Day! http://enidnews.com/localnews/x1167596964/Each-fold-in-flag-carries-symbolism Related story: http://enidnews.com/localnews/x240784576/Honing-their-skills-Vance-AFB-Silver-Talon-Honor-Guard-positions-are-highly-coveted 690, May 28 at 0458:50 UT, KGGF starts playing taps after quick sign- off announcement, after Jim Bohannon, so should finish close to local midnite (Glenn Hauser, OK DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 960, May 27 at 0502-0505 UT, main occupant of the KGWA Fox- hole tonight is blues music, i.e. WABG Greenwood MS --- I can even hear it without nulling KGWA carrier (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 990, May 28 at 0505 UT, dominant signal loops E/W, legal ad, 0506 opening Phil Hendrie show giving east and west coast times, but nothing for the Great Center of America! In the nightmiddle here, 990 is normally a battle between CBW and XET, but not tonight; therefore I assume KWAM Memphis TN is running 50 kW day facilities on east-west pattern, rather than 450 watts nite altho that pattern is favorable too. Hendrie`s website http://philhendrieshow.com has 815 pages, but to find ``Aphiliates`` you must go thru the `Live` tab. Listed by state, yes, there`s KWAM at 12-3 am [CDT] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1160, May 28 at 1125 UT, Mexican music, vs no KSL, presumed KCTO Cleveland MO (Kansas City) now on 5 kW day power; soon overcome by Disney, ``wake up sleepyheads``, i.e. KRDY San Antonio TX. 1129 Spanish back up, ``Buenos Días, Solanía`` (? sounded like) and fadeout. Website is under construxion, http://www.lasuperx1160.com/ without a program schedule, but very active on FB, https://www.facebook.com/LasuperxNumeroUno (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1200, May 24 at 0506 UT as I tune across WOAI opening `Coast to Coast AM`, George announces that starting Monday the show will be on the 1190 station in Dallas. Hmmm, moving from what, KLIF? No, current affiliate list for TX at http://www.coasttocoastam.com/stations/texas shows no station at all in The Metroplex, a major, major market! Not under that monicker, nor Dallas, nor Fort Worth, nor any obvious suburb/COL (White Oak 99.3 FM turns out to be in east TX). 1190 is KFXR (originally KLIF), with that extremely complex 5 kW night pattern, utilizing 12! towers: http://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?list=0&facid=25375 and the major lobe heads WSW, 252 degrees: http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/221001-66822.pdf FCC link to topo map http://msrmaps.com/image.aspx?t=2&Lon=-96.413056&Lat=32.899167&w=2&ref=G|-96.413056,32.899167 showing nite site (which is different from day site) with coordinates: 32 53' 57.00" N Latitude 96 24' 47.00" W Longitude (NAD 27) is very slow-loading but finally displays ``37 km NE of Dallas``, i.e. somewhere on the eastern shore of Lake Ray Hubbard, near Rockwall and Glen Hill. That makes its major lobe shoot right across Dallas proper and more or less Fort Worth beyond, but many other parts of The Metroplex will find themselves in a null. Getting back to WOAI, I notice that C2C runs many seconds behind same program on other outlets; in fact, no two of them seem to be synchronized, as in random bandscanning from one station to another, often on adjacent frequencies, you hear the last several words repeated or skipped (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The KFXR nighttime site is visible at night south of I-30 while one is driving westbound on I-30 coming into Dallas from Greenville (TX that is). It puts a very wobbly and poor signal into the northern suburbs. Only the outside of the box formation of towers is lit, so you can really only count 9-10 towers. When my Texas Aggies were on 1190, I would look forward to a day game, and dread a night game. The last couple of years, the Aggies have moved to KRLD-FM 105.3 for DFW coverage (David R Block, TX, ptsw yg via DXLD) ** U S A. UNIDENTIFIED. UnID Mexican/Spanish music station on 1300 with no announcements likely from east of me I still chase an unID Spanish mx stn on 1300 most likely somewhere to my east, based on what comes in on the east array. I have never had a single announcement, there's no break or ID near ToH, etc. If they do say anything, it must always be during a fade. On 1300 on the array, WOOD is dominant, this unID SS is often a close second tonight and WRDZ is a distant third. Others can show up, but not tonight. The music is a variety. Some of it is definitely Mexican but nothing like ranchera, there's a bit of tropical, and some other Mexican music, but nothing that you'd expect in a dance club like some Mexican FMers (and their) AM relays play. Nothing listed fits. Help please. 73 KAZ Barrington IL, Perseus and Broadside Double KAZ array at 90 deg (Neil Kazaross, May 24, UT May 25, IRCA via DXLD) I have the exact same problem with this 1300 as you do, Kaz (Kevin Redding, Crump TN, ibid.) Based on the fact that it is still in when conditions are a bit auroral like tonight, i.e. Canadians aren't as good as they can be, it could be more SE or ESE of me. There's a possible in FL, but unless it's running day rig at night, I can't imagine getting it and my beamwidth is sharp enough to make FL not likely. I suspect a recent unreported format change. You and I both speak better than basic Spanish; if they'd say some stuff, we'd figure it out. I may have to hit possible stations' websites, but not all will be updated this quickly, and that's assuming these guys have a website. 73 KAZ (Kazaross, ibid.) Hi Neil, I know you say you think this station is to the east because of the array you are using but could it be a station hitting a lobe in the null of your antenna pattern off the back end and maybe you are receiving XEP in Juárez still on day power? I know here in the Denver area I can hear them local strength at times on the radio in my Jeep during morning grayline when they are on day power; same thing in the evening before they turn to night power. Of course if you ever hear them say "Fantástico" or "Radio Trece" that would clear things up. Anyway, Just a thought (John ];') Lakewood, Colorado, Hammarlund SP- 600 JX-37, 30' Low-noise vertical, 26' vertical on 35' mast, 27' Low- noise vertical, Quantum Phaser, ibid.) While I can't confirm it through their management, WBZQ 1300 AM, Huntington, Indiana now runs a Spanish format (Blaine Thompson, IN, ibid.) Thx, this explains it and also I was noting that I never heard anything from sometimes heard WBZQ. 73 and thx (KAZ, ibid.) Kaz, Glad this got IDed one way or another. Your antenna achievements and knowledge are impressive, but I sometimes wonder why those who employ such technology don`t just also try a plain old radio with a ferrite bar (or a box loop) [low-tech] and get a DF on such an unID? I suppose it could be skewed if too close to the monster antennas, tho. 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Glenn, Although I use some pretty long wires, I use radios with ferrite bars and outboard amplified ferrite bars. I often wonder if the other DXers with the impressive electronics do the same? (Kevin Redding, Crump, TN, ABDX via DXLD) There are some issues with this approach when the station in question on normal small loops is rather buried under a near local (Chicago's Disney) and when, even if I could DF it to within +/- 10 degrees (not easy if not nearly dominant), there are a few other possibilities along that path. 73 (KAZ, ibid.) ** U S A. Re: New Cajun Log! Heard on an Eton E1-XM and 250' Vee wire antenna: 1510, KAGY Port Sulphur, LA 5/24 2015 [CDT = 0115 UT 5/25] with Cajun swamp pop playing under WLAC and Dr. Asa (Dr. Acer for Powell and Bob) music came on right after a stop set with local ads and several phone numbers mentioned. NEW! #624 (Kevin Redding, Crump, TN, ABDX via DXLD) KAGY is my closest AM neighbor - all local music and ads. They get out very well - heard across the panhandle of FL and over toward TX because of the transmitter essentially being located out several miles in the Gulf of Mexico (I live 14 miles even further south of there). KAGY is strongly UNDER-modulated, though. They lack any sort of compression in their processing. The audio is fed via balanced Telco lines from Highway 23 to a small 10x10 shack housing the transmitter and a "window- rumbler" AC unit, which is located on the west levee in Port Sulphur. The antenna is a 150' grounded tower with 8 or 10 horizontal 5-ft pieces of PVC sticking out the side every 20 feet with holes drilled in the end, through which #14 stranded coated house wire is strung, going all the way to the top. About 3/4 of the way up, another piece of wire is connected between the tower and the vertical piece of wire. The bottom end of the wire is attached to the insulated terminal on teh side of the transmitter building. The tower structure itself is slightly bent at the top from having been subject to Katrina' s 210 MPH wind. This is Louisiana' s "furthest- south" AM station on the "tippy- toe" of Louisiana; unless you consider my Part 15 setup in C-QuAM on 730 kHz from Boothville/Venice (Darwin Long, Buras, LA, ABDX via DXLD) ** U S A. Presumed as no call-letter ID heard: 1570, KBCV, MO, Hollister, 2133 CDT 27MAY13 on top of Spanish talk/music (presumed XERF) with Bott Radio Network "ID" into religious talk, fading up/down but always there. KBCV is the only Bott Network affiliate on 1570 that I could find on Google. Seldom heard here with XERF usually dominant. Night pattern shows a deep null at 230 degrees, Tulsa is at 257 degrees on the edge of a major lobe to the NW (315 degrees); night pattern could be "out of whack"? (Bruce Winkelman, Tulsa, OK, Excalibur SDR, 75 meter inv vee--center at 35 feet ABDX via DXLD) See my recent presumed log of same. Bott also has the other 1570 further north in Missouri (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Gets here on western antennas sometimes. Seems like pattern is reasonable and is consistent with my antennas' directivity and patterns but could be outta whack. 73 KAZ near Chicago (Neil Kazaross, ABDX via DXLD) Bruce, I once heard them in Central Nebraska, near Grand Island and verified they were on night power. I did catch a clear KBCV idea. I also know someone who`s seen their plant, and everything was operating in tune with what it should've been. All of that doesn't mean a glitch couldn't have happened. I would very much bet you have KBCV (Paul Walker, NRC-AM via DXLD) Bruce, I hear KBCV every once in a while here. The GM claims they are only running 1 kW at night, per the QSL. But they do get out well, even with XERF/CKMW on the channel. 73, (Patrick Martin, Seaside OR, ibid.) ** U S A. WKSH 1640 WI off frequency --- For the past week or so Milwaukee's Disney (semi-local here days) has been on the high side and today is about 1640.11 kHz. I've been chasing TIS's to the east on 1640 at night in LSB and so far have only come up with Strongsville OH, although there are several trying to come through. 73 KAZ Barrington IL, Perseus and 2 element Broadside Double KAZ array spaced 260 ft aimed due east at 90 deg (Neil Kazaross, May 27, ABDX via DXLD) So they are the ones making the growly sound on my E1 (Kevin Redding, Crump, TN, ibid.) WKSH will be fixed shortly (Craig Healy, Providence, RI 0831 UT May 28, ibid.) ** U S A. PIRATAS EN EL VALLE DE SAN FERNANDO Some FM dialscanning has revealed two apparent Spanish-religious pirates, taking advantage of some mountain blockage affecting the San Fernando Valley. Reception out here in the west end is spotty at best, but enough to reveal "Radio Bendición" on 95.1, and an unknown unidentifier on 99.1. KBBY-FM Ventura is blocked from 95.1, thanks to a lousy transmitter site on a glorified anthill just south of Oxnard; also KFRG San Bernardino and on 99.1, KGGI are both firmly blocked by the ever-reliable Mount Wilson. "RB" on 95.1 is evidently part of the Centro Cristiana Puerta de Bendición, a local church based at 10556 Ilex Avenue in the Pacoima district; a Google streetview seems to reveal a homebrew antenna of some sort atop the building's roof. I am not a Facebook aficionado, but couldn't resist a look at the Radio Bendición page, including photos replete with actual Studio shots; not a bad looking setup, actually. A couple of somewhat obscure links on the left side of the page point to which leads to the Pacoima street address. West SFV reception is consistent with what one would expect from such a location, assuming 10 watts or so. Haven't heard enough of the 99.1 stick to know that much, except that programming on both stations sounds relatively professional, possibly even syndicated. Listeners are treated to frequent "IDs" on the 95.1 banger; not so on 99.1, the signal of which is slightly weaker than RB/95.1. More as it reveals itself (GREG HARDISON, CA, May 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 95.3 MHz, FLORIDA, W237CW, Pinellas Park (sic?). This one has been simulcasting WDAE, 620 kHz (Sports format, Clear Channel Communications) for the past few weeks. A 250-watt translator. FCC still shows it licensed to Pinellas Park, but presumably relocated to not far west from the 620 towers per the WDAE page at: http://www.620wdae.com/pages/953-coverage-map/ Fair level on cheap radio in the bathroom. 104.5 MHz, FLORIDA, WOKV-FM Atlantic Beach. This channel will simulcast 690 WOKV News/Talk after 5/30. Flipping the simulcast from 106.5 WFYV-FM, Ponte Vedra Beach. This per many canned announcements noted this week on 690. All are COX Radio-owned. Florida Low Power Radio Stations: https://sites.google.com/site/floridadxn/florida-low-power-radio-stations (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WHBQ 13 Memphis, TN. has added a sub-channel. 13-2 is running something called the, "Movies!" network. 73, (Ed NN2E Owner / Operator - Murphy's Law Test Site & Thunderstorm Proving Grounds W-KY EM56, WTFDA via DXLD) Movies! is currently running promos, and will start programming Memorial Day. They are promoting some major classic movies. Movies! is being launched nationwide; some other stations include WTXF Philadelphia, KDFI Dallas, WFXT Boston, WDCA Washington, and WJBK Detroit. MundoFox is currently on the air in New York. The New York City subchannel line-up is a bit confusing: On WWOR DT-38: 9-1 WWOR (HD) 5-3 WNYW (SD) (was 5-2) 9-3 Bounce TV 9-4 Mundo Fox On WNYW DT-44: 5-1 WNYW (HD) 5-2 Movies! 9-2 WWOR (SD) There is no fourth subchannel on WNYW. (Chris Lucas - Poughkeepsie, NY - FN31bs, WTFDA via DXLD) ** U S A. WHY DO NPR REPORTERS HAVE SUCH GREAT NAMES? Radio figures Ira Glass, Sylvia Poggioli, Neda Ulaby, and others have inspired restaurants, pets' names, license plates, and songs. … Deirdre Mask May 6 2013, 10:05 AM ET http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/05/why-do-npr-reporters-have-such-great-names/275493/ (via DXLD) ** U S A. People we haven`t heard from: LOREN COX, Jr., Lexington KY, who was a columnist for paper REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING. Altho he was a satellite TV aficionado, he never got online. He still sent us occasional typed letters which we transformed into items in DX Listening Digest, the last three of which were dated 16 August 2009 and appeared in: http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld9063.txt I sometimes search silent names for obituaries, and now I`m afraid I may have found his. The age would be about right, but there is so little detail in the item that we can`t be positive: ``Loren Cox, Jr., was born on August 3, 1928 and passed away on Monday, November 2, 2009. Loren was a resident of Lexington, Kentucky at the time of his passing. He was a Korean War veteran. Graveside services will be 11 a.m. Friday at Georgetown Cemetery. There will be no visitation.`` http://www.tributes.com/show/Loren-Cox-87092648 We hope our aged correspondents will encourage survivors to notify us when the time comes (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UZBEKISTAN. 8819, 24/5 2124, Tashkent Volmet, Uzbekistan, USB, in Russian, fair (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Italy, Qualche ascolto a Pescia in Toscana, RX: Excalibur Pro; ANT: 30 meters wire, 60 meters windom by A. Capra; Acc: 2 way antenna splitter RF-Systems SP-2, playdx yg via DXLD) ** VANUATU. 3945, 1147-, Radio Vanuatu, May 23. Strong enough carrier, but very low modulation audible. Talk by OM is there, but totally inaudible due to the weak modulation. Earlier, I had thought it was just an open carrier (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN [non]. 7305, May 24 at 0200, Vatican Radio via Greenville, USA, only fair signal aimed south, following open carrier until hourtop, which could have more usefully been modulating something like English. Ed Insinger, NJ, has been corresponding with the VR frequency manager about this 0200-0245 transmission. Often after 0230 instead of continuing in Spanish, French has been heard, and recently a listener in target S America was hearing something other than Spanish at 0200, so I was checking it out. Nothing but Spanish heard here, but HFCC shows IBB (VOA) in Burmese at 0130-0300, 250 kW, 276 degrees from Thailand, which could well carry on to S America across the darkside. Yet another instance of frequency planners not recognizing that signals cannot possibly be restricted to the intended CIRAF, in this case 49W. VR cannot even depend on getting a full half-sesquihour of Spanish on the GB 7305 transmission due to the complexities of satellite feed scheduling. Furthermore as we have reported previously, VR`s only other token broadcast to America, on the same frequency 7305 at 1130-1200 in Spanish via Greenville, also has a collision problem: CNR beaming 37 degrees from the SZG site in China, long before and after this semihour. Maybe, just maybe, VR should find new frequencies for both, and schedule them at times when they can correctly feed the intended language! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN [non]. 7305, Mayo 25 a las 0200 UT, vía Greenville, USA. Al comenzar hay un sonido de portadora, al par de minutos ID en castellano y se pasa a las noticias. A las 0210 aproximado, acaban las noticias papales y comienza una reflexión sobre el dinero y el origen del mal en el mundo, a las 0215, hay otra reflexión sobre el mesianismo político en América Latina, además al fin de aquella sección se da la dirección postal de Radio Vaticana, Programa Hispanoamericano 00120, Ciudad del Vaticano. A las 0228, reflexión sobre el matrimonio acerca de la igualdad entre hombre y mujer, realizado por la Compañía de Jesús. A las 0233 se da inicio a la programación del santo del día Luis Ceferino Moró. 0235 Estudio sobre el “Catecismo de la Iglesia Católica, 20 años” con el punto 196 sobre María como Madre de la Iglesia. Y después a las 0238, el punto 200 sobre el perdón de los pecados y la importancia del Bautismo y la Penitencia. 0240, se finaliza el programa de RV en español con anuncios sobre la escucha en Internet y en onda corta en la frecuencia para Cuba. 0241 UT gong de la emisora hasta las 0244 UT se apaga la portadora. Es decir, 5 minutos con el gong. SINPO: 54454 73! (Claudio Galaz, Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Coaxial de 5 Ohms de 20 Metros, Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) 7305, May 28 at 1157, Vatican Radio in Spanish via Greenville, somewhat distorted with hum, feed or transmitter fault? `Laudetur Iesus Christus` and into IS at 1158; seemed QRM-free but now I can hear some CCI, presumably CNR1, 100 kW, 37 degrees USward from Shijiazhuang 723 site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM. 12019.213, 1213-, Voice of Vietnam, May 23. Very strong signal with SE Asian sounding language with talk by YL. Over 5 or 10 minutes could not make out any IDs. Strange to be so far off frequency. Perfect modulation. Any ideas? Answered my own question at 1330 with Voice of Vietnam sign-on in English. Might have drifted slightly to 12019.224. Parallel is also off-frequency on 9839.886 but suffering from a lot of splatter from RTM Sarawak on 9835 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM [non]. GREAT BRITAIN: 12005, V Vietnam via Wooferton with English News into talk re economic development of the countryside in Vietnam including things like paving roads and the role of communes in pushing such development. Then talk re epic ethnic poems that are dying out in Vietnam because young people seem disinclined to learn them. Suggested that the older folks needed to teach one poem to a younger one to keep the traditions alive and in the meantime, they were trying to at least audio record the poems being recited. (Shades of Fahrenheit 451 there!) Dead air for several minutes before carrier off. 4+54+4+4 0240-0300* 18/May [Cars registered in Great Britain should have stickers with UKOGBANI instead of GB. {says kvz or some other MARE? Not gh}] (Kenneth Vito Zichi, MI, MARE Tipsheet 24 May via DXLD) ** ZANZIBAR. 11735, 1822-, Zanzibar Broadcasting Corporation, May 22. Fair level with Swahili programming. Seems to be a noisy frequency for some reason, so SSB worked best to clean up the signal (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11735, ZBC TZA Dole, 2035 26 May, program music, 44444 (Mauro - Giroletti -Swl 1510- -IK2GFT- -JRC525Nrd - Lowe HF150- Filter PAR Electronics - BCST-LPF + BCST-HPF- DSP 9 -Eavesdropper SWL Sloper 11mt to 120mt Band- Loop ALA 100 M; -Lat. 45 25'0" N Long. 9 7'0" E - Locator grid. Jn 45 Nk- bclnews.it yg via DXLD) ** ZIMBABWE [non]. CLANDESTINA, 4880, SW R. Africa, Meyerton, República Sul-Africana, 1843-1855 (o fecho ocorreu pouco depois, antes das 1900), 26/5, programa em inglês e dialectos dirigido ao Zimbabué, texto, canções africanas; 35332. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1520, May 28 at 0523, KOKC OKC has heavy musical QRM, making fast ripple SAH, unseems Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. NÃO IDENTIFICADA, 3398, sinal proveniente de sul/sudeste, 2133-..., 25/5, texto, impossível a identifidação da língua; 15331. Há anos, o Zimbabué utilizou uma freq. vizinha, 3396. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. No identificada en 6115 (español) --- Ayer a la tarde, entre las 2045/2100 UT, se escuchaba una emisora en español, interferida por una emisora en chino, con un programa religioso, grabado en Colombia (por reiteradas referencias de pertenencia a ese país). A las 2100 comenzó R. Veritas en la frecuencia, tapando totalmente a ambas emisoras. Alguna idea? 73's (Miguel Castellino, Argentina, May 27, condiglista yg via DXLD) Buenas Miguelito!!! Ni idea viejo!! Ahí, en 6115 kHz, estaba La Voz del Llano allá lejos y hace tiempo (Arnaldo Slaen, ibid.) Hola Miguel, Cordial saludo, tienes algún audio grabado? En esa frecuencia durante muchos años funcionó La Voz del Llano, aunque ésta lleva mas de un lustro fuera del aire y se caracterizaba por su frecuencia variable 6115v-6117.5V (Rafael Rodríguez, Bogotá, ibid.) Rafael: Gracias por tu respuesta. Lamentablemente no grabé, esperando que se identificara a las 2100 UT, pero no tuve en cuenta que a esa hora empieza R. Veritas, que por acá entra muy fuerte (SINPO 44444) y tapó todo. El programa era religioso, pero no bíblico, con comentarios del estilo "acá en Colombia...". Voy a intentar nuevamente el próximo fin de semana porque a esta hora, durante la semana, estoy trabajando fuera. Un abrazo (Miguel, ibid.) Saludos Miguel & Rafael. Alguna posibilidad de que fuera WYFR Family Radio? 73 (Dino Bloise, FL, ibid.) En las listas figura Radio Unión desde Perú pero no concuerda con el comentario "Acá en Colombia" (Ernesto Paulero, Argentina, ibid.) Si bien el programa provenía de Colombia, dada la globalización bien podría ser WYFR o R. Unión, aunque me inclinaría más por esta última por el tipo de programa. Aunque mi primera opción sería una activación temporal de la LV del LLano porque por lo que pude ver en la web esta emisora posee programación religiosa. 73's (Miguel Castellino, ibid.) Radio Unión, Lima, está inactiva en OC en los últimos años. Calculo que desde hace una década dejó la OC. Tal vez La Voz del Llano que volvió a la OC? (Arnaldo Slaen, ibid.) Hola Miguel y colegas, La Voz de LLano es operada actualmente por RCN ya que Super cedió sus frecuencias a esta cadena desde el año pasado, ésta con el formato "La Cariñosa" así con música popular y algunos noticieros locales; además, este formato se caracteriza por arrendar espacios a un sinnúmero de "centros médicos o naturistas". Hace poco leía un artículo sobre esta emisora donde mencionaban que su declive se debió a dejar su frecuencia en la onda corta, con la cual cubría y era un referente en un amplia zona de los llanos y selvas orientales de Colombia (Rafael Rodríguez, ibid.) UNIDENTIFIED. UNKNOWNIA: 15970, Sound of Hope (Taiwan) or CNR (presumed); 1753-1800*, 28-May; lite music to M in Chinese talk over music; ToH pips/tone & off. Per Glenn Hauser, the pips/tone at the end indicate it was probably CNR. SIO=3+53+; no jamming or other audio evident (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 18965, May 28 at 0104, open carrier with some fading, good signal, as heard at least twice before. With BFO it`s just a pure carrier, not RTTY or some other ute as this is a broadcast band, after all, but whence? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED ON WOR 1672: Thanks to Tim Hendel, Huntsville AL, for a check in the mail to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to wordadio at yahoo.com (gh) I continue to be overwhelmed by the amount of material you are able to churn out on a regular basis. Your contribution rate seems to be maintaining a good level as well. Thanks for your continued effort and dedication. Many certainly appreciated but probably not enough take the time to say so (Sheldon Harvey, QC) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ RADIO BROADCAST On this site Veterans of the radio business expose the unscrupulous practices of the industry. The site says “The General public has NO IDEA what is going on in the radio industry. Get ready --- we are going to tell it like it is! The site is new, and we are adding new things daily.” http://radiobroadcast.homestead.com/1.html (via Sheldon Harvey, Greenfield Park, Quebec, May Radio HF Internet Newsletter via DXLD) For starters, it`s anti-Clear Channel (gh, DXLD) THE GREAT GRUNDIG SATELLIT 700 Glenn, I am trying to find a copy of the book by Thomas Baier titled THE GREAT GRUNDIG SATELLIT 700. Any leads to find something like this? (Mike Brummitt, May 29, DX LISTENING DIGST) I put it to the dxldyg and got all these replies, now forwarded to Mike: (gh) I think Universal Radio had them in stock at Dayton. Check with them (Tim Rahto, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) That's not its exact title which is "Grundig Satellite: All Models in Words and Pictures." The ISBN is 1882123018 and I see Amazon has it. At least I assume that's the book he's looking for (Philip Hiscock, Nfld., ibid.) http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/books/1524.html "this title is temporarily not available" Seems to be a very hard book to find for sale anyplace! (Ron Howard, CA, ibid.) Ahhh, I DID jump the gun. It is a different book (Philip Hiscock, ibid.) The following website shows which libraries might have this book: http://www.worldcat.org/ A search gives one result with a library in Cleveland, Ohio. I've attached a screen shot of the result with this email. Perhaps you can get the book through some form of inter-library loan? (Bruce Fisher, ibid.) Published 2002 in Ohio, presumably by Universal itself (gh, DXLD) Glenn, Universal Radio has it in their catalog, but shows it as "temporarily unavailable" but added that it should be available again in "late 2013" ... http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/books/1524.html Here's a German book-seller that advertises the book in German ("Das große Grundig-Satellit-700-Buch") ... http://www.charly-hardt.de/buecher.html I searched and searched, but these two references were all the good ones I could find. Hope this helps. 73 & Good DX, (Steve Ponder, N5WBI Southeast Houston, TX, 29 34’N, 95 08’W, ibid.) DX-PEDITIONS ++++++++++++ WALT SALMANIW TO HAIDA GWAI = Masset BC loggings 21–24 May, 2013 I've just returned from a few days in Masset, having had an opportunity to fly with Helijet from Vancouver to Masset. This in itself was great fun, with a 3 ship formation, mostly flying at very low altitude: 50 to 100' above the water. The Sikorsky is a great aircraft to fly; couldn't help think of Apocalypse Now, as we skimmed the surface of the waves! Now on to my loggings. For this brief adventure, I used only my ALA 100 large double loop oriented to capture NE/SW (ie towards NZ and Australia), near the beach, and fed via coax to the shack. During the entire time, solar terrestrial conditions were very unsettled, so I wasn't expecting much propagation from Europe, or North Asia. The receiver was a Perseus SDR into an ASUS Windows 7, 64 bit laptop. Unfortunately my Edirol UA-25 for some reason stopped working (looking for a driver). Strange since I used the identical set-up in March without an issue. So here are my results: (Walt Salmaniw, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) logs thruout this issue starting with ANTARCTICA [non] DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See AUSTRALIA; BRAZIL; GUAM; INDIA; NEW ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ZEALAND; ROMANIA; RUSSIA; SPAIN; TUNISIA; UK DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See also AUSTRALIA; MEXICO; OKLAHOMA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SHOULD YOU LOBBY FOR THE FCC TO KEEP FREE OTA TV? As the subject line suggests, in today`s edition of TV News Check, agricultural lobbyist groups are now urging the FCC to rethink the spectrum incentive auction. As the article suggests, some groups are realizing that if the spectrum auction happens successfully, most rural areas of America will be without local news and emergency alerts through the use of local television. Yes we may be DXers, but we're also the most informed in what is slowly developing with the FCC's spectrum incentive auction proceedings. At any rate, OTA television is probably not going to go away in the blink of an eye. AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY PULLING FOR LPTVs http://tinyurl.com/nmazab2 (Jim Thomas, Springfield, Missouri, WTFDA via DXLD) Funny you should bring this up! CNN had this very article in today's TECH tab making it sounds as if something's got to happen and soon: talking of course about the darth of frequencies to quench the hunger of our portable devices! According to CNN's enlightened reporting, we would be nearing the end of the world -- as we know it! Read and weep: http://money.cnn.com/2013/05/24/technology/mobile/fcc-spectrum-auction/index.html (Denis Allard, (514) 616-0997, LTE Message beamed through Ipad 4, ibid.) MUSEA +++++ MUSEUM RECEIVES COLLECTION OF HISTORIC TRANSISTOR RADIOS http://thetandd.com/content/tncms/live/ COLUMBIA — These days, an iPod with two ear buds typically provides portable music for the young and young-at-heart. Half a century ago, however, it was one plug in the ear, and the other end of the wire ran to what was then the latest thing in electronics — a transistor radio. The South Carolina State Museum has received a large collection of these iconic electronics, along with another type of radio that once gathered music and information from around the world, the short wave. The collection is the gift of Columbia radiologist Dr. Sam Friedman. “As a child in the 1950s, he developed an early fascination with these cutting edge tools for communication, and he started collecting,” the museum’s Director of Education Tom Falvey said. “The idea that you could carry a radio — which was often a huge piece of furniture from the 1930s to the 1950s, and was still table-top sized into the ’60s — in your pocket was absolutely revolutionary.” With shortwave, one could listen to music or information from across the globe. News, sports and culture from Hong Kong to Rio de Janeiro could be plucked from the air. Friedman collected each of the significant models of transistor radios from the 1950s and ’60s, though the collection goes into the 1970s. The collection contains 81 items, including a companion collection of cameras. Falvey said that the variety of the miniature transistor radios is unique. “Anyone who remembers the single ear pieces and the quasi-leather cases would enjoy a great blast of nostalgia from these artifacts. But a teenager of today would be stunned that anyone would carry around something this big. It just shows you how times have changed.” Falvey said the radios will be available for research in the near future, but “they would make a great temporary exhibit at some point down the road.” “We have some radios on exhibit now, but this increases our holdings significantly,” he continued. The short wave “allows us to discuss where some people got a lot of their music and information in those times, compared to the ways we get them today,” Falvey said. “On the transistor side, the whole idea of portability was very cool in the ’60s. The transistor radio was probably the first, and may remain the most famous, product that introduced the space-age concept of transistors to the popular culture, and this is one thing that will always have ‘transistor’ attached to its name. And how cool is that?” For more information on the collection, call Falvey at 803-898-4921 or email tom.falvey @ scmuseum.org (via Kevin Redding, ABDX via DXLD) http://thetandd.com/lifestyles/magazine/museum-receives-collection-of-historic-transistor-radios/article_60f185f8-c4bd-11e2-a548-001a4bcf887a.html Try that (Blaine Thompson, ibid. HOW THE CORONATION KICK-STARTED THE LOVE OF TELEVISION --- By Tom de Castella BBC News Magazine 29 May 2013 Last updated at 20:53 ET The coronation was the first TV event watched by the masses. [Composite image] Television in the early 50s was basic and still waiting to take off. How did the coronation turn it into the mass medium that shaped our lives? It was the first event to rattle radio's cage. The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in June 1953 is said to have been watched by more people on television than heard it on "the wireless". In the UK, nearly eight million people tuned in at home, while 10 million crowded into other people's houses to watch. There were a further 1.5 million viewers in cinemas, halls and pubs. The number of TV licences shot up from 763,000 in 1951 to 3.2 million in 1954. Many see the coronation as UK television's tipping point. . . http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22688498 (via Gerald T Polllad, NC, DXLD) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ SONY ICF-SW23 As I was scanning through Amazon.com, I came across a newer SONY portable, the ICF-SW23, which appears to be a Japanese clone of the older SONY ICF-SW20, It has seven "segmented bands," plus AM/FM and about the size of a cigarette pack, as was the older and discontinued SW-20. It is quite pricey at $125, considering the popular ICF- SW7600GR has full SW band coverage, plus AM/FM/SSB/AMSYNC and digital readout for $10 more. Also, the manual is only available in Japanese, though the radio is being sold here in the states, from several Internet sites. 73's, (Ed Insinger Summit, NJ, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RFI TIPS - POWER SUPPLIES - LINEAR ISN'T ALWAYS THE TICKET TO HAPPINESS I've resumed my 'war' against RFI caused by Bell Aliant Fibre OP 2.0. For those who don't know, this is an IPTV system delivering TV and super high speed internet via fibre optic cable into the house. It is then converted to electronic impulses within the home and that's where the RFI begins. The TV fans in my house love it, and I love the super fast internet - over 50 times faster than the DSL we used to have. But, Bell Aliant Fibre Op 2.0 is a real plague for a MW, SW and even FM DXer. One step of my campaign against this plague and pestilence was to replace the switching power supplies for the set top box and set top box PVR combo with big, heavy regulated linear power supplies. Linear supplies are the old fashioned type that cost more, are big and heavy and have a massive and expensive power transformer in them. Last night, in tracking down interference, I discovered that these linear supplies are cranking out lots of RFI - my theory is through the big power transistors that are used for regulation. Although I have lots of AC filtering, most commercial filtering filters only hot and neutral and not ground. On these supplies the 13.8 volt minus terminal is electrically connected to the chassis ground, which is connected of course to the ground pin of the 3 prong power cord, or, as clueless ebay sellers might say, the power 'chord'. [I have visions of somebody trying to make a stringed musical instrument using extension 'chords' of various lengths :) ] So, word to the wise, if you have a noisy switching power supply, replacing it with a linear supply may not be the answer. I have had very good luck tightly wrapping a 3 wire power cord around a long ferrite bar [usually I use two in a row, separated by a few inches of uncoiled cord]. This provides some inductance for all 3 power wires, and if you get enough inductance, prevents [greatly attenuates to be more specific] the RFI from going into the household electrical system where it can spread like the plague. This helps whether it is a switching supply or a noisy linear supply. Other options include installing filter chokes right inside the power supplies - but there is not much room in there. Also, switching supplies vary, a lot. Some are horrible, some are actually pretty good (Phil Rafuse, VY2PR, Stratford PE Canada, ABDX via DXLD) The rod mix is unknown and accordingly, the price is right. I paid $3 a rod. They are 6 inches long, 1/2 inch diameter - very much rods used for ferrite bar antennas for AM radios. They work very well. I've had better luck with this method than putting a RFI toroid inside the device for each of the three wires. Very easy to take a good quality 3 wire [grounded] extension cord and make a 3 way filter without cutting or splicing anything. Pick a cord that has an outer jacket - e.g. round rather than flat - and pick one where the outer jacket is nice and flexible - much easier to wind neatly and keep the turns tight to the ferrite. Depending on the number of rods and the length of the cord, you can put more than one rod/coil combo in series - I leave a few inches between for flexibility. Such a cord should be de-rated. In other words, don't try plugging a toaster into it. Save it for electronics only. Very good for fighting common mode RFI and situations where the device wants to send RFI over the ground wire. Use the cord at the source to keep the RFI from that device from entering household wiring and being 'broadcast` through the house (Phil Rafuse, ibid.) ANOTHER NEW RFI SOURCE COMING German consumer magazine Warentest has tested electric bikes, the ones that support you when pedalling. Most of those failed mechanically (breaking frames), but I could believe reading about the high RFI emissions of the "motor". Even police and firebrigade radios could be blocked!!! It seems they did not do anything for EMC. So make sure no one rides in your area. Other news reported in the past that some of their accumulators caught fire (Jurgen Bartels Suellwarden, N. Germany, mwdx yg via DXLD) Hi Jurgen, Here in The Netherlands these type of bikes are very popular. We have one and I can say that I found that the accumulator is producing some fluttering interference, especially on VHF and partly low UHF. I could reduce the interference with ferrite cores in the powercord of the accumulator. I didn't notice noise produced by the motor. Although I am living in an area visited by bikers I never noticed noise by electric bikes (Max Van Arnhem, The Netherlands, ibid.) Max, the summary is here: http://www.test.de/Elektrofahrraeder-Das-Risiko-faehrt-beim-E-Bike-mit-4542780-0/ To see the tested models, click on: "Getestete Produkte: Liste aller 16 Produkte" Read the last chapter: "Die Modelle von Fischer, Kalkhoff, Pegasus und Raleigh arbeiten bestens als Störsender" --- English: These models work best as illegal transmitters: Fischer, Kalkhoff, Pegasus und Raleigh. I don't think all are just imports from China. Hard to believe, and it is not 1-April (Jurgen Bartels, Suellwarden, N. Germany, ibid.) NATIONAL INSULATOR ASSOCIATION http://www.nia.org/ People really are pack-rats, aren’t they? This website is dedicated to insulator collectors and is intended to support the National Insulator Association members with an on-line presence. It is also a repository of historical information on Insulators as well as information on past NIA sponsored shows. The National Insulator Association is an international organization of collectors and friends interested in communication and electrical insulators, as well as other artifacts connected with insulators, such as telephone, telegraph, power transmission, railroads, and lightning protection devices. In all, the NIA has had more than 5900 total members (via Sheldon Harvey, Greenfield Park, Quebec, May Radio HF Internet Newsletter via DXLD) POWERLINE COMMUNICATIONS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ PLT at Maplins again Maplins are again selling PLT devices which neither comply to UK or EU regulations; when one complains to Maplin, one is simply told they 'are approved by FCC '; however not all items allowed in the USA are legal in use in the United Kingdom so might I suggest perhaps BDXC members either ask to inspect the device for CE mark or label or avoid possibly polluting the VHF/FM band in particular and upsetting neighbours by not buying such devices - in most cases the basic compliant wire-less modem provided by the telephone company will be covering your home without such questionable and possibly illegal devices (Rog Parsons (BDXC 782), Hinckley, Leics., May 24, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ P.I.G. Bulletin 130526 Solar & Geomagnetic activity forecast the period May 27-June 22, 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 June 5 - 7, 10, 18, mostly quiet on May 31, June 1, 3, 8 - 9, 15 - 17, quiet to unsettled on May 28, 30 June 4, 11, 19 - 20, quiet to active on May 27, 29, June 2, 12 - 14, 22, active to disturbed on June 21. Growing in solar wind may cause remarkable changes in magnetosphere and ionosphere on (May 30 and) June 2, 5, 12, 14 and 21. Remarks: - The present uneven development reduces the reliability of predictions. - 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 Interested Group (OK1HH & OK1MGW, weekly forecasts since 1978) e-mail: ok1hh(at)rsys. cz (via Dario Monferini, DXLD) Propagation de K7RA Overall, solar activity is still pretty quiet, but one positive sign was on May 16, when the daily sunspot number was 212. I eyeballed the records, and had to keep searching further and further back to find a higher sunspot number... Source: The American Radio Relay League Full report at http://arrl.org/propagation (via Mike Terry, May 26, dxldyhg via WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DXLD) DAYTIME CONDITIONS in England I note that a member is asking about daytime conditions on HF; well, yes, signals are way down, so much so with me that I checked my antenna. Working from hi to lo this is what I have from my markers: 27555, yes, CB, forget it --- there has been a few coming in but mainly forget this one. 25 MHz, Have not heard anything for well over a month. 24 MHz, a ham band dead. 18 MHz, another ham band, only close-in stations like Austria ops coming in at S5 at most. Seeing as I am a ham and an SWL, let`s do the lower BC bands - Lower end of the 49mb from 5700 up to 6195 so clear you would think what is wrong with my radio. The pirates seem to be doing well, as I have heard Radio Focus at 0030 up to 0330, so nights are quite good. Also heard WBCQ on 9330 giving an S7 - during the day 9 MHz is very sparse. The hams on 40 metres are moaning like crazy once again; only close-in stations are working like Wales, Ireland; as to broadcasting stations there are not many to tune to. Even my Medium Wave {Ground wave} is down. I always check 1602 and it`s only just above my noise level so an S2 at best, plus the other end like 531 is not there, nor 558. The opening time for distance stations seems to be around 1830. Hoping this helps (Mike M3EMB {forget 10 watts} Rae, and a SWLer. Location Maldon, Essex; antenna 95 foot end feed beaming 120 SSE into Europe. RX/TX Kenwood TS 690, May 28, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2013 May 27 0110 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 20 - 26 May 2013 A long-duration M5/3n solar flare on 22/1308 UTC from Region 1745 (N13, L=333, class/area=Cao/150 on 20 May) brought solar activity to high levels and set the stage for space weather for the remainder of the week. The flare produced a solar energetic proton event which lasted for almost three days. The flare was also associated with an asymmetric halo coronal mass ejection (CME). The CME was first seen in the LASCO C2 coronagraph imagery at 22/1325 UTC and later in the C3 imagery at 22/1330 UTC. The event was also visible in STEREO COR2 imagery at 22/1334 UTC. Imagery analysis suggested the CME was moving at 1488 km/s. The CME produced Type II (22/1259 UTC 1962 km/s) and Type IV (22/1303 UTC) radio emissions, and a 370 sfu Tenflare was also observed with the event at 22/1313 UTC. Region 1745 crossed the west limb on 23 May. The only other M-flare to occur during the week was an M1 flare from the limb observed at 20/0525 UTC beyond the northeast limb, possibly old Region 1731 (N09, L=188). A Type II emission was observed at 20/1141 UTC but not attributed to any particular region. The largest region on the disk for the majority of the week was Region 1756 (S20, L=214, class/area=Ehi/290 on 25 May), which appeared on 21 May and by 22 May had developed beta-gamma magnetic characteristics. It was responsible for 12 C-class flares and 28 optical flares during the week, followed by Region 1750 (N11, L=201, class/area=Dhi/290 on 23 May) which produced five C-class events and 10 optical flares respectively. Proton flux at geosynchronous orbit reached alert thresholds this week. A 10 MeV greater than 10 pfu event began at 22/1420 UTC. The 100 MeV flux passed the 1 pfu threshold 35 minutes later, reached a maximum of 3.5 pfu at 22/1830 UTC and was over by 23/0745 UTC. The 10 MeV flux continued to rise until 23/0650 UTC when it reached a peak flux of 1660 pfu, and ended at 25/0845 UTC when it fell below 10 pfu. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit reached high levels on 24-26 May. The peak flux recorded during the week was 11,900 pfu on 26/2205 UTC. It is important to note that the GOES-13 experienced an anomaly which renedered the Space Environment Monitor (SEM) instrumentation inoperable beginning 22/1006 UT. Consequently, all particle measurements were obtained from GOES-15, the secondary platform. The geomagnetic field ranged from quiet to minor storm levels during the week in response to two CMEs and a coronal hole high speed stream. The week began with a weak CME that arrived at Earth at 19/2306 UTC. Although the total field reached 15 nT, the Bz component of the magnetic field remained positive throughout most of the event. Consequently only unsettled conditions were observed on the 20th and quiet returned on the 21st. A solar sector boundary change early on 22 May resulted in an active first period. The remainder of the day was characteri UTCed by quiet to unsettled conditions which persisted through most of 24 May. Late on 24 May, the CME from 22 May arrived. The interplanetary shock passed the ACE spacecraft at approximately 24/1736 UTC and an 18 nT sudden impulse was subsequenly observed on the Boulder magnetometer at 24/1812 UTC. Active geomagnetic conditions were observed one minute later, and minor storm conditions followed at 24/1853 UTC. Active to minor storm conditions were observed for the remainder of 24th through the 25th. Between 25/1900-2100 UTC, solar wind speed at the ACE spacecraft increased from around 600 km/s to 842 km/s before settling near 700 km/s. The increase in wind speed was accompanied by a brief elevation in density and rising temperature suggesting the arrival of a coronal hole high speed stream. The combined effects of the CME and coronal hole contributed to minor storm conditions which persisted through the end of the day. The first three synoptic periods of 26 May were characterized by active geomagnetic conditions while the remainder of the day was quiet to unsettled. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 27 MAY - 22 JUNE 2013 Solar activity is expected to be low with a chance for moderate activity through the forecast period, with high levels of activity possible from 07 June through 22 June with the return of Old Region 1748. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit, although there is a chance from 05 June through 20 June with the return of Old Region 1745. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at moderate to high levels through 31 May. High levels are expected to return from 5-7 June and 20-22 June in response to recurrent coronal hole high speed streams. In the absence of any Earth-directed coronal mass ejections, geomagnetic field activity is expected to be quiet to unsettled with active periods possible on 01 June and 21 June associated with recurrent coronal hole high speed streams. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2013 May 27 0110 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 2013-05-27 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2013 May 27 120 10 3 2013 May 28 120 8 3 2013 May 29 120 5 2 2013 May 30 120 5 2 2013 May 31 115 10 3 2013 Jun 01 110 15 4 2013 Jun 02 110 8 3 2013 Jun 03 110 5 2 2013 Jun 04 110 5 2 2013 Jun 05 115 5 2 2013 Jun 06 120 5 2 2013 Jun 07 130 5 2 2013 Jun 08 140 5 2 2013 Jun 09 140 5 2 2013 Jun 10 140 5 2 2013 Jun 11 135 8 3 2013 Jun 12 135 12 3 2013 Jun 13 130 8 3 2013 Jun 14 125 5 2 2013 Jun 15 125 5 2 2013 Jun 16 120 5 2 2013 Jun 17 120 5 2 2013 Jun 18 125 5 2 2013 Jun 19 125 5 2 2013 Jun 20 120 5 2 2013 Jun 21 115 15 4 2013 Jun 22 115 10 3 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1671, DXLD) ###